Lieb' Vaterland, magst baden gehen…: Fabeln und Märchen aus Politik und Wirtschaft
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Darscheid, Karl
Rost, Wolfgang
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1983
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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.
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Rhenania-Verlag
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5266 (Access ID)