About the mouse, the little bird and the bratwurst
From the mouse, bird and sausage is a Schwank ( ATU 85). It is in the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 23 (KHM 23) and comes from Johann Michael Moscherosch's Wunderliche und warhältige Gesichte Philander von Sittewald from 1642. Clemens Brentano published it in 1806 in the Badische Wochenschrift as Die Geschichte vom Mäuschen, Vögelchen and bratwurst .
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Mice, woodpecker (in Grimm: a little bird) and sausage live together: the woodpecker fetches wood, the mouse fetches water, makes a fire and sets the table, the sausage cooks. Another bird tells the woodpecker it has the hardest job and it insists on loosing. The sausage is supposed to fetch wood and is eaten by the dog. The woodpecker complains, but the dog claims to have found false letters on her. The mouse falls into the food. The woodpecker is looking for them. There is fire. The woodpecker wants to extinguish and falls into the well with the bucket.
origin
Grimm's note is noted by the source, Philander von Sittewald Gesichten Thl. 2 , as well as Stöbers Volksbüchlein p. 99 Gevatter Mysel and Gevatter Läverwürstel in the new Prussia. Provincial Gazette 1, 226 . It also lives on orally, with only mice and sausages taking turns cooking.
Grimm's adaptation is visibly based on the Brentanos (although they do not name him), who pointed out the text to them. Brentano translated the text into modern German true to the text, but shortened the socio-political morality at the beginning and the end. With Grimm this was completely omitted, the woodpecker became a bird. The last edition from 1857 differs only in further orthographical and grammatical adjustments.
Moscherosch's social parable was thus transformed into an animal fairy tale by Brentano and Grimm. These were of particular interest to the Grimms, see z. B. KHM 58 The dog and the sparrow . Later they followed the pattern given by Brentano for the selection and processing of literary sources again and again.
reception
In 2007 the former singer of the British band Pulp , Jarvis Cocker , released the English version The bird, the mouse and the sausage as the B-side of his single Don't let him waste your time .
literature
- Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 167-169. Düsseldorf and Zurich, 19th edition 1999. (Artemis & Winkler Verlag; Patmos Verlag; ISBN 3-538-06943-3 )
- Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Last hand edition with the original notes by the Brothers Grimm. With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin, not published in all editions, published by Heinz Rölleke. Volume 3: Original Notes, Guarantees of Origin, Afterword. P. 52, 452. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
- Rölleke, Heinz (Ed.): Grimm's fairy tales and their sources. The literary models of the Grimm fairy tales are presented synoptically and commented on. 2., verb. Edition, Trier 2004. pp. 57-61, 554-555. (Scientific publishing house Trier; series of literature studies vol. 35; ISBN 3-88476-717-8 )
- Heinz Rölleke: The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. An introduction. Reclam, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-15-017650-4 , pp. 47-54.
