Apologue

The term apologue (Greek απολογος apologos ) originally denoted a, fairytale story '. Later the meaning of the word shifted meaning that you ' designated him instructive fables, especially those moral- didactic content. Characteristic of this was a clearly marked teaching at the end ( "And the moral of the story ...").

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel devoted to the problem of Apologs a brief consideration in his lectures on aesthetics.

It defines the apologue as follows: " [ He ] (...) can be considered for a parabola, which used the individual case, not only metaphorically illustrating a general meaning, but brings in this garment itself the general proposition and pronounce, by the same really contained the single case, which is, however, tells only a single example. (...) In the apologue, the story is so forwarded that its output is the doctrine itself without mere comparison, such as the " treasure hunter ". Working day, in the evening guests, Sour weeks, merry festivals Be your future magic word " As an example of an apologue he calls Goethe's " the God and the Bayadere ".

The word apologue is also part of the title of a work by Friedrich Adolf Krummenacher ( " apologists and Paramythien " ), which appeared in 1809, as well as a work by Ernst Elias Bessler ( " Apologische poetry " ), which appeared in 1717. "