Gedelock

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Gedelock is a historical novella by Wilhelm Raabe , which was written in the winter of 1865/1866 and published in June 1866 in the magazine “ Westermann's illustrated German monthly books ” by Adolf Glaser in Braunschweig. The book version came out in 1869. Raabe experienced reprints in 1871, 1896, 1901 and 1903.

Raabe bought a copy of the Historia 1865 at the Stuttgart flea market for nine cruisers : Mr. Gedelock is buried three times.

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Ms. Mette Gedel rise from Copenhagen can no longer understand her husband. He was born a Christian and was married to her in a Christian way. Ms. Gedelock would like to one day die in her “Lutheran faith”. But her husband, the curator Jens Pedersen Gedelock, “no longer wants to accept any Christian word”, but Master Henrich Israel, auditor for the Jews in Copenhagen, is sitting at the bedside. Gedelock can be psalmodized by the lead singer .

The curator dies at Easter 1731. His clerk David Bleichfeld, who inherits the library and two thousand Reichstaler, keeps the wake. A Christian burial is denied. In his distress, Bleichfeld seeks Colonel Benediktus von Knorpp, commandant on Friedrichsstein . This loyal childhood friend Gedelöckes is responsible for an “honest grave of soldiers” in the garrison cemetery on Osterbrogade .

The Copenhagen clergy stated, however, that Gedelock "did not die as a believing Christian, but as an unbelieving Jew". The Christians force the master Henrich Israel "with scorn, mockery, laughter and shouting" to dig up the dead and bury them "in the Jewish cemetery".

The Jews do not tolerate Gedelock in their cemetery. Master Henrich Israel, who was auditor in the synagogue in Copenhagen for more than twenty years, has his “coat of honor taken off” and the “begging sack” attached because he was the friend of the deceased.

The former master has to report to the stunned Colonel Knorpp that Gedelock is buried under a pasture.

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The protagonists include Mr and Mrs Gedelock, the venerable Mr Hieronymus Moekel from the Trinity Church in Copenhagen, David Bleichfeld, the Colonel von Knorpp and the master Henrich Israel. Mrs. Gedelöckes and Mr. Moekel acted as Mr. Gedelöckes during his lifetime. While Ms. Gedelöck no longer appears after her husband's death, Moekel, an outstanding representative of the Copenhagen clergy, can be seen as the actual cause of Gedelöck's first exhumation , but he works from the background. Rather, the action comes from David Bleichfeld. Bleichfeld visits Colonel von Knorpp. From now on, the old warrior is at the center of the action. He starts the first funeral procession and he harnesses his subordinates. For example, the colonel orders his Icelandic regimental field shearer Snorro Skalholt to the funeral. Master Henrich Israel, however, does not act directly. The former lead singer only goes to Knorpp twice and each time he complains about the misfortunes he has suffered.

Self-testimony

  • When Adolf Glaser misses the “wistful chord” that Raabe is used to, the author replies: “I believe that my more lyrical period is happily behind me ... There is a lot of lies in our literature ...” Raabe wants this lie “out bring ".

reception

  • The incident appeared in the Vossische Zeitung in 1731 .
  • Fuld describes the text as "a poisonous satire against church orthodoxy ", written by the "anti-church free spirit Raabe".
  • Meyen names three editions; one of them in Dutch (1870) and has eight reviews. One of them - from 1957 - is dedicated to the story in connection with the Berleburg Bible .

expenditure

First edition

  • The Rainbow. Seven stories by Wilhelm Raabe. Hallberger, Stuttgart 1869. Vol. 2 contains Die Gänse von Bützow. Gedelock. In the wreath

Used edition

  • Gedelock. P. 705–749 in: Peter Goldammer (Ed.), Helmut Richter (Ed.): Wilhelm Raabe. Selected works in six volumes. Volume 1: The Chronicle of Sperlingsgasse . After the great war . Stories 1860–1870. 928 pages. Aufbau-Verlag Berlin and Weimar 1966 (text basis: Karl Hoppe (Hrsg.): The historical-critical Braunschweig edition)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ von Studnitz, p. 311, entry 30
  2. ↑ Goldammer and Richter, p. 914 above
  3. ↑ Bauer and Hoppe in the Braunschweig edition, p. 457
  4. ↑ Edition used, p. 707, 7th Zvu
  5. ↑ Gedelock (Danish): Bocks-Glück (Goldammer and Richter, p. 914, 2. Zvo)
  6. ↑ Oppermann, p. 68, 1. Zvu to p. 70, 1. Zvo and Fuld, p. 210, 3. Zvo to p. 210, 12. Zvo
  7. ↑ Edition used, p. 707, 10th Zvu
  8. ↑ Goldammer and Richter, citing from the newspaper article, pp. 912–913
  9. ↑ Fuld, p. 209, 15. Zvu
  10. ↑ Meyen, pp. 74-75
  11. ↑ Meyen, pp. 336-337