Master Awl
Master Pfriem is a fairy tale ( ATU 801, 1248, 1180). It is in the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm from the 5th edition of 1843 instead of 178 (KHM 178), appeared shortly before in Caesar Albano Kletkes Berlin paperback and is based on master awl. Easter fairy tales in The most beautiful children's fairy tales from 1837.
content
The unsightly and hectic cobbler master Pfriem is a know-it-all and rebukes everyone: a girl whom he pushes the bucket of water out of his hand, his journeymen, wife and maids when they light a fire or talk while washing. When a house is being built, he tries to explain his craft to the carpenter, but throws the ax away to tell a farmer not to harness young horses to a heavy wagon. Back in the workshop, he yells at the apprentice about a bad shoe and overlooks the fact that he made it himself.
At night he dreams that he has died and that he cannot blame anything in heaven. He also controls himself when two people carry a beam across, others pour water into a holey barrel. But then angels harness horses in front of and behind a wagon that is stuck in a hole. He scolds and before he wakes up he sees that the horses are flying with the cart. But he thinks it is a waste to give horses wings. He is happy to be still alive so that the house can be checked.
origin
The source mentions Grimm's note as Master Pfriem. Easter fair. in The Most Beautiful Kindermahrchen , Latest Children's Library Vol. 2 , Hildburghausen 1827 (probably by Joseph Meyer ) and compares the fairy tale forest by L. Wiese, Barmen 1841 (both go back to Hans Pfriem , No. 13 in Ludwig Aurbacher's Volksbüchlein , 1827). They tell in detail a comedy from the 16th century by Martin Hayneccius , which appeared as Hans Pfriem or Meister Kecks . It is more elaborate on the point that Awl protects himself from being cast out of heaven by denouncing all the saints of their own sins. Here he is a carter (see saying: swearing like a cart driver ). The Grimms think that the awl goes well with the shoemaker's trade (cf. KHM 107 The Two Wanderers ). They compare KHM 35 The Tailor in Heaven , KHM 81 Brother Lustig and KHM 82 De Spielhansl , who tend to stay in heaven through wit (KHM 167 The Peasant in Heaven describes the arrival of a pious man).
The descriptive descriptions of the first half of the text come from Wilhelm Grimm. He also adorned the dream with Pfriems monologues, explaining the beam as having one in the eye while he was looking for the splinter in the eyes of others ( Mt 7.3 ; Lk 6:41 : Of the splinter and the beam ) Bucking barrels as making rain and the cart as the carriage of pious wishes. At the beginning of the draft there is only an example of his criticism of carpenters, laundresses and coachmen, after waking up only the moral: And now, what do you think, dear listeners, what can be learned from the story of Hans Pfriem ? The figure of the awl similar Tale of Cluricaune in Grimm Irish Elfenmärchen no. 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 .
The oldest version of the celestial vision described is in the Vita of Saint Arsenius , which was written down around 800: He sees a negro who wants to pick up an unbearable load of wood and is still adding it, a man who scoops water into a perforated vessel, two riders, who want to carry a beam across a gate. Arsenius interprets the three images as an unrepentant sin, again the sin of the convert and pride. In the Middle Ages, the material was received in many ways as a Schwank . The wooden burden is also reminiscent of Sisyphus , and the drawing of water of the Danaids from Greek mythology .
interpretation
The Schwank caricatures an obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (see also KHM 185 The Poor Boy in the Grave ). Eugen Drewermann interprets this as an attempt to compensate someone who has been physically stigmatized from an early age. He seeks redemption through performance, hence the hidden sympathy for the workhorse horse, until he finds the freer sphere of the winged horses.
reception
Schustermeister Pfriem appears in Wilhelm Busch's poem Querkopf in 1904 :
- Later he came to Master Pfriem.
- He showed him honestly and told him
- However in vain what his duty:
- He was supposed to cobble and didn't want to.
literature
Primary literature
- Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 726-730. Düsseldorf and Zurich, 19th edition 1999. (Artemis & Winkler Verlag; Patmos Verlag; ISBN 3-538-06943-3 )
- Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Last hand edition with the original notes by the Brothers Grimm. With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin, not published in all editions, published by Heinz Rölleke. Volume 3: Original Notes, Guarantees of Origin, Afterword. Pp. 261–263, p. 509. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
Secondary literature
- Rölleke, Heinz (Ed.): Grimm's fairy tales and their sources. The literary models of the Grimm fairy tales are presented synoptically and commented on. 2., verb. Edition, Trier 2004. pp. 346–353, 576. (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier; series of literature studies, vol. 35; ISBN 3-88476-717-8 )
- Uther, Hans-Jörg: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Berlin 2008. pp. 367-369. (de Gruyter; ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )
- Uther, Hans-Jörg: Master Pfriem. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 9. pp. 506-508. Berlin, New York, 1999.
- Ranke, Kurt: Arsenius. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 1. pp. 827-828. Berlin, New York, 1977.
interpretation
- Drewermann, Eugen: Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let your hair down. Grimm's fairy tales interpreted in terms of depth psychology. 8th edition 2004, Munich. Pp. 229-251. (dtv-Verlag; ISBN 3-423-35056-3 )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rölleke, Heinz (ed.): Grimm's fairy tales and their sources. The literary models of the Grimm fairy tales are presented synoptically and commented on. 2., verb. Edition, Trier 2004. pp. 346–353, 576. (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier; series of literature studies, vol. 35; ISBN 3-88476-717-8 )