Storm over the canal
Storm over the Canal (original title Tempête sur la Manche ) is a story by Georges Simenon , in which Commissioner Maigret investigates in Dieppe in northern France . The work belonging to the series of Maigret novels and stories was written either in April 1938 in La Rochelle or in the winter of 1939-40 in Nieul-sur-Mer . The story was published in book form in book form in 1944 in the volume of stories Les Nouvelles Enquêtes de Maigret by Gallimard after the preprint in the journal Police-Film on May 4 and 20, 1938 . The German translation of the story was first published in 1976 by Kiepenheuer and Witsch ( Storm over the Canal ) in a translation by Hansjürgen Wille and Barbara Klau, in 1988 by Walter Ahlers ( Storm over the English Channel ) and finally in a new translation by Inge Giese in 1990 by Diogenes Verlag in the anthology Madame Maigret's Lovers .
action
Commissioner Maigret has been retired for three months and is accompanying his wife to London, a gift for their silver wedding anniversary. The couple come to Dieppe to take the ferry to England, but the weather is so bad that it remains unclear whether the trip across the English Channel can take place. Therefore, the Maigrets are forced to set up in a shabby guesthouse in the port city; Maigret gets bored after a few days. One evening Jeanne Fénard, a young woman, was shot dead on the street. The woman had worked in the pension where the Maigrets are now staying. The detective inspector von Dieppe investigates, soon supported by Maigret. In this way, the ex-commissioner gets to know the Diepper Hafenspelunken and the appropriate milieu, but they do not find out much that is worth knowing from the milieu. Maigret is now primarily interested in the owner of the guest house, Mlle Otard, and a couple who are Otard's customers, the Mosselet couple. They all come from the same village on Cher, from Villecomtois. At this point Maigret focuses his interest on the Mosselets. It turns out that four years ago in Villecomtois Jeanne Fénard was Jules Mosselet's lover and had a child by him. Abandoned by her lover, she settled in the distant Dieppe, where she raised the child alone. Emilie ignored her husband's illegitimate child for a long time, but was afraid for her money because she no longer wanted to support her husband's antics financially. With the blackmail Jeanne posed a threat to his relationship; Jules shoots his ex-lover with a revolver.
expenditure
After being preprinted in Police-Film magazine (n ° 4 du 20 may 1938), the story was published in Les nouvelles enquêtes de Maigret (Paris, Gallimard, NRF., 1944). It was included in the Simenon works Œuvres complètes (Lausanne, Editions Rencontre, 1967–1973) in Volume IX, in Tout Simenon (Paris, Presses de la Cité, 1988–1993) in Volume 25 and in Tout Simenon (Paris, Omnibus, 2002–2004) included in volume 25. It is available in German translation in the anthology, All Maigret Stories ( ISBN 978-3-257-06682-1 ) published by Diogenes in 2009 .
adaptation
- Tempête sur la Manche , French television film (director: Édouard Logereau ), with Jean Richard as Maigret, broadcast in 1989
Web links
- Storm over the canal at Maigret.de
- Repérage
- Tout Simenon
- Maigret of the month: Tempête sur la Manche