The legacy of the wandering whore
The Legacy of the Wandering Whore , third volume in the series The Wandering Whore , is a historical novel by Iny Lorentz that was published by Knaur in Munich in 2006 .
Marie Adler, mistress of Castle Kibitzstein am Main, is kidnapped and sold abroad as a slave . The able-bodied woman manages to return home.
Significance in the book market
The third book from the migrant prostitutes series (after The Whore and The Kastellanin ) was in March 2007, the highest new entry on the Paperback - bestseller list of the mirror and came straight to number 4 on the list.
review
The book was described as "lengthy and boring" that would "move like a monkey from one pornographic-crude place to the next" and was "not exciting". The book is linguistically written too dryly and is characterized by "splashing stilts". The commercial success and the appearance in bestseller lists can only be explained with contexts that also apply to flies and the accumulation of feces.
time and place
Since the events in this volume follow on from the second volume of the tetralogy , the action begins around 1427 and ends around 1430. The locations are the Electoral Palatinate , Franconia , Russia and Constantinople .
action
The abduction
Marie seeks out her best friend Hiltrud in Rheinsobern on the right bank of the Rhine. Marie left her little daughter Trudi with her husband, the free imperial knight Michel Adler, at Kibitzstein Castle. During a mandatory visit to the wife of the castle captain of Rheinsobern, her mortal enemy Hulda von Hettenheim becomes aware of Marie. Marie is one of the women whom Hulda's husband Falko von Hettenheim desired during his lifetime. Hulda, full of hatred, is firmly convinced that Marie is to blame for the death of her husband. Hulda has Marie kidnapped, keeps her prisoner on the remote Otternburg on the left bank of the Rhine (near Speyer ) and makes it look as if Marie was drifting down the Rhine as a body in water. Marie and Hulda are pregnant. Hulda gives birth to a daughter. She had longed for a family owner because otherwise Heinrich von Hettenheim, Falko's cousin, would one day inherit.
An infamous plan
Marie gives birth to a boy in captivity on the Otternburg. Hulda swaps the two children and has Marie and the girl taken to Koblenz on the wintry Rhine . There Marie falls into the hands of the trafficker Jean Labadaire .
Heinrich von Hettenheim, meanwhile, visits his friend Michel at Kibitzstein Castle. Heinrich finds a dejected friend. Only Trudi does not want to believe in the death of her mother Marie.
Carried off
Labadaire sells Marie and the child to a Dutch captain. The two are kidnapped to Russia on his slave cog , along with a load of two-legged cattle , i.e. slaves. In Narwa , Marie is sold as fresh meat to a German human trafficker . He sells them in Pskov to Anastasia Ivanovna, the wife of the 22-year-old Prince Dimitri von Vorosansk [located between Moscow and Pskov]. Anastasia comes from Constantinople, more precisely, from the imperial family of the Eastern Roman Empire . Dimitri is the cousin of Vasily II Vasilyevich , the Grand Duke of Moscow . Vasily is the grandson of Dmitri Donskoy . On the way, Marie had not baptized the baby under the name Elisabeth. Lisa, as Marie calls the toddler, has to be content with goat milk from now on, because Marie is a two-legged milk goat , i.e. H. when nurse , Prince Vladimir, the young son of the princely couple, has to breastfeed. Slaves and servants at court are brought to reason with the knout .
In Kibitzstein, Michel is still resigned. Emperor Sigismund comes to Nuremberg . Michel goes listless. He is recognized and embraced by the emperor. Michel wants to fight the cursed Ottomans for Sigismund in the Kingdom of Hungary . However, the emperor made peace with the Ottomans and wants Michel to first take a new wife and beget at least one future strong knight for the empire with her . Michel, resisting and still hoping that Marie is alive, does not want to remarry. The emperor reacts a little annoyed.
In Russia
As a healer, Marie takes care of the sick Prince Vladimir. Andrei Grigoryevich, a nobleman from the prince's entourage, realizes that Marie, a woman who knows Latin, cannot be a maid. It is also Andrei who, on the return journey from Pskov to Vorosansk, saves the life of his quick-tempered prince through prudence. At home in Vorosansk, Prince Dimitri appears autocratic throughout. So he whips Anatoli, one of his followers, for something nothing. Dimitri's wife Anastasia is no different. She lets the Russian nanny Darya whipped for neglecting Vladimir. Darja blames Marie for her punishment. As a Greek, Princess Anastasia feels a stranger in Russia and is looking for a woman she can trust in Maria.
At home on Kibitzstein, Michel is almost ready to consider getting married again. Hulda's scheming father Rumold von Lauenstein initially prevents this, but then takes Michel's search for a bride into his own hands.
Winding paths
That night Marie catches Darja trying to poison Vladimir slumbering in the cradle. Darja accuses Marie of the crime. The locals don't want to believe the strangers, but Andrej saves Marie from the death penalty. Marie cures an abdominal ailment of Princess Anastasia. Instead of gratitude, the successful healer feels the whims of the princess. This is one of the reasons why Marie has thoughts of fleeing. She also wants to go home to her son and daughter Trudi.
At home in Nuremberg, the emperor, who is almost on his way to meet the Madjars , married his loyal knight Michel to Schwanhild von Magoldsheim. Jungfer Schwanhild, a lady of noble blood who is descended from the Wittelsbach family on her mother's side, was forced by her father to marry the unloved innkeeper, Michel, through food deprivation and beatings. Trudi doesn't want to come to terms with the new mother.
The rebellion
Prince Dimitri's ancestors had kept the Moscow Grand Dukes and his boyars at bay, successfully navigated between the fronts and thus repelled attacks against the Vorosansk principality. The daredevil Dimitri, on the other hand, had acted clumsily; During his stay on the German border in Pskov, he looked for allies among the Knights of the Teutonic Order and thus became enemies with the Moscow boyars. The Muscovites want Dimitri's brother Yaroslav as the new prince of Vorosansk. In these efforts they use Andrej's uncle Lavrenti the sword-bearer and first advisor Dimitris. When the rebellion breaks out in Vorosansk, the prince and his Tatars are dead drunk and unable to fight. The rebels take care not to judge the defenseless Dimitri. They wisely leave that to the new Prince Yaroslav. He chops off his brother's head.
Andrei managed to escape in the turmoil with the princess and son Vladimir. Marie fled with them. The destination is distant Constantinople. The refugees reach the Tatar Steppes in a southerly direction and are stopped by Terbent Khan's people. Marie is lucky. In the main wife of the Khan, she recognizes a former sutler from the campaign against the Hussites . The Khan has a Tatar team escort the tour group to Tana ( Azov ). There the group boarded a Genoese ship and made it to Constantinople unmolested.
The shadows of the past
Marie becomes chief steward of Princess Anastasia. But in Constantinople the Eastern Romans are besieged by the Ottomans. The East Romans hope the Muscovites will provide military aid against the Ottomans and hand Anastasia over to a Russian delegation. Andrei can save Anastasia. The escape continues - from Constantinople with a Venetian ship past Athos , Negroponte , Modon , Durazzo , Ragusa and Zara to Venice. With dealers from southern Germany it then goes over the Alps to Nuremberg. Finally Marie penetrates the castle courageously to the emperor Sigismund and files a lawsuit against Hulda.
Revenge
The emperor transfers the case to the responsible elector: Ludwig von Wittelsbach , Count Palatine near Rhine , makes it easy for himself. He calls his vassal to himself. When Hulda simply turns deaf, the Count Palatine allows Michel to feud Hulda. That boils down to the siege and storming of the Otternburg. Hulda, who had Marie's son baptized in the name of Falko, of all places, has curled up in the castle with the toddler and a few loyal followers. Falko is freed by Michel and his fighting force in a daring action. Hulda, in dire straits, sets fire and dies in it.
Michel now has two wives: Schwanhild and Marie. The knight chooses Marie. Schwanhild and the Kastallan on Kibitzstein become a couple. The church has no objection.
literature
- Iny Lorentz: The legacy of the wandering whore. Novel. Munich 2006, 715 pages, ISBN 3-8289-8711-7
filming
The film was produced in 2012 and premiered on November 13, 2012 on Sat.1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paperback bestseller - teamwork after work . On: Spiegel Online - Kultur , March 19, 2007.
- ↑ With review summary of the daily newspaper of 29 July 2006 in pearl .com
- ↑ Kirsten Risselmann: Abysmal evil, angelically good: Iny Lorentz 'fat history book "The Legacy of the Wandering Whore" . In: taz , July 29, 2006.
- ↑ Lorentz, p. 698, 17. Zvo