The several Wehmüller and Hungarian national faces

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The multiple Wehmüller and Hungarian national faces is a story by Clemens Brentano , which appeared from September 24th to October 13th, 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].

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The portrait painter Wehmüller is traveling from Vienna to Stuhlweissenburg on business. The traveler has 39 prefabricated national faces painted in oil in his luggage. The customer only has to choose the one that is most similar to him and can express wishes. Mr. Wehmüller then completes the work of art with a few brush strokes. Additions to the sitter's uniform are only possible at an additional cost. The artist learns from the press about a painter Froschhauer from Klagenfurt, who plagiarized him and also - dressed as Wehmüller in deceptively real costumes - is currently taking the same art trip to Stuhlweissenburg. However, Froschhauer does not charge a surcharge for additions to uniforms; modified faces can be paid for separately. The real Wehmüller is in a hurry. His dear wife, the Tonerl, is waiting in Stuhlweissenburg. Mr. Wehmüller is afraid that his plagiarist might beat him to her. To make matters worse, Wehmüller is held up by the plague right behind the Hungarian border . He is stuck in an inn among a mixed crowd. You let Michaly play something on the violin. Michaly is waiting for his sister in the Hungarian inn. After all, you tell horror stories. Brentano gives three of them for the best.

The picking peck of the cat Mores

A Croatian nobleman who has his court on the Turkish border ran away from his tomcat Mores at Christmas. When the Croatian marched to Christmas mass before midnight with a double rifle shouldered, he found Mores on a free-standing oak tree in the middle of a group of cats. Because the pets were performing a miserable concert, he gave them a shot of shot. The howling stopped, but not a single cat lay dead in the snow. In the morning the nobleman found his tomcat at home with scorched fur. As the Croat then his Slavonian maid Mladka called and these stayed away, showed research, "several womenfolk from the area" had been seriously injured after night rifle shot or even died. Monsieur Devillier, formerly a lieutenant in Dunkirk , does not believe the Croatian his story about the sorcerer Mores, who commanded a multitude of witches in the form of cats. He knows a better cat story. The nobleman is offended.

Devillier's tale of the witches on the oyster rock

Out in the sea, not far from the beach, lay an oyster rock where a group of cats was stealing oysters. Without exception, the cats let themselves be shot to death at low tide. Each had a paw wedged in a closing shell.

Baciochi's tale of the wild hunter

After a failed pyrotechnic event, the Venetian fireworker Baciochi, on the run over the mountains, found night quarters in a miserable inn where Mitidika, a brown girl, was waiting for her treasure, the wild hunter. When Baciochi describes the midnight thunderstorm scene in which this smuggler appeared, Devillier reveals himself to be the wild hunter. He is still looking for his beloved Mitidika.

A mistake by the office keeps the whole company in the Hungarian inn. The village in which Mr. Wehmüller is “stuck” was and is free of plagues. A lot has happened in the meantime. Ladies from the above-mentioned company in the inn had shouted: “Another Wehmüller!” There are now three in the inn: first, the Froschhauer disguised as Wehmüller, second, his wife Tonerl, disguised as Mr. Wehmüller, and third, the real Wehmüller. Tonerl had met the Mitidika in Stuhlweissenburg and had traveled with her to meet her beloved husband because he was not there. Mitidika wanted to visit her brother, the violinist Michaly. In the end, it looks like Mr. Wehmüller would like to forgive his plagiarist from Klagenfurt.

shape

The narrative is artfully developed. While the first inner story is isolated, the second merges into the third and the third seamlessly and furiously into the end of the frame .

The consistently sudden appearance of the wrong Wehmüller is humorously successful. The climax of the humor, however, is reached with the appearance of the wild hunter in the forest hut high up in the mountains.

reception

  • Immermann writes to Tieck that he thinks the burlesque is pretty and the serious is abhorrent.
  • On the occasion of Brentano's visit to Eduard Jakob von Steinle on November 4, 1841, Marianne von Willemer staged a ballet scene based on the themes of the story.
  • humor
  • Schultz points to the treatment of the subject of art in the story.
  • According to Berger, Brentano ironizes romance .
  • Riley names further leading works: A. Heltmann (1926), G. Kunszery (1965), W. Frühwald (Zurich 1968) and DB Dickens (1983).

Web links

expenditure

  • Clemens Brentano: The several Wehmüller and Hungarian national faces . Insel-Bücherei 1262. With 13 drawings by Karl G. Hirsch and explanations by Hans Magnus Enzensberger . 96 pages. March 9, 2005, ISBN 978-3-458-19262-6
  • Clemens Brentano: The several Wehmüller and Hungarian national faces . P. 179–246 in Karl Heinz Berger (Ed.), Hans-Dietrich Dahnke (Ed.), Gerhard Schneider (Ed.): Classic German storytellers. Vol. 1. New life publisher. Berlin 1954 (2nd edition). 479 pages

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
  • Gerhard Schulz : The German literature between the French Revolution and the restoration. Part 2. The Age of the Napoleonic Wars and the Restoration: 1806–1830. 912 pages. Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-09399-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

Source means the quoted text edition

  1. ↑ Source, p. 667 above and Fig. 3 on p. 851
  2. ↑ Source, pp. 658-696
  3. ↑ Source, p. 854, Fig. 6: The violinist Michaly
  4. ↑ Schulz, p. 475, 18. Zvo
  5. ↑ Schultz, p. 79, 9. Zvu
  6. ↑ quoted in Kluge in the source, p. 666, 13. Zvo
  7. ↑ Feilchenfeldt, p. 176, third entry
  8. ↑ quoted in Kluge in der Quelle, p. 670 middle
  9. ↑ quoted in Kluge in der Quelle, p. 672, 3rd Zvo middle
  10. ^ Pfeiffer-Belli, p. 164, 1. Zvu
  11. ↑ Schultz, p. 80
  12. ↑ 1954 edition Karl Heinz Berger (Ed.), P. 181, 11. Zvu
  13. ^ Riley, p. 106, fourth entry