The Rhineland family friend

This article deals with the folk calendar published from 1807 to 1834. For the calendar published from 1881 see Hebels Rheinländischer Hausfreund .

The Rhineland House Friend was a folk calendar published in Baden from 1807 to 1834 with the participation of Johann Peter Hebel .

After the Badische Landkalender, published since 1750 by the illustrious grammar school in Karlsruhe for the Lutheran subjects of the margrave of Baden, had increasing sales difficulties, the theologian and poet Johann Peter Hebel (1760-1826) was asked by the President of the Upper Church Authority Friedrich Brauer, his patron, in 1802 to work on this calendar. From 1803 on, Hebel made numerous contributions to the “Baden Country Calendar ” and, in 1806, provided the consistory with an unsolicited report on a more advantageous arrangement of the calendar . Lever's proposal was accepted, and he himself was appointed editor of the calendar, which appeared from 1807 (until 1834) under the new name "Der Rheinländische Hausfreund".

As a result, Johann Peter Hebel developed the calendar stories into a new exemplary narrative form of world renown. In 1811, Hebel himself published a selection of the most interesting calendar stories from 1803–1811 under the title Treasure Chest of the Rhenish House Friend . Further editions followed in 1816 and 1827.

In 1815, due to denominational disputes over his story “Der pious Council” (1814), Hebel resigned from editing the calendar, but made contributions to the “Rhineland House Friend” until the end of his life, albeit to a lesser extent than before.

literature

• Wilhelm Altwegg: Johann Peter Hebel . Frauenfeld and Leipzig: Huber 1935
• Wilhelm Zentner: Johann Peter Hebels Works [in three volumes]. Vol. II: Stories and essays by the Rhineland family friend. Karlsruhe: CF Müller undated [1922/23]
• Friedrich Voit: From the 'country calendar' to the 'Rhineland house friend' Johann Peter Hebels. On the south-west German calendar system in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Frankfurt: Peter Lang 1994

Web links

• Johann Peter Hebels Calendar Stories
• Calendar stories by Johann Peter Hebel (audio)

Individual evidence

1. ^ W. Zentner: Johann Peter Hebels Works [in three volumes]. Vol. II: Stories and essays by the Rhineland family friend. Karlsruhe: CF Müller n.d. [1922/23], pp. 3-10.