The Peter Hille book

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Else Lasker-Schüler: The Peter Hille Book (1906). Cover drawing by Franz Stassen
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Peter Hille

The Peter Hille book is a legend seal of Else Lasker-Schüler , the 1906 first prose tied the author in Axel Juncker Verlag, Stuttgart and Berlin appeared.

On the hike through the seasons, the first-person narrator Tino alias Else Lasker-Schüler accompanies her "quasi-divine" "savior of poetry", the rock Petrus alias Peter Hille , on its way to the afterlife in 47 episodes .

background

"The man who most impressed Else Lasker-Schüler at the beginning of her career was Peter Hille." This refers to the first years of the 20th century. By 1904 both got to know and appreciate each other in the anti-bourgeois New Community . Else Lasker-Schüler's first marriage to Bertold Lasker broke up at the time; got divorced in 1903. Else made a name for herself as a poet. Hilles death in 1904 is the trigger for the Peter Hille book - with the deceased as the “sublime father”. Mediator and leader figure ”.

The conversations of the prophet Zarathustra with his disciples can be found in the Hille book in a comparable form. If Else Lasker-Schüler's confession “My Peter Hille book is my play bible” is added to this fact, then the text could be used as the young author's test route for experiments with the then modern triple Nietzsche , God and the World.

Else Lasker-Schüler has demonstrably been interested in Nietzsche since 1895, and had especially dealt with Zarathustra . Steiner introduced them to Nietzsche's philosophy in the late summer of 1900, shortly after Nietzsche's death. Else Lasker-Schüler, a lifelong passionate visitor to lectures, probably witnessed one of Steiner's appearances on the subject of Nietzsche in the winter of 1903. On October 28, 1905, she accompanied Herwarth Walden to Weimar , who organized a Nietzsche evening there.

content

The introduction reads like a cosmogony . The disciples in Tino kisses their master, the rock Peter, awake and the hike along with the rest of the disciples through desolate and then more flowery fields, on lonely mountain heights and in temples begins. In the episode Petrus and I at the magnificent Onits von Wetterwehe , one of the musicians plays Petrus hymns on the viola and negro boys with long earrings serve fine dishes on golden trays. The next morning, on Palm Sunday , the Nazarene waits on the cross ... "He suffered endlessly, so nailed down, so blood-nailed, so given up".

Since Peter has so far overlooked Tino's son, she shows him to him. Peter finally notices Little Pull and praises: “Your child’s eye is a clear star.” Peter celebrates his birthday with the disciples in a forest house adorned with garlands. There are sweet treats and golden sparkling wine. Peter drinks from a heavy mug which two strong black boys bring to his mouth. On the Jewish Day of Atonement , Peter and his disciples ascend to Jehovah's temple .

Peter finds shelter from the rigors of the weather in a cave. The disciples make a chair out of birch for Peter and commit mouth robbery in a neighboring village. Heavy fur is also procured for the coughing and feverish Peter. When the journey can continue, Peter must be carried in a sedan chair. The sick call the coming spring the faith of God. Peter and Tino walk through May and speak the blue language. This is the one "in which heaven and earth tell each other." The path leads through a city into which Lenz cannot penetrate. The workers there demand heaven from Peter, as the rich already have on earth during their lifetime. Peter sees himself unable and runs away.

As he continues his walk, Peter wishes that Tino should finally name his name. Your answer: "Your name is what the world is called!"

According to rumors, Petrus and Tino would have been struck by lightning on a mountain tour. But Tino is found in the valley and looks for the lost one. Her feet are already bleeding from the long wandering around when at least Peter's voice speaks to her. Accordingly, he is already close to the goal, the longed-for heavenly star. Then Tino meets two great angels. They carry the dead down to the valley on a stretcher.

Tino kills a fool who blasphemes against Peter and buries him. Peter is buried. Tino hears glass angels sing. After three days of mourning, Tino visits Peter's grave a second time on the fourth day and writes "in the earth: It is called what the world is called."

Testimonials

  • Letter to Salomo Friedländer around 1905: "... it [the Peter Hille book] will be the basis of my life, the Centrale, ... the belief that I was necessary for life."
  • In conversation with Paul Goldscheider : "Nietzsche created the language in which we all write."

Identities

The aforementioned Goldwarth in the book is Else's second husband Herwarth and little Pull is Else's son Paul (1899–1927). The cat (Else Lasker-Schüler writes Katzin ) of the prophet could perhaps refer to Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche . The Berlin writer Martha Hellmuth is meant by the sorceress Hellmüte . Antinous is Peter Baum , Grimmer von Geyerbogen his brother Hugo and the Najad their sister Julia. Onit von Wetterwehe is probably not Gerhart Hauptmann , as initially assumed , but a certain Mr. Hans Schlieper.

reception

  • Samuel Lublinski and Hedwig Dohm said that only the initiated would understand the text.
    • Samuel Lublinski: After a hundred years, no one can understand the book in which the author “captured intense mental life ... and then foamed it ...” and “let it rustle”.
    • Hedwig Dohm: "... this round table of the world stranger Peter Hille" brings together "royal children from Bohèmeland".
  • Two examples from Bänsch's analysis demonstrate the contradictions at every nook and cranny of the text. First of all, Bänsch writes, while Else Lasker-Schüler glorifies her Peter Hille, encourages herself to write, and almost a hundred pages later has to put it into perspective, when Hille already expresses himself verbally in the book, banal things flow from his mouth. Or secondly, the reader can safely take Bänsch's statement "the divine ... is earthly tangible" as a praise to the author and four pages further, when Bänsch discusses the question "Why did God create himself shapeless?", The reader doubts that praise . With the opening episode (Tino kisses her master, the rock Peter, awake) Else Lasker-Schüler parodies the divine. Because of her notorious fine-tuning on the text, Hille saw the intellectual author as a talent, not a genius. The book can also be read as a criticism of Else Lasker-Schüler's image of Jesus in Christianity. Jesus and God the Father would be presented in a religion that adheres to the “cult of childliness”. Bänsch discusses the angels that haunt through the text, together with the controversy monotheism and the ego that is currently “one with the all from heaven”. Bänsch takes the sublime saying “It's called what the world is called” as the author's “poetic self-projection”.
  • In her first prose, the author had her difficulties with portraying Tino at the side of Peter. Feßmann sees Tino, wandering next to Peter, as a young dreamer who wants to leave her previous life behind. Else, alias Tino, does not save her differences with Hille alias Petrus, the experience of nature, religious and sexual matters, but tries to cover it up. While the author “completely trusts the power of language” in the episodes, she cannot cover up breaks at the episode boundaries.
  • The book describes the end of a life path that reminds Bishop "clearly of the life of Jesus ". In Else Lasker-Schüler's book, Peter is of the Catholic faith and Tino appears as a Jew . Bischoff examines the structure of the Hille book, makes comparisons with the Song of Solomon from the Old Testament and introduces Freud . The text is not a memory book. The name Peter Hille from the title does not appear in the text. We are talking about Peter. “Late spring 1903”, the only date in the text, marks the disappearance of Peter.
  • Else Lasker-Schüler wrote against the hypocritical - prudish Wilhelmine society. She never turned away from Peter Hille; and if so, then at most temporarily. She always returned to him remorsefully - after "artistic self-assertion".
  • In her “modern legend of saints” the author leans on the Song of Songs from the Pauline Letters of the New Testament and Nietzsche's Also addressed Zarathustra .
  • Decker reads the book as a gospel made up for Hille .

literature

Text output

Initial release
  • The Peter Hille book . Illustrator: Franz Stassen . 86 pages. Axel Juncker publishing house, Berlin 1906
Other issues
Sound carrier

Secondary literature

  • Dieter Bänsch : Else Lasker-Schüler. To criticize an established image. Diss. University of Marburg 1969. 271 pages
  • Meike Feßmann : pawns. Else Lasker-Schüler's first-person figurations as a game with the author's role. A contribution to the poetology of the modern author. (Diss. FU Berlin 1991) M & P, Publishing House for Science and Research, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-476-45019-8 (Licensor: Metzler, Stuttgart 1992)
  • Christine Reiss-Suckow: “Who will be my creator !!” Else Lasker-Schüler's development as an artist . (Diss. Uni Heidelberg 1996) Hartung-Gorre, Konstanz 1997, ISBN 3-89649-133-4
  • Doerte Bischoff: Suspended Creation. Figures of sovereignty and ethics of difference in Else Lasker-Schüler's prose. (Diss. Uni Tübingen 1999) Max Niemeyer, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-484-15095-5
  • Sigrid Bauschinger : Else Lasker-Schüler. Biography. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 3777, Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006 (Licensor: Wallstein, Göttingen 2004), ISBN 3-518-45777-2
  • Peter Sprengel : History of German-Language Literature 1900–1918. From the turn of the century to the end of the First World War. CH Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-52178-9
  • Kerstin Decker : My heart - nobody. The life of the Else Lasker students. Propylaea, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-549-07355-1

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ The teacher and writer Paul Goldscheider was born on July 14, 1854 in Sommerfeld and died after 1906. ( Entry at zeitstimmen.de)
  2. ↑ For example, there is a Freudian interpretation of the episode “Petrus verprobt meine passion” (edition used, p. 34) in Bischoff on p. 117–112. Or in Bischoff's consideration of the biblical phrase "Love is as strong as death" ( Hld 8,6  EU ), Freud's death instinct is drawn from beyond the pleasure principle (Bischoff, p. 160).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sprengel, p. 404, 20th Zvu
  2. ↑ Bischoff, p. 101, 15. Zvo
  3. ^ Sprengel, p. 184, 9. Zvo
  4. ↑ ( Joh 1,42  EU ) Peter, the rock
  5. ^ Reiss-Suckow, quoted in Bischoff, p. 100, footnote 8
  6. ^ Bänsch, quoted in Bischoff, p. 101, 16. Zvo
  7. ↑ Bischoff, p. 107, 2nd Zvu
  8. ↑ quoted from Else Lasker-Schüler's letters in Bischoff, p. 105, 9. Zvo
  9. ↑ Bauschinger, p. 117, 11. Zvo
  10. ↑ Bauschinger, p. 117, 13. Zvo
  11. ↑ Bauschinger, p. 117, 18. Zvu
  12. ↑ Bauschinger, p. 117, 13. Zvu
  13. ↑ Bauschinger, p. 116, 16. Zvu
  14. ↑ Sprengel, p. 184, 23. Zvo
  15. ↑ Bauschinger, p. 118, 4. Zvo
  16. ↑ Edition used, pp. 16, 15. Zvo
  17. ↑ Edition used, p. 17, 9. Zvo
  18. ↑ Edition used, p. 30, 6. Zvo
  19. ↑ Edition used, p. 36, 7th Zvu, see also Petrus reminds me of peter-hille-gesellschaft.de
  20. ↑ Edition used, p. 55, 2nd Zvu
  21. ↑ Else Lasker-Schüler, quoted in Bauschinger, p.112, 5. Zvo
  22. ↑ Else Lasker-Schüler, quoted in Bauschinger, p.112, 11. Zvu
  23. ↑ Bischoff, p. 100, 1. Zvu
  24. ↑ Edition used, p. 35, 18. Zvo
  25. ↑ Sprengel, p. 184, 15. Zvo, see also Bauschinger, p. 118
  26. ↑ Martha Schlesinger (1854–1905)
  27. ↑ Sprengel, p. 184, 18. Zvo
  28. ↑ Sprengel, p. 184, 19. Zvo
  29. ↑ Bauschinger, p. 114
  30. ^ Lublinski, quoted in Bauschinger, p. 116, 4. Zvo
  31. ↑ Dohm, quoted in Bauschinger, p. 116, 14. Zvo
  32. ↑ Bänsch, p. 53, 7th Zvu
  33. ↑ Bänsch, p. 139 below
  34. ↑ Bänsch, p. 126 middle
  35. ↑ Bänsch, p. 130 middle
  36. ↑ Bänsch, p. 55 above
  37. ↑ Bänsch, p. 93, 9th Zvu
  38. ↑ Bänsch, p. 106, 9. Zvo
  39. ↑ Bänsch, p. 108, 3. Zvo
  40. ↑ Bänsch, p. 117 middle
  41. ↑ Bänsch, p. 119
  42. ↑ Feßmann, p. 151
  43. ^ Feßmann, p. 159, 5th Zvu
  44. ↑ Bischoff, p. 100, 4th Zvu
  45. ^ Bischoff, p.128, 3. Zvo
  46. ↑ Bischoff, p. 160, 14. Zvo
  47. ↑ Bischoff, p. 141 middle to p. 174
  48. ↑ ( Hld 1,1  EU ), The Song of Solomon in the unrevised Elberfeld Bible translation
  49. ↑ Bischoff, p. 205 above
  50. ↑ Edition used, p. 48, 2nd Zvu
  51. ↑ Bischoff, p. 206
  52. ↑ Bauschinger, p. 117, 6. Zvo
  53. ↑ Bauschinger. P. 115, 5th Zvu
  54. ↑ ( 1 Cor 13 : 1–13  EU ) Song of Songs NT
  55. ↑ Sprengel, p. 184, 10. Zvo
  56. ↑ Bischoff, pp. 134, 14. Zvu
  57. ↑ Decker, p. 92, middle
  58. ↑ First edition ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Auction house Kestenbaum New York @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kestenbaum.net
  59. ↑ engl. HathiTrust