The dog and the sparrow
The dog and the sparrow is an animal tale ( ATU 248, 223). It is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 58 (KHM 58). In the 1st edition, the title was Vom faithful Gevatter Sperling . Jacob Grimm first published it in 1812 in Friedrich Schlegel's magazine Deutsches Museum (vol. 1) at the end of a treatise on Reinhart Fuchs .
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A hungry German Shepherd has run away from its bad master. He meets a sparrow who steals something to eat from two butcher shops and two bakeries. The sleeping dog is run over by a carter on the road. The sparrow pecks at the bung so that its wine barrels run out, and at the eyes of the horses so that the carter who wants to hit the sparrow kills his horses with the hoe. At home he eats up the harvest with many other birds. In his anger, the man hits the sparrow again and again and breaks his house in the process. In the end he devours it. The woman is supposed to kill the sparrow in his mouth with the hoe. She meets the man. The sparrow escapes.
origin
The text was based in the first edition on a story by Gretchen Wild in 1808, later, apart from the ending, on Dorothea Viehmann . Grimm's comment reflects the divergent entry of the first version: A doe invites the fox as godfather, the latter the sparrow and the dog that his master had leashed because of drunkenness after a wedding. He gets drunk again, remains lying on the street and is driven to death by the carter despite the sparrow's threat. In a third story from Göttingen (probably by August von Haxthausen ) the little bird asks the carter to help the little dog across the street, and takes revenge when he drives it to death. The Grimms mention another poem and an Estonian animal fairy tale in Reinhart Fuchs .
Jacob Grimm first mentioned the story in 1811 in a letter to Achim von Arnim . The oldest known version is the Dutch Van een hond en een mus (Of a dog and a sparrow), which GA Arends published in 1804 after his mother Trijntje Alberts.
Cf. on the outcast dog KHM 48 The old Sultan , on the worldly experienced sparrow KHM 157 The sparrow and his four children .
Receptions
Compare in Ludwig Bechstein's German fairy tale book Des Hundes Not .
In Janosch's parody, a car driver runs over the dog who is drunk from a wedding. The sparrow repeatedly complains helplessly against the car, or it flies into the windshield and the driver hits a tree.
literature
- Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 329-331. Düsseldorf and Zurich, 19th edition 1999. (Artemis & Winkler Verlag; Patmos Verlag; ISBN 3-538-06943-3 )
- Brothers Grimm. Children's and Household Tales. Last hand edition with the original notes by the Brothers Grimm. With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin, not published in all editions, published by Heinz Rölleke. Volume 3: Original Notes, Guarantees of Origin, Afterword. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1994. ISBN 3-15-003193-1 , pp. 112-113, 468.
- Heinz Rölleke (Ed.): The oldest fairy tale collection of the Brothers Grimm. Synopsis of the handwritten original version from 1810 and the first prints from 1812. Edited and explained by Heinz Rölleke. Cologny-Geneve 1975. (Fondation Martin Bodmer; Printed in Switzerland). Pp. 40-43, 350-351.
- Hans-Jörg Uther: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. de Gruyter, Berlin 2008. ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 143-145.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Jörg Uther: Handbook on the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm. de Gruyter, Berlin 2008. ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 143-145.
- ↑ Janosch: From a loyal sparrow. In: Janosch tells Grimm's fairy tale. Fifty selected fairy tales, retold for today's children. With drawings by Janosch. 8th edition. Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim and Basel 1983, ISBN 3-407-80213-7 , pp. 229-231.