Lieb' Vaterland, magst baden gehen…: Fabeln und Märchen aus Politik und Wirtschaft

Title

en_US Lieb' Vaterland, magst baden gehen…: Fabeln und Märchen aus Politik und Wirtschaft

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Karl Darscheid

Creator

en_US Darscheid, Karl See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Rost, Wolfgang

Date

2016-01-25T19:37:33Z

en_US 2001-08

en_US 1983

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:37:33Z

Date Issued

en_US 1983

Abstract

en_US As the T of C at the front declares, there are here seventeen stories on 44 pages, some of which are surprisingly blank. Die Armen Schweine (7) is about children fed by their parents. The latter need to travel and give their children all sorts of instructions along with a great deal of prepared food. They return home to find the children dead, since no one had fed them. Der Kuckuck (8) is perhaps Kafkaesque. The jay upbraids the cuckoo for laying her eggs in other birds' nests. The cuckoo defends herself rather eloquently, saying that she saves herself for other important jobs, like announcing spring. Her argument convinces the birds. The next spring they are flying around, with no one attending to her own nest. But everyone is shocked come summer, since there are no young. The eggs lie untouched in their nests. The parents all had wanted to live like the cuckoo. One year later things are even quieter, in fact dead quiet. This year not even the cuckoo announces spring…. That the first command of justice is Work! is the upshot of Wie aus dem Sumpf ein Acker wurde (10). The fox uses the geese to overwhelm the other fowl in argument on 12; within two days all the fowl are dead. The final story, Das Pferderennen (43), represents well the cynical tone of many of these stories. The horses arrange a race; the animal who predicts the winner gets free food for a week. The event is a big hit. A big black horse wins, and a goose wins the food. The next week the horse's stable figures out this plan: a goose should ride the horse and spur him on to victory with her wings. The horse wins again, but by less of a margin. Over succeeding weeks more and more supporters are on the back of the horse, who does progressively worse despite their collective urgings. At last he barely makes it across the finish-line and comes in last. His friends abuse him, and the animals finally call off the horse-racing and give in to boredom.

Identifier

en_US 9783922755166

en_US 5266 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80828

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Rhenania-Verlag

en_US Koblenz

Subject

en_US PT2664.A747 L54 1983 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole