Klara's mother

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Klara's mother is a short story by Tankred Dorst , published in 1978 and filmed by the author for WDR in the same year . Bekes writes: "It is the story of three people and how they lose each other."

Relations

The story of Klara Falk, her mother and the Polish unemployed Kupka from the novel “ Dorothea Merz ” is being updated. Dorothea Merz, who actually became Klara's girlfriend in the novel, does not appear in the story any more than the other members of the Merz family of manufacturers. The worker Gebhard - a communist - is only mentioned.

Anyone who has read the above-mentioned novel could perhaps read the story like a crime thriller and, in the middle of reading, “find” the culprit in Frau Falk's death: That would be Kupka. Mrs. Falk had made several loud reproaches to Kupka for his poaching (see below). In addition, the gravel pit owner Kößwaldt - a bad communist hater - would be suspect.

time and place

The action runs from summer 1932 to early April 1933 in the fictional southern Thuringian town of Grünitz.

The action takes place in the border region between Thuringia and Upper Franconia . On the one hand one reads the newspaper "Fränkische Presse" on site and on the other hand the seat of the highest school authority is in the Thuringian capital Weimar . Regarding the topology: the Dreiherrenstein and Föritz are mentioned .

action

Mrs. Falk, Klara's mother, inherited the house from her widowed uncle. The falks dry mushrooms, herbs and fruit in the former dance hall of this largest house in Grünitz. Klara's mother had met the carpenter Herbert Kupka, who appeared out of nowhere, two years before the start of the action in Switzerland. The mother's like-minded soldier, a soldier on the side of the Germans in World War I , looked in vain for work in the few larger companies in the Grünitz area. Kupka builds a wooden hut on the bottom of the falcons and catches a few rabbits with a noose every week in the nearby forest. He sells the booty to a local butcher. The local gendarme never has evidence of poaching.

Kupka sleeps with Mrs. Falk, eighteen years her senior. The young teacher Klara, who had previously lived with her mother in much the same way as in a marriage, is against the mother's new connection and suddenly asks the strange question about her biological father. The daughter receives vague information from the embarrassed mother. There is talk of a middle-class family who might be based near Basel .

Apparently school children watched Kupka and Klara's mother making love in the forest.

Klara is being led by the nose by young lads from Grünitz: her alleged rendezvous with Kupka, about which Kupka knows nothing, turns out to be a bad joke.

In the Reichstag elections in March 1933 , the NSDAP was the big winner in Grünitz. A little later, Kupka received a written summons from the authorities, which he did not obey. The Pole was never seen again. Communists are arrested in the district town. Allegedly they had set up weapons caches.

Klara's mother writes the daughter a farewell letter and rides off on her bike in the direction of Bavaria . Klara happened to observe her mother disappearing in the morning mist. Days later, the mother's body is recovered from the Grünitzer Bach. In Grünitz, some suspect that Klara's mother was pushed into the water by Kupka out of greed for money and the others want to know that SA people were the perpetrators.

shape

The beginning of the time of National Socialism in the German provinces is modeled credibly. The rather strict restriction on illuminating the triangular relationship Klara - Kupka - Frau Falk makes the text legible (fortunately, the distracting jumble has been omitted).

reception

  • see under "Weblinks"

filming

In the above-mentioned TV film by Tankred Dorst, Katharina Tüschen played Mrs. Falk, Elisabeth Schwarz her daughter Klara, Marius Müller-Westernhagen played Kupka and Dieter Kirchlechner played Erich Merz. A photo of the shooting in 1976 in the Franconian Forest can be found in Bekes, p. 53. Back then, the GDR did not allow shooting on its territory (Sonneberg and the surrounding area). It had to be switched to Franconia .

literature

Used edition

Secondary literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edition used, p. 613, 5th Zvo
  2. ↑ Bekes, caption on p. 53
  3. ↑ see also Dorothea Merz
  4. ↑ Bekes, p. 58, above