Mr. Korbes

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Mr. Korbes is an animal lover ( ATU 210). In the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm, it is at number 41 (KHM 41).

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A chicken and a chicken travel in a cart with red wheels pulled by four little mice. They pick up a cat, a millstone, an egg, a duck, a pin and a sewing needle along the way. You occupy Mr. Korbes' house. When he comes home, the cat throws ashes at him, the duck with water, the egg clogs his eyes, the needles stab him in the buttocks and head, the millstone kills him. From the 6th edition (1850) it closes the fairy tale with the remark: Herr Korbes must have been a very bad man.

origin

Grimm's comment makes a note of the origin from the Main areas (by Jeanette Hassenpflug ), but also in Hesse (by Lisette Wild ), and compares it with KHM 10 The rascals . The verse of the Hessian variant reads:

the car purrs,
the mouse whistles,
the rooster that shakes his beard,
the thing has a good way.

The final sentence, Mr. Korbes was angry, was added from the 6th edition of 1850 and is apparently intended to explain the absurd plot. The Brothers Grimm declared Mr. Korbes to the English translator Edgar Taylor as a child fright like Butzemann or Knecht Ruprecht .

reception

In Janosch's interpretation, Mr. Korbes dances with a beautiful hen and invites her to a cake. She brings her groom, the rooster, and on the way invites her cat, dog, car tires, the elephant Seifried, boots and pitchforks. When they get to Mr. Korbes', they eat their fill of the cake. In return, Mr. Korbes wants to kiss the hen because nothing is free. Then everyone beats Mr. Korbes horribly together. An illustrated book was also published, which was also shown on TV in Janosch's dream hour (episode 20). The final sentence added in 1850, Mr. Korbes was angry, used Tankred Dorst as the starting point for his drama Korbes, which premiered in 1988 . Furthermore, Mr. Korbes Friedrich Dürrenmatt served as a model for the figure of the author in the radio play Abendstunde in late autumn 1956.

literature

  • Brothers Grimm: Children's and Household Tales . Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke . Pp. 243-244. Düsseldorf and Zurich, 19th edition 1999. (Artemis & Winkler Verlag; Patmos Verlag; ISBN 3-538-06943-3 )
  • Brothers Grimm: Children's and Household Tales . Last hand edition with the original notes by the Brothers Grimm. With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin, not published in all editions, published by Heinz Rölleke. Volume 3: Original Notes, Guarantees of Origin, Afterword. Pp. 81, 459-460. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
  • Hans-Jörg Uther : Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 100-101.

Web links

Wikisource: Mr. Korbes  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Jörg Uther: Handbook on the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm. de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 100-101.
  2. ↑ Janosch: Mr. Korbes. In: Janosch tells Grimm's fairy tale. Fifty selected fairy tales, retold for today's children. With drawings by Janosch. 8th edition. Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim and Basel 1983, ISBN 3-407-80213-7 , pp. 133-135.