The Harz journey
The Harzreise is a travel report by Heinrich Heine , written after the student went on a hike in the autumn of 1824. The text was published in the first of four volumes of travel pictures in 1826 by Hoffmann & Campe in Hamburg without censorship . The publication established Heine's first major public success and is still one of his most popular texts to this day.
prehistory
The report was published in 14 sequels in January and February 1826 in the journal “Der Gesellschafter” published by Friedrich Wilhelm Gubitz as the first print that was “often mutilated” by censorship . Heine had made revisions and changes for the printing press. In addition to filling in the censorship gaps, he rewrote the beginning and end. Heine himself described the record as a fragment . The book was Heine's first book published by Hoffmann & Campe in Hamburg , the publisher that later published all of Heine's writings.
content
In the work, Heinrich Heine describes his journey as a student from Göttingen through the Harz mountains over the Brocken to Ilsenburg . He meets well-known and unknown contemporaries, some of whom he describes in detail and compares with other people, some of whom are historical protagonists.
In Göttingen, for example, he met the physician and (like Heine) the Jewish fraternity member Karl Friedrich Heinrich Marx and gave a medical, physical and historical discussion of medicine and Marx's treatise Goettingen .
What is unusual for Heine's oeuvre is the large proportion of nature and landscape descriptions. You and the frequent reference to fairy tales and sagas, the transfiguration of the lives of ordinary people, the telling of dreams and the interspersed poems distinguish the text as one that is strongly committed to romantic patterns.
In the work all resting and overnight stations of the poet traveling in a group are given:
- Göttingen ,
- Turn ,
- Nörten ,
- Osterode ,
- Lerbach ,
- Clausthal ,
- Zellerfeld ,
- Goslar ,
- the Rammelsberg ,
- the waters of the Leine , Ilse , Bode and Selke and many more.
This hiking trail, which lasted around four weeks for Heinrich Heine, is now also understandable for tourists and is described as Heinrich-Heine-Weg in several travel guides.
A duel among students, which was forbidden at the time, is also the subject of his description.
Translations into foreign languages
- into Russian: Путешествие по Гарцу from Wilhelm Sorgenfrei
- into English: In Pictures of Travel - Paperback by Making of America Project, Heinrich Heine, and Charles Godfrey Leland of BiblioBazaar
- into Chinese: 哈尔 次 山 游记 from 冯至
- into Dutch: In: Reistaferelen by Wilfred Oranje
Web links
- Complete text of the Harz trip (Project Gutenberg)
- Heine's Harzreise , illustrated by Albert Várady and Hugo Wilkens
- Digital facsimiles of contemporary prints
literature
- The Harz journey at Reclam, with notes and additions
- Heinrich Heine: Die Harzreise , spoken by Martina Gedeck , Unterlauf & Zschiedrich Hörbuchverlag 2006, ISBN 978-3-934384-32-3
- Heinrich Heine: Die Harzreise , in: Ders .: Travel pictures. First part. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1826, p. 111 ff. Digitized and full text in the German text archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd Kortländer: Notes . In: Appendix to Heinrich Heine: Complete Works. Volume II: Poetic prose. Dramatic . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1992, p. 940.
- ^ Die Harzreise in: Travel Pictures Volume 1. Hamburg 1826, p. 117.
- ↑ Katarzyna Jastal: body structures in the Early Prose of Heinrich Heine. Krakau 2009, p. 76 and p. 90 ff.
- ^ Bernd Kortländer: Heinrich Heine . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, p. 153.
- ↑ http://www.literarischegesellschaft.de/Heinrich_Heine_HarzreiseII.html
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from December 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )