Minna von Barnhelm - German Literature. Minna von Barnhelm (first performed and published 1. This comedy is set in an inn in Berlin in 1. Seven Years War (1. Prussia and Austria and their allies.
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Major von Tellheim is a Prussian officer who is suspected of misappropriating funds. In fact he is only guilty of generosity. As Tellheim explains in Act 4, Scene 6, having been charged with raising draconian taxes in Saxony during the war, he advanced the money from his own pocket.
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In return he received a written promise from the Saxons to pay back the loan at the end of the war. But Tellheim is accused of bribing the Saxons. As a result he feels unable to marry Minna von Barnhelm, the Saxon woman he loves.
This is an excerpt from the full-length DVD available through Amazon.com and on FreshwaterSeas.com - http://www.amazon.com/Minna-von-Barnhelm-Amy-Caldwell/dp. This film takes place during the Seven Years' War. The Prussian Major von Tellheim has become engaged to the Saxon noblewoman Minna von Barnhelm.
Act One begins with a comic scene between Tellheim. The widow arrives and wants to pay back the debt that Marloff owed to Tellheim, but Tellheim refuses to acknowledge the debt. We also learn that when Just was ill in a field hospital, Tellheim paid for his care. In Act Two, the innkeeper asks Minna to value Tellheim. Minna is joyful to discover that Tellheim is in the inn, but her maid Franziska urges caution. Franziska is proved correct, as Tellheim meets Minna and explains that he is now unworthy of her love.
In Act Three, Just tells Franziska how Tellheim. In Scene 6, Tellheim meets Minna and he still refuses to marry her. In Act Five, Minna fools Tellheim into thinking that she has been disinherited. Nisbet points out in his recent essay on the play (see below, Nisbet, p. The danger of a tragic outcome is very real. Tellheim chooses honour rather than love, to Minna. The key scene is Act 4, Scene 6: Minna recognises that Tellheim is on the verge of despair, and tells him not to give in to hatred: !
Lieber Major, das Lachen erh? Dear Major, laughter keeps us more reasonable than frustration. Lessing prefers the former: he wants laughter to be sympathetic and free of ridicule. In the 2. 9th section, Lessing says that laughter can function as a preservative to prevent people from making future mistakes. Minna thus embodies a loving, moderate form of laughter; in doing so she helps to save Tellheim from misanthropy. Only two characters are treated satirically in the play: the spying, greedy innkeeper and the unscrupulous, arrogant Riccaut de la Marlini. The Function of Sex Role Reversal in Lessing.
Robin Harrison, Lessing, Minna von Barnhelm (London: Grant & Cutler, 1. Georg Luk. Robert Anchor (London: Merlin Press, 1. Chapter 1 on Minna von Barnhelm.
Michael M. Metzger, Lessing and the Language of Comedy (The Hague: Mouton, 1. H. Peter Hutchinson (Bern: Peter Lang, 2.
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim. The Harvard Classics. TRANSLATED BY ERNEST BELL. NEW YORK: P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1.
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