The two strangest days in Siegmund's life
The two strangest days in Siegmund's life is a story by Ludwig Tieck , which appeared in Nicolai's collection “Straussfedern” in 1796 .
Siegmund, the aspiring young civil servant, does everything wrong and is also rewarded for it.
action
Sigmund, arriving in the strange town in the evening, accidentally stays in a better inn, but is otherwise lucky. From an open window in the house opposite, a pretty young girl nods in a friendly greeting. Sigmund would like to apply to the President as a civil servant - more precisely, as a councilor - the next morning. The future council crosses the nightly streets of the strange city a little. Shortly before returning to his inn, Siegmund witnessed a strange occurrence. An elderly gentleman seeks admission to that friendly, pretty young girl and is turned away. Siegmund laughs at the old man.
“Oh woe”, the next morning at the President’s house the rude awakening follows. The one who got a basket that Siegmund ridiculed is the president. Of course, the appointment to the council will no longer be an issue. But it's not all evening yet. For the day that has just begun, Siegmund lingers in the town and happens to come closer to that girl. The rejected advice can be helped. The beautiful child is namely a "joy girl" and, to please Siegmund, still gets involved with the president. Then Siegmund is free of all worries. Appointed straight away by the president to the council, Siegmund will in future live with the girl and the president "in greatest harmony".
Self-testimony
- The story was written "with glee", but "badly invented".
reception
- "Complications of contemporary society" are presented.
- Tieck penetrates "into the mysteriousness of our existence".
literature
- source
- Marianne Thalmann (Ed.): Ludwig Tieck: The two strangest days in Siegmund's life . Pp. 37–58 in: Ludwig Tieck, works in four volumes; based on the text of the writings from 1828 to 1854, taking into account the first prints. Volume I: Early Stories and Novels. Winkler Verlag Munich 1963 (1978 edition). 1045 pages. Thin print, leather, head gold cut, ISBN 3-538-05711-7
- expenditure
- Friederich Nicolai (Ed.): Ostrich feathers Volume 5, pp. 91-136, Berlin and Stettin 1796 ( digitized version )
- Ludwig Tieck: The two strangest days in Siegmund's life . In: Capriccios. Seven comical stories by Ludwig Tieck, Jean Paul , Bonaventura , ETA Hoffmann , Hauff , Heine and Weerth . With 7 mounted drawings by Bert Heller . Introduction and explanations by Fritz Böttger . Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1960, 394 pages
- The two strangest days in Siegmund's life in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Secondary literature
- Ernst Ribbat: Ludwig Tieck. Studies in the conception and practice of romantic poetry. Pp. 37-41. Athenäum Verlag , Kronberg / Ts. 1978. 290 pages (habilitation thesis, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster ), ISBN 3-7610-8002-6
- Gerhard Schulz : The German literature between the French Revolution and the restoration. Part 1. The Age of the French Revolution: 1789–1806. Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-00727-9
- Claudia Stockinger: Pathognomic narration in the context of empirical psychology. Tiecks contributions to Nicolai's ostrich feathers. P. 11–34 in: Detlev Kremer (Ed.): Die Prosa Ludwig Tiecks . Münster work on international literature. Volume I. Aisthesis Verlag Bielefeld 2005. 196 pages, ISBN 3-89528-486-6