The sorcery in autumn
The sorcery in autumn. A fairy tale is a story by Joseph von Eichendorff from 1808, which is considered to be the romanticist's earliest prose work . At that time the poet was still using the pseudonym Florens. Wilhelm Kosch published the text in Cologne in 1906.
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Knight Ubaldo gets lost in the forest on the hunt. In the wilderness he is housed in a cave in a cave. The forest dweller's eyes flare madly. Ubaldo draws from the hermit's nocturnal song that the singer wants to atone for grave sin. The next morning Ubaldo is led out of the wilderness by the stranger and sees his castle. Ubaldo repeats his visit to the cave. Finally the visit is returned and the hermit tells Ubaldo and his wife Berta his life story:
Because he loved a beautiful young lady, he let his friend move to Palestine with Gottfried . The narrator confessed his love to the young lady. The inclination was reciprocated. He got the answer that his friend wanted to kidnap and hide her. They could only see each other again if the friend died. The hermit killed the friend. The way to the young woman's room was clear. After the night of love, the hermit felt horror. It seemed to him as if he saw a dead-cold, stone picture of the young lady in the moonlight. The beautiful mouth suddenly seemed distorted. He hurried away breathless and sought mercy before God in his cave, but could not find it.
While listening to the life story just sketched, Ubaldo finally recognizes his childhood friend Raimund in the hermit. That beautiful lady has long been Ubaldo's wife Berta. The couple have children. Ubaldo assures the startled Raimund that there was never a duel for Berta. Ubaldo fought in Palestine and married Berta on his return home. The knight has an explanation for the friend's madness. Every autumn an evil magic awakens in the area. It had attacked Raimund. Although Raimund realizes that his love, his whole life was a long delusion, but then he goes mad again, goes into the forest and was never seen again.
reception
- Hillach and Krabiel see parallels to the marble picture . Tiecks faithful Eckart and Henssler's Donauweibchen the young author had served as a model.
- Tannhäuser and Frau Venus are models for Raimund and the beautiful Fraulein.
Web links
- The text at Zeno.org
- The magic in autumn in the Gutenberg-DE project
literature
- Ansgar Hillach, Klaus-Dieter Krabiel : Eichendorff comment. Volume I. On the seals. 230 pages. Winkler, Munich 1971
- Günther Schiwy : Eichendorff. The poet in his time. A biography. 734 pages. 54 illustrations. CH Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-46673-7
- Otto Eberhardt: "The magic in autumn". Criticism of poetry in the style of Loebens . In: Otto Eberhardt: Figurae. Roles and names of the people in Eichendorff's narrative . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8260-4439-7 , pp. 125–168.
Quoted text edition
- The sorcery in autumn. A fairy tale. P. 9–27 in Wolfgang Frühwald (Ed.), Brigitte Schillbach (Ed.): Joseph von Eichendorff. Premonition and present. Stories I. in Wolfgang Frühwald (Hrsg.), Brigitte Schillbach (Hrsg.), Hartwig Schultz (Hrsg.): Joseph von Eichendorff. Works in five volumes. Volume 2.843 pages. Linen. Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1985 (1st edition), ISBN 3-618-60120-4
Individual evidence
Source means the quoted text edition