Peter Lebrecht. A story without adventures

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Ludwig Tieck
* 1773; † 1853

Peter Lebrecht. A story without adventurousness is a story in two parts by Ludwig Tieck , which was published by Carl August Nicolai in Leipzig and Berlin in 1795/96.

Mr. von Bührau, alias Peter Lebrecht, tells stories from his life. The narrator is unsure of the reader's dearest interest.

action

Raised by foster parents in the village, taught by Father Boniface from the neighboring monastery, Peter attained university entrance qualifications and studied law, languages ​​and philosophy at a Catholic university. On the recommendation of one of his professors, Peter gets a position as Hofmeister in the house of the President von Blumbach. There he brings up the two sons of the president and gets to know and love Miss Louise Wertheim, the educator of the daughter of the house. Herr von Bärenklau stands in the way of happiness - with older "rights" on the beautiful young lady. But Peter has the president on his side and achieved his goal. He and Louise are married. Unfortunately, Peter dances too often with female guests at his wedding. Meanwhile, the bride has suddenly disappeared. And was no longer seen.

While searching for the missing wife, Peter happens to meet his foster mother and is put into the picture by her. He is the son of a wealthy, noble monk and a nun. Peter's birth mother had given birth to twins at the time. The twin sister was given to another foster mother.

With the support of the President, Peter comes into possession of his goods, but sells them immediately and becomes wealthy. Years after the wedding, Peter finds Hannchen, "a simple girl", daughter of the tenant Martin, on a wandering tour in the forest.

And Peter tells of another “strange meeting”. He meets Louise, now the mother of a five-year-old boy. The bride kidnapped von Bärenklau on that unhappy wedding evening and lives with her. The surprises never end. Louise is Peter's sister. So Peter married Hannchen. The couple lives in the village in the house of the tenant Martin. Eventually Hannchen becomes pregnant.

reflection

The narrator knows his reader inside out. He knows exactly how quickly he can “get hold of his unwillingness”. So Peter takes care not to interrupt his “true story” all too often with “reflections”, but he can't help it. Peter knows what he wants: “Show the people in action” - that's what it should be. The second part of the narrative lacks this. So Peter ponders: Should he also let Hannchen "suddenly disappear"? No, rather the narrator wants to show the "people and their way of thinking more", even if it will be even less popular with the reader.

So the second part is fundamentally different from the first - nothing hair-raising happens anymore. The everyday and contemplative dominate. So Peter takes part in the funeral of a poor farmer and weeps at the grave in place of the bereaved son. No tear came to this relative. Peter works as a writer; works on a manuscript "Folk Tales" and finds a critic in the father-in-law.

The second part does not go completely without the obligatory mishaps. Peter quickly introduces the great stranger, a poet, whose deceit ends the innocent literary critic father-in-law in jail. Peter promises to tell about the liberation from the dungeon hole in the third part. However, Tieck did not publish it.

After all, Peter can boast a certain degree of success as a freelance writer: His narrative work is banned in Vienna, and a baron wants Peter to write his family history. Of course it would have to be written in such a way that it would be banned in Vienna. Peter gives a negative notification.

Classes

  • Peter Lebrecht defines people as “poor, reduced and disabled angels”.
  • Peter divides people into "three main classes".
1. The "restless heads".
2. Second grade people are born with ideas. But they do not criticize these ideas.
3. The third grade people are the readers.

Self-testimony

  • Tieck got the material from a French "little book".

reception

  • "The transformation of the everyday into a poetic truth is an aesthetic process that has remained alive as an alienation of reality since Romanticism".
  • The “literary politician” Lebrecht opens up the old to the reader by making the “ordinary foreign”. Tieck is hiding behind Lebrecht's “self-irony”.
  • The narrative is “the examination of the empty literary conventions of contemporaries”.
  • The "discourse" with the reader is more important to Tieck than the plot.
  • "Lebrechts foolish normality: ... He is the legitimate child of a monk and a nun".
  • "The literary satirical tendency of Lebrecht " is held up to the end.

literature

source
  • Marianne Thalmann (Ed.): Ludwig Tieck: Peter Lebrecht. A story without adventures . Pp. 73–189 in: Ludwig Tieck, works in four volumes; based on the text of the writings from 1828–1854, taking into account the first prints. Volume I: Early Stories and Novels. Winkler Verlag Munich 1963 (1978 edition). 1045 pages. Thin print, leather, head gold cut, ISBN 3-538-05711-7
expenditure
Secondary literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source, p. 1015, 11. Zvu
  2. ↑ Source, p. 1036, 2nd Zvu
  3. ^ Source, p. 155, 10. Zvu
  4. ↑ Source, pp. 162-163
  5. ↑ Source, p. 1015, 10th Zvu
  6. ↑ Thalmann in the source, p. 1002, 12. Zvo
  7. ↑ Schulz, p. 384, 5. Zvo
  8. ↑ Schulz, p. 254, 20th Zvu
  9. ↑ Schulz, p. 383, 20th Zvu
  10. ^ Paulin, p. 34, 8. Zvu
  11. ↑ Ribbat, S. 65, 14 ZVO
  12. ↑ Ribbat, page 68, 8 ZVO
  13. ↑ Ribbat, pp 71, 21 ZVO