The blind Geronimo and his brother
The blind Geronimo and his brother is a short story by Arthur Schnitzler that appeared in sequels in the weekly Die Zeit in Vienna from December 22, 1900 .
Schnitzler wrote this psychological novella between October 19 and 27, 1900. In it he addresses brotherly love and the difficulty of blind trust.
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As a child, Carlo caused his brother Geronimo to go blind while playing with the blowpipe. Both of them have been wandering around northern Italy as beggars for twenty years. Geronimo sings and Carlo holds on his hat. Geronimo's long-cherished distrust of his brother comes to light when a stranger pretends to have thrown a 20-franc piece in his hat. It was only a 1-franc piece. Geronimo cannot be convinced of the truth. Carlo therefore wants to leave Geronimo, but comes to the conclusion that he only has one brother and no one else. So Carlo steals a 20-franc coin for his brother. When the beggars are arrested for the theft, Geronimo realizes that he has wrongly distrusted Carlo for twenty years. He is reconciled with him.
reception
- After Perlmann, the passing stranger, who disappears from history just as quickly as he suddenly appeared in it, sets the stone rolling with his brief whisper.
- Sprengel also assumes the triggering impulse - the stranger's lie.
- In this short crime story, a crime appears as proof of love.
- Le Rider points to autobiographical elements, meaning the tense relationship with brother Julius .
filming
- "The coin". Tehran 1977, directed by Nehmat Hagigi
Radio plays
Entries 19 and 20 in radio plays ( Memento from December 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- "The blind Geronimo and his brother". First broadcast on August 8, 1950, Radio Bremen . Director: Günter Siebert . Voices Hans Karl Friedrich , Wolfgang Engels , Kurt Strehlen , Gillis van Rappard , Gisela Matthew , Rüdiger Schuster , Georg von Gilsa
- "The blind Geronimo". First broadcast December 16, 1953, ORF , Studio Vorarlberg
expenditure
First printing
- In: Die Zeit , No. 325, December 22, 1900; No. 326, December 29, 1900; No. 327, January 5, 1901; No. 328, January 12, 1901. (first print)
First edition
- The blind Geronimo and his brother . In addition to the title novella as well as Excentrik and Andreas Thameyer's last letter contained in The Greek Dancer and other short stories. Wiener Verlag, Vienna 1905.
Further
- Arthur Schnitzler: The blind Geronimo and his brother. Pp. 419–443 in Heinz Ludwig Arnold (ed.): Arthur Schnitzler: Leutnant Gustl. Stories 1892–1907. Afterword Michael Scheffel . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1961, etc. ISBN 3-10-073552-8 . (Source)
- Victor Polzer, ed .: The world in short stories. A selection for the youth. Herz, Vienna 1925, pp. 19–60
Secondary literature
- Michaela L. Perlmann: Arthur Schnitzler. Metzler Collection, 239. Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-476-10239-4
- Peter Sprengel : History of German-Language Literature 1900–1918. Munich 2004 ISBN 3-406-52178-9
- Giuseppe Farese: Arthur Schnitzler. A life in Vienna 1862–1931. Translated by Karin Krieger . CH Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-45292-2 (Original: Arthur Schnitzler. Una vita a Vienna 1862–1931. Mondadori, Milan 1997)
- Jacques Le Rider : Arthur Schnitzler or The Vienna Belle Époque . Translated by Christian Winterhalter. Passagen Verlag , Vienna 2007 ISBN 978-3-85165-767-8
Web links
- The blind Geronimo and his brother at Zeno.org
- The blind Geronimo and his brother in the Gutenberg-DE project