The Rooster from Quakenbrück

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Quakenbrück's Rooster is a short story by Ricarda Huch that was published by Schuster & Loeffler in Leipzig and Berlin in 1910.

Anno 1650, soon after the end of the Thirty Years' War , the Reformed fight a bouquet with the Catholics in Quakenbrück .

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Pastor Splitterchen from the Reformed Church of the Holy Spirit had preached from the pulpit several times that the rooster was laying eggs in the chicken coop of the 60-year-old Catholic Mayor Tile von Stint. The incarnate comes and goes there . The Catholic governor of Klöterjahn, a friend of the Stint family, is strict on religious issues. He does not want to set foot on the threshold of the House of Stint until the mayor has washed away the bad reputation .

Councilor Druwel von Druwelstein summons Ms. Armida, the mayor, not to enter the devil's chicken coop any more. The mayor tries in vain to kill the rooster. The frightened animal fled under the roof beams of the barn and was not seen again for the next few days.

The dispute between the pastor Splitterchen and the alleged magician and heathen Tile von Stint is to be decided by the judge Tiberius Tönepöhl, a Reformed man. The awkward questioning of witnesses chaired by the free spirit Tönepöhl shows that nobody saw the rooster laying eggs. Pastor Splitterchen is dissatisfied with the course of the process and, to the applause of the reformed citizens present, anticipates the impending acquittal of the mayor. When the verdict in favor of the pastor Splitterchen now turns out, City Governor Klöterjahn asks the assistance of the Bishop of Osnabrück . He actually appears in the courtroom at Quakenbrück. The prince of the church, who cannot assert himself as a witness in the matter, finds a way out. The "accused rooster" should be contrasted with the splinter flock of chickens. When the chicken people, with their simple-minded instinct , smell the bad , then judging will no longer be difficult for Tönepöhl.

Said and done. The poultry are brought in in baskets and released. The strange “ judgment of God ” is not directed against the mayor. The bishop prevails. Judge Tönepöhl has to arrest Pastor Splitterchen.

The city governor of Klöterjahn can now visit his friend, the mayor Tile von Stint, again without major religious concerns. On the occasion of the courtesy visit, “a lascivious pie” invites you to eat on the table. The lean, tough meat of the rooster was "sausaged" in the steaming food.

Book editions

First edition
  • Ricarda Huch: The Rooster from Quakenbrück and other short stories (also contains: The singer. The new saint ). Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin and Leipzig 1910
expenditure
  • Ricarda Huch: The new saint. The Rooster from Quakenbrück. Two novels . 79 pages. RUB No. 6481, Reclam, Leipzig 1945 (used edition from 1957)

literature

  • Marie Baum : Shining lead. The life of Ricarda Huch. 520 pages. Rainer Wunderlich Verlag Hermann Leins , Tübingen and Stuttgart 1950 (6th – 11th thousand)
  • Helene Baumgarten: Ricarda Huch. About her life and work . 236 pages. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1964

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schuster & Loeffler
  2. ↑ Baum, p. 518, 11th entry and Baumgarten, p. 230, last entry