The good day

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The good day is a novella by Wilhelm Raabe , which was written in February 1875 and published posthumously in January 1912 in the family paperDaheim ” in Leipzig.

The wealthy Berlin homeowner Miss Adelgunde increases the rents of her tenants and finally experiences a nasty surprise.

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On the night of April 1st, the still unmarried Miss Adelgunde dreams of the incoming cash payments that morning, but also of the men she has lost. A photographic artist once had his studio under the roof of their apartment building. Fraulein Adelgunde's top tenant, the 20-year-old Louise Stieglitz - lives there today - a "graceful, elastic, well-formed", lovely young lady. In a dream Adelgunde looks across the street to a desirable 40-year-old bachelor, the house owner Franz Blankow. He didn't bite either, although Fraulein Adelgunde had tried to appear a little younger than him. Apparently Franz is in love with his cello.

First of all, on the morning of April 1st, Miss Adelgunde said she was having a good day. The tenants dance well one after the other and get paid a lot. The house owner makes several use of her right to increase the rent at the beginning of the quarter. That is not enough. Miss Adelgunde quits an unpleasant - because large - family. In general, this April 1st, mainly large numbers of children are hit by the cold-hearted decisions of the house owner in the most sensitive way. Fräulein Adelgunde feels extremely comfortable with it. Just one tiny thing is annoying. The blonde girl under the roof makes Miss Adelgunde wait. The house owner is already angry and wants to go up to Miss Louise Stieglitz when the “nosy creature” finally appears.

Miss Adelgunde is having a bad day. The news hits the maiden like lightning from the blue. Miss Louise Stieglitz and Mr Franz Blankow greet them as fiancés. The bride will move out. During the day the groom will send over the rent for his bride.

Quotes

  • "It's a shame that the most beautiful moments in dreams as well as while waking are in such an infinite hurry!"
  • Raabe about his efforts as the author of this text: "... we, who have now once again tortured ourselves for pages, to make the unheard of visible to us and the world, to make the unbelievable possible and the impossible believable."

reception

  • In his humoresque Raabe took up a topic of the day: the housing shortage at the beginning of the 1870s in the German Empire . Hoppe points out a common feature of the narrative with “ Auf dem Altsteil ” and “A Visit” : In all three texts, the vision or the dream is a stylistic element.

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Used edition

  • The good day or the story of a first April. Pp. 329-363. With an appendix, written by Karl Hoppe , pp. 463–469 in Hans Finck (arrangement), Karl Hoppe (arrangement): Wunnigel . German nobility . The good day. On the old part . A visit . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1977. Vol. 13 (2nd edition, obtained by Jörn Dräger), ISBN 3-525-20126-5 in Karl Hoppe (ed.), Jost Schillemeit (ed.), Hans Oppermann (ed. ), Kurt Schreinert (Ed.): Wilhelm Raabe. Complete Works. Braunschweig edition . 24 vols.

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Individual evidence

  1. von Studnitz, p. 313, entry 47
  2. Hoppe in the edition used, p. 463, 6. Zvo, p. 465 above, entry Z
  3. Edition used, p. 342, 9. Zvu
  4. Edition used, p. 346, 10. Zvo
  5. Hoppe in the edition used, p. 463
  6. Hoppe in the edition used, p. 472, 4. Zvo