The three nuts

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Clemens Brentano
(1778-1842)

The three nuts is a story by Clemens Brentano that appeared from August 9th to 15th, 1817 in the newspaper Der Gesellschafter or Blätter für Geist und Herz . Information on the origin of the text and the dates of publication can be found in Volume 19 of the Frankfurt Brentano edition [FBA].

content

In autumn 1665, nuts were cracked in the house of Mayor Maggi in Colmar . On the occasion, the court master gives the three sons of the mayor a task. The saying Unica nux prodest, nocet altera, tertia mors est has to be translated into German. An alchemist in transit, who is also sitting at the table, is terrified at the Latin and rushes out of the room. Maggi confronts the alchemist. He begs for mercy. He is a criminal who belongs under the sword. The alchemist asks Maggi not to betray him and moves on to Basel unmolested. A year later - again nuts are cracked - Amelie dü Pont comes into the house. Amelie wants to settle down as a pharmacist in Colmar. This woman, who must have been beautiful once, is shocked by a picture that the mayor's youngest son has painted. It shows the scene that the alchemist made and is subtitled with the saying of the three nuts. Amelie tells Maggi her story. She was married to a pharmacist in Lyon . He indulged in alchemy. The marriage remained childless. Amelie had a lover - Ludwig. She thought it was her brother. The pharmacist surprised the couple next to a chapel under a walnut tree, just as the two of them were cracking nuts as they said goodbye and saying the aforementioned saying. The spouse shot Ludwig and fled abroad. Maggi doesn't want to believe this story of an incest. Amelie continues: Because the lover would have been her brother, she married the pharmacist. After the murder, the fugitive lived for years as a laboratory assistant at northern European courts, returned to Lyon and surrendered. Before his execution, he asked Amelie to seek protection from Maggi. Right next to that chapel under the walnut tree, the pharmacist was beheaded after he had pronounced the Latin saying. Mayor Maggi, deeply moved, sees the signet ring on Amelie's finger and investigates. Result: Maggi and Amelie are brother and sister. The nurse had exchanged him for the mechanic Maggi's little son. Amelie runs the household for Maggi and after his death goes to the monastery of St. Clara in Colmar.

reception

  • Schultz (anno 1999) gives the content.
  • Pfeiffer-Belli praises the strict novella form. However, the text appears "stiff" and "forced".
  • Riley refers to further work in two places: Gerhard Kluge ( Clemens Brentano's stories from the years 1810–1818 , Tübingen 1978), R. Imelmann ( Die Drei Nüsse von Clemens Brentano, 1927) and P.-W. Wührl ( The three nuts in Kindlers Lit.-Lexikon, Zurich 1966).

Web links

expenditure

  • Clemens Brentano: The three nuts. With six full-page drawings by Hanna Nagel . 35 pages. Paper mill Zerkall Renker & Sons 1958.
  • The three nuts in: Clemens Brentano: Stories and fairy tales. 283 pages. 1 illustration. Harenberg, Dortmund 1985

literature

  • Wolfgang Pfeiffer-Belli: Clemens Brentano. A romantic poet's life. 214 pages. Herder publishing house, Freiburg im Breisgau 1947. Direction de l'Education Publique GMZFO
  • Konrad Feilchenfeldt : Brentano Chronicle. Data on life and work. With illustrations. 207 pages. Carl Hanser, Munich 1978. Series Hanser Chroniken, ISBN 3-446-12637-6
  • Helene M. Kastinger Riley : Clemens Brentano. Metzler Collection, Vol. 213. Stuttgart 1985. 166 pages, ISBN 3-476-10213-0
  • Hartwig Schultz : Clemens Brentano. With 20 illustrations. 224 pages. Reclam Stuttgart 1999. Series of literature studies. Universal Library No. 17614, ISBN 3-15-017614-X
  • Gero von Wilpert : Lexicon of world literature. German Authors A - Z . P. 83, right column, 9. Zvo Stuttgart 2004. 698 pages, ISBN 3-520-83704-8

Quoted text edition

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Feilchenfeldt (anno 1978), p. 107, fourth entry
  2. ↑ Source, p. 796, 8. Zvo and Fig. 3 on p. 851
  3. ↑ Source, pp. 792-800
  4. ↑ see for example Zeno.org: Entry 7 under "Nuss" in Wander : Deutsches Sprich emphasis-Lexikon
  5. ↑ Schultz, pp. 85-86
  6. ↑ Pfeiffer-Belli, p. 164 below
  7. ^ Riley, p. 96, 16. Zvu and p. 106, second entry