The wolf and the fox

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The wolf and the fox is an animal fairy tale ( ATU 41, 122). It is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm from the second edition of 1819 at position 73 (KHM 73).

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The wolf is the stronger of the two and dominates the fox . The fox would like to get rid of him. The wolf forces the fox to get him food. He gets him a lamb and goes. The wolf is even more hungry and tries to get a lamb for himself. But he is so clumsy that the farmers notice and beat him. The wolf tells the fox that he set him up. The fox replied: Why are you so gluttonous! The next day the fox has to get the wolf pancakes . They go to the house together and the fox sneaks around the house to carefully fetch six pancakes from the plate. Again, the wolf doesn't have enough and wants to get more. But he fails again and the farmer beats him again. The next day the two go to the butcher. You jump through a window hatch into the cellar. The wolf eats a lot. The fox, on the other hand, eats little and keeps looking to see if it still fits through the window hatch. Suddenly the butcher comes, the red fox quickly leaps through the hatch , but the wolf gets stuck and is beaten to death by the butcher.

language

The fairy tale shows a typical structure in three increasing episodes. The wolf says every time: " Red fox , get me something to eat, or I will eat you myself" . Then when he complains, the fox replies: “Why are you such a glutton.” At the end he is glad that he got rid of the old glutton. The pancakes taste the wolf after more (see. KHM 47 ), it is the skin tanned (see. Later KHM 36 , 54 , 164 ).

origin

Grimm's note noted from Hessen . One story from Schweich and one from Bavaria (by Ludwig Aurbacher ; received in Grimm's estate) only contained the conclusion how the milk-eaten wolf does not fit through the hole and is beaten to death or beaten and laughed at by the fox. In one from Paderborn (from the von Haxthausen family ), the fox shakes the wolf's pears, what people hear and beat the wolf, freezes his tail while fishing and rolls it off a mountain into a pond with the prospect of pancakes. Grimms highlight a story of the Transylvanian Saxons in Haltrich No. 3. Even Horace (Ep.1) alluding to the fable.

Jacob Grimm deals with the subject in his 1834 edition of Reinhart Fuchs . According to Hans-Jörg Uther , fox and wolf often look for prey together in medieval stories (with Aesop : weasel and fox). Instead of morality, Grimm shows sympathy for the deceiver's victory over the stupid eater (cf. KHM 72 , 74 and 5 , 26 ). Grimm's fairy tales contain some short fabulous or vacillating texts that characterize individual fairy tale creatures: The dog and the sparrow , The three lucky children , The fox and the cat , The fox and the geese , Fairy tale of the toad , The fox and the horse , The Owl , the moon .

interpretation

The fox is completely dependent on the wolf: "What the wolf wanted, the fox had to do because he was the weakest". Eugen Drewermann sees the fox as the weak ego in contrast to the strong id. His addiction to food is subordinate to everything else. It thus represents a fixation of instincts. According to Drewermann, Leopold Szondi's theory of fore and hindquarters fits here because the fox "cheats" the wolf. Drewermann shows that it is about the development of addiction or also anorexia. Psychologically speaking, the wolf has not experienced love from its mother, but rather satisfies its drive with the insatiable need for food without ever being satisfied. This creates an addiction.

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literature

  • Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. 393-395. Düsseldorf and Zurich, 19th edition 1999. (Artemis & Winkler Verlag; Patmos Verlag; ISBN 3-538-06943-3 )
  • Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Last hand edition with the original notes by the Brothers Grimm. With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin, not published in all editions, published by Heinz Rölleke. Volume 3: Original Notes, Guarantees of Origin, Afterword. P. 136, 474. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
  • Hans-Jörg Uther: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. de Gruyter, Berlin 2008. ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 173-174.

Web links

Wikisource: The Wolf and the Fox  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The fox and the wolf. Retrieved September 17, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Lothar Bluhm and Heinz Rölleke: “Popular speeches that I always listen to”. Fairy tale - proverb - saying. On the folk-poetic design of children's and house fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. New edition. S. Hirzel Verlag, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1997. ISBN 3-7776-0733-9 , pp. 95-96.
  3. ↑ Rölleke, Heinz (ed.): Fairy tales from the estate of the Brothers Grimm. 5th improved and supplemented edition. Trier 2001. P. 71, 112. (WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier; ISBN 3-88476-471-3 )
  4. ↑ Hans-Jörg Uther: Handbook on the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm. de Gruyter, Berlin 2008. ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 173-174.
  5. ↑ Drewermann, Eugen: Landscapes of the Soul or How to Overcome Fear Grimm's fairy tales interpreted in terms of depth psychology, Patmos Verlag, 2015, pp. 415–425