The Uhlan's love
The Uhlan's love . The original novel from the time of the Franco-German War is the second of the five colportage novels written by Karl May . It appeared from September 1883 to October 1885 on 1724 pages in the magazine Deutscher Wanderer . Of the total of 108 weekly deliveries, number 87 was canceled due to his mother's illness.
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Shortly before the Battle of Waterloo , the Prussian officer Hugo von Königsau (in the editing of the Karl-May-Verlag : Hugo von Greifenklau) falls in love with the French Margot Richemonte. Her stepbrother Albin tries to prevent the connection and to kill Königsau. He does not succeed, but years later he can ruin the family and kidnap Königsau's son Gebhardt. In 1870, Königsau's grandson Richard, disguised as a hunchbacked tutor, set off incognito to clarify the tragic family secrets in Richemonte's castle and to track down French war preparations against Germany. He falls in love with Richemonte's beautiful (adoptive) granddaughter Marion.
In the first part, the Prussian field marshal Blücher , as a curious age, plays an important role. Even Napoleon has a short, but little creditable appearance. May presented the war of 1870/71 as if it had been forced upon the Germans by the French. In general, May portrays the Germans as peace-loving, unprejudiced citizens of the world who are, however, repeatedly confronted with fanatical, “typically French” nationalism. May only shows a few positively drawn French people, and when they do, they usually explain that they prefer Germany to their fatherland.
expenditure
The original version is the basis of the volumes Die Liebe des Ulanen I – V (published in section II: serial novels ) of the historical-critical edition .
In 1900/01, without May's consent, the Heinrich Gotthold Münchmeyer publishing house (owned by Adalbert Fischer since 1899) published an edition in five volumes, the so-called Fischer edition, edited by Paul Staberow (including some alleged immoral passages) . A newly revised four-part edition appeared from 1930 in the series Karl May's Gesammelte Werke published by Karl May Verlag under the titles The Way to Waterloo , The Secret of the Marabout , The Spy of Ortry and The Lords of Greifenklau .
Web links
- The love of the Uhlan (full text of the original version)
- Entry on the novel in the Karl May Wiki
- "The love of the Uhlan" in the original by Claus Roxin . Communications from the Karl May Society , 1972 (revised by the author)