The wandering whore

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The Wanderhure is the first volume in a series of novels of the same name. Under the pseudonym Iny Lorentz , the author duo Iny Klocke and Elmar Wohlrath published this historical detective novel at Knaur in Munich in 2004 .

action

The action takes place in southwest Germany at the beginning of the 15th century (1410): the wealthy merchant and widower Matthis Schärer from Konstanz wants to give his beautiful and well-behaved young daughter Marie to Magister Ruppertus Splendidus, an insidious lawyer and illegitimate son of a knight. Immediately after the engagement, however, Ruppertus Splendidus wrongly accuses Marie of having slept with several men and is therefore no longer the virgin promised to him in the marriage contract. As part of the allegations, Marie is raped, convicted of innocence, whipped and banished from the city. As compensation for the allegedly false marriage vows, Ruppertus Splendidus has the entire property of Matthis Schärer transferred and secretly locks Schärer where the merchant dies of health problems; he has the dead buried secretly. Only Marie's former child friend Michel Adler, who is in love with her, sets out from Constance to help the exiles, but immediately loses her trail.

The seriously injured Marie is nursed to health by a wandering prostitute and, due to the lack of alternatives, also declares that she is ready for this trade. Her goal in life is to get revenge on Ruppertus Splendidus and the men who raped her. As a prostitute, she met two knights, among others, and came across documents convicting Ruppertus Splendidus of treason, forgery of documents and other crimes. Initially, however, she does not use the documents because she assumes that, due to her social status as a prostitute, she would have no chance against the respected lawyer.

When a man recruits prostitutes for the council of Constance convened by the emperor and assures them that they will be protected from legal prosecution during the council, Marie returns after five years from exile. In Constance she meets Michel Adler again, who in the meantime has achieved social advancement as a soldier. Michel still loves Marie, but she doesn't want to know anything about him at first, because she thinks he looks down on her. With his help and that of one of the knights she knows, she finally succeeds in personally proving the guilt of Ruppertus Splendidus before the emperor. The lawyer and his henchmen are executed, Marie acquitted of her sins, financially compensated and married to Michel, and Michel is given a position as bailiff .

characters

A number in round brackets refers to the page in the source or in the literature reference.

  • Marie Schärer is the protagonist of the book. At the beginning she is a blonde, beautiful virgin who is to marry the Magister Ruppertus Splendidus. After being expelled from Constance, she becomes a hiking whore.
  • Matthis Schärer is Marie's father. He has worked his way up from the grandson of an unfree servant (319) to the merchant of the Free Imperial City of Constance (490). He arranged the marriage of Marie and Magister Ruppertus Splendidus in order to increase his reputation.
  • Mombert Flühi is master cooper in Constance and Marie's uncle. He tries three trials against Ruppertus Splendidus to free Marie from her guilt, which burdens him financially. He has a daughter named Hedwig.
  • Michel Adler is Marie's childhood friend and son of the Konstanz innkeeper Guntram Adler. He is in love with Marie, but cannot marry her due to the difference in class. Later he becomes captain of a squad of foot servants of the Count Palatine near Rhine (424).
  • Hiltrud is a wandering whore who saves Marie after her expulsion from Konstanz and becomes her best friend (106, 249)
  • Ruppertus Splendidus is the illegitimate son of Count Heinrich von Keilburg and a serf maid. As a lawyer and master's degree, he used all sorts of tricks to acquire more and more lands and assets. He has signed a marriage contract with Matthis Schärer and is therefore Marie's groom. But he has absolutely no intention of marrying her.
  • Utz Käffli is actually a carter by profession. But he also hires out as a henchman for Ruppertus Splendidus and kills several people on his behalf.
  • Dietmar is a knight of Arnstein and the husband of Mechthild (248). They fight to ensure that they do not have to hand over their property to Count Heinrich von Keilburg. In her marriage, Mechthild is the smarter and more prudent person that Dietmar pretends to do.
  • Jodokus is a monk and scribe for the knight Dietmar. He betrays his masters that he is destroying important documents. Later he calls himself Ewald von Marburg (380) and wants to blackmail Ruppertus Splendidus, but for this he is murdered by Utz Käffli.

review

The wandering whore was viewed by Hilal Sezgin at the time as a negative example of the historical novel genre , both in terms of the poorly meticulous depiction of the background and the language.

German Audio Book Award Gold

In November 2011, the audio book Der Wanderhure was awarded the German Audio Book Award Gold , the counterpart to the golden record , by the Federal Association of the Music Industry .

filming

The novel was filmed as "The Wandering Whore" by director Hansjörg Thurn . Gabriele Kister wrote the script . The co-production by SAT.1 and ORF was broadcast for the first time on October 5, 2010 .

Stage version

On June 25, 2014, the stage version of Die Wanderhure will premiere at the Bad Hersfeld Festival . Gerold Theobalt edited the novel for the monastery ruins. He puts the focus of the piece on the historical development of the late Middle Ages. The stage premiere is directed by Janusz Kica .

Sequels

output

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hilal Sezgin, It doesn't work without filth , Die Zeit of November 27, 2008, No. 49/2009.
  2. ↑ Three gold medals for Lübbe Audio . Buchmarkt.de. November 23, 2011. Retrieved December 11, 2011.
  3. ↑ Three gold medals for Lübbe Audio . Luebbe.de. November 23, 2011. Retrieved December 11, 2011.
The wandering whore


Books

The Wandering Whore  (2004) • The Castellan  (2005) • The Legacy of the Wandering Whore  (2006) • The Wandering  Whore's Daughter (2008) • Daughters of Sin  (2011) • The Wandering Whore's List (2014)

Movies

The Wandering Whore  (2010) • The Revenge of the Wandering Whore  (2012) • The Legacy of the Wandering Whore  (2012)