Herr von Ribbeck auf Ribbeck im Havelland

Mr. von Ribbeck at Ribbeck in the Havel country is a ballad by Theodor Fontane from the year 1889.

Content

Fontane tells the story of the generous Mr. von Ribbeck at Ribbeck in the Havel country. This gives away the bulbs of the tree in his garden in passing by the children he addresses in Mark Brandenburg Platt ( " Lütt Dirn, kumm you Röwer, ick Hebb 'ne pear "). His son, however, is stingy. When the old Ribbeck feels close to his death, he states that a bulb will put him into his grave. From this sprouts a new pear tree, whose fruit the children can continue to operate freely, although his legacy keeps the garden and the local tree henceforth strictly under wraps.

"So blesses still the hand In von Ribbeck at Ribbeck in the Havel country. "

Background

The real role model for Fontane character is Hans Georg von Ribbeck ( 1689-1759 ). Its history was first published in 1887 in Charles Edward Haase compilation legends from the county Ruppin and was reprinted in May in 1889 in the Brandenburg Wochenschrift The Bear. From the crypt of the von Ribbeck grew until he was overthrown on 20 February 1911 by a storm, actually a pear tree; the stump is now kept in the village church of Ribbeck. In the 1970s, a tree has been replanted, but this did not contribute as desired; Therefore, a further planting in April 2000. mentioned by The Fontane double roof house did not exist at the time of Hans Georg von Ribbeck.

The old Ribbeck and Birnbaum were before Fontane already been the subject of at least one other poem, which was in 1875 by Hertha von joke life, a granddaughter of Karl Friedrich Ernst von Ribbeck, created.

History of the manuscript

Based on the original manuscript consisting of three pages described partly in pencil and partly in ink can be set via the included fixes the creation of the work to understand. The manuscript was sold to a German private collector for 130,000 euros in 2007. Previously, you had estimated revenues of only 30,000 euros. The previous history of the manuscript is largely unknown. Contrary to rumor otherwise Fontane had not left it to the family of Ribbeck, but it was until at least 1933 in the possession of the heirs Fontane. They tried on October 9, 1933 in vain to auction it at the Berlin auction house Meyer & Ernst.

Design of the poem

The ballad consists of four stanzas of ten verses, only the 2nd verse has twelve verses, making the extra two exact form the center of the symmetrically laid poem. The meter and rhyme show that there is a doggerel. Each verse has four beats with free -cutting fillings. This means that there are uniform per verse four stressed syllables and the space in between and is filled with one or two unstressed syllables in free distribution before the first rise. Before the first raising it can also not be any reduction, so that the verse begins with a stressed syllable. The rhyme is a rhyme pair. This loosely tied Knittel form of verse is particularly well suited for narrative poems, and is common in the Middle Ages, particularly for folk poems or poems that mimic the popular voice. In contrast to the looseness of the meter is the rigor of a cadence. Each verse ends male, ie, with a stressed syllable. Thus about half of the German words is excluded for the design of Versendes. Fontane brings the verse regarding meter and cadence in a balance. This is characteristic of the art of ballad and distinguishes them from the folk ballad.

Content circling all the verses to the old Ribbeck and the pear tree whose fruit he generously gives children. The ballad shows in the first two stanzas of a falling action, because the old Ribbeck dies and thus the years of enjoying the gift of pears ends apparently. This first part culminates in the children's action in the final two verses of the second stanza, which form the exact center of the poem because of their Überzähligkeit. In the last two stanzas of the plot rises again until the children of the old state is restored: get the pears from the tree now to Ribbeck's grave. Here are the last two verses again a kind of summary. This gives the ballad symmetry and framing, which is reflected even in the wording of the first and last verse.

In each stanza, there are similar expressions and formulations that stretch as set pieces like a red thread through the poem and hold it together. Cleverly enough, Fontane reached thus twofold: He imitates the sounds of popular ballads and shows by applying the variational principle (different choice of words, other relationships ) at the same time virtuosic mastery in the treatment of the bricks with which he - in modern terms - the poem " durchstylt ".

The ballad usually contains characteristics of three literary genres, which is the case here as well. As a narrative poem, it makes use of the design characteristics of poetry (verses, verse, rhyme) and Epik ( course of action pose ). Direct speech is the key feature of the drama.

Ballads tell of events in which unusual, weird or horror Full happens. The dichotomy of the poem is done according to some of it in the 2nd and 4th verse. It is unusual that Ribbeck can bury with a pear and that his plan to send the children even after his death pears, actually rises. In the last stanza are the words with which Ribbeck made ​​the children aware of the ripe pears, put the tree in the mouth, so that when walking through the cemetery by the whisper of the tree comes up a fairytale, but no eerie mood. At the same time caused by these words of the framework which links the beginning and the end.

Reception

Mr. von Ribbeck at Ribbeck in the Havel country is, according to Dirk Ippen the hundred poems, which were published in the 20th century, most frequently in German anthologies. Marcel Reich -Ranicki took the ballad in his canon of German literature. Also found in the classroom, the poem input and its treatment is provided in many curricula to date, so that it belongs in Germany the most famous poems.

The 1911 lost ribbecksche Birnbaum was the subject of a poem by the pastor Karl Boelcke, who officiated at the relevant time in Ribbeck; it was published in 1932 in the journal märkische home.

Settings of Fontane's ballad on the album Ballad of Achim Reichel and rain on the album Beautiful singing children included poems by Gerhard Schöne. Another setting is available on the CD " outing " of the Saarland songwriter Wolfgang Winkler.

Citations Mr. von Ribbeck by Reinhard Mey in the song Dark Rum in the chorus:

"Dark Rum in dented cans and the kids call me " Mister "or" le bon ' ti vieux musicien anglais ". And I have yet for any 'ne Mark in hand, like. So'n Ribbeck at Ribbeck in the South Sea island Oh oui, moi bien content. "

As well as in his song Sorry, Poor Old Germany:

"Man, you could be the great-grandson of Ribbeck at Ribbeck in the Havel country seh'n! As you open the laces, my dear Theo Fontane! Ribbeck Birnbaum has long ash, and the gutmüt'ge einst'ge children as a dealer friend fills the bag: " Come here, baby! Will ' s joint? " "

In the pastor Braun consequence Holy Birnbaum poem and Birnbaum are also mentioned.

In Friedrich Christian Delius ' story The pears of Ribbeck of 1991, the planting became a symbol of the arrogant handling of the West with the people of the former GDR. In 2000, then was really a new planting, as the planted tree in the 70s not as desired bore fruit.