Ryno
Ryno is a story by the romantic Ludwig Tieck . It was written in 1791 and appeared in 1792 as the final chapter to Friedrich Eberhard Rambach's novel The Iron Mask, a Scottish story under the pseudonym Ottokar Sturm.
content
The condemned Ryno indulges in his terrible memories by torchlight and tells himself to be the greatest in evil. The darkness brings thoughts of death and he wishes that everything should pass with him. Harp tones bring back wistful childhood memories. Lightning, shadows and the screeching of owls are scary. He considers asking the lord of the castle, Carno, who survived his murder, for forgiveness, but would rather go through the world alone or with his own kind. The ghost of his former companion Dunkan leads him out of the castle, where the vision of Carno's happy life and death at the side of his beloved Malewina robs him of all hope.
style
Ludwig Tieck tells here exclusively in thoughts and ideas, from which circumstances and prehistory can also be understood. The fantasies are stimulated by light or noise from the environment and gradually turn into madness. Tieck later used this technique in other stories.
The names mentioned come from the then popular Ossian . Ryno's visions of death are reminiscent of Schiller's The Robbers , Shakespeare's Richard III and, in the emergence of the spirit, of Hamlet .
literature
- Ludwig Tieck: Early Stories and Novels . From: Ludwig Tieck, works in four volumes; based on the text of the writings from 1828-1854, taking into account the first prints, edited and provided with afterwords and comments by Marianne Thalmann. Volume I. Licensed edition of the German Book Association Stuttgart. Winkler Verlag Munich. Pp. 7-19, 1011-1012.