The tailor's story: the limping young man from Baghdad and the hairdresser
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The tailor's story: the limping young man from Baghdad and the hairdresser is a swank from A Thousand and One Nights . It appears in Claudia Otts translation as The Tailor's Story: The Limping Young Man from Baghdad and the Hairdresser (Nights 139–151), in Max Henning's and Gustav Weil's as a tailor's story .
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The tailor tells how a limping person does not want to attend the banquet because a certain hairdresser is also there. He tells how he falls madly in love with Kadi's daughter in his hometown of Baghdad, how she looks out of her window. He's getting lovesick. Only an old woman sees through the reason and can finally arrange for him to visit her when her father is at prayer. When the time comes, he has his hair cut. But the hairdresser stops him by showing off, interferes and sneaks after him. When the Kadi beats a slave, the hairdresser makes a commotion that his master is being murdered. He carries it out with the chest in which it is hidden. The other one drops, breaks his leg and leaves town because of him.
classification
It is told by the tailor in Der Bucklige, the friend of the Emperor of China . Kadi is a judge. The story of the hairdresser follows .
Opera
- The Barber of Baghdad , opera by Peter Cornelius , WP 1858
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. 354-380, 420 (first CH Beck, Munich 2006).