(Immensee: Storms Meisternovelle über eine tiefe, doch une...)
Immensee: Storms Meisternovelle über eine tiefe, doch unerfüllte Liebe und die große Frage nach dem Glück des Lebens, eingebettet in traumhafte Landschaftsschilderungen voller Symbole.
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(In diesem Hörbuch bekommen sie einer von Theodor Storms w...)
In diesem Hörbuch bekommen sie einer von Theodor Storms wichtigsten Erzählungen aus dem jenseitigen Bereich des Gespenstischen, Fantastischen und Märchenhaften. "Bulemanns Haus", in 1864 zuerst erschienen, erzählt die Geschichte des hartherzigen Herrn Bulemann, der deutlich an Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge erinnert, und seiner zwei große Katzen Graps und Schnores, die wiederum mehr Assoziationen an Edgar Allan Poes Welt des Grauens wachrufen und mit denen es eine zunehmend schauerliche Bewandtnis hat Eine auch heute noch sehr hörenswerte Meistererzählung, nicht nur für Liebhaber des "klassischen" Deutschen Realismus, sondern gerade auch für "Fantasy"-Adepten - und für alle anderen! Theodor Storm wurde am 14.09.1817 in Husum geboren. Er gilt als einer der bedeutenden deutschen Novellisten und Lyriker. Als Erzähler (58 Novellen) war er anfangs nicht frei von Sentimentalität, allmählich wurde sein Werk aber immer herber, dramatischer. Storm stammte aus einer alten holsteinischen Patrizierfamilie, der Vater war Advokat. Er besuchte die Gelehrtenschule in Husum, dann ein Gymnasium in Lübeck. Anschließend studierte er von 1837-1842 Jura in Kiel und Berlin und wurde 1843 Rechtsanwalt in Husum. Storm musste während der dänischen Besetzung die Heimat verlassen und kehrte nach Aufenthalten in Potsdam (1852) und Heiligenstadt (1856) erst 1864 nach Holstein zurück. Storm wurde 1867 Amtsrichter und 1879 Amtsgerichtsrat. Er starb am 04.07.1888 in Hademarschen/Holstein.
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(The Rider on the White Horse begins as a ghost story. A...)
The Rider on the White Horse begins as a ghost story. A traveler along the coast of the North Sea is caught in dangerously rough weather. Offshore he glimpses a spectral rider rising and plunging in the wind and rain. Taking shelter at an inn, the traveler mentions the apparition, and the local schoolmaster volunteers a story. The story is both simple and subtle, and its peculiar power is to surprise us slowly. It is a story of determination, of a young man, Hauke Haien, living in a remote community (Storm depicts the village with the luminous precision of a Vermeer), who is out to make a name for himself and to remake his world. It is a story of devotion and disappointment, of pettiness and superstition, of spiritual pride and ultimate desolation, and of the beauty and indifference of the natural world. It is a story that opens up in the end to uncover the foundation of savagery on which human society rests. Theodor Storms great novella, which will remind readers of the work of Thomas Hardy, is one of the supreme masterpieces of German literature. It is here limpidly translated by the American poet James Wright, along with seven other shorter works, including the lyrical love story Immensee.
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The first modern translation of one of Theodor Storm's finest stories. Grieshuus is a dense short narrative set against the historical canvas of the wars that swept northern Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, telling through dramatically shifting perspectives the story of the fall of a noble family whose seat is Grieshuus manor on the north German heath. Supreme in his gift for creating and sustaining atmosphere, Storm interweaves local legends and superstitions with regional chronicles of the period in which eyewitness accounts foretell 'terrible times' to come.
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(Der Schimmelreiter ist eine Novelle von Theodor Storm. Da...)
Der Schimmelreiter ist eine Novelle von Theodor Storm. Das im April 1888 veröffentlichte Werk ist Storms bekannteste Erzählung und zählt zu seinen Spätwerken. In der Novelle Der Schimmelreiter geht es um die Lebensgeschichte von Hauke Haien, die der Schulmeister eines Dorfes einem Reiter in einem Wirtshaus erzählt. Die Deiche in Nordfriesland, Handlungsort der Geschichte, spielen in Haukes Leben eine bedeutende Rolle. Am Ende stirbt Hauke mitsamt seiner Frau und seinem Kind einen tragischen Tod.
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Classics simplified for Language Learners presents to you "Der Schimmelreiter"! The book is rewritten in simple language, adapted to the needs and vocabulary of advanced German learners with a completed B1-level. A good story is a good story, with original language or with simplified language! Enjoy the story about Hauke Haien and the challenges he faces on his way to the top to become the responsible for the dykes in his region in Northern Germany. "Der Schimmelreiter is a beautiful and well written book that tells an interesting story and also gives nice insights in German traditions and mentality in the north in the middle of the 18th century. If you've ever dreamed of reading a German Classic in German, here is your chance! In case you are interested in a German-course with a unique methodology and guaranteed success, please go to www.idiomata.org and contact me!
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(Excerpt from Immensee: With Introduction, Notes, Vocabula...)
Excerpt from Immensee: With Introduction, Notes, Vocabulary, and English Exercises In personal appearance Theodor Storm was a stately man, broad-shouldered, erect, and tall, a magnificent specimen of the hardy north-frisian race from which he had sprung. His massive head was covered with an abundance of light-brown, later snow-white, hair; and his kind face, brightened by large blue eyes, made such a deep impression that once seen it could not easily be forgotten. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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(The Rider of the White Horse is a classic German novella,...)
The Rider of the White Horse is a classic German novella, in which the individual wrestles with the mass, the man with the most elementary forces of nature. The scene of the novella is characterized with vividness in its setting of marsh and sea, it glorifies love, and at the same time it touches themes which deeply occupied Storm, such as the problem of heredity or the relation between father and son. Happiness is won, but it ends in tragedy. It is a man of sober intellect who tells the whole story - and yet, like human life itself, it stands out against a mystic background. Remembrance of long ago has clarified everything. It is Storm's last complete work.
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(Here are three contrasting works from Theodor Storm's mid...)
Here are three contrasting works from Theodor Storm's middle period-the 1870s. The title story is an affectionate portrayal of the vanishing world of the marionette theatre with its guild-dominated society of the traveling puppeteers and their gypsy-like way of life. ""The Village on the Moor"" is seen through an investigating lawyer's eyes, and is the case of a mysterious death out on the moor, the chief suspect being a girl of sinister aura with whom the young deceased was in love. Both these stories are translated into English for the first time. One of Storm's most moving stories, ""Renate,"" records the memories of an eighteenth-century Lutheran pastor and his love for a farmer's daughter who is persecuted by the local community for alleged witchcraft. ""A great stylist and storyteller combined.""-Alan Sillitoe
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(The fifth selection of Denis Jackson's path-breaking tran...)
The fifth selection of Denis Jackson's path-breaking translations of Storm's classic novellas, containing what is unaccountably the first English translation of the title story, one of its author's most subtly told narratives. ""A Doppelgnger"" is the story of a reformed ex-prisoner who is unemployable in mid-19th-century north Germany; the stark events of his life, pieced together after his death, are in sharp contrast to his daughter's tender memories. In the long-admired tale ""Aquis submersus"", the meaning of a mysterious inscription on the portrait of a dead child is unraveled in the course of a story that is both a powerful critique of the landowning Junker class and a tragedy of passion. Translated by Denis Jackson. ""The German master's art at its most concentrated and powerful...To read both these novellas is to undergo a memorable and moving literary experience.""-Paul Binding
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(Perhaps because 19th-century German writer Theodor Storm ...)
Perhaps because 19th-century German writer Theodor Storm wrote mostly Novellen -- tightly sturctured long stories composed in lyrical prose -- little of his work is available in English. Hans and Heinz Kirch consists of three of these Novellen, two appearing for the first time in English translation...The title story tells of a battle between father and son on the Baltic coast of Germany. ""Immensee"" and ""Journey to Hallig"" are a folk-tale-influenced love story and a wanderer's tale, respectively."" -- Publishers Weekly.
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A romantic tale of an old man reminiscing about his youth and unfulfilled love, Immensee is considered by many to be Theodor Storms most accomplished work, evoking a reality which is veiled and haunted by dreams and illusion. This volume, which also contains Viola Tricolor, the delightful story of a woman coming to terms with her stepdaughter, and Curator Carsten, a sombre account of a young man falling into a life of debauchery, provides a vivid introduction to one of the finest storytellers of German Romanticism.
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Storm was born on the 14th of September, 1817 in the small town of Husum, on the west coast of Schleswig, then a formally independent duchy ruled by the king of Denmark. His parents were the lawyer Johann Casimir Storm (1790-1874) and Lucie Storm, née Woldsen (1797-1879). His father, of humble origin, was an attorney, but his mother, whose interest in family life, art, and nature Storm inherited, had a patrician heritage.
Storm went to school in Husum and Lübeck and studied law in Kiel and Berlin.
A volume of his own poetry, issued in 1852, was expanded through a seventh edition in 1885. Mood Novels All of Storm's works have a lyrical quality, but shifting emphases allow them to be divided into groupings. His first novella, Immensee (1850), is the most popular of his stories. A charming, romantic idyll, it is told through the technique of reminiscence, has little action, and projects a lyrical mood of melancholy and resignation.
Storm treated the same theme in Ein grünes Blatt (1855) and in Späte Rosen (1861). The device of reminiscence also occurs in Auf dem Staatshof (1851), Im Schloss (1861), and Sankt Jürgen (1867). When Storm's native province came under Danish dominion (1853), his staunch patriotism prompted his voluntary exile, first to Potsdam, then to Heiligenstadt (1856), where he became a district judge. Schleswig's liberation in 1864 enabled Storm to return to Husum.
But the years of exile had been a harshly bitter experience. An additional blow was the death of his wife a year later. Though Storm soon married again happily, his tragic sense of life had been quickened. Most of his later stories reveal a certain pessimism, an increasingly deterministic conception of life, and a note of dismay in the face of life's transitoriness and enigmatic quality.
Realistic and Historical Novels Until 1870 Storm's narratives dealt with sentimental situations that emphasized mood. A change in his style occurred during the following decade, beginning with Draussen im Heidehof (1871). The novellas of this period exhibit a greater realism of execution and logic of motivation. An element of drama in the action, which remains psychological in character, was also introduced. Representative stories include Viola Tricolor (1873), Pole Poppenspäler (1874), Psyche (1875), and Ein stiller Musikant (1875). Storm next turned to the production of a number of historical novels.
This group includes Aquis Submersus (1875), thought by some critics to be his finest novella, as well as Carsten Curator (1877), Renate (1878), and Eekenhof (1879), all of which rank among his best tales. These stories show man in his lonely struggle against a dark and often tragic destiny. Storm spent the years after 1880 in retirement.
He died on July 4, 1888, at Hademarschen.
Storm was one of the most important authors of 19th-century German Literary realism. Some of the finest of his more than 50 novellas derive from this period. These works are marked by the fullest realization of his powers as a narrator of man's conflicts with his fellowman. Outstanding among his late works are Die Söhne des Senators (1881), Hans und Heinz Kirch (1883), Ein Fest auf Haderslevhuus (1885), and Der Schimmelreiter (1888).
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Storm was married twice, first to Konstanze Esmarch, who died in 1864, and then to Dorothea Jensen.
