Trutz Simplex
Trutz Simplex or biography of the Ertz cheater and Landstörtzerin Courasche (without place and year, around 1669) is a picaresque novel by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen .
He designed the text as a "counter-speech" from Libuschka to Simplicius Simplicissimus , the hero from Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus Teutsch . Your nickname "Courasche" comes from " Courage ", which, however, as explained in the novel, in Landsknecht German means the scabbard .
Born in Bohemia, Courasche, torn from her relatively bourgeois life by the conquest of her hometown at the age of twelve, follows the armies in the Thirty Years' War (as an officer lover , prostitute , vagabond , sutler, and more). A panorama of this war is developed full of adventure and episodes, as experienced by a woman uprooted by it.
The novel is part of the "Simplicianischen cycle" so called by Grimmelshausen himself, including, besides Courasche, the adventurous Simplizissimus Teutsch (1668), the immediately following continuation of the adventurous Simplicissimi or the conclusion of the same (1669), Der seltzame Springinsfeld (1670) and Das wonderful bird's nest (no place, two parts, 1672 and 1675) belong. These are novels or stories that are all related to one another through their protagonists and thus illuminate the personalities and actions of the other novels from different angles. For this reason, for a complete interpretation of the individual characters, it is advantageous to refer to all novels in the cycle.
The subject was taken up again by Bert Brecht in his play Mother Courage and Her Children . The figure of Libuschka also appears in the story the meeting at telgte of Grass on.
literature
- Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen: Trutz Simplex or detailed and wonderfully strange biography of the Ertz fraudster and Landstörtzerin Courasche [...] From the Courasche himself to the widely known Simplicissimo to the annoyance and reluctance / the author in the pen dictates who calls himself Philarchus Grossus from Trommenheim / to Griffsberg / etc. / Printed in Utopia / by Felix Stratiot [1670 in Nuremberg by Felix Stratiot alias Eberhard Felßecker ] ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
Translated into German in 2010
- Transferred from Reinhard Kaiser : Life description of the arch cheater and country troublemaker Courage - The strange Springinsfeld. The Other Library , Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-8218-6233-0 .