Father Brown

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Father Brown (in the English original Father Brown ) is a literary figure who was invented by Gilbert Keith Chesterton .

The use of the salutation “ Pater ”, which is common in the German-speaking area, especially known from the film adaptations with Heinz Rühmann, is actually a linguistically incorrect translation, since in German only religious priests are addressed in this way. Brown is a secular priest who is pastor of a parish. In the English-speaking world, however, the secular priests are also addressed as "Father".

Chesterton's stories

Forty-nine stories by Chesterton about Father Brown appeared between 1910 and 1935, first in magazines and then summarized in the following five volumes:

1. 1911 Father Brown's simplicity (The Innocence of Father Brown)

1. The Blue Cross
2. The Secret Garden
3. The Queer Feet
4. The Flying Stars
5. The Invisible Man
6. The Honor of Israel Gow
7. The Wrong Shape
8. The Sins of Prince Saradine
9. The Hammer of God
10. The Eye of Apollo
11. The Sign of the Broken Sword
12. The Three Tools of Death

2. 1914 Father Brown's Wisdom (The Wisdom of Father Brown)

1. The Absence of Mr Glass
2. The Paradise of Thieves
3. The duel of Dr. Hirsch (The Duel of Dr Hirsch)
4. The Man in the Passage
5. The Mistake of the Machine
6. The Head of Caesar
7. The Purple Wig
8. The Perishing of the Pendragons
9. The God of the Gongs
10. The Salad of Colonel Cray
11. The Strange Crime of John Boulnois
12. The Fairy Tale of Father Brown

3. 1926 Father Brown's Incredulity of Father Brown

1. The Resurrection of Father Brown
2. The Arrow of Heaven
3. The Oracle of the Dog
4. The Miracle of Moon Crescent
5. The Curse of the Golden Cross
6. The Dagger with Wings
7. The Doom of the Darnaways
8. The Ghost of Gideon Wise

4. 1927 Father Brown's Secret (The Secret of Father Brown)

1. The Secret of Father Brown
2. The Mirror of the Magistrate
3. The Man With Two Beards
4. The Song of the Flying Fish
5. The Actor and the Alibi
6. The Vanishing of Vaudrey
7. The Worst Crime in the World
8. The Red Moon of Meru
9. The Chief Mourner of Marne
10. The Secret of Flambeau

5. 1935 Father Brown's Scandal (The Scandal of Father Brown)

1.Father Brown's Scandal (The Scandal of Father Brown)
2. The Quick One
3. The Blast of the Book
4. The Green Man
5. The Pursuit of Mr Blue
6. The Crime of the Communist
7. The Point of a Pin
8. The Insoluble Problem

The date 1929 is also found for “The Scandal Of Father Brown”. The source for this is the English “Penguin Crime Fiction” series, published in the 1970s by Julian Symons . The Chesterton biographer John Sullivan, however, indicates 1935, which also agrees with the first appearance dates of the stories in various magazines between 1932 and 1935.

As further stories there is the two-part frame narrative in volume 4 and “The Donnington Affair”, the plot of which was written by Sir Max Pemberton in 1914 and then presented to Father Brown, alias GK Chesterton, for a solution.

The German titles of the books differ with different translators and from publisher to publisher. German translators of the stories included Clarisse Meitner , Norbert Miller and Alfred P. Zeller. A translation by Hanswilhelm Haefs , written very close to the English original, was published in five volumes from 1991 by Haffmans Verlag in Zurich . For the first time, this edition contained all 50 Father Brown stories with the exception of "Father Brown and the Midas Mask", which was only published in 2004 in a translation by Carl Koch into German. Here, too, the retention of the English form of address Father introduced by Haefs has been adopted.

Characteristic of the figure

Father Brown is an English Catholic pastor who has a hobby of solving criminal cases. He succeeds in doing this by putting himself in the shoes of the perpetrator and thereby committing the crime himself , as he says. As a clergyman, however, he is less interested in delivering criminals to earthly justice (similar to Chesterton's literary figure Horne Fisher ) than he wants to lead them to God; a voluntary confession by the perpetrator is sufficient for him. It does not matter to him which office this person holds.

It is difficult to derive an exact description and biography of Father Brown from Chesterton's stories. His first name begins with a "J" ( Apollo's eye ); he is described as short and stocky, with a large head. "His hat surrounded his round face like a halo." (In: The Judge's Mirror ). His eyes are gray ( the hammer of God ). Father Brown has few relatives: a sister and a niece, Elizabeth "Betty" Fane ( World's Worst Crime ). He grew up in Essex ( The Village Vampire ) and studied in Oxford at (fictional) Mandeville College ( The Crime of the Communist ). He worked as a chaplain for a while in a Chicago prison ( The Machine's Flaw ). Apparently, Brown has held several pastoral posts over the years, including:

  • the parish "Cobhole" in Essex ( The God of the Gongs, etc.)
  • the London parish of St. Dominic ( The Judge's Garden, etc.)
  • the small village "Bohun Beacon" ( The Hammer of God )
  • Scarborough ( The Absence of Mr. Glass )

He also served as a missionary in South America ( The Resurrection of Father Brown ).

Most of the stories take place in England, but some in other countries as well:

  • USA ( The Machine's Fault, The Arrow From The Sky)
  • an unspecified country on the north coast of South America ( The Resurrection of Father Brown )
  • France ( The Hidden Garden , The Duel of Dr. Hirsch )
  • Italy ( Thieves' Paradise )
  • Mexico ( Father Brown's scandal )
  • Germany (in "Heiligwaldenstein" in Father Brown's fairy tale / Pater Brown's fairy tale ).

Both in his worldview and in his outward appearance, Father Brown is a contrast to Arthur Conan Doyle's detective figure of Sherlock Holmes . In contrast to Holmes, Father Brown solves his cases not as a brilliant thinker and methodologist, but as a priest who acts on behalf of God . Therefore he sees in the criminal primarily a sinful person, in whom he can empathize and for whom he shows understanding. As a confessor and pastor in impoverished communities, he knows the entanglements of people and uses this knowledge, combined with his pronounced intuition, to solve criminal cases. Unlike the Holmes stories, most of which were written by Dr. Watson , Holmes' friend and adlatus, are presented as a first- person narration, the Father Brown stories are told by an authorial narrator .

While Chesterton initially used his Father Brown stories to propagate his worldview in an embedded form, it later became an end in itself. The initially astute and witty form of the narrative gives way to massive religious propaganda over time. If Catholics are suspected at the beginning of the later stories, Puritans or atheists turn out to be the real culprits or villains in the end. Their motives also often reveal the deadly sins of the Catholic Church. Accordingly, Father Brown does not primarily solve crimes, but exposes the sinful man. Consequently, he seldom surrenders the criminal to earthly jurisdiction, but leaves them to the punishment of God, who, however, is not a puritan god of vengeance, but rather a god of grace and mercy.

Accordingly, the master criminal Hercule Flambeau ( The Wrong Form ) is also converted by Father Brown. The former trick thief becomes a private detective and Brown's only friend, who henceforth supports the priest detective as an assistant. Flambeau, whose real name is Duroc, eventually retires in a castle in Spain.

Chesterton's fictional character of Father Brown had a real- life role model: Father John O'Connor of St. Custherberts, Bradford . He was the pastor who directed Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism; Chesterton dedicated Volume 4 of his stories to him ( The Secret of Father Brown ). However, O'Connor's more extensive criminalistic skills have not been passed down.

Film adaptations

The first film adaptation of the stories by Gilbert Keith Chesterton was made in 1934 with Walter Connolly in the title role. Directed by Edward Sedgwick . Another film adaptation was made in Great Britain in 1954. Robert Hamer shot the film Father Brown (Eng .: The Strange Paths of Father Brown ) based on the story "The Blue Cross". Alec Guinness played the main role , the score was written by Georges Auric . This version is generally considered to be the most successful of the numerous film adaptations.

In 1960, Helmut Ashley shot the successful film The Black Sheep in Germany with Heinz Rühmann as Father Brown . In 1962 the sequel He can’t leave it was directed by Axel von Ambesser, also with Heinz Rühmann. The German composer Martin Böttcher wrote the music for both films . In these films, "Father Brown" is an Irish clergyman. His criminalistic successes regularly annoy his ecclesiastical superiors - which does not happen at Chesterton, but which has a decisive influence on the further German reception.

The German-French-Italian co-production The Adventures of Cardinal Braun (again with Heinz Rühmann, this time in color), published in 1968 , was no longer based on Chesterton's original.

From 1966 to 1972 German television showed a television series Pater Brown , with Josef Meinrad in the leading role. The following information can be found on the cover of the double DVD:
“Father Brown. The series produced in Austria 1966-72 with Josef Meinrad as 'Pater Brown' adheres closely to the crime stories of the English author GK Chesterton. The English Catholic priest Brown solves mysterious criminal cases with a forensic instinct - but this does not arouse much enthusiasm among his superiors. He is assisted by Guido Wieland as Inspector Smith (and of course by God). Father Brown's method is to empathize with the perpetrator by mentally committing the crime. When convicting the perpetrators, he is less concerned with earthly justice than with leading them to God. Unfortunately, only part of the episode Salad for the Colonel has survived. This was included as an extra. "

In 1974 followed a 13-part British television series with Kenneth More .

1979 turned John Llewellyn Moxey an American television film Father Brown can not bluff (Sanctuary of Fear) , which the minister of England in the Manhattan offset the present and a case in the manner of his Perry Mason can be solved. The story is not based on any literary originals from Chestertons.

The German television series Pfarrer Braun , started in 2003, is loosely based on the character of Father Brown. In the first of the cases, the Bavarian pastor Guido Braun solves a murder on the fictional island of Nordersand . Brown is portrayed by Ottfried Fischer . Composer Martin Böttcher was commissioned to compose a theme melody for this series that is thematically based on that of the two films with Heinz Rühmann.

The British television broadcaster BBC has been producing a crime series about Father Brown since summer 2012 . The television series Father Brown has been shown on BBC One since January 2013 in eight seasons with a total of 90 episodes. All episodes have been dubbed in German and are also available on DVD. They have been broadcast on ZDFneo since April 2014 . Mark Williams can be seen in the title role .

media

Film music

  • "Kriminalfilmmusik von Martin Böttcher" - BSC 307.6518.2 (soundtrack from the two movies with Heinz Rühmann)
  • "The Film Music of Georges Auric" - CHAN 9774 (also contains a Father Brown suite from the film by Robert Hamer)
  • "Pastor Braun and others ..." Colosseum - CST 8092.2 (music from the TV series with Ottfried Fischer)

DVD

  • The Black Sheep (1960)
  • He Can't Leave It (1962)
  • The Adventures of Cardinal Braun (1967)
  • Father Brown . Double DVD set: The "first two" seasons (12 episodes), ARD. (1966). Black-and-white. Extra: Episode 11 (fragment)

Audio book

  • “The simplicity of Father Brown / The Invisible Man”, 1 CD, Litraton - ISBN 3-89469-507-2
  • "Father Brown and the Curse of the Golden Cross", 1 CD, Universal - ISBN 3-8291-1128-2

Unabridged readings based on the new translations by Hanswilhem Haefs (Speaker: Michael Schwarzmaier ):

  • "Father Browns Einfalt, Vol. 1", 2 CDs, 2010, cc-live, distribution: steinbach speaking books - ISBN 978-3-86974-010-2
  1. The blue cross
  2. The hidden garden
  3. The strange steps
  • "Father Browns Einfalt, Vol. 2", 2 CDs, 2010, cc-live, distribution: steinbach speaking books - ISBN 978-3-86974-016-4
  1. The fleeting stars
  2. The invisible man
  3. The honor of Israel Gow
  • "Father Browns Einfalt, Vol. 3", 2 CDs, 2010, cc-live, distribution: steinbach speaking books - ISBN 978-3-86974-026-3
  1. The wrong shape
  2. The sins of Prince Saradine
  3. The hammer of god
  • "Father Browns Einfalt, Vol. 4", 2 CDs, 2010, cc-live, distribution: steinbach speaking books - ISBN 978-3-86974-027-0
  1. Apollo's eye
  2. The mark of the broken saber
  3. The three tools of death
  • "Father Browns Wisdom, Vol. 1", 2 CDs, 2010, cc-live, distribution: steinbach speaking books - ISBN 978-3-86974-050-8
  1. The absence of Mr. Glass
  2. The thief's paradise
  3. The duel of Dr. deer
  • "Father Browns Wisdom, Vol. 2", 2 CDs, 2010, cc-live, distribution: steinbach speaking books - ISBN 978-3-86974-051-5
  1. The man in the passage
  2. The fault of the machine
  3. Caesar's head
  • "Father Browns Wisdom, Vol. 3", 2 CDs, 2010, cc-live, distribution: steinbach speaking books - ISBN 978-3-86974-052-2
  1. The purple wig
  2. The sinking of the Pendragons
  3. The god of the gongs
  • "Father Browns Wisdom, Vol. 4", 2 CDs, 2010, cc-live, distribution: steinbach speaking books - ISBN 978-3-86974-053-9
  1. Colonel Cray's salad
  2. The peculiar crime of John Boulnois
  3. Father Brown's fairy tale
  • "Father Brown's Incredibility, Vol. 1", 2 CDs, 2011, cc-live, distribution: steinbach speaking books - ISBN 978-3-86974-073-7
  1. The resurrection of Father Brown
  2. The arrow from the sky
  • "Father Brown's Incredibility, Vol. 2", 2 CDs, 2011, cc-live, distribution: steinbach speaking books - ISBN 978-3-86974-074-4
  1. The oracle of the dog
  2. The miracle of Moon Crescent
  • "Father Browns Unbeliefigkeit, Vol. 3", 2 CDs, 2011, cc-live, distribution: steinbach speaking books - ISBN 978-3-86974-075-1
  1. The curse of the golden cross
  2. The winged dagger
  • "Father Browns Unbeliefigkeit, Vol. 4", 2 CDs, 2011, cc-live, distribution: steinbach speaking books - ISBN 978-3-86974-076-8
  1. The doom of the Darnaways
  2. The ghost of Gideon Wise
  • "Father Brown's Secret, Vol. 1", 2 CDs, 2011, cc-live, distribution: steinbach speaking books - ISBN 978-3-942416-86-3
  1. Father Brown's secret
  2. The judge's mirror
  3. The man with two beards
  • “Father Brown's Secret, Vol. 2”, 2 CDs, 2011, cc-live, distribution: steinbach speaking books - ISBN 978-3-942416-87-0
  1. The song of the flying fish
  2. The actress and the alibi
  • "Father Brown's Secret, Vol. 3", 2 CDs, 2011, cc-live, distribution: steinbach speaking books - ISBN 978-3-942416-88-7
  1. The disappearance of Vaudrey
  2. Worst crime in the world
  • "Father Brown's Secret, Vol. 4", 2 CDs, 2011, cc-live, distribution: steinbach speaking books - ISBN 978-3-942416-89-4
  1. The red moon of Meru
  2. The lament of the Marquis of Marne
  3. Flambeau's secret
  • "Father Browns Scandal, Vol. 1", 2 CDs, 2012, cc-live, distribution: steinbach speaking books - ISBN 978-3-942416-94-8
  1. Father Brown's scandal
  2. The fast one
  3. The curse of the book
  • "Father Browns Scandal, Vol. 2", 2 CDs, 2012, cc-live, distribution: steinbach speaking books - ISBN 978-3-942416-95-5
  1. The green man
  2. The pursuit of Mr. Blue
  3. The communist's crime
  • "Father Browns Scandal, Vol. 3", 2 CDs, 2012, cc-live, distribution: steinbach speaking books - ISBN 978-3-942416-96-2
  1. The point of a needle
  2. The unsolvable problem
  • "Father Browns Scandal, Vol. 4", 2 CDs, 2012, cc-live, distribution: steinbach speaking books - ISBN 978-3-942416-97-9
  1. The village vampire
  2. The Donnington Affair

radio play

In addition to individual radio plays based on Pater Brown stories, the following series were produced:

  1. The shattered mirror
  2. Vaudrey's disappearance
  3. The song to the flying fish
  4. The worst of all crimes
  5. The actress's alibi
  6. The red moon of Meru
  7. The man with the two beards
  1. The hammer of god
  2. The winged dagger
  3. The canine oracle
  1. The secret garden
  2. The invisible
  3. The honor of Israel Gow
  4. The thief's paradise
  5. Caesar's head
  6. Vaudrey's disappearance
  7. Worst crime in the world
  8. The point of a needle

(The radio plays were released on CD in bookshops.)

  1. The Secret in the Garden (2004)
  2. The Hammer of God (2005)
  3. The Flying Stars (2005)
  4. The three tools of death (2006)
  5. The Eye of Apollo (2006)
  6. The Sins of Prince Saradin (2006)
  7. Thieves' Paradise (2007)
  8. The Wrong Shape (2007)
  9. The Man in the Corridor (2007)
  10. The duel of Dr. Deer (2007)
  11. The head of Caesar (2008)
  12. The Honor of Israel Gow (2008)
  13. The Ghost of Gideon Wise (2008)
  14. The Doom of the Daraways (2008)
  15. Strange Steps (2008)
  16. The fault in the machine (2008)
  17. The Curse of the Pendragons (2008)
  18. The winged dagger (2009)
  19. An arrow from the sky (2009)
  20. The God of the Gong (2009)
  21. The Fairy Tale of Father Brown (2009)
  22. The Purple Wig (2009)
  23. The mark of the broken saber (2010)
  24. Father Brown's Resurrection (2010)
  25. Cheerful Parish Festival (2010)
  26. The Deadly Eucharist (2010)
  27. Penelope (2010)
  28. The corpse in the ditch (2011)
  29. Father Brown on Vacation (2011)
  30. Rough Seas (2011)
  31. The Bloodstone Legend (2011)
  32. The Gambler and the Girl (2011)
  33. The Kiss of Death (2011)
  34. The Castle of Living Shadows (2011)
  35. Riddles About Milena (2011)
  36. Diamond Express (2011)
  37. Safe only in prison (2013)
  38. Where the Father Died (2013)
  39. The Kidnapping of Baby Rose (2013)
  40. The artist and his model (2013)
  41. Peeled from the Egg (2013)
  42. The Dead Heartbreaker (2013)
  43. The White Scorpion 1 (2014)
  44. The White Scorpio 2 - Meridian (2014)
  45. In the Eye of the Jaguar (2014)
  46. Signum Regis (2014)
  47. Astro Creep Deadly Signs (2014)
  48. The Crown of Ampur (2014)
  49. The executioner's meal (2016)
  50. The angel without wings (2016)
  51. The Snare of Death (2016)
  52. The Mystery of the Black Nun (2017)
  53. Proof of Innocence (2017)

(The radio plays were released on CD in bookshops.)

expenditure

The stories about Father Brown appeared in five collections put together by Chesterton's lifetime:

The Innocence of Father Brown (1911)
  • The Blue Cross (in: The Story-Teller, September 1910; as Valentin Follows a Curious Trail in: The Saturday Evening Post, 23 July 1910)
  • The Secret Garden (in: The Story-Teller, October 1910. (The Saturday Evening Post, September 3, 1910))
  • The Queer Feet (in: The Story-Teller, November 1910. (The Saturday Evening Post, October 1, 1910))
  • The Flying Stars (in: The Saturday Evening Post, May 20, 1911)
  • The Invisible Man (in: The Saturday Evening Post, January 28, 1911, also: Cassell's Magazine, Feb 1911)
  • The Honor of Israel Gow (as The Strange Justice in: The Saturday Evening Post, March 25, 1911)
  • The Wrong Shape (in: The Saturday Evening Post, December 10, 1910)
  • The Sins of Prince Saradine (in: The Saturday Evening Post, April 22, 1911)
  • The Hammer of God (as The Bolt from the Blue in: The Saturday Evening Post, November 5, 1910)
  • The Eye of Apollo (in: The Saturday Evening Post, February 25, 1911)
  • The Sign of the Broken Sword (in: The Saturday Evening Post, January 7, 1911)
  • The Three Tools of Death (in: The Saturday Evening Post, June 24, 1911)

German:

The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914)
  • The Absence of Mr Glass (in: McClure's Magazine, November 1912)
  • The Paradise of Thieves (in: McClure's Magazine, March 1913)
  • The Duel of Dr Hirsch
  • The Man in the Passage (in: McClure's Magazine, April 1913)
  • The mistake of the machine
  • The Head of Caesar (in: The Pall Mall Magazine, June 1913)
  • The Purple Wig (in: The Pall Mall Magazine, May 1913)
  • The Perishing of the Pendragons (in: The Pall Mall Magazine, June 1914)
  • The God of the Gongs
  • The Salad of Colonel Cray
  • The Strange Crime of John Boulnois (in: McClure's Magazine, February 1913)
  • The Fairy Tale of Father Brown

German:

The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926)
  • The Resurrection of Father Brown
  • The Arrow of Heaven (in: Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, July 1925)
  • The Oracle of the Dog (in: Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, December 1923)
  • The Miracle of Moon Crescent (in: Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, May 1924)
  • The Curse of the Golden Cross (in: Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, May 1925)
  • The Dagger with Wings (in: Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, February 1924)
  • The Doom of the Darnaways (in: Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, June 1925)
  • The Ghost of Gideon Wise (in: Cassell's Magazine, April 1926)

German:

The Secret of Father Brown (1927)
  • The Secret of Father Brown (frame story)
  • The Mirror of the Magistrate
  • The Man with Two Beards
  • The Song of the Flying Fish
  • The Actor and the Alibi
  • The Vanishing of Vaudrey (in: Harper's Magazine, October 1925)
  • The Worst Crime in the World
  • The Red Moon of Meru
  • The Chief Mourner of Marne (in: Harper's Magazine, May 1925)
  • The Secret of Flambeau (frame story)

German:

The Scandal of Father Brown (1935)
  • The Scandal of Father Brown (in: The Story-Teller, November 1933)
  • The Quick One (in: The Saturday Evening Post, November 25, 1933)
  • The Blast of the Book / The Five Fugitives (in: Liberty, August 26, 1933)
  • The Green Man (in: Ladies Home Journal, November 1930)
  • The Pursuit of Mr Blue
  • The Crime of the Communist (in: Collier's Weekly, July 14, 1934)
  • The Point of a Pin (in: The Saturday Evening Post, September 17, 1932)
  • The Insoluble Problem (in: The Story-Teller, March 1935)
  • The Vampire of the Village (in: Strand Magazine, August 1936; not in the first edition of the collection)

German:

  • Father Brown Scandal: Detective Stories. Translated by Kamilla Demmer. Herder library # 23, Freiburg i. Br. 1958, DNB 450775011 .
  • Father Brown's Scandal: Ten Stories. Translated by Hanswilhelm Haefs. Haffmans, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-251-20109-3 . New edition Haffmans, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-251-20294-4 . Reissued by Area Verlag, Erftstadt 2005, ISBN 3-89996-182-X . Newly published as a paperback by Suhrkamp / Insel Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-458-35062-0 .

Published outside of collections:

  • The Donnington Affair (in: The Premier, November 1914; with Max Pemberton)
  • The Mask of Midas (1936)
    • English: Father Brown and the Midas mask and other stories. Edited and introduced by Matthias Marx. Translated by Carl Koch. Verlag Nova and Vetera, Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-936741-17-4 .
Edited volumes and posthumous compilations
  • The Father Brown Stories (1929)
  • The Father Brown Omnibus (1933)
  • The Complete Father Brown (1943)
  • Father Brown: A Selection (1955)
    • English: Father Brown can't believe it: his best cases. Translated by Hanswilhelm Haefs. Brendow, Moers 2001, ISBN 3-87067-881-X .
  • The Father Brown Book (1959)
  • The Second Father Brown Book (1959)
  • The Collected Works of GK Chesterton: The Father Brown Stories (2005, 2 volumes)
  • The Early Father Brown (2010)

The above anthologies with Father Brown stories are a small selection from the very large number of such compilations, both in English and German. The collections are seldom complete, in particular the two outside of the 5 volumes compiled by Chesterton ( The Donnington Affair and The Mask of Midas ) are usually missing . The edition published in 2 volumes as part of the Collected Works 2005 is complete.

After the first edition by Haffmanns, the German translations by Hanswilhelm Haefs have been published by Area Verlag, Erftstadt, and as a paperback by Suhrkamp.

Other German translations:

  • The best Father Brown stories . Reclam, ISBN 3-379-01698-5 .
  • Father Brown and the World's Worst Crime. Diogenes, Zurich, ISBN 3-257-20733-6 .
  • The great Father Brown book . Knaur, ISBN 3-426-01222-7 (contains the stories from the books The Secret of Father Brown and The Thieves' Paradise ).

literature

  • Irmela Brender : About Father Brown . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-596-28234-9 (fictional biography).
  • Hanswilhelm Haefs : Editorial notes on the complete works of GK Chesterton . In: GK Chesterton: Father Brown's secret / scandal . area Verlag, Erftstadt 2005. ISBN 3-89996-182-X , pp. 457–637.
  • Hanswilhelm Haefs: Afterword . In: GK Chesterton: Father Brown's simplicity . island pocket book 3328. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 2008. ISBN 978-3-458-35028-6 , pp. 327-342.

Web links

Wikiquote: He can't help it  - quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Paul Gerhard Buchloh , Jens P. Becker: The detective novel. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2nd revised edition, ISBN 3-534-05379-6 , Darmstadt 1978, p. 66ff.
  2. ↑ This is an error on the part of the publisher. Inspector Smith was played by Ernst Fritz Fürbringer .
  3. ↑ ARD audio game database
  4. ^ Website of the Johannes D. Peters Archives
  5. ↑ HörDat - the audio game database
  6. ^ Audiobook publisher
  7. ↑ Maritime audio play label