Kaderl, the bad person
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Kaderl, the bad person is a short story by the Austrian writer Peter Rosegger that appeared in April (issue 7) 1893 in the Graz monthly Heimgarten .
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The story takes place in Styria and incidentally in the province of Salzburg . The Kaderl - an active, limping, little, old maid - has been serving at Lughütter for 37 years. Actually, the owner of that farmer's hut is Michael Hubinger. It was not without reason that the Lughütter sent his wife, the Lughütter, with their two small daughters on a pilgrimage to St. Thomas. So he can negotiate undisturbed in the Lughütte with an advertiser from St. Johann im Pongau . The Lughütter is in debt, but has put aside 230 guilders. That should be enough for his crossing to America .
The Lughütter had been of the firm opinion that his negotiations with the Pongau agent had remained his secret, but the kaderl, the evil person, had listened. The maid had also secretly observed the farmer when he had hidden his 230 guilders travel money in the Lughütte. In any case, before leaving for St. Johann, the Lughuetter accommodated his wife and children in the nearby Schöderwaldschlag forestry company.
What a pity! When the Lughütte cleared himself up for his American adventure in the way outlined above and wanted to leave, the money disappeared. Nevertheless, the farmer travels to the agreed meeting in St. Johann. Of course, the agent won't pick up a passenger without cash. The Knappensepp, an old schoolmate from Rauris , promises regular written reports from over there.
At home the creditors take everything from Lughütter, only they don't take the squad. The farmer has to hire himself out as a lumberjack with the forester in Schöderwaldschlag. In seven years of restless work, the farmer and his family clear the wilderness around a small, run-down property in the Schüttwald, which the Lughuetter can finally buy from the forester. How could that be possible? Quite simply: After those seven years of hardship, in which the farmer in the old world did what others do in the new, the squad snows in and presents a savings account in the name of Michael Hubinger. In it are the 230 guilders, meanwhile increased with interest and compound interest. The small, clever, nasty squad claims that they found the booklet with an account balance of over 300 guilders on the street. The loyal finder becomes the grandmaid of the Lughauser, as the Lughütter calls herself.
Social criticism
Rosegger advocates staying at home in Austria when he criticizes freedom made in the USA, as Austrian emigrants would have experienced during their hard work on the boggy banks of the Mississippi : “... in America no state and no cat cares about the individual. Everyone can perish as they want, that is freedom. "
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- 's bad squad . A story from the Alps. From PK Rosegger In: Heimgarten . tape 17 . Leykam, Graz 1893, p. 481-488 ( archive.org ).
- Kaderl, the bad person . In: Peter Rosegger: The book of novels. Third volume, L. Staackmann. Leipzig 1916, pp. 224-238 (edition used).
- Peter Rosegger: Kaderl, the bad person . In: Gerhard Schneider (Ed.): Stories from Austria. Franz Grillparzer, Adalbert Stifter, Karl Emil Franzos, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and others (from: Classics Library for German Youth). New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1963
- The story of the bad Kaderl . In: Peter Rosegger: Waldheimat. New stories . Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, Rosenheim 2017. ISBN 978-3-475-54675-4 .
annotation
- ↑ Perhaps Rosegger means St. Thomas am bladder stone .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edition used, p. 235, 13. Zvo