A visit (Wilhelm Raabe)

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A visit is a sketch by Wilhelm Raabe , which was created in the summer of 1884 and appeared in the " Illustrirten Zeitung " of the Leipzig publishing house Johann Jacob Weber that same year . The newspaper's publisher at the time was Carl Berendt Lorck . The publisher brought the text out in book form in its "Novellen-Bibliothek" in 1886.

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The impoverished old woman, Mrs. Johanne, lives alone. The husband Richard is long dead. The boys did not survive boyhood. Only the girlfriend gets out of the grave every now and then and visits Johanne at dusk. The visit brings her past back in a dream. Then Johanne no longer thinks about her unhappiness in life, but dreams of the past - “sweet and peaceful; because the visit had previously placed a quiet, reassuring hand on her furrowed forehead. ”This is followed by the visit and releases Johanne into reality. The young neighbor, “now a glorious war woman”, tells the old woman about her happiness. The husband Franz conquered Metz for the German Empire and would like to show his Iron Cross soon .

reception

  • Hoppe points out a common feature of the story with “ The Good Day ” and “Auf dem Altsteil”: In all three texts, the vision or the dream is a style element.
  • Fuld calls the sketch insignificant.

expenditure

Used edition

  • A visit. Pp. 379-389. With an appendix, written by Karl Hoppe , pp. 475–476 in Hans Finck (arrangement), Karl Hoppe (arrangement): Wunnigel . German nobility . The good day . On the old part . A visit. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1977. Vol. 13 (2nd edition, obtained by Jörn Dräger), ISBN 3-525-20126-5 in Karl Hoppe (ed.), Jost Schillemeit (ed.), Hans Oppermann (ed. ), Kurt Schreinert (Ed.): Wilhelm Raabe. Complete Works. Braunschweig edition . 24 vols.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ von Studnitz, p. 314, entry 58
  2. ↑ Hoppe in the edition used, p. 475, 3. Zvo and entries Z and B1
  3. ↑ Edition used, p. 385, 8. Zvo
  4. ↑ Hoppe in the edition used, p. 472, 4. Zvo
  5. ↑ Fuld, p. 34, 12. Zvu