Waves (Keyserling)
Waves is a 1911 published novel by Eduard von Keyserling . It was also published in advance in the new Rundschau in 1911 .
content
The novel tells polyperspektivisch the story of a bathing summer on the Baltic seemingly as idyll, but as a social on closer inspection tragedy are in the focal point of which profiled as freethinkers painter Hans Grill and his wife Doralice, which differ from their older, befitting husband Count Kohne -Jasky split up to live with Hans. The family of Countess Palikow (her companion, her daughter Baroness von Buttlär, her husband, both children Wedig, Nini and Lolo and Lolo's fiancé, Lieutenant Hilmar) and the overgrown Privy Councilor Knospelius complete the ensemble of figures.
While Doralice feels that Hans, who regards class boundaries as null and void and, as an apparently self-assured lover, does not want to curtail his wife's intercourse, in her conflict between abandoned social rank and the need to lean on her husband, she falls for the successful breakout of the seem to embody the noble world and its frozen conventions, both Baron von Buttlär and Lieutenant Hilmar, but above all Lolo. Doralice, who is all too aware that she is no longer socially acceptable due to her divorce, enjoys the holiday advertisements of those who were previously socially equal.
The novel culminates in the birthday party of the privy councilor Knospelius, as a result of which Hilmar Doralice makes a passionate proposal, which she rejects, and Lolo tries to kill herself by swimming out into the sea. Instead, Hans dies, who does not return from a trip to the sea. Doralice stays after the summer vacation - the family of Countess Palikow has long since left - in the small fishing village, together with Knospelius, who offers her his company for a trip to the south.
The secret main protagonists of the novel are the eponymous waves, the Baltic Sea , the sea. They symbolize the infinite, constantly changing life and thus the constancy of nature, which is unaffected by the inner mood of the figures, but has a retroactive effect on them, in the change of weather as well as in the cyclical renewal of the times of day and seasons. Keyserling creates the contrast between their constant movement and the frozen conventions of the world in which his characters - each for himself - remain emotionally trapped.
filming
Keyserling's novel served as a template for a television adaptation from 2005, directed by Vivian Naefe . In addition to Marie Bäumer in the leading role, Monica Bleibtreu , Florian Stetter , Matthias Habich and Sunnyi Melles played the leading roles.
Compared to the novel, some changes have been made to the script, including some character names. The figure of Lolo falls in love with the painter who consciously wants to die in the sea. In addition, the action is now close to the beginning of the First World War . The film also shows sexual acts that do not appear in the novel, but appear at most in the description of the inner monologues of the characters in the novel.
literature
- First edition
- Waves. Novel . Berlin, S. Fischer Verlag 1911.
- Posthumous editions
- Waves. Novel . Afterword by Florian Illies, Zurich, Manesse 2011, ISBN 978-3-7175-2266-9 .
- Waves. Novel . Edited, commented and with an afterword by Gabriele Radecke , Stuttgart, Reclam 2018, ISBN 978-3-15-011156-7 .
- Wellen , Roman, dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich 2019, 16th edition, ISBN 978-3-423-12550-5
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Steffen Brondke: Journal and book prints of the literary texts Keyserling . In: Eduard von Keyserling and classical modernism (= treatises on literary studies ). JB Metzler, Stuttgart 2020, ISBN 978-3-476-04892-9 , pp. 287-290 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-476-04892-9_19 .
- ↑ waves | filmportal.de. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .