Uli the tenant (novel)

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Jeremias Gotthelf around 1844

Uli der Pächter is a novel by Jeremias Gotthelf , which was published in 1849 as a follow-up to Uli der Knecht (1841). The novel is set in the Bern area after 1834 . As a tenant in his rural area, Uli experiences the wickedness of people with pain, but he also has helpers in times of need. The novel was in 1955 with Liselotte Pulver filmed .

The novel first appeared in 1853 in a “free” French translation (Ulric le fermier) ; In 2003, Raymond Lauener's new version came out (Uli le fermier) .


Chapter overview

1. A consideration
2. The start of the lease
3. The harvest festival or the sickles
4. How two sowers stand by two fields and how different seeds they sow
5. Cabbage and beets mixed up, as it is in a housekeeping
6. A child comes and is baptized
7. A surprise, but not a pleasant one
8. How hesitation alternates with surprise, but also not in a pleasant way
9. Of the mind and of the servants
10. As in a baptism, the secular and the spiritual mix
11. From a trap that Uli caught, but this time still without damage
12. Servant misery
13. Of household needs and therefore moods
14. Of contracts and all kinds of arts and tricks
15. How much you can gain and how much you can lose in one day
16. Fear comes, and over each one another
17. After fear comes death
18. One judgment and two proverbs
19. Another court and a single verdict
20. Follow the saying
21. How Uli counts on people and seeks God
22. Uli is having an adventure
23. Joggeli also experiences something and something old: that what someone sows, he must also reap
24. How God and good people can help out
25. How to untangle the ball
26. The new farmer in the Glungge appears
27. The third trip to the Bodenbauer
28. How the world remains in a bad way and improved people are doing well in the middle of the bad world

content

After Uli married his Vreneli, he leased the Glungge from Joggeli . Joggeli runs with his wife to the old part back. The Glunggen farmer - that is Vreneli's aunt - had brought up the girl and “loves her more than her own children”. Vreneli grew up in the Glungge and has seen little of the world. Uli owns six hundred thalers and has to pay Joggeli eight hundred thalers a year in rent. The arguments with Vreneli concerning the housekeeping are not long in coming and continue beyond the novel. For example, he scolds Vreneli when she bakes cakes to beggars. Uli delays the extension of the employment contracts with the staff by persistent silence. Two of the best servants assume a different position. While Vreneli wants to hoard supplies in the house, Uli wants to sell everything as possible. He likes best what doesn't cost anything. Despite all differences, Uli loves his wife dearly. He knows what he's got in her. During the storyline of the novel, several children are born to the couple who arguably guess. For the first, a girl, Uli persuades the stingy large farmer Hagelhans from the distant Blitzloch to sponsor. The grumpy rich relative of the Glunggen farmer's wife stays away from the baptism. But Ulis "old master, the soil farmer" and his wife, the soil farmer, are fond of the young couple.

Although the first year brings good harvest yields, the lessee is worried about the future. Vreneli, "far removed from a head-hanger", manages time and again to drive out her husband's constantly depressing worry about money. When Uli brings Joggeli the rent, Joggeli's son and son-in-law - two speculators and blackmailers - stand in the door as if on a call and steal the lease from their father down to the last thaler. Joggeli soon no longer knows how to fight off the two bloodsuckers. Ever more petty and vicious towards Uli, Joggeli lies in his distress to the money-hungry children that he has not yet received the rent from Uli for the current year and thus brings the young couple into the greatest trouble. Vreneli's vigilant aunt steps in at the last minute and resolutely prevents further misfortune. The aunt lifts Vreneli up: “Don't lose heart, otherwise everything will be lost.” Vreneli, who has become self-confident over time, teaches Uli a lesson about equal rights for wives and sets out the strategy when it comes to the difficult task of obtaining money .

Uli is “only a tenant”, not a farmer. So he has to treat “undisciplined people”, that is, people “who have something wrong”, as servants. Uli beats the milker and chases a servant away. The bona fide tenant chooses two friends, the miller and the landlord, who take advantage of him in every way. Vreneli recognizes the falsehood of the “friends”, but Uli sticks to the two friendships in good faith.

Vreneli's good aunt dies of dropsy . The biological children of the dead - including their spouses - all turn out to be corpse collectors.

The disaster takes its course after Uli has sold a cow to a man. Uli is supposed to take the cow back because the sale would have "not ended honestly". The result is a lengthy "process", the cost of which grows much higher than the proceeds from selling the cow. “The process eats its way into” Uli's “soul, forms the sole focus” of his “thoughts”. Uli wins the legal dispute, but God punishes him immediately - rains the harvest. The tenant is ruined. In addition, Joggeli sardedly demands outstanding leases shortly after the storm. The soil farmer, on the other hand, although he clearly recognizes Uli's fault, helps in an emergency. The tenant becomes seriously ill. A " nervous fever " throws him down. When Uli gets up from the sick bed after a long time, it looks as if the “good” friends regret his survival and don't want to hear a word about the outstanding bills. The landlord and the miller laugh at Uli and exchange their strategies of fraud with amusement: Buy on Borg, avoid paying and shift the burden from one armpit to the other.

The tenant couple fears "to be driven from the farm". Vreneli calls the soil farmer for help. He rushes over and is shocked to realize that Joggeli, “the rich Glunggen farmer”, is no longer in his right mind and has been plundered by his own children. Vreneli, who as a child “ate” the Glunggen farmer's bread of grace for a long time, sticks to Joggeli despite everything. Since the Glungge is heavily burdened with debts, the "assets" must be sold. A few days before the start of the trial, Joggeli is paralyzed by the " flow of blows " and dies. Vreneli and Uli are at the farm, but they have no money. So the Glungge is auctioned. The new farmer moves in. Vreneli confesses to him that she was born out of wedlock. The mother died in childbirth.

It finally turns out that Hagelhans from the Blitzloch is the new Glunggen farmer. He bought the farm for sixty thousand guilders. It looks as if the old childless misanthropist is getting a need for people again. He leases the Glungge to Uli on favorable terms. Things are looking up. The tenant Uli makes a profit again. Suddenly he's wealthy. Vreneli gets along well with the Hagelhans. He fulfills her almost every wish. Hagelhans asks Vreneli to call him father because he thinks he is her father. Vreneli and Uli are "with apprehension" facing a completely new challenge. Uli is supposed to become a rich farmer because he married the right woman.

Quotes

  • "Too little and too much spoil all games!"
  • "Seldom is someone so angry that there is still nothing good about him."
  • "The constant, the constant is much more difficult than individual heroic deeds."
  • "Those are happy who can die."
  • "If you are not advised, you cannot help either."
  • "Everything earthly does not last forever."

reception

  • Cimaz discusses the double novel in more detail. At the end of the second part of the novel, Uli the tenant draws all strength from his piety . Cimaz also particularly addresses the two Joggeli children’s greed for goods and money that stings in the reader’s eye. The root of this evil lies in Joggeli's “fearful egoism”.

filming

On April 13, 1956, the film " Uli, the tenant ", made in 1955 under the direction of Franz Schnyder , premiered. Hannes Schmidhauser played Uli, Liselotte Pulver played his wife Vreneli, Emil Hegetschweiler played the Glunggen farmer Joggeli and Hedda Koppé , his wife, the Glunggen farmer.

literature

  • Pierre Cimaz: Jeremias Gotthelf (1797-1854). The novelist and his time. From the French by Hanns Peter Holl. Francke, Tübingen and Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7720-2185-9 .
  • Jeremias Gotthelf: Uli the tenant. Published by Hans Franck . With woodcuts by Johannes Lebek . Luther's fracture. Union, Berlin 1957.

First edition

  • Jeremias Gotthelf: Uli the tenant. A people's book (series title: Uli the servant, second part). 416 pages. Julius Springer, Berlin 1849. Green semi-maroon leather strap with gold-embossed title on the back and gilding on the back.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source, p. 120, 5. Zvo
  2. ^ In L'Age d'Homme publishing house, Lausanne, ISBN 978-2-8251-1697-5
  3. ↑ With Gotthelf the gender of Vreneli is consistently neuter: the Vreneli.
  4. ↑ Gotthelf does not give the aunt a name and calls her base throughout . He means the old form of "aunt".
  5. ↑ Source, p. 336, 5th Zvu
  6. ↑ Source, p. 218, 5th Zvu
  7. ↑ Source, p. 370, 5. Zvo
  8. ↑ Source, p. 27, 3rd Zvu
  9. ↑ Source, p. 105, 7th Zvu
  10. ↑ Source, p. 197, 9. Zvo
  11. ↑ Source, p. 337, 4. Zvo
  12. ↑ Source, p. 356, 13. Zvo
  13. ↑ Source, p. 431, 9. Zvu
  14. ↑ Cimaz, pp. 453-495
  15. ↑ Cimaz, p. 486, 15. Zvu
  16. ↑ Cimaz, p. 492, 16. Zvo
  17. ↑ "Uli, the tenant" in the IMDb