Forest rose
Waldröschen or Die Rächerjagd around the earth (later also: The Waldröschen or the pursuit around the earth ) is the first of five Kolporta novels by Karl May . Under the pseudonym Captain Ramon Diaz de la Escosura , May published the novel in the publishing house H. G. Münchmeyer in Dresden with the subtitle Great Revelatory Novel about the secrets of human society . The novel was published in 109 sequels from December 1882 to August 1884. The other four Kolportageromane by Karl Mays were published by the same publisher until 1888, which is where the name “Münchmeyerromane” comes from.
The play of the same name was premiered as a parody of the genre of the Kolporta novels on October 23, 1977 in the Hanover theater in the " Ballhof " with the participation of Wolfgang Grüter, Götz Loepelmann and Astrid Fischer-Windorf.
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In the 1860s, the German doctor Karl Sternau succeeds in healing the Spanish Count Emanuel de Rodriganda and marrying his daughter Rosa. But Cortejo, the count's villainous steward, had long before swapped his own son for the count's heir in order to get Rodriganda into his hands. He lures Sternau to Mexico, where he falls into the hands of a pirate captain and is abandoned by him together with his travel companions on a desert island. It was not until sixteen years later that Lieutenant Kurt Helmers, the fiancé of Sternau's daughter, the "Wood Rose", was able to bring his future father-in-law home.
May integrated into the novel the dispute between the European-appointed Emperor Maximilian of Mexico and the Mexican President Benito Juárez . He clearly sided with the Indian Juarez. He portrayed the Austrian Archduke Maximilian as a person of integrity, but wrongly advised. The figure of the bourgeois officer Kurt Helmers, who is an affront to the arrogant nobles of his regiment, is also remarkable.
Film adaptations
Various motifs from the novels were used in two West German Karl May films from 1965. Lex Barker starred in The Aztec Treasure and The Pyramid of the Sun God, directed by Robert Siodmak .
In 1988, the East German DEFA produced the two-part television film “ Prairie Hunters in Mexico ” based on the titles Benito Juarez and Trapper Geierschnabel , each with Gojko Mitić in a leading role.
expenditure
The complete work has been published by various publishers. A newer edition is:
- The forest rose or the pursuit around the earth . Vol. 1: The grandee's daughter . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3355014273 .
- The forest rose or the pursuit around the earth . Vol. 2: The Mixteka's treasure . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3355014281 .
- The forest rose or the pursuit around the earth . Vol. 3: Matavase, the prince of the rock 1 . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3355014303 .
- The forest rose or the pursuit around the earth . Vol. 4: Matavase, the prince of the rock 2 . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3355014311 .
- The forest rose or the pursuit around the earth . Vol. 5: A guard lieutenant . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3355014338 .
- The forest rose or the pursuit around the earth . Vol. 6: The Adventures of Black Gerard . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3355014346 .
- The forest rose or the pursuit around the earth . Vol. 7: Emperor Max of Mexico . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3355014354 .
- The forest rose or the pursuit around the earth . Vol. 8: Fought for luck 1 . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3355014362 .
- The forest rose or the pursuit around the earth . Vol. 9: Fought for luck 2 . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3355014370 .
- The forest rose or the pursuit around the earth . Vol. 10: Fought for luck 3 . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3355014389 .
In the series Karl May's Gesammelte Werke by Karl May Verlag , the entire work was published in a modified version in the following 6 volumes:
- Collected Works, Vol. 51, Rodriganda Castle
- Collected Works, Vol. 52, The Pyramid of the Sun God
- Collected Works, Vol. 53, Benito Juarez
- Collected Works, Vol. 54, Trapper Geierschnabel
- Collected Works, Vol. 55, Der dying Kaiser
- Collected Works, Vol. 77, The Duke's Children
As part of the Karl May Works series , a historical-critical edition , the complete edition was published in six volumes (current editions are published by Karl May Verlag ):
- II.3 Wood Herbs I
- II.4 Forest rose II
- II.5 Forest rose III
- II.6 Forest Rose IV
- II.7 Wood Rose V
- II.8 Wood Rose VI
literature
- Joachim Dietze: Karl May's vocabulary - a frequency dictionary on "Waldröschen" and "Ardistan und Dschinnistan" . Georg Olms, Hildesheim ISBN 3487105357 .
- Volker Klotz : The design and worldview of a colportage bug. Karl May's “The Wood Rose” . In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Ed.), Karl May (special volume text + criticism) , Munich: edition text + kritik 1987, pp. 60–89.
- Eckehard Koch, Gerd Hardacker: "Winnetou loves Juarez ..." Indians and Germans in Karl May's novels about Benito Juárez and Emperor Maximilian of Mexico , in: Jb-KMG 2017, pp. 99–140.
Web links
- Forest rose or the avenger hunt around the world . Complete text of the first edition online at the Karl May Foundation
- Overview of older editions and all editions of the novel since 1963
- Waldröschen in the Karl May Wiki
Individual evidence
- ↑ As a book publication: Karl May: Das Waldröschen or the pursuit around the world. A melodramatic arc of images . Edited by Götz Loepelmann and Astrid Fischer-Windorf. Georg Olms, Hildesheim 1977, ISBN 3-487-08153-9 .