My hometown Stavenhagen

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My hometown Stavenhagen is a novel by the German writer Fritz Reuter that appeared in 1856. It is the poet's first major prose work, which, in contrast to most of the later works, was not written in Low German but in High German.

content

Like many other works by Reuters, this first prose work is also autobiographical. The author describes his hometown Stavenhagen in Mecklenburg in a relaxed narrative tone , but describes everything worth mentioning about the place in connection with his own childhood. The result is a picture of the city as it may have been presented in the 1820s. Reuter regrets the changes that have happened since then. Many of the characters in the story come across again in the later Low German novels. Reuter's father was mayor of the city. Reuter later dedicated an appendix to him and an uncle who was councilor here.

meaning

My hometown of Stavenhagen is of interest because it was here that Reuter first discovered the form and content that characterized his later great Low German novels. This first book was still written in High German and appeared in 1856 in the Reuter newspaper for both Mecklenburg and Pomerania . His next novel, which appeared in 1859, again dealt with Reuter's childhood and his hometown, but now in Low German ( Ut de Franzosentid ). A relaxed conversation tone, humorous descriptions, anecdotal events and the author's humanistic, philanthropic attitude are already combined in the first work with a very precise and truthful description of the conditions in what was then rural Mecklenburg. This type of representation was retained later, only perfected and improved. In 1861 Meine Vaterstadt Stavenhagen appeared for the first time in its entirety in the Schurr-Murr Collection, adding one appendix .

expenditure

  • My hometown Stavenhagen , 1856; in: entertainment paper for both Mecklenburg and Pomerania
  • My hometown Stavenhagen , 1861; in: Schurr-Murr
  • Tides of life. The novels of memory . Langen-Müller, Munich 1976
  • Autobiographical novels (from the French times, my hometown Stavenhagen, from my fortress times). Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1978
  • My hometown Stavenhagen . Piper, Munich 1979
  • My hometown Stavenhagen . Reich, Rostock 1997, ISBN 3861670941

translation

  • Danish, Copenhagen 1873 (Translator: A. Schumacher)