The rebellion
The Rebellion is a novel by Joseph Roth that was preprinted from July 27 to August 29, 1924 in Vorwärts . In the same year the printing took place in Berlin.
The invalid Andreas Pum is stamped by passengers of a tram to one of the scapegoats for the post-war misery, however, sought to be punished for losing faith in a just God and die.
action
45-year-old Andreas Pum lost a leg in the war and received an award, but not even a prosthesis . Still, he thinks the government will take care of him. That turns out to be a mistake. Andreas has to simulate a tremor in front of the commission in order to get a license to play the organ barrel. With his organ organ, Andreas limps from backyard to backyard. The war disabled has no relatives. Winter is coming. Andreas dreams of wide-hipped widows with bulging bosoms . He comes across someone like that: Katharina Blumich. Andreas marries the woman headlong, whose fiery softness oozes from her. During the first test, the woman turns away from the new husband, this cripple , and immediately throws herself on the neck of a man with healthy limbs. Vinzenz Topp is the lucky one, sub-inspector of the police. Andreas goes to prison. Because he missed a court date. Without fault, but missed is missed. The offense: armed resistance against state power and libel . Andreas had hit a policeman with the crutch. The civil servant wanted to settle a dispute. The invalid had been denigrated by businessman Arnold in the tram as a simulant and a Bolshevik . Some passengers had agreed: Russian, spy, Jew !
The two-legged men withdraw the license to play the organ game from Andreas . In prison, Andreas loses the most important thing that a person needs - faith . He wants to divorce his wife. He comes out of prison with white hair. But Andreas still has a friend. He employs him as a guard in the toilet of the Halali café . When Andreas dies on the job, he doesn't want God's grace . He wants to go to hell .
reception
- In connection with Joseph Roth's story of Andreas Pum's descent to toilet attendant, Hackert points out a parallel to Murnau's silent film The Last Man with Emil Jannings in the title role, also from 1924.
- Andreas Pum accuses God and demands a fair distribution of his blessings on earth.
- Steierwald reports on the rebellion in the men's room and looks at the lapidary syntax.
- Kiesel places the text next to the spider web and Hotel Savoy in the author's time novels and states that Andreas Pum's rebellion remains an internal one; so will not be carried outwards.
filming
Wolfgang Staudte filmed the novel under the same title in 1962 for television with Josef Meinrad , Ida Krottendorf and Fritz Eckhardt .
A further filming was founded in 1993 by Michael Haneke with Branko Samarovski in the role of Andreas Pum.
literature
source
- Fritz Hackert (Ed.): Joseph Roth Works 4. Novels and Stories 1916 - 1929 . P. 243 to 332: The Rebellion. A novel. 1924. With an afterword by the editor. Frankfurt am Main 1994. 1086 pages, ISBN 3-7632-2988-4
- Text output at Projekt Gutenberg-DE
Secondary literature
- Helmuth Nürnberger : Joseph Roth . Reinbek near Hamburg 1981. 159 pages, ISBN 3-499-50301-8 .
- Later simultaneity - the rebellion . P. 23–36 in Thomas Düllo: Chance and Melancholie: Investigations on the contingency semantics in texts by Joseph Roth . Diss. Münster 1991. 336 pages, ISBN 3-89473-819-7 .
- Ulrike Steierwald: Suffering from history. On the modern conception of history in the texts of Joseph Roth. Diss. Munich 1992. 198 pages, ISBN 3-88479-880-4 .
- Gero von Wilpert : Lexicon of world literature. German Authors A - Z . 519. Stuttgart 2004. 698 pages, ISBN 3-520-83704-8 .
- Helmuth Kiesel : History of German-Language Literature 1918 to 1933 . CH Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-70799-5 .