The trophy

The cup is a story by the romantic Ludwig Tieck . It was created in 1811 and appeared in his Phantasus collection in 1812 .

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A youth in a strange city has been secretly meeting a girl for a year whom he met on the steps of the church. An alchemist who is only his friend makes him an oracle with a gold cup that creates music when it is painted, but he reaches for her rising image, it withers as a rose. When she drives past in the car and loses a rose, he thinks he's wasted his luck.

During the wedding preparations, the groom and his brother insist on inviting their withdrawn old acquaintance to whom they owe a great deal of education. He stares at the bride until she is embarrassed and recognizes the house too. He is scary to the sister and likable to the bride's mother. When she asks in confidence about his reaction to the gold cup, she recognizes him, whom she then thought was unfaithful and had married someone else.

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The narrators, who form the framework plot in Phantasus , notice that this narrative is the least fairytale-like, quite possible, but the saddest. Nonetheless, the motif of the wrong marriage caused by parents is often found in fairy tales (e.g. KHM 21 , 113 , 193 ).

As in Tieck's other stories in Phantasus, there is a connecting element in the red and gold cup between both parts of the story and between the real and the magical world. The latter is again characterized by ringing, colored gold and has a simultaneously alluring and, in real life, separating effect.

literature

• Marianne Thalmann: Ludwig Tieck. The fairy tale from Phantasus. Dramas . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1978, pp. 185-202, 899-900.