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Peter Rosegger around 1865

The Hinterschöpp is a short story by the Austrian writer Peter Rosegger , which appeared from January to March 1878 (2nd year, issues 4 to 6) in the Graz Heimgarten . Austrian Empire in the first half of the 19th century: The theme is the double “ military flight ” of the title figure.

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In the second half of October 1846, the gaunt, tree-long Anton Obersdorfer posed to the Schleiner Richter in response to a newspaper note. The newspaper said: "The peddler Jonathan Schauderer from Schlein confessed to the murder committed thirty-seven years ago at the Kesselsee near Schlein of the twenty-one-year-old wood cutter Anton Obersdorfer and was therefore sentenced to death of the strand." The "old military refugee" Anton Obersdorfer had to sit for weeks until his identity is proven. For since his above-mentioned “murder” on August 28, 1809, Anton Obersdorfer alias Holzknecht-Toni was missing; but as a smallholder Paul Hinterschöpp lived in Schneewaldbach ob Kraden without being recognized. How should the rear end be punished? The judges asked the emperor . Who said his judges could do what they wanted in the case; for example let go of the delinquent. So it happened.

The good wife of Hinterschöpp died in childbed in 1832 after the birth of their son Anton. The rear end had taken Frau Schragl, the widow of a cobbler, as housekeeper. The latter had been silent all those years after the rear end had his newborn son baptized as Antonia. After all, a soldier had to serve around twelve years at the time and was tortured in the service. Antonia wore girl's clothes. Initially, the backbone was against his child's school attendance. When the nine-year-old Antonia had to go to the schoolmaster Grindl, the latter complained to the father: “... I have never seen such a girl; that's better than the most impetuous boy ... she takes it on with the boys. ”As a fourteen-year-old, the“ Hinterschöpp-Dirn ”is sent to the alpine pasture by her father as a dairymaid . Left to her own devices, Antonia not only looks after the cattle on the mats, but also defends herself all by herself from the thirty-year-old poacher Tibur. He is the son of the respected local executive of Kraden. The rear end cannot keep his Antonia completely out of the village life. On Ascension Day, the pastor from Kraden quotes all virgins for the inauguration of the new immaculate conception chapel under the three beeches. The dress code is mandatory. Like all virgins, Antonia has to appear in a white dress and with a green wreath on her head. On the procession, Antonia befriends Gregina Bärenschütz, who is the same age. When Antonia stayed overnight in their farmhouse at the invitation of the Bärenschütz family, the Hinterschöpp set out on the arduous and long walk from Schneewaldbach to Kraden that night. Antonia shares the bed with Gregina. The rear end remains adamant. Antonia has to go home.

When Hinterschöpp was in custody in the winter of 1847 (see above), Antonia voluntarily went to Vienna as Anton with the Kraden recruits for military service . Gregina's brother Guido had finally cleared up "Antonia". In 1857 Anton junior came home as a captain and freed Gregina. Gregina's brother Guido becomes a corporal .

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  1. ↑ Mrs. Schragl's son Hans serves in a regiment located in Hungary. After escaping from the barracks, Hans survived running the gauntlet . After ten years of service, Hans wants to go on vacation. His Obrist rejects the request and puts the applicant four weeks with bread and water to the floor house . According to the angry colonel, Hans is to serve his fourteen years in the barracks. Then he wants to send the two-time deserter down into " Wallachian " for the three reserve years. The narrator, Rosegger, also denounces the crooked closure and the standing right .

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  1. ↑ Der Hinterschöpp, or the story of three dubious people by PK Rosegger , Heimgarten , 2nd year, January to March 1878, pp. 241–257, 321–340 and 412–422