The march home

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The March Home is a historical story by Wilhelm Raabe , which was completed in early 1870 and which appeared in the Leipzig magazine “ Daheim ” in the same year . Hallberger brought the book edition out in Stuttgart in 1873 as part of the “Deutscher Mondschein” collection. During Raabe's lifetime, reprints were published in 1875, 1896, 1901 and 1905. Meyen gives nine reviews from the years 1872 to 1951 and names eight editions.

The novel takes place in the Lake Constance area and in Brandenburg in the second half of the 17th century: it tells an episode from the battle of Fehrbellin . After a long wrong path, the Swedish arquebusier corporal Sven Knudson Knäckabröd finally finds his way home.

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Since 1631 Sven from Jönköping had faithfully followed the flag of his King Gustav Adolf in several campaigns through Central Europe. On January 4, 1647, Sven's war comrades from the “yellow Oxenstierna regiment” were slain by wives from Vorarlberg on the “red egg ” between Lingenau and Hüttisau . Sven is captured by one of the fighters. This is the widow Mrs. Fortunata Madlener, landlady of the “Zur Taube” inn in Alberschwende . The landlady entrusts the Swede with her underage daughter Aloysia to look after the children. After ten years in captivity, the widow loosens the reins. Schwen, as the hostess calls the corporal, is allowed to take full responsibility for the dairy and cheese making on the nearby Lorena mountain saddle. The veteran has proven himself as a cattle breeder for many years. After 26 years in captivity, the shepherd runs away from Lorena. In Bregenz he sets sail, goes ashore in Lindau and meets an old friend. That is the corporal Rolf Rolfson Kok, now port attendant of the Holy Roman Empire Free City of Lindau. The two soldiers sadly remember 1631 when they marched shoulder to shoulder on Berlin. In the Alemannic foreign country, the two aged war journeymen come to the realization that their home was under the Swedish flag. The soldiers no longer want to be prisoners of women and philistines. So they go home, to Pasewalk under the flag of their General Wrangel . In June 1675 the field marshal is defeated by the Brandenburg . Comrade Rolf falls in battle. Sven manages to escape. In the autumn of 1675 the warrior arrives at home: on the banks of the Schwarzach , the widow Fortunata receives her swing with the exclamation: "Greetings to God at home, you old Swede!"

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First edition

  • German moonlight. Four stories. 261 pages. Hallberger, Stuttgart 1873 (contains: German moonlight. The march home. The crown of the empire. Thekla's inheritance or the story of a sultry day)

source

  • The march home , pp. 127–186 in: Hans-Heinrich Reuter (Ed.): Wilhelm Raabe: Erzählungen . 776 pages. Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1962 (The edition follows: Karl Hoppe (Ed.): Wilhelm Raabe. The selected work. Critically reviewed edition. 4 volumes. Freiburg im Breisgau 1955)

Further editions

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.
  • Cecilia von Studnitz : Wilhelm Raabe. Writer. A biography. 346 pages. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-0778-6
  • Werner Fuld : Wilhelm Raabe. A biography. 383 pages. Hanser, Munich 1993 (dtv edition in July 2006), ISBN 3-423-34324-9 .

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annotation

  1. ↑ The editor of “Daheim” wanted his readers to have a love story (Fuld, p. 154 middle).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source, pp. XXVIII, 16. Zvu ff
  2. ↑ Braunschweiger Edition, Vol. 9.2, pp. 478–479
  3. ↑ Meyen, pp. 362-363
  4. ↑ Meyen, pp. 109-110
  5. ↑ von Studnitz, p. 311, entry 35