Tubutsch
Tubutsch is an expressionistic tale of Albert Ehrenstein , 1911 together with the prose Ritter Johann of death and Wanderers song and 12 drawings by Oskar Kokoschka in publishing Jahoda & Siegel was released. Ehrenstein wrote it within a few weeks in the fall of 1908.
The story is about the eponymous Tubutsch, whose increasing isolation and mental decline is portrayed. Ehrenstein is often identified with Tubutsch at the reception.
content
“My name is Tubutsch, Karl Tubutsch. I only mention this because I have only a few things besides my name ... "
"[I] I have the emptiness, the desolation, I am hollowed out and I don't know what about."
Tubutsch begins with his self-conception and the description of his inner emptiness, which is hollowing him out. He often walks through Vienna and has exotic experiences; So he meets a security guard who smells of roses and a drunk who discovers the law of eternal return .
At first Tubutsch describes his earlier contacts with a shoemaker, a sales representative for fountain pens, a doctor of philosophy and a Huterer, which have since broken off. To do this, he tries to be addressed in various ways: he eats his sausage in ice cream gloves, opens the door to a crystal oil seller and buys their goods from screaming boys.
Because these advances fail, he becomes increasingly isolated. Tubutsch escapes from the increasing emptiness by hallucinating a journey through time to Cambrium , reminding himself of past (sexual) events, having conversations with his bootjack Philipp and playing role-plays in tragic heroes. He also has a special relationship with animals. So the deaths of the flies Pollak and the dwarf bulldog Schnudi are decisive moments for him. After the Jew Ahasver shoots the dwarf bulldog because it was ceaselessly turning in circles, Tubutsch considered committing suicide. But he lets himself be sidetracked when he notices that a shop has recently started selling Dalmatian wines. It ends what it started with: "[M] a name is Tubutsch, Karl Tubutsch ..."
reception
Such a small book and so much noise in it ... Ehrenstein is a screaming child lost in the void. Franz Kafka
literature
Primary literature
- Albert Ehrenstein: Works . Ed .: Hanni Mittelmann. Vol. 1-5. Munich / Göttingen 1989/2004.
Secondary literature
- Beck, Gabriel: Albert Ehrenstein's narrative prose. Interpretation and attempt at a literary historical classification. Freiburg / Switzerland, 1969.
- Bogner, Ralf Georg: Introduction to the literature of expressionism. Darmstadt, 2005 (Introductory German Studies).
- Drews, Jörg: Desolation, made unbearable by puns. Albrecht Ehrenstein's Tubutsch . In: Expressionistische Prosa, Ed. W. Fähnders, 2001, 45–57.
- Fischer, Peter [among others]: Albert Ehrenstein. In: Kindlers Literatur Lexikon 5 (2009), pp. 115–117.
- Huff, Matthias: Self-mortification as self-assurance. On the literary self in Albrecht Ehrenstein's work. Stuttgart, 1994.
- Koch, Michael: Reinvigorating Albert Ehrenstein's Tubutsch through Nietzsche's 'Eternal Return of the Same' . In: Monthly Issues 109 (2017) 4, 562-582, University of Wisconsin Press.
- Köster, Thomas: decay without magic. Paradox and resignation in Albrecht Ehrenstein's “ Tubutsch ”. In: The German Quarterly 63 (1990), H. 2, 233-244.
- Laugwitz, Uwe: Albert Ehrenstein. Studies on the life, work and impact of a German-Jewish writer. Frankfurt a. M. et al. 1987.
- Martini, Fritz : Albert Ehrenstein. In: Expressionism as literature. Ed .: Wolfgang Rothe. Bern, 1969 pp. 690-706.
- Oehm, Heidemarie: Subjectivity and Generic Form in Expressionism. Munich, 1993.
- Versari, Margeritha: Albert Ehrenstein. Pre-existentialism without existence. “ Tubutsch ” (1911) - narrative figure of nihilism. Ed .: Jutta Kolkenbrock-Netz, Gerhard Plumpe, Hans Joachim Schrimpf. Bonn, 1985 (Paths of Literary Studies) pp. 269–283.