The Star Money
The Sterntaler is a short tale (ATU 779H *). It is in the Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm from the 2nd edition of 1819 instead 153 (KHM 153), previously as the poor girl instead of 83, and in part to Achim von Arnim's novel The Three affectionate sisters and the happy dyer back. In Grimm, the title The Sternthaler wrote.
Content
A poor orphan who has nothing but a piece of bread, goes out into the world. Move it away his bread, his hat, his vest, his skirt and finally his vests to others in need. Because the stars are falling as silver dollars from the night sky, and it has a new, fine linen chemise, in which it collects it.
- Stamps of the German Post Office (1959 )
The girl gives the child his little coat
The girl collects the Taler
Origin
In Jacob Grimm's handwriting from 1810 Poor girl is a short note. Grimm's note listed from 1812 onwards, to have written it in dark memory, but also called Jean Paul's novel The Invisible Lodge (1793) and Achim von Arnim's novel The Three affectionate sisters and the lucky Dyer (1812 ). The latter takes Grimm's version clearly anticipated and perhaps inspired by the fragment -like insertion in Jean Paul.
Allegory
In many cases, this is Tales of the Brothers Grimm understood as an allegory of an exemplary Christian man who is merciful and generous to people in need of his possession, even if he "at the end " it has apparently " nothing " more himself. This " attitude " as a lived attitude, will be amply rewarded " from heaven " by " Sternthaler " " in heavenly currency" and a " decorative " fine " Seelenkleid " in " eternity " of an " invisible " (but not Unwirkbaren! ) " dressed ". The Tale fits very well into the Christmas season. Sterntaler tells of a girl who first looks at its environment, only then to their own needs. The journey to the stars recalls, for example, to The Singing springing lark.
Receptions
Georg Büchner can tell a similar but very pessimistic, nihilistic colored fairy tales in his drama Woyzeck the grandmother. It wanders the girl went to the moon, then the sun and then to the stars. But the place itself as a rotten piece of wood, a withered sunflower and impaled mosquitoes out: so the girl finally sets alone on a stone.
In Eve Marder's version, a child shares with those whose parents died in the war until it is herself an orphan, as it will be rejected. When black birds star cast like torches from the sky, it wants to die. Janosch parodied the story as a press report of the arrest of two criminals, where the stars were, so to speak fell into his lap due to a calculation error or a clothes gift to an old man. When Fritz Deppert an old man older children take the child his bread, clothes, holding it for a good omen, waiting for the stars that fall down and detonate. When Franz Mon finally scold parents with a voice of thunder from the sky, because the child is naked.
ZDF dedicated to the Sterntaler- tale the third part of the documentary series tales and legends - messages from the reality (first broadcast October 23, 2005, 19:30 clock ). According to findings of Celtic gold coins, known as viewed Rainbow Cup, as the core of the tradition: these were brought to the surface during plowing and rinsed after rains in southern Germany. The storytellers were inspired by the coin Sterntaler. This was Frederick II ( Hesse -Kassel) circulated. On it you can see a star.
2011 filmed Bavaria Film on behalf of the Grimms' fairy tale Südwestrundfunks for The First. The film was broadcast as The Sterntaler in the ARD - tale line six in one go in the Christmas Program 2011 in the First.
Cap, vest and skirt as thinking, feeling and willing, the last shirt as a life force. The finest linen is mental perfection, the gold inner wealth.