Eichendorff's downfall and other fairy tales

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“ Eichendorff's downfall and other fairy tales . Project 3/1 ”by Helmut Heißenbüttel was published in 1978 by Klett-Cotta Verlag as the first part of his third project. This was followed by two more parts “If Adolf Hitler hadn't won the war. Historical novella and true events ”(1979) and“ The end of the alternative. Simple Stories ”(1980).

Project 3 / 1-3, as the three volumes, which were written in prose, are also called, differs considerably from Heißenbüttel's spelling, which was previously heavily influenced by experiment. He falls back on traditional narrative forms, which focus on conveying content, as well as on classic genres such as fairy tales and novels. The first volume, "Eichendorff's Downfall and Other Fairy Tales", is divided into 13 longer stories, so-called fairy tales and 30 autumns.

fairy tale

The fairy tales in project 3/1 represent a mixture of realistic and fairytale-like events. Heißenbüttel combines wishes, fantasies and reality. By blurring these boundaries, Heißenbüttel can "[...] determine the confusing double nature of man between delusion and reality most closely [...]". He also provides the psychoanalytic explanations and motifs with the texts. The leitmotif of the story is mostly the sexual tension that connects the characters with one another. In the course or at the end of the fairy tale, the narrator interrupts the narrative by asking questions and thus encourages the reader to critically question what has been read. The fact that the stories are fairy tale analogies is demonstrated, among other things, by the titles chosen, such as “Frog King. Freud visits in the evening ”and names of the characters appearing, such as“ the hairy widow of Botnang ”or“ Rübezahl ”clearly. In the fairy tales there are also indications that Heißenbüttel projected parts of his personality and the society in which he lived into individual characters and stories. For example, in the story “Franz-Ottokar Mürbekapsels Glück und ein Ende. With improvement "is thematized.

Fairy tales in this volume:

  • Eichendorff's downfall and other fairy tales.
  • Oberwasser and Feuerborn. Materials for a love story.
  • Eppendorfer night . I would like to be a woman.
  • Obsession. The hairy widow of Botnang .
  • Frog prince. Freud visits in the evening.
  • The lion's subconscious.
  • The trace of the report. Kind of a fairy tale.
  • Franz-Ottokar Mürbekapsel's happiness and an end. With improvement.
  • Sixth legend from Rübezahl . The poet and his freak.
  • Gradual creation of the character of the colleague dog poop.
  • CK, or adding to the narrative by its method.
  • Disintegration of the collector.
  • Mary Magdalene's world.

Autumns

Based on Daniil Charms, Heißenbüttel also wrote so-called "Autumns". These are humorous short texts, some of which only consist of a few sentences and each abruptly with a sentence like “You can't really add more to that”. end up. In its concrete form, this sentence partly varies from autumn to autumn. For example, the closing sentence of the narrator autumn “There is really nothing more to say” and of Edward's autumn “More can not be said about it” are mostly banal everyday occurrences that are exaggerated and thus elevated to something special. The punch card eater autumn is an example of this. Conversely, special situations are reduced to something mundane by emphasizing something self-evident. This becomes apparent, for example, in the autumn of retirement.

In addition to the stand-alone autumns, there are also autumns that build on one another or can be thematically assigned to one another, such as the general autumn, the office sex autumn or the marital autumn.

Autumns in this volume:

  • Narrator autumn
  • Gold panning autumn
  • Edward's fall
  • Tannhäuser autumn
  • Ottilie Wildermuth's autumn
  • Retired autumn
  • General autumn 1
  • General autumn 2
  • Office sex autumn 1
  • Office sex autumn 2
  • Psychoanalyst autumn
  • Fall of love
  • Ladies autumn
  • Marriage fall 1
  • Marriage fall 2
  • Father autumn
  • Monument autumn
  • Whitsun Autumn
  • Punch card eater autumn
  • Linguist Autumn
  • Authors autumn
  • Walter Benjamin Herbst
  • Bookseller Autumn
  • Professor Hans Mayer Herbst
  • Uwe Hermes Herbst
  • Poet autumn
  • Willichnichherbst
  • Deathbed autumn
  • Homesick autumn
  • Autumn the autumn

Individual evidence

  1. ^ T. Combrink: Heißenbüttel, Helmut. In: Literature Lexicon. Authors and works of German language. 2009, pp. 230-232.
  2. ↑ a b c d e R. Michaelis: The enjoyable narrative book of a poet considered difficult. Homesickness to go where you can't get. Helmut Heißenbüttel: 'Eichendorff's downfall and other fairy tales'. In: The time . 41, 1978, Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  3. ^ K. Riha: Complications with Simple Stories. On Helmut Heißenbüttel's 'Project 3 / 1-3'. In: Text + Criticism . 69/70, 1981, p. 75.
  4. ^ K. Riha: Complications with Simple Stories. On Helmut Heißenbüttel's 'Project 3 / 1-3'. In: Text + Criticism. 69/70, 1981, p. 77.
  5. ^ H. Heißenbüttel: Eichendorffs downfall and other fairy tales. 1978, p. 17.
  6. ^ H. Heißenbüttel: Eichendorffs downfall and other fairy tales. 1978, p. 16.
  7. ^ H. Heißenbüttel: Eichendorffs downfall and other fairy tales. 1978, p. 18.

literature

  • T. Combrink: Heißenbüttel, Helmut. In: Walter Killy (Ed.) Literature Lexicon. Authors and works of German language. 2nd Edition. Volume 5, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, pp. 230-232.
  • H. Heißenbüttel: Eichendorff's downfall and other fairy tales . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1978.
  • R. Michaelis: The amusing narrative book of a poet considered difficult. Homesickness to go where you can't get.
  • Helmut Heißenbüttel: Eichendorff's downfall and other fairy tales. In: The time. 41, 1978. ( zeit.de ).
  • K. Riha: Complications with simple stories. On Helmut Heißenbüttel's “Project 3 / 1-3”. In: Text and Critique. 69/70, 1981, pp. 74-84.