In the wreath

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In the victory wreath is a historical story by Wilhelm Raabe , which was written from April 20 to June 17, 1866 and published in 1869 by Eduard Hallberger in Stuttgart. In 1866 the text was printed in the magazine "Über Land und Meer" with the same publisher. Raabe saw reprints in 1871, 1896, 1901 and 1903.

It tells an episode from the Wars of Liberation in what is now Lower Saxony and North Hesse . After the beloved dies for the fatherland, the bride loses her mind and dies a year later.

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In 1866, the grandmother told the granddaughter a story that went back over fifty years. Born in 1801, the grandmother saw how her stepsister Ludowike lost her groom in 1813. That was around the time when Napoleon's Kingdom of Westphalia was coming to an end. As early as March 1813, the Russians had temporarily moved into Hamburg for two months . Ludowike's groom, Lieutenant Wilhelm Kupfermann, commands a squadron of hussars in the French garrison . When the Marwitz riders " approached" from the Harz Mountains , the lieutenant and his men rode towards them. He wants to ally with the liberators. Ludowike, the tall, proud bride, had sent her bridegroom “into death for the fatherland” of her own free will. Because the lieutenant's plan fails. A German police commissioner by Napoleon's grace leads Lieutenant Kupfermann in chains. The prisoner is sentenced and executed in Kassel .

Ludowike does not get over the blow of fate. She woke up from her mental illness , into which she fell, only on Ascension Day in 1814, "one minute before her death". Before that, the Napoleonic troops are chased from soil on the right bank of the Rhine. The inspector gets his just punishment. Ludowike has been locked in the family home on medical advice for a long time. When on that Ascension Day everyone - with the exception of the then young narrator - left the house for the victory celebration, Ludowike called the narrator by name. Although the father forbade the narrator to free her stepsister, she unlocks the dungeon. Ludowike escapes from her gloomy prison into the blossom maize. The narrator finds the exhausted woman in the garden under the bushes. Ludowike does not attack the narrator, but holds the sister tightly and dies.

reception

  • According to Ehrhart, Raabe processed two fates - that of a wife von Hayn and that of the Westphalian lieutenant Kupfermann, who is said to have ridden from Wolfenbüttel out of Prussia with his hussars in early 1813 .
  • Based on Raabe's saying: "Life is always behind you", Neumann, when discussing the story, starts with the writing concept of this author: Raabe always looks back, even if he seems to be lingering in the time that is just running - here in 1866 .
  • Meyen names ten editions and lists 21 reviews from the years 1870 to 1970.

expenditure

First edition

Used edition

  • In the wreath. Narration . With an afterword by Georg Ehrhart. 62 pages. Reclam Stuttgart 1953 ( RUB 7576)

Further editions

literature

  • Friedrich Neumann : Experienced history in Raabe's story “Im Siegeskranze”. P. 108–120 in: Hans Oppermann (Ed.): Yearbook of the Raabe Society 1962. Karl-Hoppe -Festschrift. 207 pages. Orphanage printing house Braunschweig 1962.
  • Fritz Meyen : Wilhelm Raabe. Bibliography. 438 pages. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1973 (2nd edition). Supplementary volume 1, ISBN 3-525-20144-3 in Karl Hoppe (Ed.): Wilhelm Raabe. Complete Works. Braunschweig edition . 24 vols.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ehrhart in the afterword of the edition used, p. 61, 2nd Zvo
  2. ^ Oppermann in Braunschweig edition 9.2, pp. 470–471
  3. ↑ Edition used, pp. 61–62
  4. ^ Neumann, p. 108
  5. ↑ Meyen, pp. 99-100
  6. ↑ Meyen, pp. 353-355