The wise servant
The clever servant is a sucker ( ATU 1348 *). It is in the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm from the 3rd edition from 1837 in place 162 (KHM 162), was published by Wilhelm Grimm in the Pfennig magazine for children in 1836 and is based on Martin Luther's interpretation of Psalm 101 .
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A farmhand is sent out to look for a lost cow. When he doesn't come back, the Lord goes looking for him and finds him walking around in the field. Hans explains that he did not look for the cow, but found three blackbirds: he sees one, he hears the second, and he hunted the third. The narrator calls the servant smart and wise, which should be taken as an example.
origin
The Brothers Grimm took over the fairy tale from "the 101st Psalm interpreted by Martin Luther " Wittenberg 1533 in 4th at the end "by Hans Lufft 1535" (which Karl Hartwig Gregor von Meusebach pointed out). In the text of KHM 174 The Owl and KHM 164 The Lazy Heinz is alluded to once each to the clever servant, including the narrator's assessment of his laziness. The adjective 'clever' appears ironically in several titles (KHM 32 The clever Hans , KHM 34 The clever Else , KHM 104 The clever people ). The narrative researcher Hans-Jörg Uther refutes the appearance that Wilhelm Grimm wanted to call for resistance against the authorities, although he converted Luther's interpretation of the psalm into a swank. This concluded:
- Isn't that a clever, hardworking servant?
- Shouldn't a landlord with such servants get rich?
parody
In Janosch's parody, the farmer believes the twisted speeches of the farmhand, who always has tobacco and beer with him until only weeds grow and the animals are gone, and then he chases him away.
literature
- Grimm, Brothers: Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. P. 685. 19th edition. Artemis & Winkler Verlag, Patmos Verlag. Düsseldorf and Zurich 1999. 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. Pp. 255, 504-505. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994, Reclam-Verlag, ISBN 3-15-003193-1
- Rölleke, Heinz (Ed.): Grimm's fairy tales and their sources. The literary models of the Grimm fairy tales are presented synoptically and commented on. 2., verb. Edition, Trier 2004. pp. 286-287, 570-571. (Scientific publishing house Trier; series of literature studies vol. 35; ISBN 3-88476-717-8 )
- Uther, Hans-Jörg: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Berlin 2008. pp. 336–338. (de Gruyter; ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Janosch: Janosch tells Grimm's fairy tales. Fifty selected fairy tales, retold for today's children. With drawings by Janosch. 8th edition. Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim and Basel 1983, ISBN 3-407-80213-7 , pp. 59-60.
