To ask other readers questions about Frau Jenny Treibel , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. This is aplayful novel about how love and marriage don't go together in the middle classes of s Second Empire Germany busily aspiring to higher status. The second part of the title "Wo sich Herz zum Herzen findet" comes from Schiller's Lied von der Glocke but is deployed ironically.
In this novel the heart doesn't find another heart but seeks the opportunity for social advancement and the action of the novel plays out in a duel over the battlefield of one Leopold Treibel. The second and thor This is aplayful novel about how love and marriage don't go together in the middle classes of s Second Empire Germany busily aspiring to higher status.
The second and thoroughly below average son of the Jenny Treibel of the title. For Corinna on the one hand marriage to Leopold promises the relative grandeur of dinner parties whose guests include a retired opera singer and two noble women with connections to the Imperial court view spoiler [ can one even imagine such giddy social heights? However for Jenny Treibel - who delightfully invades and conquerors Corinna's living room before dominating conversation with her at the beginning of the novel - herself up-jumped from lower social status through her marriage to Mr Treibel they live, as do the Die Poggenpuhls , in a house ideally situated unless the wind blows from the direction of the nearby factory losing Leopold to Corinna threatens to drag down the family a notch in its standing.
Only rapid footwork and an alliance with her daughter-in-law whose semi-aristocratic Scottish heritage is not something she allows others to ever forget promise to save the situation. The counterpoint to the Schiller is "man muss mit dem zufrieden sein, was man gerade hat. There is a concern with breading and heritage among the characters that is Darwinian, yet the upwardly mobile Treibels are shown be average at best view spoiler [ suggesting survival of the fiercest than of the fittest hide spoiler ]. Poor Leopold, though an adult, remains under the command of his mother, who even goes so far as to leave instructions for waiters not to allow Leopold to drink more than one cup of coffee.
At the same time the interest of Corinna's father in Schliemann's discoveries at Mycenae and particularly the masks believed to be of Agamemnon and co. Something that I particularly enjoy about Fontane's style is how content he is to carve a slice of life and not to worry about plot.
The characters are convincing and carry the story largely through dialogue and a relatively simple plot works because of the integrity of the characterisation. It feels very realistic and leaves me with the feeling that other novels are melodramatic and contrived. Here the writer has achieved the cunning trick of effacing themselves from the novel. The characters speak for themselves.
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A story emerges through their entirely everyday interactions. If I ever needed a proof that there's a right time to read a book, Jenny Treibel's rating on goodreads is it. Ignore the majority of ratings and reviews. They are written by pupil and students who had to read it for school or university.
It doesn't make any sense putting this book on a syllabus. Its message will be lost, most probably it will turn people away from literature. Too much talk about seemingly nothing, not enough happening, no characters to identify with. In short, too much reality. I If I ever needed a proof that there's a right time to read a book, Jenny Treibel's rating on goodreads is it. It nearly did the same for me. I had to read it for school as well.
Frau Jenny Treibel by Theodor Fontane
I never came past the first page and instead read the synopsis from Kindlers Literaturlexikon. Enough to get a decent grade. Fontane afterwards was the symbol of boring literature for a long time until I rediscovered German literature around the age of 30 again. I read Effi Briest and enjoyed it. But it took me another fifteen years before I finally discovered that Jenny Treibel is a good book, possibly even better than Effi Briest because of its more mundane look on society. The name-giving Jenny is an ignorant industrialist's wife, deeming herself to be a poetic soul while all that matters to her, glitters.
Her counterpart and soulmate under reversed signs is the witty, slightly narcisstic Professor Schmidt. The plot revolves around the two families and their acquaintances. The book could easily be dismissed as an inconsequential melodrama. The German subtitle "Wo Herz zum Herzen find't" is the program. But then, Fontane's delicate irony would go amiss. Lovingly crafted characters still valid today, taunting statements on society less valid nowadays.
Do yourself a favor and don't read this before being at least 40 years. Then, your rating might be truer than what it is currently on here. Frau Jenny Treibel bzw. Man Frau Jenny Treibel bzw. Klassen spielen noch immer eine wichtige Rolle im Leben eines jeden und beeinflussen dieses auch auf gute oder schlechte Weise. Unter meinen Altersgenossen ist dieses Standesbewusstsein vor allem an Markenklamotten festgemacht worden: Wer keinen Hollister-Pullover besitzt, der ist gleich raus. Noch schlimmer ist es allerdings dadurch, dass man mit all diesen Personen - eventuell mit Ausnahme von Professor Schmidt - nicht warm wird.
Selten habe ich so unsympathische und heuchlerische Charaktere kennengelernt, wobei einer schlimmer ist als der andere. Grundlegend haben aber all diese unsympathischen Figuren etwas Gutes - sie haben Tiefe. Vor allem die Geschichte zwischen Schmidt und Jenny ist eigentlich recht traurig und zeigt, wie ungerecht die Gesellschaft sein kann.
Was man jedoch auch nicht sonderlich loben kann, ist der Verlauf der Geschichte. Insofern besitzt das Buch alles andere als einen gelungenen Spannungsbogen. I selected this because I enjoyed Fontane's other book and I read that this was his quintessential Berlin book.
Frau Jenny Treibel
I expected Jenny Treibel to be a young character, but she is the mother. Probably not much older than I am. Jenny was a grocer's daughter who married a factory owner with a civic title who is running for higher office. That plot point offers scope for historical lessons as well as humor, as he puts a comic character in charge of his campaign. But Jenny's conniving for her son and resen I selected this because I enjoyed Fontane's other book and I read that this was his quintessential Berlin book.
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