The Sterntaler

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Illustration for “Die Sterntaler” by Ludwig Richter , 1862
Illustration for “Die Sterntaler” by Viktor Paul Mohn , 1882
Illustration for "Die Sterntaler" by Heinrich Vogeler , 1907

The Sterntaler is a short fairy tale ( ATU 779H *). It is in the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm from the 2nd edition of 1819 on position 153 (KHM 153), previously as The poor girl in position 83, and is partly based on Achim von Arnim's novella The three loving sisters and the happy dyers back. With Grimm the title was written Die Sternthaler .

content

A poor orphan who has nothing but a piece of bread goes out into the world. On the way it gives away its bread, then its cap, its bodice, its little skirt and finally its little shirt to other needy people. The stars fall from the night sky as silver coins, and it has a new, fine linen shirt into which it picks up.

origin

In Jacob Grimm's handwriting from 1810, Poor Girl is only a brief note. In Grimm's note from 1812 it was noted that it was written down from obscure memory , and on Jean Paul's novel The Invisible Lodge . A biography and Achim von Arnim's novella The Three Loving Sisters and the Happy Dyer (1812) are mentioned. The latter clearly anticipates Grimm's version and is perhaps inspired by the fragmentary insertion in Jean Paul.

allegory

This fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm is often understood as an allegory of an exemplary Christian who gives mercifully and generously to people in need of his own, even if “in the end” he himself apparently has “nothing” left. This “inner attitude”, as a lived basic attitude, is rewarded “from heaven” by “Sternthaler” in abundance “in heavenly currency” and with a “decorative” fine “soul dress” in “ eternity ” from an “ invisible ” (but not ineffective! ) "Clothed". The journey to the stars reminds z. B. also on The singing, jumping Löweneckerchen .

Receptions

Illustration of the fairy tale in Weißfeld on the lower right on the back of the 1000 DM note (from 1992)

In his drama Woyzeck, probably composed in 1836, Georg Büchner has his grandmother tell a similar, but very pessimistic, nihilistic tale. In it the girl wanders first to the moon, then to the sun and then to the stars. But they turn out to be a rotten piece of wood, a withered sunflower and impaled mosquitoes: so the girl finally sits down alone on a stone.

In Eva Marder's version, a child shares with those whose parents died in the war until they are orphans themselves, when they are rejected. When black birds throw stars like torches from the sky, it wants to die. Janosch parodies the fairy tale as a press report about the arrest of two criminals who, through a miscalculation or a gift of clothing to an old man, had the stars, so to speak, into their laps. At Fritz Deppert's , an old man takes bread from a child, older children take their clothes, that is a good omen and waits for the stars to fall and detonate. In the case of Franz Mon, at the end of the day, the parents grumble in a thunderous voice because the child is naked.

ZDF dedicated the third part of the documentary series Fairy Tales and Legends - Messages from Reality to the Sterntaler fairy tale (first broadcast on October 23, 2005). According to this, finds of Celtic gold coins, known as rainbow bowls , are regarded as the core of the tradition: These were brought to the surface during plowing in southern Germany and washed out after rainfall. According to another theory, storytellers were inspired by the Sterntaler coin . This was Frederick II. Circulated. You can see a star on it.

In 2011 Bavaria Film filmed Grimm's fairy tale for Das Erste on behalf of Südwestrundfunk . The film was broadcast as Die Sterntaler as part of the ARD fairy tale series Six in One fell swoop in the 2011 Christmas program on Erste.

See also

literature

  • Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm : Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition . With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. 19th edition. Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf / Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-538-06943-3 , pp. 666-668 .
  • Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm : Children's and Household Tales. With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin not published in all editions . Ed .: Heinz Rölleke . 1st edition. Original notes, guarantees of origin, epilogue ( volume 3 ). Reclam, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-15-003193-1 , p. 250, 501-502 .
  • Rölleke, Heinz (ed.): The oldest fairy tale collection of the Brothers Grimm . Synopsis of the handwritten original version from 1810 and the first prints from 1812. Edited and explained by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 60-61, 353-354. Cologny-Geneve 1975. Martin Bodmer Foundation; Printed in Switzerland
  • Heinz Rölleke : Grimm's fairy tales and their sources. The literary models of the Grimm fairy tales are synoptically presented and commented on (=  series of literature studies . Volume 35 ). 2nd Edition. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-88476-717-8 , p. 248-251, 566-567 .
  • Friedel Lenz: the imagery of fairy tales . 8th edition. Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-87838-148-4 , p. 239-242, 249-250 .
  • Zimmermann, Harm-Peer : Die Sterntaler. A fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, read as a tangible political issue in a context of contingency theory. In: Zeitschrift für Volkskunde 97, pp. 67–94

Filmography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rölleke, Heinz (ed.): The oldest fairy tale collection of the Brothers Grimm . Synopsis of the handwritten original version from 1810 and the first prints from 1812. Edited and explained by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 60-61, 353-354. Cologny-Geneve 1975. Martin Bodmer Foundation; Printed in Switzerland
  2. ↑ The invisible lodge . First part. Berlin 1793, p. 214 books.google : “A miserable girl - in history children only want children - he paints, without supper, without parents, without bed, without hood and without faults, but who are often a star cleaned, found a little thaler below and ſ. w. "
  3. ^ Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm : Children's and Household Tales. With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin not published in all editions . Ed .: Heinz Rölleke . 1st edition. Original notes, guarantees of origin, epilogue ( volume 3 ). Reclam, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-15-003193-1 , p. 250, 501-502 .
  4. ↑ The three loving sisters and the happy dyer , Berlin 1812, p. 231 f. books.google
  5. ↑ Hans-Jörg Uther : Handbook on the "Children's and Household Tales" by the Brothers Grimm. Origin, effect, interpretation . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 319-323 .
  6. ↑ http://www.zeno.org/nid/2000463747X
  7. ↑ Eva Marder: Sterntaler. In: Wolfgang Mieder (Ed.): Grim fairy tales. Prose texts from Ilse Aichinger to Martin Walser. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt (Main) 1986, ISBN 3-88323-608-X , pp. 240–241 (1971; first published in: Werner Psaar, Manfred Klein: Who is afraid of the evil goat? On fairy tale didactics and fairy tale reception. Westermann , Braunschweig 1976, pp. 274-275.).
  8. ↑ Janosch: The Sterntaler. In: Janosch tells Grimm's fairy tale. Fifty selected fairy tales, retold for today's children. With drawings by Janosch. 8th edition. Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim and Basel 1983, ISBN 3-407-80213-7 , p. 137.
  9. ^ Fritz Deppert: Sterntaler. In: Wolfgang Mieder (Ed.): Grim fairy tales. Prose texts from Ilse Aichinger to Martin Walser. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt (Main) 1986, ISBN 3-88323-608-X , p. 244 (1972; first published in: Alexander von Bormann (Ed.): Gegengesänge, Parodien, Variationen. Moritz Diesterweg, Frankfurt 1975, p. 64-65.).
  10. ↑ Franz Mon: star like taler. In: Wolfgang Mieder (Ed.): Grim fairy tales. Prose texts from Ilse Aichinger to Martin Walser. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt (Main) 1986, ISBN 3-88323-608-X , pp. 245–246 (1974; first published in: Jochen Jung (Hrsg.): Bilderbogengeschichten. Fairy tales, sagas, adventures. Newly told by our authors Time. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1976, p. 117.).
  11. ↑ Fairy Tales & Legends: Star Thaler and Heavenly Gold ( Memento from November 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive ).
  12. ↑ Ute Korn-Amann: Film work: Donautal becomes little Hollywood. Several scenes for the fairy tale "Die Sterntaler" are shot at Gutenstein's . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from February 3, 2011.

Web links

Wikisource: Die Sterntaler  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Die Sterntaler  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files