Dri quinisine
Dri Chinisin is a short story by Brigitte Kronauer , published in 2004 in the cycle Die Tricks der Diva . The text deals with the problem of upbringing.
content
The short story is about the everyday life of a group of kindergarten children. In the “we” form, the children describe how they are delivered to the kindergarten in the morning by their “excited mothers” in order to be picked up again at noon. It describes in detail how the children are pampered and looked after by their parents. Then a visit by the children to the cemetery is described, during which the group continuously sings the children's song Three Chinese with the double bass .
However, the true nature of children is only revealed at night. Here they gather in the cemetery to do their mischief there. Here they swap flowers or march in formation across the cemetery. However, their actions always go unnoticed by their mothers the next morning.
interpretation
language
The story is kept ironic throughout . Expressions such as "eye stars", "troop of sheep clouds" or "cuddly animal procession" as well as the frequent use of diminutive forms such as "tramps" are striking. In this way, the children imitate the expressions of their mothers and thus make them look ridiculous.
Before you find out about the children's activities at night, there are hints of their dark side, for example the beginning of the short story "Nobody suspects anything during the day ..." or expressions such as "waves of murder", "breakneck names" or "lucky bombs".
Situation of children
The description of the children makes it clear that for their mothers they are nothing but objects of prestige. They ironically refer to themselves as “living dolls”, with passages such as “when they gently push us out of their cars” or “quickly put the latest fashions on us”, this impression is reinforced. The children grow up in the “padded nest of the kindergarten”, protected and cared for. It is precisely against this behavior that the children rebel at night in the cemetery. While they never get dirty during the day, they can play in the dirt here, during the day they are always well-behaved and well-behaved, and at night they live out their dark urges.
From a depth psychological point of view, the children are controlled by the superego during the day in the form of their mothers and kindergartners, so that the id only shows up at night while the superego (in the truest sense of the word) sleeps.
Adaptation
A comic adaptation of "Dri Chinisin" was published in issue 68 of the literary journal Schreibheft , drawn by Sascha Hommer .
literature
- Brigitte Kronauer in: German short prose of the present. Reclam, Stuttgart 2005. pp. 184-189
- Gabriele Sander in: German short prose of the present. Interpretations. Reclam, Stuttgart 2006. pp. 261-269