Plisch and Plum

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Oh, there they stand in the middle of the sweet cream without shame

Plisch and Plum is the title of a picture story by Wilhelm Busch from 1882 about two naughty young dogs named Plisch and Plum who are supposed to be drowned by old Kaspar Schlich. Two boys, Paul and Peter, save the dogs and take them home. Plisch and Plum commit a number of bold pranks.

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After the rescue of the two dogs, the mischievous and gleeful sneak remains an observer and comments on their pranks at the end of each chapter:

"Is fatal!" Remarked Schlich.
"Hehe! But not for me."

This saying stands like a leitmotif or refrain at the end of the 3rd, 4th and 5th chapters, until it overtakes the glee in Chapter 6:

"Most fatal!" Remarked Schlich.
"But this time for me too!"

After the two boys have trained the dogs, they retrieve the perspective and hat of a Mister Pief from the water in the final chapter . He is so taken with the dogs that he buys them from the father of the two boys. The father's farewell verses are:

"So, Plisch and Plum, you two,
Farewell, we have to part
Oh, at this point here
Where the four of us a year ago
In such a painfully sweet hour
We united in a beautiful covenant;
Live happily and without need,
Beefsteak be your daily bread! "

Schlich once again comments on the event:

Crept who also came over
Perceived all of this.
Foreign happiness is too difficult for him.
“Nice to meet you!” He mumbles.
"But unfortunately not for me!"
Suddenly he feels a stitch ...

The sneak "gets a cramp of soul from envy", falls backwards into the water and dies of his envy.

Schiller and Strauss

In January 1967, Der Spiegel published a glossy article by Felix Rexhausen . In it he addressed the close cooperation between the then Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss ( CSU ) and the then Economics Minister Karl Schiller ( SPD ) in the Kiesinger cabinet during the grand coalition under Federal Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger . Rexhausen compared Strauss and Schiller with Plisch and Plum, which are drawn in correspondingly opposing shapes: one squat, the other gaunt. The nicknames Plisch (for Schiller) and Plum (for Strauss) quickly became popular.

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  • Wilhelm Busch: Plisch and Plum. In: Rolf Hochhuth (Ed.): Wilhelm Busch, Complete Works and a selection of the sketches and paintings in two volumes. Volume 2: What is popular is also allowed. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1959, pp. 442–495.

Web links

Wikiquote: Plisch and Plum  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas C. Knigge: To be continued . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-548-36523-X , p. 20
  2. ↑ a b Der Spiegel 6/1967: Plisch and Plum
  3. ^ Felix Rexhausen: Revocation . In: Der Spiegel from July 17, 1967.