The most beautiful legends of the robber Woynok

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The most beautiful sagas of the robber Woynok is a story by Anna Seghers that was written in 1936 and appeared in the June issue of the magazine “ Das Wort ” published by Feuchtwanger and Brecht in Moscow in 1938 .

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The young robber Woynok doesn't need the 41-strong gang of the old robber captain Gruschek. He prefers to rob alone there in the Carpathians . He has no need in summer. In autumn he digs his way into the still warm leaves in the evening and listens to the pelting rain at night. During a severe, snowy winter storm, Woynok asks to be admitted to Grushek's shelter. The disheveled man is entertained, dressed and shyly admired by the captain's 40 robbers. Woynok doesn't last long in the heated robber's den and trudges out into winter laden with gifts for guests. Far out in the deep snow, wolves snatch his latest belongings from his winter-proof cave. Next summer Woynok can return the favor to Grushek. The robbers don't “work” squeamishly. A mountain monastery is burned down to the rock. So it is not surprising that the band is surrounded by soldiers. The cunning woynok saves the trapped. Old Gruschek would like to have young Woynok as his successor. So the old man hardly misses an opportunity to make Woynok's life as a captain palatable. The loner is stubborn. Finally, Woynok is fed up with the robbers, locks them in a cliff and blows up his colleagues. But Gruschek is also cunning. Most of them get away alive via a quickly trained robber ladder. Gruschek is also far-sighted. He thought carefully about who had to offer his bones for the foot of the ladder. The vacancies in the band of robbers are easily filled with applicants from the surrounding farming villages.

Surprisingly, Gruschek forgives the terrible bomb attack. Although he never picks up Woynok, he is fed up. Gruschek lets Woynok go, telling him that he should never show up again.

Woynok keeps robbing alone. In the next winter he falls into a trap of the hunters and, when he is almost frozen in it, is killed by farmers with sticks.

Gruschek has to experience annoyed that the dead woman comes back after all. The robbers would like to bury him near their lair. Captain Gruschek refuses. Woynok is buried in the snow.

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The tone is fabulous throughout. Nothing is taught to the reader with a mallet. Only two examples should speak for the impeccable form. The element of repetition is used to paint the fleeting, fleeting elements of Woynok's life and death. At the beginning of the text, the robber crawls into the deep autumn leaves that are still warmed by summer. At the end of the text he does not get a excavated grave. Reserve and a pile of snow on top must suffice. For the second example: A climax is reached when the dead man appears in the gang's night camp: “Above the mountain wall the fog seemed to be thickening. Woynok approached the camp with infinite slowness. The robbers writhed around the burned fire. The hand that was about to throw a log in it froze with horror and cold. Because a draft of icy cold flew away from Woynok and fluttered around the temples of the robbers ... "

The language is bursting with images and its sound is child's play. Anna Seghers writes: "Destroy with stump and handle" or he "barricaded the exit".

reception

Brecht valued the story of the “anarchic outsider”. Batt quotes Benjamin in this context : Brecht admired Anna Seghers how she could write without commission. He himself would not be able to put a clever sentence on paper without a job. And then Brecht liked the figure of the "cross head" Woynok.

Long-cherished human longings are also addressed in the popular tone. Man wants to live free like a robber in the forest. Hilzinger thinks Woynok can neither get along with the robbers alone.

Gruschek and Woynok are never hostile to each other. Anna Seghers does not judge Woynok, but rather emphasizes his "clarity and honesty". When she wrote the Woynok, Georg K. Glaser had in mind.

Hilzinger quotes Eva Kaufmann in 1995: Beautiful robber story.

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Secondary literature

  • Heinz Neugebauer: Anna Seghers. Life and work. With illustrations (research assistant: Irmgard Neugebauer, editorial deadline September 20, 1977). 238 pages. Series “Writers of the Present” (Ed. Kurt Böttcher). People and Knowledge, Berlin 1980, without ISBN
  • Kurt Batt : Anna Seghers. Trial over development and works. With illustrations. 283 pages. Reclam, Leipzig 1973 (2nd edition 1980). Licensor: Röderberg, Frankfurt am Main ( Röderberg-Taschenbuch Vol. 15), ISBN 3-87682-470-2
  • Ute Brandes: Anna Seghers . Colloquium Verlag, Berlin 1992. Volume 117 of the series “Heads of the 20th Century”, ISBN 3-7678-0803-X
  • Andreas Schrade: Anna Seghers . Metzler, Stuttgart 1993 (Metzler Collection, Vol. 275 (Authors)), ISBN 3-476-10275-0
  • Sonja Hilzinger: Anna Seghers. With 12 illustrations. Series of Literature Studies. Reclam, Stuttgart 2000, RUB 17623, ISBN 3-15-017623-9

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  1. ↑ Anna Seghers can also be different. For example, in the “ Peasants of Hruschowo ” she interweaves such a fairytale forest theme with the class struggle .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edition used, p. 365, entry “The most beautiful sagas from the robber Woynok” .
  2. ↑ Hilzinger, p. 110, 3rd Zvu
  3. ↑ Edition used, p. 228, 2. Zvo
  4. ↑ Edition used, p. 223, 2nd Zvu
  5. ↑ Edition used, p. 224, 13. Zvo
  6. ↑ Brandes, p. 47, 10. Zvo
  7. ^ Batt, p. 261, footnote 15
  8. ↑ Neugebauer, p. 70, 8. Zvo
  9. ↑ Hilzinger, p. 112, 3. Zvo
  10. ^ Schrade, p. 57
  11. ↑ quoted in Hilzinger, p. 220, 4th entry