The story of the hairdresser
The story of the hairdresser is a twist from the Arabian Nights . It is in Claudia Otts translation as The story of the hairdresser (Nights 151–152, 168), in Max Henning and in Gustav Weil as the story of the barber .
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The hairdresser explains that he is so silent and that he only does good to everyone. To prove it, he tells how he once joined ten people, but they were driven to the execution. When their heads are there, it is only noticeable that he is there too. As a proof of his virtue and “taciturnity”, he tells of his six older brothers whom he helped in times of need.
The barber concludes that he cares for his brothers. The caliph laughs and expels him from the country.
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The hairdresser is responding to the accusation in the preceding The Tailor's Story: The Limping Young Man from Baghdad and the Hairdresser . This is followed by the first brother, the hunchbacked tailor , the second brother: "chatterbox", the one paralyzed on one side , the third brother: "Fakfak", the blind man , the fourth brother, the one-eyed butcher , the fifth brother, the one with the cut off ears , The sixth brother, the one with the cut off lips .
The caliph is said to have been Al-Mustansir Billah .
literature
- Claudia Ott (Ed.): A thousand and one nights. How it all started Based on the oldest Arabic manuscript in the edition by Muhsin Mahdi, first translated into German and appended by Claudia Ott. Title of the original Arabic edition: The Thousand And One Nights (Alf Layla wa-Layla). dtv, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-423-14611-1 , pp. 380–383, 419–420 (first CH Beck, Munich 2006).