The clever farmer's daughter
The clever farmer's daughter is a fairy tale ( ATU 875). It is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 94 (KHM 94).
Content summary
A farmer finds a golden mortar in a field given by the king . Since he cannot find the pestle that goes with it, his daughter advises him not to bring the mortar to the king without the pestle. The farmer does it anyway and is immediately imprisoned because the king accuses him of having embezzled the pestle. Only after the farmer's daughter has convinced the king of her cleverness by solving a supposedly unsolvable task does the king release the farmer, marry the farmer's daughter and make her queen.
Years later, the former farmer's daughter and current queen uses her wisdom again to help a horse owner in a dispute with an ox farmer, but interferes in the jurisdiction of the king, which is why he violates her. But he still allows her to take what is “dearest” from the royal castle to her farmhouse. The Queen puts her husband into a deep sleep and takes him, who has become her “dearest”, with her to her farmhouse.
When the king wakes up there again, he only realizes how great his wife's love really is; Moved to tears, he takes her back to the castle and lets him marry her again. "And they will probably still live to this day".
origin
Grimm's comment notes on the origin of Zwehrn (by Dorothea Viehmann ) and uses several motifs to compare the saga of Aslaug, daughter of Brünhild with Sigurd , with regard to the riddle also a variation in Pauli's Schimpf and Ernst and in Hans Sachs (1560, p. 78) ; Gesta Romanorum Cap. 124 ; Cento novelle antiche (Torino 1802) p. 163 ; Wuk p. 125, 126 ; Würdtwein S. 488, the Lalenbürger , Katherius ' sermo de octavis Paschae in Haupt's Journal of German antiquity 8, 21; Old German sheets 1, 149, 154; Wolf over the old French. Heroes' poems, p. 133. The Grimms also mention Colshorn No. 26; Zingerle p. 160 ; Prohle's Fairy Tale for Young People No. 49; Asbjörnsen's travelogue 1847 p. 2 ; Wuk No. 25; Tendlau in the Jewish sagas p. 54 .
Stage versions
- Carl Orff : Die Kluge , opera (first performance 1943 in Frankfurt / Main)
- Max Jacob : The clever farmer's daughter , puppet show for young people and adults ( Hohnsteiner Puppet Show )
- Rudolf Fischer : The clever farmer's daughter , puppet show for young people and adults (Königsteiner, later Darmstadt puppet shows)
- Gerd J. Pohl : The clever farmer's daughter , text and staging for the Piccolo puppet shows
- Kolja Wlazik: The clever farmer's daughter. Hand puppet show for children of primary school age ( lapis lazuli puppet theater , Bergisch Gladbach)
Radio plays
- The poor miller's boy and the kitten (with The Clever Farmer's Daughter on the B-side), EUROPA -LP undated
- König Drosselbart (with The Wise Farmer's Daughter on the B-side), Hörzu Children's LP, undated
- The clever farmer's daughter , Litera -LP (No. 865205), GDR 1974.
Film adaptations
- 1969: How do you marry a king? , GDR, based largely on the fairy tale, directed by Rainer Simon .
- 1977: The clever farmer's daughter , Switzerland, book: Heinz Bothe-Pelzer ; Director: Rudolf Jugert .
- 2009: The clever farmer's daughter , fairy tale film from the 2nd season of the ARD series Eight in One Stroke , Germany, (Book: Gabriele Kreis ; Director: Wolfgang Eißler )
literature
- Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: The most beautiful fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. Gütersloh 1957.
- Brothers Grimm: Children's and Household Tales. Last hand edition with the original notes by the Brothers Grimm. With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin, not published in all editions, published by Heinz Rölleke. Volume 3: Original Notes, Guarantees of Origin, Afterword. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-003193-1 , pp. 182-184, 483.
