Hans in Luck

Hans im Glück is a farce (ATU 1415). He stands in the Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm from the 2nd edition of 1819 in place of 83 (KHM 83) and comes from the magazine divining where August Wernicke published it in 1818. Ludwig Bechstein took him in his German book of fairy tales as Hans in happiness (1845 No. 24, 1853 No. 22).

Content

Hans receives as wages for seven years of work a head-sized lump of gold. This he traded for a horse, the horse for a cow, the cow for a pig, the pig for a goose, and the goose it is for a grinding stone, together with a simple Feldstein ago. He believes that each act properly because he is told to make a good deal. From piece to piece, he has seemingly less difficulty on his way home. Recently he even noticed when he wants to drink, the two heavy stones in a well.

" As happy as I am, he called out, there is no man under the sun '. With a light heart and free from every burden he went away now, until he arrived was at home with his mother. "

At last he was happy not to have to carry the heavy stones.

Style

The speeches, with which every one here understands the Hans to draw on the table and every time is a realistic paean to the advertised everyday goods are always appropriate to the amusement of the audience.

Hans im Glück is one of the tales from the collection of the Brothers Grimm, not ... begins with the traditional Once upon a time. Contrary to widespread acceptance beginning only about 41 % of the Grimm fairy tales with It was (s) once ... or its vernacular equivalents.

Interpretations

The tale can be more popular interpretations ( "Teaching "), which are obvious, such as: "Only the simplicity find happiness " or " To be free, is more than good and money " or " mundus vult decipi " ( Latin, "the world wants to be deceived "). Artistically, this is to be regarded as a strength.

Hans ' behavior contradicts loud Viktor destinations all logic and convention, which irritated. His ease in dealing with others is contrary to the consequence of its path towards the " Great Mother ", which was the grave. Her symbol circle includes his animals. Wilhelm Salber noticed the fairy tale call to return to. Siegfried Stadler delivers ironically a Marxist interpretation. The philosopher Ludwig Marcuse wrote to Hans in luck:

" ... One has the happiness neither in gold nor in the pig still in the stone. Many things can make you happy; but no good makes you happy in every way. "

In theoretical interpretation motivation from the management perspective Hans is a " selfish Hedomat and unpleasant shun Direction happiness economist ". Interpretations from other disciplines (philosophy, philology, depth psychology, political science, economics) are presented in that book as well.

Receptions

Tragic edited the Danish author Henrik Pontoppidan the subject in his multi -volume novel Hans im Glück (1898-1904, German 1906). The Clown Oleg Konstantinovich Popov's role has parallels to Hans on in luck.

Movies

  • Already in 1936, the tale of the two production designers Robert Herlth and Walter Roehrig was filmed as directors. For the buildings especially Anton Weber was responsible. The main characters were then Rudolf Biebrach, Lola Chlud, Erich Dunskus, Käthe Haack, Georgia Holl, Erwin Linder, Rudolf Platte, Eugen Re, Oskar Sima and Elsa Wagner.
  • The tale was filmed in 1949 as a kind of musical. Many well-known actors, including Gunnar Möller, Erich Ponto, Gertrud Kückelmann, Werner Lieven, Beppo Brem and Rudolf Vogel, played under the direction of Peter Hamel.
  • Hans in Luck ( TV production of the Augsburg Puppet Theatre, b / w, 1956)
  • 1976 Wolfgang Petersen borrowed the title of the fairy tale for a television play about a young man who at the end of both professional and personal failing, despite great plans and offensive gestelltem flaunt plated self-confidence. The main role was played by Jurgen Prochnow. Other performers were Peter Schiff, Sigrid Lagemann and Andreas Hanft.
  • Published in 1999 Rolf Losanskys filming Hans in Luck with Andreas Bieber, Marlene Marlow and the comedians Karl Dall and Kalle Pohl.
  • 2006 was a comedic film Hans in Luck - The Replacements in the fairy forest in the context of an episode of the ProSieben Fairy Tale Hour with Christian elms, Ingo Appelt, Hoku Ho and Joseph Hannesschläger.

Music

  • The composer and lyricist Roland Zoss set to music in 2004 Hans im Glück in the Swiss dialect Tale Series Liedermärli
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