The clever Else

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The clever Else is a Schwank (fairytale type ATU 1450, 1383). It is in the children's and house fairy tales (KHM) by the Brothers Grimm from the 2nd edition of 1819 on position 34 (KHM 34).

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The clever Elsie to be married. The future husband Hans is there for dinner. She is supposed to get beer, but starts to cry when she sees a hoe over the barrel and says it will kill her child one day. One after the other, the maid, the servant and the woman are sent to look after her, then the father himself goes. Everyone cries with us when they find out the reason and praises her clever Else. Hans marries her right away ( "more understanding is not necessary for my household" ). When Hans goes out, she's supposed to be cutting grain. But first she eats, then she sleeps. When Hans comes home, he says at first that she is still working. When he finds her in the grain, he puts bells on her. He locks the front door. When she wakes up, she is confused. She asks at the door if Else is inside. When she hears “yes” she runs away ( “oh God, then it's not me” ).

Comparisons

Grimm points out the similarity to Hansen's Trine , which was in the same place in the first edition (KHM 34a): This fairy tale only contains the second part about Trine's laziness, whereupon Hans the sleeper cuts off his skirt (a popular punishment for "indecent" women ) and Trine happily gives up her identity. There is a similar identity crisis in Der Frieder und das Katherlieschen (KHM 59). Here is one Clever Else to fairy tale type AAth 1450 Get a drink and absurd concern for future disaster , the v. a. is proven in Western, Central and Southeastern Europe. The motivational researchers Johannes Bolte and Georg Polívka emphasize the two unrelated motives of the "useless thoughts about future misfortunes of the not yet born child" and the woman who has "lost her identity".

The Grimms gave several dumb cocks ironically clever : KHM 32 The clever Hans , KHM 77 The clever Gretel , KHM 104 The clever people , KHM 162 The clever servant . Further male counterparts are KHM 7 , 84 , 143 , a female KHM 139 . Hans-Jörg Uther found literary models in the 16th and 17th centuries for the conception of the Schwank up to Else's marriage, and earlier for individual motifs as well. The broken woman's subtext is quite clear here.

Arthur Schnitzler takes up a similar topic in his novella Fräulein Else , in which Else is driven to prostitution by her parents. Clever Else is mentioned in Wittgenstein's remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, Part II, p. 144. In Franziska Sperr's modern short story, Else rushes through the department store to buy a zipper for Hans's trousers until she, distracted by clothes, cafeteria and overpriced corkscrews , collapses into delusions.

interpretation

Erika Alma Metzger interprets Die kluge Else , whose name (Ilse) already indicates a relationship with Undines , i.e. powers of the deep, together with Der Frieder and Katherlieschen as a development of paranoid schizophrenia . One also thinks of the black alder or Ilse , who were said to have demonic powers. Eugen Drewermann sees Else's father's ego broken by ideals of achievement. He narcissistically identifies with the daughter who be wise, v. a. but how he must fail in order not to devalue him. Such a child develops a keen sense for thinking what the others are thinking, foreseeing every "wind in the alley" and every threatening shadow of a fly on the wall. The latent threat of annihilation, internalized aggression, the father-divine double ax is deep in the family's foundation. Thinking degenerates into a substitute for action to rationalize one's own despair. Those who always reluctantly force themselves to perform are often distracted from work by hunger and need for sleep, a kind of oral-maternal counterpoint to paternal demands. The psychotic identity crisis breaks ties and initially turns well-intentioned advice into cynicism. Heinz-Peter Röhr diagnoses Else with a histrionic personality disorder .

The material was processed in the song of the same name by Schobert & Black on their record In our capacity as a friend from 1977 and in a music theater piece by Sven Daigger (premiered in Rostock 2012).

literature

  • Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 210-213. Düsseldorf and Zurich, 19th edition 1999. (Artemis & Winkler Verlag; Patmos Verlag; ISBN 3-538-06943-3 )
  • Grimm, brothers. 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. P. 76, 456. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
  • Bottigheimer, Ruth B .: Kluge Else. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 8. pp. 12-16. Berlin, New York, 1996.
  • Uther, Hans-Jörg: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Berlin 2008. pp. 85-87. (de Gruyter; ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )
  • Metzger, Erika A .: On examples of depersonalization in Grimm's fairy tale. In: Fairy Tales as Ways of Knowing. Essays on Fairy Tales in Psychology, Society and Literature. Edited by Michael M. Metzger and Katharina Mommsen. Bern, Frankfurt am Main, Las Vegas 1981. pp. 99-116. (Peter Lang - Verlag; Germanic Studies in America, vol. 41; ISBN 3-261-04883-2 )
  • Drewermann, Eugen: The clever Else. In: Dear little sister, let me in. Grimm's fairy tales interpreted in terms of depth psychology. Pp. 313-362. Munich 1992. ( ISBN 3-423-35050-4 )
  • Röhr, Heinz-Peter: The fear of rejection. Understand hysteria. 2nd edition 2007, Düsseldorf. (Patmos Verlag; ISBN 978-3-491-40127-3 )

Web links

Wikisource: Die Kluge Else  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bottigheimer, Ruth B .: Kluge Else. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 8. pp. 12-16. Berlin, New York, 1996.
  2. ↑ Bolte, Johannes; Polívka, Georg: Notes on the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm, Vol. 1, Leipzig 1913, p. 335ff.
  3. ↑ Hans-Jörg Uther: Handbook on the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm. de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 85-87.
  4. ^ Franziska Sperr: The clever Else. In: Die Horen . Vol. 1/52, No. 225, 2007, ISSN  0018-4942 , pp. 190-193.
  5. ↑ Metzger, Erika A .: On examples of depersonalization in the Grimm fairy tale. In: Fairy Tales as Ways of Knowing. Essays on Fairy Tales in Psychology, Society and Literature. Edited by Michael M. Metzger and Katharina Mommsen. Bern, Frankfurt am Main, Las Vegas 1981. pp. 99-116. (Peter Lang - Verlag; Germanic Studies in America, vol. 41; ISBN 3-261-04883-2 )
  6. ↑ Drewermann, Eugen: The clever Else. In: Dear little sister, let me in. Grimm's fairy tales interpreted in terms of depth psychology. Pp. 313-362. Munich 1992. ( ISBN 3-423-35050-4 )
  7. ^ Röhr, Heinz-Peter: The fear of rejection. Understand hysteria. 2nd edition 2007, Düsseldorf. (Patmos Verlag; ISBN 978-3-491-40127-3 )
  8. ↑ http://www.hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=Schobert+%26+Black&titel=Die+kluge+Else&cat=s www.hitparade.ch about Schobert & Black - The clever Else .
  9. ↑ http://www.hmt-rostock.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungskalender/cal/event///view-month%7Cpage_id-28%7C%7Cview-event%7Cpage_id-28%7Cuid-2539%7Ctype-tx_cal_nearby%7C % 7Cview-month% 7Cpage_id-28% 7C% 7Cview-month% 7Cpage_id-28 / tx_cal_nearby // die_kluge_else_musiktheater_von_sven_daigger- 2 Rostock to Eine kluge Else - Musiktheater by Sven Daigger .