Kannitverstan
Sign in to savethumb|Illustration by Rudolf Geißler for the magazine Münchener Bilderbogen, 1895: The craftsman boy meets the funeral procession of Mr Kannitverstan Kannitverstan is a short story by the German author Johann Peter Hebel, which first appeared as a calendar story in 1808 in Rheinländischer Hausfreund (Rhenish family friend). It tells of a craftsman who, as a result of a misunderstanding, comes to realise the transience of earthly things and thus regains his contentment.
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- Author
- Switzerland) Kannitverstan: Bausteine zu einer babylonischen Herme(neu)tik (Conference) (2012 Lausanne
- First published
- 2013
- Editions
- 1
- Subjects
- German literature, Congresses, History and criticism, Communication in literature
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6 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Origins
- Reception
- References
- Further reading
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thumb|Illustration by Rudolf Geißler for the magazine Münchener Bilderbogen, 1895: The craftsman boy meets the funeral procession of Mr Kannitverstan Kannitverstan is a short story by the German author Johann Peter Hebel, which first appeared as a calendar story in 1808 in Rheinländischer Hausfreund (Rhenish family friend). It tells of a craftsman who, as a result of a misunderstanding, comes to realise the transience of earthly things and thus regains his contentment.
== Plot ==
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