The Junker von Denow

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The Junker von Denow is a novella by Wilhelm Raabe , which was written in late autumn 1858 and appeared in Westermann's monthly magazine in 1859 . In 1862 the text was in the “Tangled Life” collection at Carl Flemming's in Glogau . Raabe experienced reprints in 1896, 1901 and 1905. Meyen names seven reviews from the years 1863 to 1955.

Hoppe and Plischke cite one of Raabe's sources, which appeared in Leipzig in 1823: “ Friedrich Schiller : History of the waste of the Netherlands from the Spanish government. Continued by Carl Curths ” . The author also used the battle of the Dutch against the Spaniards in 1599 in the historical novellas The Black Galley and Saint Thomas .


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The sculpture "Anneke Mey" in Stadtoldendorf

On September 6, 1599, Junker Christoph von Denow brought an order from the Count of Hohenlohe to the mutinous mercenaries in Rees on the Rhine . The troops should move out to fight the Spaniards . When the mutineers want to kill a captain, Christoph intervenes in vain. The Junker then fought on the front line against the Spaniards and suffered a wound on his forehead. The opposing general Don Ramiro de Gusman has the Rhine locks open. The young Anneke Mey from Stadtoldendorf , sutler and giver in the Brunswick regiment, saves the injured person from drowning.

When the Junker regained consciousness, he was lying on a cart in Anneke's lap in the middle of the mutineers' procession on the way to Munster . Christoph accuses Anneke of being taken for a crony of the mutineers; especially since the mutineers would like to see Christoph in the place of their Colonel von Rethen . When the train finally reached the Weser on its march , it was harassed by Count von Hollach and evaded. The mercenaries put the not yet healthy Junker on horseback. Christoph leads the mutineers against his will.

In November 1599, the Junker von Denow in Wolfenbüttel was sentenced to death by hanging by a court martial of Duke Heinrich Julius . Anneke, who is well known to the castle guards as a soldier's child, penetrates - for only a few hours - into Christoph's prison. A number of those sentenced to death are pardoned by the duke and sent against the enemy in Hungary. The Junker wants justice and no mercy. When he has to climb the ladder to the hangman, he misses Anneke among the bystanders. The delinquent cannot understand why she let him down. Erdwin Wüstemann, the loyal servant of the old house of Denow, wants the master to die a noble death and shoots him. A rider with a paper in hand bursts up. Christoph is supposed to go back to prison. His case is to be renegotiated. Too late.

Anneke appears at the execution site in the Duke's entourage. She throws herself over the corpse of her lover and dies.

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Secondary literature

  • Fritz Meyen : Wilhelm Raabe. Bibliography. 438 pages. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1973 (2nd edition). Supplementary volume 1, ISBN 3-525-20144-3 in Karl Hoppe (Ed.): Wilhelm Raabe. Complete Works. Braunschweig edition . 24 vols.
  • Saint Thomas . Pp. 5-59. With an appendix, written by Karl Hoppe and Hans Plischke, pp. 405–421 in Karl Hoppe (arrangement), Hans Oppermann (arrangement), Constantin Bauer (arrangement), Hans Plischke (arrangement): Erzählungen. Saint Thomas. The geese from Bützow . Theklas inheritance . Gedelock . In the wreath . The march home . The kingdom's crown . German moonlight . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1976. Vol. 9.2 (2nd edition, obtained by Karl Hoppe), ISBN 3-525-20120-6 in Hoppe (ed.), Jost Schillemeit (ed.), Hans Oppermann (ed.) , Kurt Schreinert (Ed.): Wilhelm Raabe. Complete Works. Braunschweig edition . 24 vols.
  • Cecilia von Studnitz : Wilhelm Raabe. Writer. A biography. 346 pages. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-0778-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ von Studnitz, p. 309, entry 10
  2. ↑ Hoppe and Rohse in the edition used, p. 602 middle below and p. 604 above
  3. ↑ Meyen, pp. 356-357
  4. ↑ Friedrich Schiller: History of the waste of the Netherlands from the Spanish government in the Gutenberg-DE project
  5. ↑ Hoppe and Plischke, Braunschweiger Edition, Vol. 9.2, p. 407, 11th Zvu
  6. ↑ Meyen, p. 19