Victory over the dawn

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Gabriele Wohmann (1992)

Victory over the twilight is a short story by Gabriele Wohmann , which was written in 1958 and appeared in the short story collection of the same name at Piper in Munich in 1960 .

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In the spacious orchard by the house, on a mostly rainy November day, a greenish spectacle is repeated every year. Gift-David, with the inevitable tricycle cart, raises his narrow, meter-long brass rod and wraps fruit tree after fruit tree in a green poisonous fog. The first-person narrator and her older sister Doda are watching the event from the large north window in the upper hall.

The mother knows that behind the poisonous mist is a handsome man. Because of an upcoming snow storm, the father asks the habitual drinker Poison-David into the kitchen after his work is done. The decisive passage in the short story can be with Ran to the man! overwritten:

“When I was alone with Doda, I said:
- Come on, let's go to the kitchen.
I pushed, Doda refused, but I knew she was waiting to be driven into the kitchen. "

David, pretty drunk, is happy about the appearance of the two young women. The two girls hide in the eponymous twilight of the bay window. Sitting stiffly, they stare into the light. David roars. He thinks the two are “cute”, remarks, “one of them already has a figure” and means Doda. He approaches the children and when he is about to kiss Doda, the narrator intervenes. David apparently doesn't even notice when he is drunk that he is giving the wrong one, that is, the little one without a figure, his “poisonous kiss”.

The blizzard passes. David dives "into the winter evening".

reception

  • According to Häntzschel, there is autobiographical information, nothing more than a low-action mood from childhood.

literature

expenditure

  • Victory over the twilight , p. 93–99 in: Gabriele Wohmann: Selected stories from twenty years. Edited by Thomas Scheuffelen. Volume 1 (1956-1963) . 209 pages. Luchterhand (Luchterhand collection 296), Darmstadt 1979 (2nd edition 1980), ISBN 3-472-61296-7 (also contains: An irresistible man . Reunion in Venice . An occasion. A great conquest. The application. The piano lesson. Morning prayer. A visit. Fat Wilhelm. Drinking is the most wonderful thing. In the veranda. Green is more beautiful. In the maze. Come on Thursday. Me Sparrowhawk. My friend, the New Year. A shame for the park. Always think about this afternoon . If I suggest it. Rainy summer. The appointment. Eva's visit. Just don't worry. The report. Albert's program. A case of recklessness. The locomotive )

First edition

Used edition
  • Gabriele Wohmann: Victory over twilight. Narratives . 155 pages. Piper (Piper series No. 98), Munich 1960 (1974 edition), ISBN 3-492-00398-2 (also contains: In the maze. The departure . We had so many plans. The peacemakers. They are all lovely. A Very ancient plan. Hard leaves. The negro. In the tunnel. The river. Catching morays. In a dry summer. Behind the pillar. If there would be snow. The walk. Dream day. The proposal. Green is more beautiful. Magpies )

Secondary literature

  • Günter Häntzschel, Jürgen Michael Benz, Rüdiger Bolz, Dagmar Ulbricht: Gabriele Wohmann . Verlag CH Beck, Verlag edition text + kritik, Munich 1982, authors' books vol. 30, 166 pages, ISBN 3-406-08691-8

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scheuffelen, p. 5, 2. Zvo
  2. ↑ Magirius, p. 15
  3. ↑ Edition used, p. 10, 13. Zvo
  4. ^ Häntzschel, p. 18, 5th Zvu

Remarks

  1. ↑ Gabriele Wohmann probably describes a procedure for pest control on fruit trees.
  2. ↑ The title is ambiguous. First, the kitchen bay is in a twilight in autumn. And secondly, Doda wakes up from the twilight state of girl to woman, so to speak.