The Pojaz
Pojaz is the last novel by the writer and publicist Karl Emil Franzos (the rediscoverer of Georg Büchner ). It was finished around 1893 and initially appeared in sequels in the Berliner Tageblatt . Franzos' widow published the novel posthumously in 1905 . It is a development novel in which a Galician boy wants to be an actor.
content
The development of an intelligent, dreamy and mocking boy named Sender Glatteis is described in satirical terms. Sender's parents die shortly after he was born (his father was a scrounger ). That is why Sender grows up at Rosel Kurländer in a fictional Galician village called Barnow without knowing that she is not his mother. Sender apparently inherited the ability to tell stories and imitate people from his father. That is why he is nicknamed "Pojaz" (from " Bajazzo ") in the village .
Sender opposes Eastern Jewish education and traditions. He wants to become an actor, for which he would have to learn German. He acquires the necessary language skills in various ways (from a kk soldier who has been sentenced to a sentence , a monk in a monastery, while working for the clerk in the village), although it is socially frowned upon to master the German educational language (because the rabbis German - and the underlying modern everyday culture of the metropolises and the more developed regions of Austria-Hungary - see it as a danger to the Orthodox faith).
Sender finally meets Adolf Nadler, a theater director who - after recognizing Sender's extraordinary talent for acting - not only provides him with literature ( Schiller's The Robbers and Lessing's Nathan the Wise are mentioned in particular ), but also invites him to join to participate in his theater. For health reasons, the station does not need to do military service. He leaves the village because a matchmaker has found a fiancée for him after many attempts (thwarted by the broadcaster). He cuts his hair and takes off his traditional clothes, he becomes a "German", a Western Jew. A return to the village no longer seems possible; but when the transmitter is held up by a storm, he returns to the village sick. He dies there after the happy turn of all conflicts.
expenditure
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The Pojaz . Stuttgart, Cotta, 1905
- The Pojaz . Afterword by Jost Hermand . Königstein: Athenaeum, 1979 ISBN 3-7610-8070-0
- The Pojaz . Berlin: Rotbuch, 2005, ISBN 978-3434545262 .
- The Pojaz. A story from the east . New edition. Edited and with an afterword by Petra Morsbach . Verlag Sankt Michaelsbund, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-939905-59-2 .
literature
- Günther A. Höfler: Psychoanalysis and development novel. Karl Emil Franzos "Der Pojaz" , Munich, Südostdeutsches Kulturwerk, 1987
- Oskar Ansull (ed.): Zweigeist Karl Emil Franzos. A reading book by Oskar Ansull , including the chapter The Pojaz. Materials for a novel , pp. 259–271, Potsdam, German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe ISBN 3-936168-21-0
- Lim 2008: Jong-Dae Lim, Karl Emil Franzos in Chernivtsi, in: Traces of a European. Karl Emil Franzos as a mediator between cultures, ed. v. Amy-Diana Colin / Elke-Vera Kotowski / Anna Dorothea Ludewig, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2008, 109–125.
- Sigurd Paul Scheichl : Karl Emil Franzos and the difficulty of literary-historical labeling. In: Traces of a European. Karl Emil Franzos as a mediator between cultures. Edited by Amy-Diana Colin / Elke-Vera Kotowski / Anna Dorothea Ludewig, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2008, 139–157.
- Kenneth H. Ober: 1905 Karl Emil Franzos' masterpiece "The Pojaz" is published posthumously. In: Sander L. Gilman , Jack Zipes (ed.): Yale companion to Jewish writing and thought in German culture 1096-1996. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1997, pp. 268-272