Kashtanka

Kashtanka ( Russian Каштанка ) is an animal story by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov , which was published on December 25, 1887 in the St. Petersburg newspaper Novoje wremja . A translation into German by Wladimir Czumikow was published by Diederichs in Leipzig in 1901 .

Illustration for Kashtanka
by Dmitri Kardowski in 1903

action

The fox-red bitch Kashtanka, "a cross between a dachshund and a farmer's dog ", ca n't stand the noise of the band . When her master, the carpenter Luka Aleksandrytsch, takes her on a day's march to the customers through the whole city, she runs away in front of the din of a military band.

Mr. George picks up Kashtanka. The scared bitch is fed better by her new master than by the occasionally drunk carpenter Luka Aleksandrytsch, but the animal is taught for hours every day. For example, together with the pig Khavronja Ivanovna, the cat Fyodor Timofeitsch and the gander Ivan Ivanytsch, a fictional character called the Egyptian pyramid is being rehearsed.

Kashtanka's circus performance described at the end of the story fails. Fedyushka, the carpenter's son, calls down from the gallery: “Papa, that's Kashtanka!” The little bitch can no longer be held, climbs the gallery and happily accompanies her old master Luka Aleksandrytsch home.

Film adaptations

• 1926, Soviet Union : Kashtanka , black and white film by Olga Ivanovna Preobrazhenskaya,
• 1952, Soviet Union: Kashtanka , animated film (30 min) by Michail Zechanowski , made in the Moscow animation studio ,
• 1975, Soviet Union: Kashtanka , a film by Roman Balajan ,
• 2004, Russia : Kashtanka , animated film by Natalja Olawa .

reception

• April 30, 2003, Gisela Reller: A small dog and an Egyptian pyramid
• January 13, 2005, Klaus Doderer in Die Zeit : Thomas Mann recommends

German-language editions

• Kashtanka. Narrative. Drawings by D. Kardovsky. Translated from the Russian by N. Ludwig. 70 pages. SWA-Verlag , Berlin 1949
• Kashtanka and other children's stories. Selected and translated by Peter Urban . With drawings by Tatjana Hauptmann . 156 pages, Diogenes Verlag , Zurich 2004, ISBN 978-3-257-01107-4

Used edition

• Kashtanka . P. 25–56 in AP Chekhov: Master narratives. German by Reinhold Trautmann . 431 pages (also contains: The oysters. The death of the official . A well-known gentleman. Vanyka . In old age. Sorrow . The funeral mass . Gussew. In exile . The lady with the dog . Jonych . Herzchen . The student . The black monk . the farmers . A case from practice . the gooseberries . In the gorge . the story of the head gardener ). Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung , Leipzig 1953 (edition 1961, 27 pages, foreword by JF and RM), without ISBN

Web links

Commons : Kashtanka  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• The text
  • online in the Gutenberg-DE project
  • Каштанка (Чехов) (Russian)
  • online at author-chehov.ru (Russian)
  • online in FEB (Russian)
  • online at litmir.co (Russian)
  • online in the Komarow library (Russian)
• Chekhov Bibliography, Entry Stories No. 518 (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Russian Преображенская, Ольга Ивановна
2. ↑ Russian Каштанка (мультфильм, 1952)
3. ↑ engl. Kashtanka 1952 in the IMDb
4. ↑ Russian Балаян, Роман Гургенович
5. ↑ Russian Каштанка (мультфильм, 2004)
6. ↑ Russian Орлова, Наталья Вячеславовна
7. ↑ Russian Kashtanka entry at animator.ru
8. ↑ References to reviews at perlentaucher.de

Remarks

1. ↑ The animals stand on top of each other - just like with the Bremen Town Musicians .
2. ^ The SWA publishing house in Berlin was a publishing house of the Soviet military administration in Germany .