Three wishes (lever)
Three wishes is a fairy tale by Johann Peter Hebel . It appeared in the calendar Der Rheinländische Hausfreund (1808) and in the treasure chest of the Rhenish Hausfreund (1811).
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A fairy visits a couple, grants three wishes and advises them to think carefully first. The two are excited. For dinner, the woman accidentally wants a sausage, her husband wishes it had grown on her nose with anger. My third wish is to take it off again.
origin
Leebel's Schwankmärchen goes back to Perrault's Die förichten Wünsche (1693) and thus stands in a tradition, the Grimms The Poor and the Rich (1815), Hauff's The Cold Heart (1827), Bechstein's The Blacksmith of Jüterbog (1845) and The Three Wishes (1856), William Wymark Jacobs' Die Affenpfote (1902) and Thomas Glavinic's The Life of Desires (2009) continued. In Drey's other wishes (1809), in the first movement, Hebel alludes to his Three Wishes from the previous year, then tells a completely different story of three craft boys who hold a competition for “the best wish” in the tavern, the last one of course wins very simply by wishing to inherit his two predecessors immediately after their wishes have been fulfilled.
reception
Sigmund Freud uses the fairy tale to illustrate the ambivalence of the dreamer about his wishes. Marcel Reich-Ranicki included it in his best German stories .
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- ↑ Sigmund Freud: The wish fulfillment. In: Alexander Mitscherlich, Angela Richards, James Strachey (Eds.): Sigmund Freud. Study edition. Volume I: Lectures for the Introduction to Psychoanalysis and New Series. 13th edition. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1969, ISBN 3-10-822721-1 , pp. 219-220. https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/freud/vorles1/chap014.html
- ↑ Marcel Reich-Ranicki (Ed.): The best German stories. Selected by Marcel Reich-Ranicki. 8th edition. Insel, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-458-35885-5 , pp. 36–38.