Felix the Desired

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Peter Rosegger around 1865

Felix the Desired is a story by the Austrian writer Peter Rosegger , which was published in the illustrated family paper Die Heimat 1876 ​​under the title Felix auf der Länd. The story of a strange peasant love in Vienna appeared.

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Not too far from Breitenschlag, the Seim flows through the wooded upper quarter close to the magnificent Ländhof into the lovely lower quarter. There, in a wine-growing area near Zollau, again close to the now broader Seim, the young, well-built winemaker Felix Froschreiter lives above the Zollauer weir, a fairly high natural waterfall, with his family in a modest little house. The old vintner Froschreiter has many children and poor beggars. The family does well when the wealthy mistress of the farm drives up with her coachman and makes a tempting offer. When Felix, the frog rider's eldest son, gives up his “grape treading” job and goes up to the farm, the large farmer wants to release the handsome boy from military service. Felix doesn't hesitate. When the Ländhoferin drove up again a few days later, he got on. On the drive to the upper quarter, Felix noticed what the mistress was all about. She had married Ländhofer, thirty-four years her senior, eleven years ago. He died a few months ago. The handsome widow wants a boy from the wine country. The Ländhoferin also comes from the lower quarter. Good, thinks Felix, who could almost be her son, then I can bring my family to the farm and maybe let one of the brothers study.

The tide turned when Felix discovered his love for the pale young Konstanze, the daughter of the late Ländhofers from his first marriage, at the Ländhof. Love is returned. The mistress foams with jealousy and shivers with fear: Constance's guardian, the woodruff in Breitenschlag, keeps the will of the deceased Ländhofers - most likely in favor of his daughter Konstanze.

Will the widow remain mistress of the rich farm? Is your own, cleverly designed wedding project now falling into the water? The Ländhoferin wants to fight for her "luck". In the stormy autumn Konstanze has to unload a boatload of flax all by herself at the instructions of the stepmother and carry it to the dehydrator of the Ländhof. When Konstanze has re-entered the barge, which is swaying in the strong waves of the Seim, the stepmother cuts the rope to which the barge is tied to the bank. Konstanze drives off. The watercraft starts moving. The jealous girl rejoices on the bank. She probably sent the rival to her death. But the Ländhoferin thought wrong. Felix, who helps Konstanze unload, is on board the boat. Shortly before the deadly Zollauer weir, he saves his beloved and himself. The father and mother take in the son and the soaking wet strange girl at night. The next morning Konstanze's guardian rode in from Breitenschlag and brought fresh news. First, the large farmer's wife died after being struck by the blow , terrified of her own crime . And secondly, when Konstanze comes of age, according to the will, she becomes mistress of the country. Felixen's comment on this: “Help God! And it should be true what I thought now! "

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  1. ↑ The home. Illustrated family sheet. Vienna 1876, Volume 1, Issues 15 to 21, pp. 244–246, 260–263, 280–283, 296–299, 316–318, 336–338 and 352–354.
  2. ↑ cf. Karl Wagner, Max Kaiser, Werner Michler 2003, p. 700.