The student from Wittenberg

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The student from Wittenberg is a novella by Wilhelm Raabe that was written in the winter of 1854/1855 and appeared in Westermann's monthly notebooks in 1857 . Adolf Glaser asked for a contribution to the magazine. The publication marks the beginning of Raabe's collaboration with George Westermann . The book edition was published by Ernst Schotte in Berlin in 1859. The Raabe researchers Fehse, Oppermann and Fuld agree - the text is to be regarded as the young author's first prose work.


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Anno 1559 hitting Scholar Paul neck Inger to guests at an inn - somewhere between Mansfeld and Magdeburg - the zither . Paul comes from Osterwieck . The parents passed away. Paulus, a medical student, had been expelled from the University of Wittenberg and had also studied in Leipzig .

In Magdeburg then Paul listens to the beguiling singing and harp playing of a beautiful young stranger and falls under her magic. The beloved is called Felicia and is the daughter of the Italian goldsmith Malco Guarnieri. The Magdeburg citizens, mostly Lutherans , consider the Catholic Guarnieri to be a magician and gold maker. When the Magdeburg journeyman blacksmiths rebel, the Italian and his daughter get into a tumult on the street. Paul rescues the two strangers with the support of his hard-working uncle Lamprecht Beltzer, a drunk mercenary leader. Felicia thanks the awkward Paul in the presence of her father. In a joke, the goldsmith refers to Felicia's fiancé Lucio in Florence : What he would say if he saw that!

Paul confesses his love to Felicia and is rejected. Lamprecht Beltzer wants to save the dear nephew Paulus from the clutches of the "devil witch" Felicia and penetrates with his mercenaries against the goldsmith's house. Paul, blinded, opposes the attackers in his "love rage" and kills his uncle. Paul, the student from Wittenberg, pronounces his own death sentence when he yells in the face of the advancing Lutherans that Luther is a "servant of the devil". Paul dies in the attack together with the two Italians.

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The Magdeburg rector Georg Rollenhagen tells the story of the student Paulus Halsinger. The school man Rollehagen is known to the Raabe reader from " A funeral speech from the year 1609 ".

At the beginning, Raabe quotes six verses from " Dem poor Heinrich " by Hartmann von Aue , thus marking the end of the protagonist:

"Sin swebendez heart daz verswanc,
sin swimmendiu vreude drowned,
...
a swinde vinster donerslac
zebrach im sinen in the middle of tac,
a cloudy cloud unde dic
dahte im siner sunnen blic ”.

reception

  • According to Brandes , “The Student of Salamanca” from Washington Irving's “Bracebridge Hall” served as a template.
  • Meyen names eight reviews from the years 1860 to 1938.

expenditure

First edition

  • Half a mile, half more! Stories, sketches and rhymes by Wilhelm Raabe . 177 pages. Ernst Schotte, Berlin 1859 (The way to laugh. The student from Wittenberg. Christmas ghosts. Lorenz Scheibenhart. One of the crowd)

Used edition

literature

  • Hans Oppermann: Wilhelm Raabe. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1970 (1988 edition), ISBN 3-499-50165-1 (rowohlt's monographs).
  • 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 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Around 1559 there was no medical faculty in Wittenberg (Oppermann and Rohse in the edition used, p. 568, 11th Zvu).
  2. ↑ The spelling was taken from the Gutenberg project .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ von Studnitz, p. 308, entry 4
  2. ↑ Oppermann and Rohse in the edition used, p. 559, 9. Zvu
  3. ↑ Meyen, p. 125, entry 760 (discrepancy: In the edition used, the year 1858 is noted on p. 562 under entry Z)
  4. ↑ Fuld, p. 115, 5th Zvu, p. 287, 13th Zvu
  5. ↑ Oppermann and Rohse in the edition used, p. 562 above
  6. ^ Wilhelm Fehse (1912), cited by Oppermann and Rohse in the edition used, pp. 559, 13. Zvu and Oppermann, p. 32 above and Fuld, p. 58, 9. Zvo, p. 83 middle
  7. ↑ Oppermann and Rohse in the edition used, p. 561, 10. Zvo
  8. ↑ Meyen, pp. 381-382