The Haemel children

Augustin von Moersperg (1592): Hameln, stained glass window of the
market church St. Nikolai: Pied Piper

Die Hämelschen Kinder is a historical novella by Wilhelm Raabe , which was written in March 1863 and published in the same year in the magazine “Die Maje” by Julius Niedner in Wiesbaden. The book was published in 1869 by Eduard Hallberger in Stuttgart as part of the “The Rainbow” collection. Raabe experienced reprints in 1896, 1901 and 1905. Meyen names seven reviews from the years 1870 to 1966.

According to Hoppe, Raabe's variant of the Pied Piper legend is said to be based on Christian Friedrich Feins "The unmasked fable from the exit of the Hämel children" (Hanover 1749). Hoppe attributes Fein's work to the Enlightenment .

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On May 1st, 1258, the Council of Hamelin bans music for the May Festival for good reason. Heinrich IV von Erthal , Abbot of Fulda , sold the city to Wedekind , Bishop of Minden . Mayor Athela, daughter of the mayor, is moving with Mayor Floris and her young entourage on May 1st out of the walled city of Hameln into the nearby green forest.

The Wende Kiza steps out of the bushes and plays the dancer with his pipe.

During the summer of 1258 the feuds of the Hamelin people against the Hochstift Minden continued . The fighting then ceases during the winter.

Kiza, who had followed the May dancers to the city of Hameln, is allowed to spend the winter on a miserable straw bed under the town hall. The May Festival 1259 is celebrated on the market square. Kiza plays again and kisses Athela . The public, one-sided show of love is not tolerated. The minstrel is thrown out of town and beaten half-conscious. Kiza takes revenge for the shame. On July 28, 1259, he lures 130 sons of the city of Hameln into an ambush near Sedemünder (Raabe writes Sedermünde ). Floris stabs Kiza to death. in view of the betrayal, but the men of Bishop Wedekind kill all the young Hamelin warriors in the battle of Sedemünder .

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First edition

• The Rainbow. Seven stories by Wilhelm Raabe. Hallberger, Stuttgart 1869. Vol. 1 contains The Hämelschen children. Else von der Fir. Celtic bones. Saint Thomas (novella)

Used edition

• The Haemel children . Pp. 121-158. With an appendix, written by Karl Hoppe , pp. 446–454 in Karl Hoppe (arrangement), Hans Oppermann ( arrangement ), Hans Plischke (arrangement): Erzählungen. The last right . A funeral oration from 1609 . Elderflower . The Haemel children. Else von der Fir . Celtic bones . Three feathers . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1974. Vol. 9.1 (2nd edition, obtained by Karl Hoppe and Rosemarie Schillemeit), ISBN 3-525-20118-4 in Hoppe (ed.), Jost Schillemeit (ed.), Hans Oppermann ( Ed.), Kurt Schreinert (Ed.): Wilhelm Raabe. Complete Works. Braunschweig edition . 24 vols.

literature

• Fritz Meyen : Wilhelm Raabe. Bibliography. 438 pages. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1973 (2nd edition). Supplementary volume 1, ISBN 3-525-20144-3 in Karl Hoppe (Ed.): Wilhelm Raabe. Complete Works. Braunschweig edition . 24 vols.
• Cecilia von Studnitz : Wilhelm Raabe. Writer. A biography. 346 pages. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-0778-6
• Ralf Georg Czapla : The pied piper under the rainbow. On the social and literary critical adaptation of a myth in Wilhelm Raabe's novella “Die Hämelschen Kinder”. In: Fabula. Zeitschrift für Erzählforschung 39 (1998), pp. 1-20. ISSN  0014-6242

Individual evidence

1. ↑ von Studnitz, p. 310, entry 23
2. ↑ Edition used, p. 446
3. ↑ Edition used, p. 449
4. ↑ Meyen, p. 340
5. ↑ Hoppe in the edition used, p. 446