Hans Huckebein, the unlucky fellow

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Hans Huckebein the unlucky fellow is a picture story by Wilhelm Busch . It was first published in the papers: Über Land und Meer , Stuttgart , Eduard Hallberger, Xth year (October 1867 – September 1868), 1/13, 3/45, 5/77, 8/125.

Emergence

The story of the unlucky fellow, Hans Huckebein, is laid out in a similar lascivious way as Max and Moritz. Wilhelm Busch was 35 years old when he drew the picture story in June 1867 in his home village of Wiedensahl, west of Hanover .

As Bush one day with his brother in Wolfenbüttel was visiting, he learned that the tame raven a Wolfenbütteler gardener to this thought on his chicken farm, all newly hatched chicks killed. Whenever they wanted to drink from the water bowl, he pecked her head. It cannot be ruled out that this story inspired him, but it is not known whether it actually influenced him and whether he even made his first sketches of the murderous raven in the chicken yard.

At that time, the end of the raven following the murderous act mobilized one of a “Dr. Weber ”group, which could have been a regulars' table or a school class and which complained of unsightly death in a poem with 21 signatures. Busch's answer later became the introduction to the book version by Hans Huckebein the unlucky fellow . It starts like this:

"Although his end moves me / I am not allowed to report it otherwise / He dies because tragically designed / Was the character of this hero."

Wilhelm Busch's picture story from the feathered villain appeared in 1867 in four episodes in by Eduard Hallberger issued (founder of the German publishing house) magazine "Over land and sea."

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Single scene

The picture story tells in rhyme form ( pair rhyme ) of the unfortunate evil raven, called Hans Huckebein.

The boy Fritz finds a young raven in the forest and absolutely wants to take him home. With cunning and deceit he catches the frightened animal and brings it home to his aunt. They are immediately disappointed - the raven does not turn out to be a cute little animal, but bites them hard. Then he messes up the aunt's household: he steals a ham bone from the Spitz, whereupon a violent argument arises among the animals, in which the tomcat becomes involved. Since the raven is clever, he outsmarts the two and wins. Now he can no longer be stopped.
He goes for the freshly cooked blueberry compote and when the horrified aunt tries to catch him, he gropes over her clean ironing. Now his aunt is chasing him, and some things break during his escape: the plates on the shelf, a basket of eggs, the mug of beer, and finally a bucket of water flies off, which the aunt gets. When she tries to bring the raven down with a fork, it ends up in Fritz's ear. Huckebein hides, and when he is discovered anyway, he bites his aunt in the nose.
Cheeky as he is, he now picks up the liqueur and empties the glass with great relish. Drunk he staggers around, throws the liquor bottle from the table and gets tangled in his aunt's knitting. He ends miserably by strangling himself with the yarn.

The verses seem to end with a moral ("Malice was his main plea. Drum - speaks the aunt - he hangs here!"): After the evil raven has messed up the aunt's entire household, he ends up miserably through his own fault. Here Wilhelm Busch's tendency towards dark stories with black humor is evident, which can be seen throughout his entire work.

It may be that some felt sorry for the raven. For Wilhelm Busch, as is so often the case in his picture stories, he was just one more of many incarnations of evil that, in his opinion, is found in every human being and animal - and Huckebein is also expressly referred to several times as:

"The biggest scoundrel stays on top"

"[...] - the bad one stumbles"

"Malice was his main plea [...]"

swell

  • Over Land and Sea , Stuttgart, Eduard Hallberger, Xth year (October 1867 – September 1868), 1/13, 3/45, 5/77, 8/125
  • Hans Huckebein the unlucky raven by Wilhelm Busch , Deutsche Verlagsanstalt 23rd edition published in 1894
  • All works and a selection of the sketches and paintings in two volumes. And the moral of the story. (Volume 1) Whatever is popular is also allowed. (Volume 2) Edited by Rolf Hochhuth , C. Bertelsmann Verlag 1982, 2272 S., ISBN 3-570-03004-0
  • Poems and picture stories (cassette, 2 volumes), Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 2007, ISBN 3-257-06560-4
  • Historical - critical complete edition. Ed. by Friedrich Bohne. 4 volumes. Wiesbaden, Emil Vollmer Verlag.
  • Collected Works. Directmedia Publishing, 2002 (Digital Library Vol. 74), ISBN 3-89853-174-0 (CD-ROM)
  • Collected Works . CD-ROM of the small digital library series . Berlin, 2008
  • Wilhelm Busch's Hans Huckebein in 65 German dialects. Edited by Manfred Görlach, University Press C. Winter, Heidelberg 1997
  • Special stamps: Federal Ministry of Finance

literature

  • Dietmar Grieser : In the zoo of world literature . Munich 1991
  • Ulrich Mihr: Wilhelm Busch. The Protestant who laughs anyway . Tübingen 1983
  • Gert Ueding : Busch's secret pleasure area. Affect images and soul stories of the bourgeoisie in the 19th century . Vienna 1982
  • Karen Duve , Thies Völker : Lexicon of famous animals . Eichborn 1997

Film adaptations

Special postage stamps

Special stamps for the Busch year

Stamp pad for the youth 2007 : “175. Birthday Wilhelm Busch - Hans Huckebein, the unlucky fellow "

Web links

Commons : Hans Huckebein, the unlucky fellow  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From the Lexicon of Famous Animals: Hans Huckebein (Karen Duve / Thies Völker: Lexicon of famous animals. Eichborn 1997. ISBN 3-8218-0505-6 .)
  2. ↑ From the Lexicon of Famous Animals: Hans Huckebein (Karen Duve / Thies Völker: Lexicon of famous animals. Eichborn 1997. ISBN 3-8218-0505-6 .)