Driven hunt (Wohmann)

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Gabriele Wohmann (1992)

Driven hunt is a satirical short story by Gabriele Wohmann , written in 1965 and published by Luchterhand in 1968 in the Ländliches Fest collection - the author's fifth volume of short stories.

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Eva Maria, who is no longer young, does not get the job done in the office. When she tries a new laxative, it doesn't work the same.

“They got to know each other too late” writes Gabriele Wohmann and means Eva Maria and Herbert Panter, the lively civil engineer with varicose veins from the “Hortensia Friendship League”. Panter has learned a lot from the Rotarians for his work organization in the league . In response to a marriage advertisement, after months of correspondence with a five-year-old photo of Eva Maria, the two meet on Sundays for a trip to a “pub” on a wooded hill. Eva Maria's four work colleagues know about the time and place of the rendezvous. Sometimes accompanied by men, they arrive at the excursion restaurant and inspect Herbert Panter. He can't be disturbed at all. Eva Maria squeezes around the “showroom” and walks with Herbert Panter through the forest down into the valley. Panter gives “his little Eva” a kiss. As he continues with a possessive French kiss , Eva Maria breaks free and runs into the forest; just runs away. She is sick. They had to be labor pains, believes the not quite fresh maiden. After walking uphill in the fresh air and then drinking coffee in the restaurant, the laxative works. The hunt begins. Herbert Panter and Eva's work colleagues run after her. “Evchen, you're not running away from marriage, are you?” The runner hears from her colleague, Miss Grohmann. Eva Marie suddenly doesn't care about panther. She says goodbye to her pursuers and goes home.

Panter lets "his little Eva" fidget for a week and then tells her that the Sunday driven hunt in the forest has ended with complete success. He was able to promote all of Eva Maria's work colleagues who were involved in the league. In a good week, Panter, who works out the presidency in his league, wants to introduce himself to Eva Maria's parents. It should be fine with Eva Maria and her parents too. However, at home in bed Eva Maria thinks of Panther's thick tongue in her mouth. It tasted like coffee.

reception

  • Just calls Eva Maria's “Martyrdom” a “› battue ‹of deadlocks”.
  • Michaelis accuses the author of trying - in his opinion unsuccessful - to try to give this story outlined above the world by means of mere event sequences.
  • According to Ferchl, Eva wanted to marry Maria because she didn't like the office job.
  • According to Häntzschel, Eva Maria wanted to escape from her patriarchal environment and ended up with the Patriarch Panter.
  • The editor in Barner's literary history - presumably Manfred Durzak - highlights Gabriele Wohmann's “narrative virtuosity”. The author portrays conflicts and states of suffering of women. Eva Maria tries to find a husband because she no longer wants to be a burden on her parents.
  • Durzak discovers “satirical overexposure” and comments on the title: The honest man with the eloquent name Panter has chosen Eva Maria as prey and the woman flees - “psychologically circled” - out of fear of children, out of fear of the impending “patriarchal marriage” the "bourgeois monster" panther.

literature

First edition

  • Driven hunt. In: Gabriele Wohmann: Ländliches Fest. Stories. Luchterhand, Neuwied 1968, ISBN 3-472-61204-5 .

Used edition

Secondary literature

  • Gottfried Just: The nameless heroes of Gabriele Wohmann. In: Gabriele Wohmann. Materials book. Introduction by Karl Krolow . Bibliography by Reiner Wohmann. Edited by Thomas Scheuffelen. Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1977, ISBN 3-472-61184-7 , pp. 61–63.
  • Rolf Michaelis : homesickness for paradise. In: Gabriele Wohmann. Materials book. Introduction by Karl Krolow . Bibliography by Reiner Wohmann. Edited by Thomas Scheuffelen. Luchterhand, Darmstadt / Neuwied 1977, ISBN 3-472-61184-7 , pp. 63-67.
  • Driven hunt - marriage as an escape from work. In: Irene Ferchl : The role of the everyday in the short prose by Gabriele Wohmann. Bouvier Verlag , Bonn 1980, ISBN 3-416-01542-8 , pp. 37-40.
  • Günter Häntzschel, Jürgen Michael Benz, Rüdiger Bolz, Dagmar Ulbricht: Gabriele Wohmann. (= Author's books. Volume 30). Verlag CH Beck, Verlag edition text + kritik, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-406-08691-8 .
  • Wilfried Barner (ed.): History of German literature. Volume 12: History of German Literature from 1945 to the Present . CH Beck, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-406-38660-1 .
  • Manfred Durzak : The German short story of the present. Author portraits, workshop discussions, interpretations. 3. Edition. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-8260-2074-X . (Extension by Reclam, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-15-010293-6 )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magirius, p. 16.
  2. ↑ Michaelis, p. 63, 15. Zvo
  3. ↑ Edition used, p. 29 middle
  4. ↑ Edition used, p. 39, 3. Zvo
  5. ↑ Just, p. 62, middle
  6. ↑ Michaelis, p. 65, 9. Zvo
  7. ↑ Ferchl, p. 38 below
  8. ↑ Häntzschel, p. 27 center
  9. ↑ Barner, p. 611, 1. Zvo
  10. ↑ Durzak, p. 278.
  11. ↑ Häntzschel, p. 156, entry no. 7

annotation

  1. ↑ The formulations of the corresponding text passages in the cited two references by Barner and Durzak suggest this.