Rinaldo Rinaldini
Rinaldo Rinaldini is a literary figure from Christian August Vulpius ' novel Rinaldo Rinaldini, the robber captain , which appeared in three volumes in Leipzig in 1799 and has seen numerous new editions to the present day. It is considered the most successful German robber novel of the 19th century.
Origin background
Dainat ( see literature ) assumes that Friedrich Schiller's drama Die Räuber is the literary model for the material, while the character of Rinaldo himself may be related to real people like the brigands Angelo Duca or a T (h) om (m) aso Rinaldini is ajar.
character
Rinaldo lives in the Kingdom of Naples in the 18th century . He is the bandit of all bandits , daring, fearless and bold, the horror of the Apennines , but at the same time unusually passive:
“He only becomes active when he has to fight his way through a bunch of enemies surrounding him with courage and strength. But he also leaves this business to his mysterious friends and protectors the longer the longer. "
Despite his apparent freedom, his life is determined by the secret society of the old man from Fronteja . The old man is the leader of an organization that aims to liberate Corsica from French rule; he wants Rinaldo to take over the military leadership of the movement. But Rinaldo refuses; again and again his partly erotic passions break through and prevent him from becoming a hero, as planned by the old man from Fronteja. When Rinaldo is arrested by the king's soldiers, the old man shoots him to save him the shame of execution. In a continuation of the novel, Vulpius clarifies the origin of Rinaldo: He is the son of the old man of Fronteja, a nephew of the Sultan of Constantinople .
Reception of the novel
The novel had six editions by 1824. 1830 appeared in the literary journal the review by an unknown author to a successor novel by Moritz Richter : Nicanor, the old man of Fronteja. Continuation of the story of Rinaldo Rinaldini , which basically dealt with the disregard of the trivial novel in the German literary scene:
"There are obviously two kinds of literatures in Germany, a patrician and a plebeian ... Which of our great critics and literary historians has taken the trouble to pay attention to Rinaldini, and yet this novel has at least six editions and a whole legion of sister - and initiates daughter novels ... Now who has the privilege of being praised and not read, or who is read and not praised? Except for a few Schiller's tragedies, there is certainly no poetic work by the modernists that has been read as often as Rinaldini. "
Translations have appeared in French, English, Russian, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Polish and Hungarian. The figure found imitators in novels z. B. by Johann Ernst Daniel Bornschein ( Antonia della Roccini, the pirate queen , 1801), Concino Concini by Friedrich Bartels (1831) or Johann Friedrich Ernst Albrechts Dolko the Bandit. Contemporary of Rinaldo Rinaldini (1801).
A booklet series of novels appeared in 1908, details of which are not yet known. In the series Famous Robbers - All Countries , which was published in eleven editions by the Berlin-based Roman publishing house around 1905 , the first five volumes are about the hero: 1. Rinaldo Rinaldini. The leap from the gallows , 2. … The fight for the rule of the Apennines , 3. … Corsican blood revenge , 4. … The black knights of Calabria , 5. … Rinaldini's heroic death . In the follow-up series Famous Robbers of the World , which appeared in 31 volumes from 1909 to 1911 in the Dresdner Romanverlag , volume no. 5 is entitled Rinaldo Rinaldini .
Rinaldini is given as an example in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick .
Robert Walser alludes to the character Rinaldini in his posthumously published novel The Robber .
Adaptations
theatre
- August von Kotzebue : Rinaldo Rinaldini, the great robber captain in Calabria , a play in five acts, Düsseldorf 1820.
- André Kannstein : Rinaldo Rinaldini , a fairy tale comedy based on motifs by Chr. A. Vulpius, 2013. Gustav Kiepenheuer Bühnenvertrieb.
Movie and TV
- In 1927 Max Obal filmed the material under the title Rinaldo Rinaldini with Luciano Albertini in the leading role.
- In 1969, ARD produced the 13-part television series Rinaldo Rinaldini .
music
There is a folk song about Rinaldo Rinaldini that probably dates from the 19th century. In 1972 Renate Kern published the hit Rinaldo Rinaldini .
Web links
- Christian August Vulpius: Rinaldo Rinaldini, the robber chief - a romantic story of our century . Leipzig 1801 (digitized version of the Bavarian State Library).
- Christian August Vulpius: Rinaldo Rinaldini, the robber chief at: gutenberg.org
literature
- Curt Elwenspoek : Rinaldo Rinaldini the romantic robber prince. The true face of the mysterious robber “Don Juan”, revealed through initial research into sources (times and fates). South German Publishing house, Stuttgart 1927.
- Marianne Heinz: Content and structure of a television series of the advertising framework program illustrated using the example of "Rinaldo Rinaldini" . Dissertation, Philipps University, Marburg / Lahn 1973.
- Helmut Höfling : Heroes against the law. The big robber figures from Angelo Duca to Robin Hood . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-426-03607-X (EA Düsseldorf 1977).
- Peter Wanjek: Bibliography of the German booklet novels 1900–1945 . Self-published, Wilfersdorf 1993, p. 31f.
- Holger Dainat: Abaellino, Rinaldini and the like. On the history of robber novels in Germany (studies and texts on the social history of literature; 55). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1996. ISBN 3-484-35055-5 (also dissertation, Bielefeld University 1989)
- Fedor von Zobeltitz : "Rinaldo Rinaldini" and his contemporaries . In: Edmund Meyer (Hrsg.): The German novel around 1800. Family, knight and robber novels (Antiquarian book catalog No. 10). Antiquariat Meyer, Berlin 1908, pp. 5–22.
- Marion Beaujean : Rinaldo Rinaldini . In: Dies .: The trivial novel in the second half of the 18th century. The origins of the modern entertainment novel (treatises on art, music and literary studies; vol. 22), 2nd edition Bouvier, Bonn 1969, pp. 144–150.
- True story of the famous robber captain Rinaldo Rinaldini . In: Fliegende Blätter , Volume 1, 1845, Issue 2, pp. 14–15; Illustrated poem ( Wikisource ).