The President (Karl Emil Franzos)
The President is a story by the Austrian writer Karl Emil Franzos , which was first published in 1884 by Eduard Trewendt in Breslau . In the same year Georg Düntz brought the book onto the market in St. Petersburg .
prehistory
The president is the judge Karl Victor Reichsfreiherr von Sendlingen. Regarding his ancestry, the highly respected aristocrat can refer to a sideline of the Salian emperors: one of his ancestors, a cousin of Emperor Konrad , sat in Franconia and Swabia . The great-grandson of that ancestor came to Carinthia with a Habsburg . The first Sendlingerburg on Austrian soil stood in a side valley near Maria Wörth . Shortly before his death, Victor's father, a widower, takes his 14-year-old son on a carriage ride from his place of work in Klagenfurt in May. The excursion destination is those old walls in the mountains. In view of the coat of arms of the von Sendlingen family, Victor has to swear to his father that he will never repeat his father's unforgivable mistake. Victor's mother had been a commoner. After the marriage, Victor's father had remained a subordinate civil servant with no chance of advancement.
After the father died, influential members of the Sendlingen aristocracy took care of Victor. The boy graduates from the Theresian Academy . After completing his university studies under the wing of his uncle from Lemberg, initially employed in the gubernium there, in the winter of 1832 the young lawyer Victor von Sendlingen was transferred as a criminal judge to the Sochen District Office in the south of Bukovina . There on the Moldovan border, Baron von Sendlingen met and fell in love with the blond educator Fraulein Hermine Lippert in the house of the Romanized Greek Alexander von Mirescul, a notorious tobacco smuggler. Sendlingen wants to marry the commoner. The uncle from Lemberg, on the way through to Chernivtsi , prevents the connection with Hermine, the daughter of a high school director. He gives the nephew a choice - either leave Bukovina immediately or abandon his career. Mindful of the fate of his father, Sendlingen leaves Hermione and never sees her lover again. Transferred to Bohemia from the eastern provinces as a judicial councilor , the young baron married a countess. The marriage remains childless. At the age of 40 Sendlingen was appointed court president in the German-Slavic provincial town of B. in north-eastern Austria . Sendlingen widowed in 1850.
action
The crime story takes place from November 1852 to August 1856 mostly in Austria; mainly in that provincial town of B.
When Sendlingen returned to B. from a long business trip from Vienna and looked through the current list of the criminal senate, he made a momentous discovery. The relevant entry reads: “Victorine Lippert. Born on January 25, 1834 in Radautz in Bukowina. Governess. Child murder. Admitted by the district court G. on June 17, 1852. Confessed. Final hearing November 8, 1852. “So the President is a father; has a daughter with Hermione. The mistress had told him nothing about this. In the subsequent negotiations in his daughter's criminal case, Sendlingen was represented as chairman. At the first meeting in the prison cell one-to-one, the outward resemblance of father and daughter is obvious. Sendlingen hides the discovery from the officials in his vicinity; only dedicates his best friend, the lawyer Dr. Georg Berger, a. Together with his housekeeper Brigitte and his servant Franz, the president prepares the kidnapping of the daughter from prison. When the verdict “ Death by hanging ” was confirmed by Vienna and the monarch rejected the petition for clemency, the three conspirators carried out the kidnapping of Victorine on the night of February 22, 1853. At Oosterdaal Castle near Huissen , the hiding place of the four Austrians, Victorine marries a mine director from Batavia and goes with him to Java .
Sendlingen faces his superior minister in Vienna. When a criminal case against the "guilty become" president denied the latter flees to suicide.
Adaptations
play
in English
- The judge. A play in four acts by Louis James Block (1851–1927), The Gorham Press, Boston 1915
literature
expenditure
- The president. Story by Karl Emil Franzos. JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachhaben, Stuttgart 1924. 262 pages (used edition)
in English
- The chief justice, a novel by Emil Franzos Translator: Miles Corbet, William Heinemann, London 1890
Secondary literature
- Peter Sprengel : History of German-Language Literature 1870–1900. From the founding of the empire to the turn of the century. Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-44104-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Trewendt
- ↑ Edition used, p. 14, 12. Zvu
- ↑ Sprengel, p. 282, 16. Zvu
- ↑ The judge. A play in four acts
- ^ The chief justice, a novel by Emil Franzos