The Eispeter

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Eispeter is one of the early picture stories of the humorous poet and draftsman Wilhelm Busch . It appeared in 1864 in the Bilderpossen , the first independent publication by Wilhelm Busch, who in the previous years had only drawn picture stories for the Fliegende Blätter and the Münchener Bilderbogen . The story varies the theme of classic Enlightenment pedagogy, but at the same time alienates it in a special way.

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Peter is a boy who leaves the narrow room of his parents, who are warming themselves by the stove. The father is equipped with a dressing gown, pointed cap and a long pipe. The mother is sitting by the stove in her apron and work clothes. Against the warning of his uncle, who is a forester, he goes on ice with his skates. It collapses and freezes into a block of ice that is carried home and placed by the stove and melts completely. The parents have no choice but to put their son in a saucepan and lie down between the cucumber and cheese to rest.

effect

The picture antics sold very badly. For their publisher Heinrich Schmitz, they meant a significant financial loss. Perhaps this is partly due to the story of Eispeter, which is a source of alienation to this day. Wolfgang Teichmann , the editor of the complete edition published in the GDR in 1960/1961, found it so shocking that he was the only picture story not to include it in his edition.

supporting documents

literature

  • Michaela Diers: Wilhelm Busch, life and work. dtv, 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-34452-4 .
  • Joseph Kraus: Wilhelm Busch. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1970, ISBN 3-499-50163-5 .
  • Ulrich Mihr: Wilhelm Busch. The Protestant who laughs anyway . Tübingen 1983.
  • Frank Pietzcker: Symbol and Reality in the Work of Wilhelm Busch - The hidden statements of his picture stories. European university publications, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-631-39313-X .
  • Gudrun Schury: I wish I were an Eskimo. The life of Wilhelm Busch. Biography . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-351-02653-0 .
  • Gert Ueding : Wilhelm Busch. The 19th century in miniature. Insel, Frankfurt / M. 1977 (new edition 2007).
  • Eva Weissweiler : Wilhelm Busch. The laughing pessimist. A biography . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-462-03930-6 .
  • Berndt W. Wessling : Wilhelm Busch - philosopher with a pointed pen. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-453-06344-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ueding, p. 172.
  2. ↑ Pietzcker, pp. 157–158.

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