Life fible

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Jean Paul around 1797
* 1763 † 1825

The Life of Fibels is a novel by Jean Paul , written between 1806 and 1811 and published in 1812 by Joh. Leonhard Schrag in Nuremberg.

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Gotthelf fibula from Heiligengut was older than 125 years. The mother, Engeltrut, geb. Böpple, of common class, came from a village near Dresden. Siegwart, the father, was an old, tall, gaunt soldier, an invalid, who was mostly out and about in the nearby forest as a bird operator. “It's just the world”, the father dismisses the noise of all the people outside and otherwise usually remains silent. However, he can whistle to most birds. When old Siegwart dies, he leaves behind a little money that is just enough for the two modest survivors until Gotthelf's 15th birthday. The closet with the inheritance may only be opened on Gotthelf's 16th birthday. The widow Engeltrud does not want the son Vogler to be like the blessed father, but rector magnificuslike one of her grandfathers. Gotthelf wants to study. He borrows books from the pastor and wants to learn foreign languages.

The Studiosus loves the game master Drotta, a young, pretty girl, half orphan like him. Drotta lives with her father in a lonely hunter's house deep in the forest, not too far from Heiligengut. Once, when Gotthelf had visited the girl, she accompanied him for a while on the way home and pulled him out of the forest into the moonlight in the dark. The moon shines on Drotta, shows the love of her eyes and all the open roses on her face. They sink into their first kiss without knowing how.

When the closet was opened on Gotthelf's 16th birthday, the birthday child was lucky. Three hundred half sovereigns in gold make the wedding of the young couple possible. Studiosus Gotthelf hadn't been lazy in the meantime. He had diligently made a new ABC book for all children, including those from abroad, and provided each of the 24 letters with a little poem:

S s Sau - - S s Scepter .
The sow in the dung rolls a lot,
The scepter brings fame and honor.

With the inherited money, three copies of the primer are illustrated and printed. Gotthelf was first with two, then three active helpers. Finally the day comes. Gotthelf penetrates with his three copies hot off the press to his sovereign, Sr. Margravial Highness. The prince, a jolly old gentleman, approves the book, which is good anyway, and prescribes its circulation in all schools in the country. Book production is really getting started. The work of the "Buchdruckherrn Fibel" became a bookselling success across national borders. Orders from " Bavarian , Vogtland and Saxon cities" arrive.

The success rises to Gotthelf's head. He reprints other books with his name as the author. What's more, the Plagiarius lets his three employees lift him into the sky. A biographical academy is launched. Fibel is praised in academic lectures every Sunday: “Who is taller than Fibel?” Gotthelf plays the humble. He listens, but turns his back on the laudator.

Jean Paul, the first-person narrator, who has compiled Fibel's biography chapter by chapter, visits Fibel many years after these events in Bienenroda. The daylight is amazing. Fibel, now more than 125 years old, was born again at the age of "about a hundred years". That blind, vain primer who had made the almost mediocre abc-book had got out of bed with new teeth and new ideas.

Jean Paul describes the farewell to the 125 year old old man as follows: In the evening, wherever my path led, the morning sun built a rainbow with all colors into the early day, and the morning glowed with its only red one; and morning and evening, beginning and end, the colored gates of time and eternity stood open against one another, and both only led from heaven into heaven. I stood there until the old man sang out the last (twelfth) verse of his morning song:

Ready to close the barrel
On your hint, oh God!
And louder in conscience:
This is how death finds me. -

Then I slowly moved on my street.

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The first praise is often the best because it is sometimes the last.

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Sometimes Jean Paul explains the foreign words - e.g. B. he writes " Autodidaktos (self-taught)" and gives the best of incidents that do not belong to history - z. B. off to Leipzig's Rosental . Jean Paul has faithfully collected the chapters from Fibel's life as they were written by his eulogists (see above) and preserved them for posterity. Unfortunately the 16th chapter went under. Some references seem fictional. So have z. B. Family trees have nothing to do with Euler's work on differential and integral calculus .

reception

  • In 1832, Carlyle gave the greatest praise any critic could give. Gotthelf Fibel is one of the "living figures".
  • Gervinus hit the nail on the head in 1842. The text is also worth reading because “domestic and angular sense” is close to “powerful [thought] flight”.
  • In 1855 Gottschall compared the work with “ Luise ” by Voss and highlighted Jean Paul's imagination. In the same year, Julian Schmidt found that Jean Paul wanted to overcome the described conditions. Therefore, the critic becomes uncomfortable when he wants to enjoy the humor in the text.
  • In 1963, Minder certified profundity in the “Primer”.
  • In 1974 Friedrich Sengle ridiculed the “literary revolutionaries” in the FRG at that time and, on the other hand, preferred Jean Paul's “lowly placed antiheroes” such as Gotthelf Fibel as the better literary figures.
  • De Bruyn points to the “great break in style”. The idyll - that is Fibel's childhood, youth and ultimately its end - is interrupted by a parody - concerning the “man of success” of the “literary” Fibel.
  • The comic element is obvious. The "minor subject" (the ABC book) is negotiated academically.
  • This “primer with its inflated self-importance” is “a meaningless hollow head.” The “bad zeitgeist” has “deformed” the character.
  • Jean Paul parodies the Kant biographers , who have been busy publishing since 1804 .
  • Höllerer calls the primer a "late rebirth of pig ."
  • The "Bienrodische Abcbuch" really does exist. It appeared anonymously. The author is said to be Karl Werlich from Rudolstadt .
  • Vice-Rector Bienrod from Wernigerode actually wrote the primer.
  • This "parody of the poetic creation process" is "stronger in its parts than in the whole."

literature

source
  • Norbert Miller (Ed.): Jean Paul: Life Fibels, the author of the Bienrodische Fibel. in: Jean Paul: Complete Works. Section I. Sixth Volume. Pp. 365-562. Scientific Book Society Darmstadt. License edition 2000 (© Carl Hanser Munich Vienna 1962 (4th, corr. Edition 1987), ISBN 978-3-446-10757-1 ). 1389 pages. With notes in the appendix (pp. 1268–1284) and an afterword by Walter Höllerer (pp. 1329–1370), order number 14965-3
First edition
  • Jean Paul: Life of Fibels, the author of the Bienrodic Primer . Nuremberg, Schrag 1812.
expenditure
  • Jean Paul's works. Choice in six parts. (in 3 volumes). Reissued based on Hempel's edition with introductions and notes by Karl Freye. Berlin, Bong & Co. around 1908. Part 6: Life of Fibels
  • Johannes Bobrowski (Ed.): Jean Paul: Life Fibels, the author of the Bienrodische Fibel . With an afterword by the editor. Berlin, Union, 1963. Wood engravings: Hans-Joachim Walch. 283 pages
  • Jean Paul: Life of Fibels . Frankfurt, island. 245 pages. 1989, ISBN 3-458-32870-X
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annotation

  1. ↑ Vogler = bird catcher

Individual evidence

References to a citation are sometimes noted as (page, line from above).

  1. ↑ Wilpert
  2. ↑ Source (1361,5-7)
  3. ↑ Source (1268,36)
  4. ↑ Source (421.19) to (420.8)
  5. ↑ Source (434.17)
  6. ↑ Source (537.6)
  7. ↑ Source (546: 19-31)
  8. ↑ Source (458,19)
  9. ↑ Source (414.1)
  10. ↑ Source (415,36)
  11. ↑ Source (494.26)
  12. ↑ Thomas Carlyle in Sprengel, p. 124, 4. Zvo
  13. ↑ Georg Gottfried Gervinus in Sprengel, p. 158 above
  14. ↑ Rudolf Gottschall in Sprengel, p. 168, 2nd Zvu
  15. ↑ Julian Schmidt in Sprengel, p. 175 below
  16. ↑ Robert Minder in Sprengel, p. 292, 24. Zvo
  17. ↑ Friedrich Sengle in Sprengel, p. 315 above
  18. ↑ de Bruyn (313.10-36)
  19. ↑ de Bruyn (313.25)
  20. ↑ Ueding (172.34)
  21. ↑ Ueding (173.4)
  22. ↑ Ortheil (120,16)
  23. ↑ Höllerer in the source (1362.11)
  24. ↑ Source (1362,11)
  25. ↑ Schulz (358,31)
  26. ↑ Schulz (359.40)
  27. ↑ Schulz (360.4)