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Die Judenbuche
- Publisher: Cornelsen
- ISBN: 9783464609439
- €9.70
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The novella Die Judenbuche by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, published in 1842, is based on a true story. It is the story of Friedrich Mergel, who comes from an impoverished background and whose murder of the Jew Aaron can only be discovered decades after the crime. The great interest in Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's best-known story has not only to do with the material: a historically proven criminal case, the Westphalian village environment and the color of the time (the subtitle is: "A moral painting from mountainous Westphalia"); Above all, it is the method of representation that makes a multitude of interpretations and levels of interpretation possible through apparent or actual darkness or ambiguity. This art of representation makes Droste-Hülshoff's Judenbuche an outstanding example of 19th century novelistics.