The strong Hans
Strong Hans is a fairy tale ( ATU 650 A, 301). From the 3rd edition of 1837 onwards, it is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm in place 166 (KHM 166).
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Two-year-old Hans and his mother are kidnapped by robbers into a cave where they have to run the household. At the age of nine, Hans asks his mother about his father, then the robber captain, who laughs and slaps him so that he falls down. A year later, Hans asked again, beat the drunken robbers with his club and went home with his mother to see his father. There he built a new house with him from the gold he had brought with him and worked hard. He goes out into the world with a very heavy staff, where he meets someone who twists fir trees into rope and someone who knocks a house into rock with his fist. They agree to hunt together, with someone always having to cook at home. While cooking, the other two are haunted by a little man who demands meat and beats them. When it comes to Hans's turn, he gives him generously. When it does attack him, he follows it to his cave in the mountain. The next day he lets himself down on a rope from the other two and frees a king's daughter by killing the dwarf. When the two leave him behind and want to sail away with the king's daughter, he also takes a wishing ring from him, which brings him out of the cave. So he frees the king's daughter again and they marry.
Grimm's note
Grimms had the fairy tale by Karl Rudolf Hagenbach about Wilhelm Wackernagel . They compare KHM 91 Dat Erdmänneken and other traditions, whereby details always differ, but the supernatural strength is common as with Siegfried .
Comparisons
Typically, the Swiss fairy tale is a contamination from AaTh 650A (like KHM 90 The Young Giant ) and AaTh 301 (like KHM 91 Dat Erdmänneken ), which often occurs. According to Hans-Jörg Uther, this version had less of an effect.
- other Hans fairy tales: The clever Hans , Hans in luck , Hans marries , Hans my hedgehog , The iron Hans , the clever servant , Hans Dumm
- Treasures in the cave: cf. Simeliberg , Snow White and Rose Red ; see. also Plato's allegory of the cave
- The three musicians in Ludwig Bechstein's German fairy tale book and The tiny, tiny little man in New German fairy tale book
In a psychoanalytical way, Carl-Heinz Mallet interprets the cave as the uterus, the robber captain as the father, the hidden club as the Oedipus complex , fir-twister, rock clippers and males as masturbation , instinct defense and raw sexuality. The symbolic composition of robber, cave and mother is repeated in father, house and wild boar as well as in male, cave and virgin.
literature
- Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 700-706. 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. 257, 506. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Reclam-Verlag Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
- Uther, Hans-Jörg: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. de Gruyter, Berlin 2008. pp. 346–347., ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )
- Lox, Harlinda: Strong Hans. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 12. pp. 1179-1185. Berlin, New York, 2007.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Mallet, Carl-Heinz: Analysis of the Grimm fairy tale "The strong Hans". In: Laiblin, Wilhelm (Ed.): Fairy tale research and depth psychology. Darmstadt 1969. pp. 214-234. (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft; Ways of Research, Volume CII) First published in: Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie 2, 1953, H. 2/3, S. 53–62.