Jorinde (Paul Heyse)

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Jorinde is a novella by the German Nobel Prize winner for literature Paul Heyse from 1875.

Jorinde takes revenge on her uncle, Colonel Haslach and his sons Georg and Walter, for the injustice that the Haslachs suffered from her late mother Franziska Bauer from Freiburg during her lifetime.

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Mademoiselle Jorinde la Haine - impoverished child of German parents, traveled from France - to the astonishment of the people of Augsburg , moves into a decaying house that has long been uninhabited in the middle of an overgrown garden. Young Augsburg gentlemen buzz like moths around the high walled garden of the beautiful Jorinde. Nobody is let in through the usually locked, heavy iron gate.

The first victim of the strange witch, as Jorinde will soon be called by the Augsburgers, is a young businessman who is around the 30-year-old Augsburg company owner Georg Haslach. Jorinde rejects the man in love with her with a cold laugh: she would rather take that lame beggar as a husband who fetches his cruiser every day at the gate. Mr. Georg Haslach climbs over the garden wall at night and is found poisoned on the threshold of Jorinde's home the next morning. The young, marriageable women from Augsburg would have liked it if the witch had been expelled from the city. Unfortunately, an interrogation and an investigation by the Augsburg judicial office reveal that Jorinde is completely innocent. The beautiful mademoiselle is allowed to stay.

The dead man's father, a colonel in Austrian service in the Linz garrison , traveled to the funeral with his son, Captain Walter Haslach. Walter Haslach falls in love with the beautiful Jorinde during the week of mourning - much to the surprise of his father. The lucky one is allowed to cross the threshold of the house as the first man.

When Walter got engaged to Jorinde, the colonel went to see the bride. Jorinde pours the visitor pure wine: she invented her name Jorinde la Haine. The mother, Franziska Bauer, had entered the house of the colonel's parents as a maid. Jorinde is a child from the secret marriage with the colonel’s brother. At the Colonel's instigation, the marriage was dissolved and the mother resigned with money. In her exile in Grenoble , her mother had to endure humiliation, lost her money in a bankruptcy and - crippled by a lintel - finally died. Jorinde's father had married a second time. The marriage had no further children until his death.

Walter wants to make up for Jorinde what a Haslach, i.e. his uncle, has committed against his mother, i.e. Franziska Bauer. Walter wants to leave Augsburg with his bride. When he wanted to pick up Jorinde that night as agreed, he mistakenly mistook his father - who wanted to prevent his son's impending marriage - on the wall of the little house in the dark for one of the countless Augsburg rivals and stabbed him with the sword.

Two days later, Walter is found not far from Jorinde's property with his skull shattered in the bushes. His gun is next to him. Jorinde, who presumably fled, was never seen again.

reception

literature

expenditure

  • Jorinde pp. 146-184 in: Paul Heyse: Andrea Delfin and other novels . bb series No. 167. 213 pages. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1966 (1st edition) - Edition used

Secondary literature

  • Peter Sprengel : History of German-Language Literature 1870–1900. From the founding of the empire to the turn of the century. Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-44104-1

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sprengel, p. 366 below