Lion bride
The bride of the lion is a tragic legend about the friendship between the beautiful daughter of the keeper of the menagerie and the great lion . The lion bride found its way into literature and music several times.
history
According to an assumption that can no longer be verified with regard to its justification, the lion cage in the menagerie in the Neugebau Castle is said to have been the scene of the tragic legend that is the basis of Adelbert von Chamisso's ballad "The Lion's Bride" from 1827.
As a child, the daughter of a keeper is said to have been on such familiar terms with the gem of the menagerie, a huge Berber lion , that the little girl was always a playmate in the cage of the lion, who patiently accepted all the whims of the child and was obedient as one Lap dog. But the little girl became a big beautiful one who was to marry; it seems an unloved man. But her duties as a bride often kept her away from her childhood trusted friend for a long time, which may have put him in an irritable mood, because neglect worries every male Leo. "Adorned with the myrtle and the bridal jewelery" she steps into the cage on the morning of the wedding, which the four-footed worshiper is very pleased about and eats out of his hand. But the bells ring, she is called and she wants to move away - the lion does not admit it, "she threatens, she commands, she desires, - but he denies her the exit." The bridegroom's appearance makes matters even worse ; the latter calls for rifles, the lion roars like only a jealous man ever, which one cannot blame him in this situation. But when the bride still wants to force the exit, he stretches the delicate body to the ground with a powerful blow of his paw and then lies down next to the bloody corpse, waiting for the fatal bullet, silently mourning.
Cultural influence
The legend shares certain themes with the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast .
Robert Schumann set Chamisso's Lion Bride to music in 1840 as part of the Drei Gesänge nach Adelbert von Chamisso op. 31, in which she is No. 1, and thus helped her to maintain its popularity. In addition, the poem by Chamisso was set to music by Wendelin Weißheimer in 1880 as a concert ballad for voice and orchestra (or piano).
The Lion's Bride is a film by Max Obal with the participation of Lyda Salmonova and Karl Hasselmann , which was made in 1914. Max Dreyer wrote the novel of the same name in 1943 and Hans Peter Treichler wrote a book in 2003.
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Eduard Schimmer (Ed.): Old and New Vienna: History of the Austrian Imperial City . A. Hartleben's Verlag, Vienna 1904 ( Old and New Vienna: History of the Austrian Imperial City in the Google Book Search USA ).
- ↑ Hildegard Pezolt: Legends from Austria . Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna 1950, p. 33-34 .
- ↑ The Lion Bride, in: The most beautiful sagas from Austria . P. 69
- ↑ rororo music manual in 2 volumes . Reinbek near Hamburg 1973; Volume 2, p. 615
Web links
- Different versions of the saga on tell.at