Geschichten aus Holstein (German Edition)

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His life is set in the first half of the 14th century, and the final chapters of the chapbook describe his death from the plague of There is a suggestion that the name is in fact a veiled pun on a Low German phrase translating to "wipe-arse". Retellings of the Eulenspiegel tradition have been published in modern literature, since the later 19th century. The Ulenspiegel modern Dutch: Tijl Uilenspiegel from this novel became a symbol of Flemish independence.

According to the chapbook, Eulenspiegel was born in Kneitlingen near Brunswick around The first known chapbook on Eulenspiegel was printed in c. It is reasonable to place the folkloristic origins of the tradition in the 15th century, although, in spite of often-repeated [ by whom? There has been a debate surrounding the possible existence of an older Low German edition, now lost. This version has been attributed to Hans Dorn , the only known printer active in Brunswick at the beginning of the 16th century active from at least Sodmann in support of this hypothesis adduced the woodcut of a fool on horseback holding a hand mirror used by Dorn in later prints, as the title illustration of his Liber vagatorum and Grobianus , which may originally have served as the title illustration of the lost Eulenspiegel edition.

There are several suggestions as to the author of the chapbook, none of which has gained mainstream acceptance.

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He gives the year as the date when he originally began to collect the tales, stressing the difficulty of the project and how he wanted to abandon it several times, saying that he is now publishing it after all to "lighten the mood in hard times". The preface also announces the inclusion of material from Pfaff Amis and Pfaff vom Kahlenberg , but no such material is present in the edition.

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The literal translation of the High German name "Eulenspiegel" is "owl mirror" hence owle-glasse. The name has been explained as a garbled form of an expression for "wipe-the-arse". In modern scholarship, there have been some attempts to find evidence for the historicity of Till Eulenspiegel's person.

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The stone is inscribed in Low German, as follows:. The inscription including the date of was allegedly copied from an older tombstone, now lost. This older tombstone is referred to in the chapbook of , and it is mentioned as still being extant in The first edition was unknown before sixteen folia of printing proofs were discovered in in the binding of a Latin edition of Reynard.

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Only a single specimen of the first edition has been preserved, discovered in A previous owner has replaced the missing pages by pages torn from an Eulenspiegel edition of c. It was most likely published in The sixteen folia discovered by Honegger are likely printing proofs for this edition. It consists of folia with 66 woodcuts of high quality.

The text is divided into 95 chapters numbered to 96 as chapter number 42 is missing. The edition is decidedly inferior, missing many of the illustrations of the older edition, and showing signs of careless copying of the text. The initials of the final six chapters form the "acrostic" ERMANB , which has been taken as a hidden reference to the book's author.

The first chapters are dedicated to Till's childhood. In chapter nine, Till leaves his mother and begins his life as a vagrant. He takes up diverse occupations, but each chapter ends with his moving on to another place.

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The final seven chapters are dedicated to his death and burial. In the chapbooks, Eulenspiegel is presented as a trickster who plays practical jokes on his contemporaries, exposing vices at every turn, greed and folly, hypocrisy and foolishness. As Peter Carels notes, "The fulcrum of his wit in a large number of the tales is his literal interpretation of figurative language. The "Antwerp group" of Eulenspiegel editions comprises a number of Flemish, French and English publications.

It is only slightly younger than the Strasbourg editions, these books were probably printed from before , first in Antwerp by Jan van Doesborch. It is possible that the first English translation was printed by van Doesborch as early as In this edition the name Ulenspiegel is rendered Howleglas as it were "owl-glass".

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Later English editions, derived from the Antwerp group, were printed by William Copland in London, in and The first modern edition of the chapbook of is by Lappenberg Lappenberg was not yet aware of the existence of the edition. The and editions were published in facsimile by Insel-Ferlag in and , respectively. An English translation by Paul Oppenheimer was published in Editions of Eulenspiegel in German, Dutch, Flemish, French and English remained popular throughout the early modern period.

In the eighteenth century, German satirists adopted episodes for social satire, and in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century versions of the tales are bowdlerized , to render them fit for children, who had come to be considered their chief natural audience, by expurgating their many scatological references. The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak , an novel by Belgian author Charles De Coster , has been translated, often in mutilated versions, into many languages.

It was De Coster who first transferred Ulenspiegel from his original late medieval surroundings to the Protestant Reformation. The author gives him a father, Claes, and mother, Soetkin, as well as a girlfriend, Nele, and a best friend, Lamme Goedzak. In the course of the story Claes is taken prisoner by the Spanish oppressors and burned at the stake, while Soetkin goes insane as a result.

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