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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It sits within the topics 1808 short stories, Amsterdam in fiction and German short stories.
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Book · Open Library
- 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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Wikidata facts
- Read free · Project Gutenberg
- #7810
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Johann Peter Hebel
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- publication date
- 1808-00-00
- copyright status
- public domain
- language of work or name
- German
- title
- Kannitverstan
- form of creative work
- short story
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Origins
- Reception
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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 ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kannitverstan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.