Germelshausen
Germelshausen is a deserted area in Thuringia and, besides being mentioned in Ludwig Bechstein's book of Thuringian legends, is best known today for its literary processing in the story of the same name by Friedrich Gerstäcker from the mid-19th century, in which the disappearance of the place takes on a fantastic note.
Content of the story
Around 1840 the young painter Arnold met a girl named Gertrud on a forest hike and accompanied her to his home village of Germelshausen. The village looks very old, the people are dressed old-fashioned, and their language of expression is just as strangely outdated.
In the evening, Arnold and Gertrud take part in a village festival, at which she suddenly asks him to leave the place before midnight. Arnold, who has fallen in love with the girl, complies with the request, but wants to return to Gertrud later.
After midnight, however, the village cannot be found. After searching in vain for the place all night, the young painter finally meets an old hunter early in the morning. He reports that Germelshausen has disappeared for many centuries and is only resurrected for one day every 100 years. Arnold then continues on his way, dejected.
geography
In history, the villages of Dillstedt (today Dillstädt ) and Marisfeld in Thuringia are given as real reference points . Between the two places where Germelshausen was and is said to have sunk, the road L2628 is called Germelshausen .
Adaptations
The story served as a template for further pieces from film and music:
- the musical Brigadoon and its filming
- the three-act opera Germelshausen by Ludwig Göhring with music by Hans Grimm , performed in Augsburg in 1923
- the fantastic novel Germelshausen, midnight by Hans Bach , 1985 Berlin: Verlag Neues Leben
- the essay Motiv des Scheidens by Ernst Bloch , in: Ders., traces, 1985 Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft
literature
- Friedrich Gerstäcker : Germelshausen . In: German Novellenschatz . Edited by Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz. Vol. 21, 2nd ed. Berlin, [1910], pp. 21-119. In: Weitin, Thomas (Ed.): Fully digitized corpus. The German Novellenschatz . Darmstadt / Konstanz, 2016. ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
- Friedrich Gerstäcker : Germelshausen (= cabinet of dreamers. Vol. 4). Edited and with an afterword by Heiko Postma . Jmb-Verlag, Hannover 2010, ISBN 978-3-940970-85-5 .
- Ludwig Bechstein : The saga treasure and the saga circles of the Thuringian country. Vol. 3. Kesselring. Hildburghausen 1837.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://literaturnetz.org/6956
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
