Theodor Storm

The Dykemaster is the tale of a visionary young north Friesian Deichgraf of the 18th century, creator of a new form of dyke. The short-sighted and self-seeking community with which he is at odds turns him into a phantom, seen riding his grey along the dyke whenever the sea threatens to break through. The rationalistic storyteller, in a highly sophisticated narrative structure, belongs to a later age, and what he relates is a veiled critique of the dyke officials of his. Own day.

After his mother becomes exhausted wheeling him around the room, Little Hobbin devises a way to keep his crib rolling and, with the help of the moon, rolls out of the house, into the street, to the end of the world, and into the sky.

"Immensee (1850), a love-story whose powerful atmosphere is heightened by all-pervasive symbols and folksong-like verse, has long been a favourite of both the German- and English-speaking worlds. Journey to a Hallig (1871) is the free-roving story of a journey in more than one sense, both a magical evocation of the German North Sea coast in high summer and a layered account of an inner journey back into an old man's past. Hans and Heinz Kirch (1882), one of Storm's masterpieces, is a tragic tale of father-son conflict set among the Kleinburger mercantile community of the German Baltic seaboard." "Denis Jackson's introduction and end notes, and maps to two of the stories, will enhance the reader's enjoyment of this poetic, eloquent fiction which is so strongly rooted in time and place."--BOOK JACKET.

Theodor Storm's novella is a gripping dramatization of the bloody reckonings that lie beneath the surface of civilization.

xvi, 84 pages ; 20 cm

Schon als Kind gilt Hauke Haien als Sonderling, weil sein Interesse übermässig auf den Deich fixiert ist. Sein Denken und Handeln ist von einem grossen Ziel geprägt: Mit dem Bau eines neuen, nach wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen geplanten Deiches sollen die Menschen im gefährdeten Wattenland vor den Fluten des Meeres besser beschützt und neues Land hinzugewonnen werden. Die Dorfgemeinschaft verfolgt sein Tun mit zunehmendem Misstrauen, denn etwas Unheimliches umgibt Hauke Haien. Da bedroht plötzlich eine gewaltige Sturmflut den Deich ... Die Materialien, die das Beziehungsgeflecht Mensch, Natur und Technik ausloten, dokumentieren die thematische Brisanz und ungebrochene Aktualität der Novelle. (Quelle: www.klett.de).