Star and bathtub

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Star and bathtub is a fairy tale (cf. AaTh 938 *). It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German Fairy Tale Book at position 19 (1845 No. 21) and is based on the ballad Der Staar and Badwännelein in von Arnims and Brentano's Des Knaben Wunderhorn .

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A knight named Konrad is poured wine in a tavern by a girl who, according to the landlady, has been accepted as a foundling . The knight likes the girl and asks for quarters and a footbath . The girl picks rosemary , thyme and marjoram and hears a star singing that she was once brought into the house in the same foot tub and that her father died of grief as a result. Konrad notices the coat of arms of the "King on the Rhine" and a birthmark on the girl's neck in the foot tub and recognizes his twin sister in it . When the landlady calls for the girl the next morning, the star sings that the girl was kidnapped by the landlady as a child. Konrad pulls out his sword and spears it "through the ears of the landlady [...], one in and one out of the other". Konrad rides with his sister and the star to their mother's in the royal castle, and the star is allowed to live in the bathtub behind a golden grille.

Origin and processing

Bechstein notes: "After a folksong", the ballad Der Staar and Badwännelein in Des Knaben Wunderhorn . Bechstein rewrote the ballad in prose, but kept the star's song, which is repeated three times:

“Alas, you bride, you foundling! [Template: Alas you bride! you foundling,]
Do not know who your father and mother are! ”[Template: Do not know where father and mother are.]

And last:

"The gypsy's ears hurt so much, [Template: And sang:" Oh my ear hurts,]
She won't steal any more children! ”[Submission: I don't want to steal any more children.]

Only with Bechstein is the landlady gypsy , "an ugly woman with a brown complexion." Literal speeches differ, in the original the girl tells her mother, with Bechstein the star , how it was stolen 18 years ago. The plot is the same.

The bird verse is somewhat similar in Grimms KHM 40 The Robber Groom .

literature

  • Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. Storybook. After the edition of 1857, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , pp. 124-128, 384.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. Storybook. After the edition of 1857, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , p. 384.