Hanswurst's wedding

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Hanswurst's wedding is a fragmentary farce by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , written from the Grobian tradition in 1775, but never ended , the full title of which is: Hanswurst's wedding or the course of the world - a microcosmic drama. Through its trivial and crude jokes, the text can be seen in the context of the tradition of the carnival game , which is dominated by the instinctual sphere based on fecal and crude allusions. The piece consists of an introductory monologue conducted by Kilian Brustfleck, a dialogue between Kilian Brustfleck and Hanswurst, an endless list of names, continued by a list of the dramatis personae from Hans Wursten's wedding and the figurants .

Emergence

The time of the origin of Hanswurst's wedding is estimated at the first half of the year 1775, which is justified, among other things, with parallels of the content to the situation of the author. In the spring of this year, Goethe got engaged to Lili Schönemann , whose family belonged to the society of the “nouveau riche nobles”, in which Goethe became more and more famous. The critical reflection of his new role can be seen in Hanswurst's wedding as well as in a letter to Auguste Countess zu Stolberg from this time, in which he describes himself as the “current Fastnach Goethe”.

Goethe's ironic engagement with his own work is just as clear in the parallels between the first verses of Kilian Brustfleck in Hanswurst's wedding and Faust's world-famous opening monologue “Habe nun, ah!” . Due to its unthinkable content at the time, the piece did not appear in the Nachlassen Werke until 1836 .

content

The play begins with the monologue by Kilian Brustfleck, who tells of his hopeless attempts to teach Hanswurst the appropriate social behavior, what Michail Bachtin calls the "body canon of art-literature and decent speech of the modern age".

Hanswurst intends to marry Ursel Blandine for the sole reason that he can have sexual intercourse as often as possible in a simple and legitimate way. His guardian Kilian Brustfleck (abbreviated to KB in Goethe's text, while HW stands for Hans Wurst), who is "as a mentor and educator of Hanswurst [...] the advocate of social etiquette", wants to convince him of the higher values ​​of marriage and Above all, persuade them to organize a bigger party on the occasion, which Hanswurst refuses, because he doesn't care.

Quote:

KB
I'll tell you what the German world
In large names only contains
Everything comes to your house today
Forms the most beautiful wedding feast
HW
I think I might lubricate my bunk
And form them out the door
Meanwhile, what have I got with the flails
They like to eat and I want to fuck

The farce has no plot and consists less of speech and counter-speech than of a list of names and slanderous remarks, for the listing of which the list of persons in the "play", classically referred to as the Dramatis personae of Hans Wursten's wedding, is used. The naming corresponds to the rough tradition of the Hanswurst figure , since "25 names [...] come from the anal and fecal [area]" and "27 from the genital area"

Quote:

Hanswurst, groom
Ursel Blandine, bride
Ursel with the cold hole, aunt
Kilian chest mark
Hans ass from Rippach
Matz Fotz from Dresden
Reck-Aerschgen and Schnuck-Fötzgen, nieces
Hans Urian. Coupler
(...)
Figurants:
Peter pig tail
Bastard
Louse zippel
Rascal
Snot spoon, Page
(...)

Goethe on Hanswurst's wedding

“Following the instructions of an older German puppet and bud game, I had devised a great grimacing creature which was to bear the title Hanswurst's wedding. The scheme was as follows: Hanswurst, a rich orphaned farmer's son who has just come of age, wants to marry a rich girl named Ursel Blandine. His guardian, Kilian Brustfleck, and their mother Ursel etc. are extremely satisfied. Your long-term plan, your highest desires will finally be achieved and fulfilled. There is not the slightest obstacle here, and the whole thing is really based only on the fact that the young people's desire to own themselves is put off by the arrangements of the wedding and the essential inconveniences that prevail ” .

“In contrast, the fragments of the Eternal Jew and Hanswurst's wedding were not to be communicated. The latter appeared cheerful enough because all of the German bad names appeared personally in their characters. "

reception

“The proximity of this piece to Prometheus and Urfaust has often been rightly pointed out. The opposition to the gods corresponds here to the opposition to an apparently elegant society. "

literature

  • Reinhold Köhler, Harlequin's wedding and Goethe's Hanswurst's wedding . In: ZfdA 20, 1876, pp. 119–126.
  • Max Posner and Erich Schmidt, Kilian Brustfleck . In: W. Scherer, From Goethe's early days. Fragments of a commentary on the young Goethe, Strasbourg 1879.
  • Erich Schmidt, Ursel Blandine . In: GJb 1, 1880, p. 376 f.
  • Max Morris, Prometheus and Hanswurst . In: MM, Goethe Studies Vol. 1, Berlin 1902, pp. 237–248.
  • Edward Schröder, Ursel Blandine . In: Anzeiger für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur 53 (ZfdA 71) 1934, p. 237.

output

  • All works based on the epochs of his work, "Der Junge Goethe 1757–1775", Ed. Gerhard Sauder, Munich Edition, Vol. 2, 1987, p. 944.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All works based on the epochs of his work, Der Junge Goethe 1757–1775, Ed. Gerhard Sauder, Münchner Ausgabe, Vol. 2, 1987, p. 733.
  2. ↑ All works based on the epochs of his work, Der Junge Goethe 1757–1775, Ed. Gerhard Sauder, Münchner Ausgabe, Vol. 2, 1987, p. 733.
  3. ↑ http://www.goethezeitportal.de/db/wiss/goethe/faust_borchmeyer.pdf
  4. ↑ http://www.goethezeitportal.de/db/wiss/goethe/faust_borchmeyer.pdf
  5. ↑ All works based on the epochs of his work, Der Junge Goethe 1757–1775, Ed. Gerhard Sauder, Münchner Ausgabe, Vol. 2, 1987, p. 733.
  6. ↑ All works based on the epochs of his work, Der Junge Goethe 1757–1775, Ed. Gerhard Sauder, Münchner Ausgabe, Vol. 2, 1987, p. 734.
  7. ↑ see bridge man (Dresden) , called Matz-Fotze
  8. ^ Goethe's works. [Hamburg edition in 14 volumes.] Ed. By Erich Trunz. Vol. 10: Autobiographical writings 2. Hamburg: Wegner-Verlag 1959, pp. 123–125.
  9. ^ Goethe's works, Christian Wegner Verlag Hamburg, 1959, Volume X: Tag- und Jahreshefte, p. 430.
  10. ↑ All works based on the epochs of his work, Der Junge Goethe 1757–1775, Ed. Gerhard Sauder, Münchner Ausgabe, Vol. 2, 1987, p. 734.

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