Saint Thomas (novella)

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Sankt Thomas is a historical novella by Wilhelm Raabe that was written in the summer of 1865 and published in 1866 in the magazine “Freya. Illustrated sheets for the educated world ”was published by Moritz Hartmann in Stuttgart. Meyen names seven papers in which the novella was discussed. For example, Heinrich Stammler took a closer look at the play between irony and pathos in the text in 1968.

In the Braunschweig edition, Hoppe and Plischke cite two sources by Raabe: “ Friedrich Schiller's story of the defeat of the united Netherlands from the Spanish government . Continued by Carl Curths ” and the “ Braunschweigische and Lüneburgische Chronica ” . The edition of the Chronica from 1620 ( Heinrich Bünting and MH Meybaum) was in the Raab family's possession.

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In May 1595, the carriage of the young Spaniard Doña Camilla Drago, daughter of Colonel Don Alonzo Drago, was attacked by the Dutch in the diocese of Liège . The mounted Spanish cover flees. The girl is kidnapped to the county of Brabant . The young Spanish hostage is held captive in the house of Mynheers van der Does in The Hague .

Colonel Drago was killed in the Battle of Turnhout on January 24, 1597 . Doña Camilla was released in the spring of 1597. She grew up with Georg, a son of the van der Does family. Georg comes over from Scheveningen especially to say goodbye to the playmate .

The orphan is taken in by her uncle Don Franzisko Meneses in Pavaosa Castle on the island of Saint Thomas in the Gulf of Guinea . Don Franzisko, Spanish colonel, is the governor of Philip III there. .

Even on the equator, far away from the cool North Sea beach, Doña Camilla is not safe from the Dutch enemy. The "high and mighty General States" Send der Does his fleet against the Atlantic possessions of Spain in the battle on May 25, 1599 its Admiral Mynheer van. His nephew Georg van der Does fights in the Admiral's entourage. The Dutch land on St. Thomas. Colonel Don Franzisko holds the position against the hostile superiority. The siege of Pavaosa dragged on for weeks. When the city can no longer be held, Doña Camilla's uncle has all the riches that the Dutch want to loot destroyed and withdraws with the survivors to the castle. Furious, the enemy attacks again. The governor Don Francis falls. Admiral van der Does is killed by the Madorka, a tropical disease. Georg absolutely wants to take his childhood friend Camilla with him to the Netherlands, but is killed trying to rescue him. The girl leads the Spanish resistance in the end and is slain during the storm on the castle.

In the last chapter, “The Voices of Victory”, a “Negro girl” from the “indigenous black people” who fought on the side of the Dutch praises the victory. “She wore a crown of feathers, but also the torn, stained, scorched dress of a Spanish lady and a golden bracelet around her wrist, the masterpiece of a Cordovian goldsmith.” The preacher Heinrich Leflerus, who accompanied the Dutch fleet, speaks on the beach at Scheveningen a lament for the dead.

literature

expenditure

  • Saint Thomas. P. 651–704 in: Peter Goldammer (Ed.), Helmut Richter (Ed.): Wilhelm Raabe. Selected works in six volumes. Volume 1: The Chronicle of Sperlingsgasse . After the great war . Stories 1860–1870. 928 pages. Aufbau-Verlag Berlin and Weimar 1966 (text basis: Karl Hoppe (Hrsg.): The historical-critical Braunschweiger edition) (edition used)
  • Saint Thomas . Pp. 5-59. With an appendix, written by Karl Hoppe and Hans Plischke, pp. 405–421 in Karl Hoppe (arrangement), Hans Oppermann (arrangement), Constantin Bauer (arrangement), Hans Plischke (arrangement): Erzählungen. Saint Thomas. The geese from Bützow . Theklas inheritance . Gedelock . In the wreath . The march home . The kingdom's crown . German moonlight . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1976. Vol. 9.2 (2nd edition, obtained by Karl Hoppe), ISBN 3-525-20120-6 in Hoppe (ed.), Jost Schillemeit (ed.), Hans Oppermann (ed.) , Kurt Schreinert (Ed.): Wilhelm Raabe. Complete Works. Braunschweig edition . 24 vols.
  • Wilhelm Raabe: Else from the fir tree . Saint Thomas. The last right. German moonlight . A visit - stories. Hermann Klemm publishing house, Berlin, no year. 319 pages
  • Wilhelm Raabe: Complete Works. First series: Volume 6: Three springs. The Rainbow. Seven stories. Pp. 289-344. Berlin-Grunewald: Hermann Klemm Publishing House, undated
  • Meyen cites three other editions: Goslar (1948), Van Goor, Gouda 1870 (in Dutch ) and Tiden, Stockholm 1960 (translator Irma Nordvang, in Swedish ).

Secondary literature

  • Fritz Meyen : Wilhelm Raabe. Bibliography. 438 pages. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1973 (2nd edition). Supplementary volume 1, ISBN 3-525-20144-3 in Karl Hoppe (Ed.): Wilhelm Raabe. Complete Works. Braunschweig edition . 24 vols.
  • Cecilia von Studnitz : Wilhelm Raabe. Writer. A biography. 346 pages. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-0778-6

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ von Studnitz, p. 311, entry 29
  2. ↑ Goldammer and Richter, p. 906 below
  3. ^ Raabe's draft of the story of February 9, 1865 and April 15, 1865 can be found in Goldammer and Richter on p. 904 bottom to p. 906 middle.
  4. ↑ Meyen, p. 371
  5. ^ Friedrich Schiller: History of the fall of the united Netherlands from the Spanish government . ( Full text online in the Gutenberg project)
  6. ↑ Braunschweigische and Lüneburgische Chronica , 4 vol., Magdeburg 1584–1585, vol. 1 , vol. 2 , vol. 3 , vol. 4 . (Digital copies of the Bavarian State Library)
  7. ↑ Hoppe and Plischke, Braunschweiger Edition, vol. 9.2, p. 407, 11th Zvu to p. 408, 6th Zvo
  8. ↑ In Raabes Quelle, Friedrich Schiller's story of the descent of the united Netherlands from the Spanish government , the castle is called "Pavoasa".
  9. ↑ Meyen, p. 116