Fairy tale almanac for the year 1828

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The fairy tale almanac for 1828 is the last of three collections from Hauffsch's fairy tales . It was published by Franckh in Stuttgart in 1827 and contains four articles, the best known of which is The Cold Heart . These are connected by a frame story called Das Wirtshaus im Spessart . The full title of the first edition is fairy tale almanac for sons and daughters of the educated classes for the year 1828.

The two predecessors are the fairy tale almanacs for the year 1826 and the year 1827 .

Content, structure and interpretation

Note: Unless otherwise stated, the information on content and structure refer to W. Hauff's works, Vol. IV: Märchen-Almanach, Ed. Max Mendheim, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig and Vienna 1891–1909

Beginning of the frame story, LibriVox 2012

The framework narrative Das Wirtshaus im Spessart contains four embedded contributions: Four travelers tell each other stories at night in an inn in the Spessart so as not to fall asleep because they fear a gang of robbers will attack. A blacksmith tells the saga of the Hirschgulden , a student the fairy tale The Cold Heart , a hunter the fairy tale of Said's fates and a goldsmith the saga The Cave of Steenfoll . The inn is actually attacked at midnight, but the robbers are not targeting her, but a countess who is also present. The travelers manage to thwart the kidnapping through cunning, in which the young goldsmith Felix has the greatest part. He is richly rewarded when it turns out that the Countess is his unknown godmother. In contrast to the volumes on the years 1826 and 1827 , the framework plot is no longer in a fairytale-like Orient, but in southern Germany - in the Spessart - three of the four internal narratives also have their settings in the West (two in Germany - Black Forest and Württemberg - , one in Scotland) and only one in the Orient. However, Hauff also lets this frame narrative play in a distant past and thus creates distance.

In Die Sage vom Hirschgulden , Hauff uses a Württemberg local legend . It is a sample story that demonstrates that selfishness and greed harm people: the vicious brothers Wolf - and Schalk von Zollern speculate on the death of their good-natured half-brother Kuno, with whom they have to share their inheritance. When he actually dies young, he bequeaths only a tiny amount of money to his brothers (a deer guilder). He sells most of his remaining property to Württemberg for a deer guilder, and the family jewelry is used to finance a poor house.

The fairy tale The Cold Heart is the most famous contribution in the volume. In it poor coalmunk Peter is indefinitely longing, dissatisfied and angry, without first knowing why. Finally he realizes that it is his lower class: “A black, lonely charcoal burner!” He said to himself, “it is a miserable life. The glass men, the watchmakers, even the musicians on Sunday evenings are highly regarded! ”The romantic longing in the loneliness of the forest turns into the bourgeois dream of social advancement, even if this brings a cold heart. Only later does he realize that this price is too high and he is content with a simple but decent life again.

Said in Said's Fate sets out on a pilgrimage to Mecca at the age of 18. He is carrying a silver whistle that is a fairy gift. He doesn't know that he won't be able to use this talisman until he's twenty years old. So he first falls into the hands of robbers and then has to serve the stingy, scheming merchant Kalum-Beck in Baghdad . Although the fairy godmother helps him and he also saves the lives of the caliphs and the grand vizier , he is banished to a “desert island” because of a false oath Kalum-Becks. During the voyage, however, he completed his twentieth year and when the ship sank, he inserted the talisman and returned to Baghdad. Now everything is turned around: Kalum-Beck's false oath becomes evident and Said is amply rewarded. The figure of Kalum-Beck as a duped and punished miser corresponds roughly to that of Thiuli-Kos in Fatme's Salvation .

The Steenfoll Cave is an adaptation of a myth about the two fishermen Wilm Falke and Kaspar Strumpf : Wilm Falke is not satisfied with his modest prosperity and goes on a treasure hunt after an unexpected gold find. Finally he receives the prospect of exploiting a shipwreck laden with gold, which, however, requires an elaborate evocation . His lazy companion Kaspar tries to stop him at first, but finally gives in and helps him. The magic works and Wilm finds the shipwreck in the cave of Steenfoll, but dies trying to lift the treasure. His desperate companion dies soon after. Dieter Bartetzko writes in a review of the fairy tale that Hauff was concerned with more than just warning against greed: “That Hauff also warned against the greatest obsession , that of loving, only teaches life experience. Kaspar Strumpf and Wilm Falke are identified as a couple in which the truism that of two usually only one really loves and is therefore destined to lose, proves their cruel truth. "

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  • Wilhelm Hauff: fairy tale almanac for sons and daughters of educated classes to the year 1828. Stuttgart at Gebrüder Franckh. 1827
  • W. Hauffs Werke, Vol. IV: Fairy Tale Almanach, Ed. Max Mendheim, Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig and Vienna 1891–1909

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ W. Hauffs Werke, Vol. IV: Märchen-Almanach, Ed. Max Mendheim (Scans on Wikimedia Commons)
  2. ^ Stefan Neuhaus: The game with the reader. Wilhelm Hauff: Work and Effect. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002 pp. 125–127
  3. ^ Rüdiger Steinlein: Comedy and fantasy in Hauff's children's literary work in: Wilhelm Hauff or The Virtuosity of Imagination, pp. 207–208
  4. ^ W. Hauffs Werke, Vol. IV: Märchen-Almanach, Ed. Max Mendheim, p. 145
  5. ↑ Peter von Matt: Wilhelm Hauff or the path to clarity in: Wilhelm Hauff or The virtuosity of imagination, pp. 34–35
  6. ^ Rüdiger Steinlein: Comedy and fantasy in Hauff's children's literary work in: Wilhelm Hauff or The Virtuosity of Imagination, p. 207
  7. ↑ Dieter Bartetzko: Carmilhan: "Die Höhle von Steenfoll" in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 7, 2005, No. 285, page 37 ( online )

Web links

Wikisource: Fairy tale almanac for the year 1828  - sources and full texts