Shaft and hut
Schacht und Hütte , Volume 72 of Karl May 's Collected Works of the Karl May Verlag is an anthology with texts from the author's time as an editor at the publisher H. G. Münchmeyer .
History of origin
In 1875 the editor Otto Freitag left the Münchmeyer-Verlag, for which he wrote the magazine Der Beobachter an der Elbe . Had published entertainment papers for everyone and the night watchman on the Elbe .
Despite Karl May's recent prison sentence and the ongoing police supervision, the Münchmeyer brothers hired the then 33-year-old as the new editor. This brought his novella Wanda and the short story Der Gitano. An adventure among the Carlist (today in volume 48 The Magic Water ) as a separate contribution to the last edition of the Observer on the Elbe . Wanda was the first story to appear under his name, in Der Gitano May wrote for the first time in the "I" form.
At that time he had already finished the concept for a new magazine: Schacht und Hütte. Leaves for entertainment and instruction for miners, smelter and machine workers . In the first and only year published from September 1875 on, he published his geographic sermons , numerous popular science articles and statistics, some poems and moral treatises, along with many contributions by other authors .
As a second magazine he published the German Family Gazette, which also only had one year.
Euchar Albrecht Schmid did not find a complete copy of the long-lost magazine volume until 1916 and was able to publish the Geographical Sermons as a separate print in 1916, albeit with serious modifications. They later found a place in “Ich” (GW34) of the Collected Works ; from 1968 then in Schacht und Hütte (GW72), where they can still be found today, initially with the following works:
- The conscience (from Black Book , Münchmeyer-Verlag 1871–1874, May's authorship uncertain)
- Wanda (from The Observer on the Elbe , 1874/1875)
- The carnival jesters (from Deutsches Familienblatt , 1875)
- Collected essays (from Schacht und Hütte , 1875)
- Geographical sermons (from Schacht und Hütte , 1875/1876)
- Treasure trove father Abraham (from Schacht und Hütte , 1875/1876, from EvT)
- A catch (from celebration hours at the domestic flock , 1876)
The last two contributions were removed from the new edition of the volume in 1996.
If the editor Roland Schmid had originally assumed that the author's statement in Fundgrube Vater Abraham , EvT means "Ernst von Thal" (May's birthplace "Ernstthal"!), Manfred Hecker established without a doubt in 1969 that it was the author August Peters ( Pseudonym "Elfried von Taura").
The anonymous humoresque Ein Fang was long ascribed to Karl May as a literary settlement with the Ernstthal gendarme Frenzel. For stylistic reasons this has been questioned by the Karl May research and that is why the short story is no longer included in the new edition.
content
This anthology ( GW72 ) with essays and stories from Karl May's early days contains the following texts:
- The conscience
- Wanda
- The carnival jesters
- Universe - earth - human
- Treasures and treasure diggers
- With steam around the globe
- Defense of a misunderstood
- Pray and work!
- The heroes of steam
- A royal proletarian
- Man's will is his heaven
- Honesty is the best
- Remember death!
- About friendship
- Autumn thoughts
- House and family speeches 1
- House and family speeches 2
- A light donor
- With the steam horse
- A well-known one now
- The Suez Canal
- Geographic sermons
The conscience
Grunert and the rich forest farmer are courting the same girl; Grunert "wins". The forest farmer commits arson in revenge and later destroys Grunert and his brother-in-law - a poacher out of necessity - existence. He catches them both poaching and puts them in jail. After serving his sentence, Grunert remains honorable, while his brother-in-law sets fire to the forest farmer and suspects him to be the perpetrator (insurance fraud). Only at the trial is everyone's “conscience” troubled and the forest farmer's earlier malice are revealed.
If the story were by Karl May, it would be the earliest documented story and would have to have been written before his imprisonment in Waldheim. Hainer Plaul doubts May's authorship and justifies it with atypical elements (the conscience awakens without any external offense) and the mention of a "forest farmer" and other expressions that did not exist in May's homeland. Thomas Schwettmann, on the other hand, was convinced that Karl May must have written the text or at least knew it very well.
Wanda
Wanda von Chlowicki, the “wild Polish woman”, is the most sought-after girl in a small town in the Ore Mountains. The chimney sweep and poet Emil Winter can thwart an intrigue of her fiancé Baron Säumen, a banknote counterfeiter, who, out of financial hardship, either wants to force a marriage or bring about her death. All the bad guys - a corrupt police officer, a fake balloonist and even the baron himself - are killed and Winter becomes engaged to Wanda.
Clear echoes of the colportage novels May later wrote for Münchmeyer are already present in this novella. The scenes of rescue from mountain distress, a fire and a fatal fall that occur here are also recurring in May's later works. The second part of the story has such strong weaknesses that the authorship of May for this chapter is doubted by some literary scholars.
The carnival jesters
Heinrich Hahnemann and Louise (initially: Marie) Wadenbach love each other, but their father Wadenbach is against the connection. He argues with his father Hahnemann about the chairmanship of the "pointed hat club". The winner is the one who “fools” the other on Shrove Tuesday the most conspicuously. After all sorts of turmoil, Wadenbach is subject to, but can keep the chair when he agrees to the marriage of the children.
Geographic sermons
- Heaven and Earth
- Land and water
- Berg and Thal
- Forest and field
- Man and animal
- Electricity and road
- Urban and countryside
- House and yard
In the Geographical sermons that are didactic intentions Mays most clearly. They start from a very broad geographic term . What May intended was a “popular enlightenment” in the sense of Christian educators and writers of the 19th century such as Ludwig Aurbacher . In the eight sermons May combines religious, scientific, natural philosophical and entertaining elements.
literature
- Christian Heermann: Winnetou's blood brother. Karl May biography. Lothar and Bernhard Schmid (editors), Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg / Radebeul 2003, ISBN 3-7802-0161-5 .
- Wolfgang Hermesmeier / Stefan Schmatz: Development and expansion of the collected works. A success story for 110 years. In: Lothar and Bernhard Schmid (eds.): The polished diamond. Karl May's Collected Works. Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg / Radebeul 2003, ISBN 3-7802-0160-7 , p. 463/464.
- Hainer Plaul: Temporary editor. About Karl May's stay and activity from May 1874 to December 1877 . In: Yearbook of the Karl May Society 1977 (on the text itself pp. 132-137).
- Roland Schmid (ed.): Shaft and hut. Early works from Karl May's time as an editor. Volume 72, Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg 1968, ISBN 3-7802-0072-4 .
Web links
- The complete year on the website of the Karl May Society
- Entry in the Karl May Wiki (for the original journal)
- Entry at karl-may-buecher.de on the GW band
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the trial writing Ein Schundverlag (1905; online version ) May described the magazine Schacht und Hütte, which he designed in 1875 for miners, smelter, ironworkers and related subjects (p. 297), as one against unbelief and the aspirations of Social democracy oriented paper (p. 299; quoted by Hartmut Wörner: Gott, König und Vaterland. How and why Karl May shook the pillars of his worldview in his first great novel . In: Yearbook of the Karl May Society 2015, p. 141– 194, here p. 144).
- ^ Christian Heermann: Winnetou's blood brother. Karl May biography . Lothar and Bernhard Schmid (eds.), Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg / Radebeul 2003, ISBN 3-7802-0161-5 , pp. 134-140.
- ↑ Hans-Jürgen Düsing: A Brief History of Geographical Sermons , in: Mitteilungen der Karl-May-Gesellschaft 50 (2018) 36–43.
- ^ Wanda at Zeno.org ..
- ↑ The Mardi Gras jesters at Zeno.org ..
- ^ Geographical sermons at Zeno.org ..
- ↑ Roland Schmid (Ed.): Shaft and Hut. Early works from Karl May's time as an editor. Volume 72, Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg 1968, ISBN 3-7802-0072-4 , pp. 572/573.
- ↑ Wolfgang Hermesmeier / Stefan Schmatz: Origin and expansion of the collected works. A success story for 110 years. In: Lothar and Bernhard Schmid (eds.): The polished diamond. Karl May's Collected Works. Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg / Radebeul 2003, ISBN 3-7802-0160-7 , S, 463/464.
- ↑ Roland Schmid (Ed.): Shaft and Hut. Early works from Karl May's time as an editor. Volume 72, Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg 1968, ISBN 3-7802-0072-4 , p. 574.
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Weltall_-_Menschheit_-_Krieg
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Schätze_und_Schatzgräber
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Mit_Dampf_um_den_Erdball
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Vertheidigung_eines_Vielverektivenen
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Bete_und_arbeite !
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Die_Helden_des_Dampfes
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Ein_königlicher_Proletarien
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Deutsche_Sprüch Cards_( Schacht_und_Hütte)
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Blumen_deutscher_Kirchenlieder
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Herbstgedanken
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Haus-_und_Familienreden
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Ein_Lichtspender
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Mit_dem_Dampfrosse
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Ein_jetzt_Vielgenannter
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Der_Kanal_von_Suez
- ↑ Plaul: Temporary editor ...
- ↑ Forum post .
- ↑ Roland Schmid (Ed.): Shaft and Hut. Early works from Karl May's time as an editor. Volume 72, Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg 1968, ISBN 3-7802-0072-4 , pp. 38/39.