Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Mümmelmann
Für wen es gedacht ist
Readers who love animals, forests and heaths, dry humor and close watching of nature will feel at home here, and so will anyone who enjoys short tales that can be read one at a time.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
Mümmelmann is a collection of animal tales by the German writer Hermann Löns, who spent his life walking the heaths, forests and farmland of northern Germany with a gun and a notebook. The book gathers short pieces about hares, foxes, woodcocks, crows, martens, deer, hedgehogs and squirrels, and about a few animals who share a home with people. Löns was written in the years before his death in 1914. He writes as a hunter who loves what he hunts, and the stories show it on every page.
Some tales are tender, some are very funny, and a few are hard on both animals and men. The animals talk, gossip and make plans, yet they keep their true habits. The fox tests the wind before he moves, the marten hunts by night, and the hare doubles back to shake off a dog. You will meet a three-legged hare who outwits a ring of guns, a woodcock who flies home from Egypt to find a mate, and crows who grumble about the modern world. Let us begin with the tales that open the book.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A three-legged hare faces the huntersFree
- 2A woodcock courts his way home
- 3Crows gossip about a changing world
- 4Hunters and hunted in the mountain woods
- 5Dogs, birds and a badger at home
- 6The year turns for hedgehog, squirrel and fox
- 7What the animals teach and how Löns tells it
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A three-legged hare faces the hunters
The title tale opens with a train full of hunters heading for a winter drive. Löns pokes fun at them: the loud boasting, the card games, the flasks and the huge pockets. Their talk of bucks, blood and fur is a foreign language to everyone else on the train, and no one believes the fat man's tale of his long shot.
In the fields of Knubbendorf lives Haanrich Mümmelmann, an old buck with only three legs. Crows ate the fourth after an earlier drive. A red-backed shrike tells him what is coming down the road, and he warns Geesche Wittblaume and the other hares he meets. Then he scrapes a hollow on a bare rise and waits, thinking that humans are the worst predators of all.
He has time to do a good deed first. A sick hare, Natz Klewersitter, is running from a big dog, and Mümmelmann leaps from his bed to draw the dog away. Soon the black posts of the beaters close in on every side. Hares are falling around him, and he studies each gap in the ring, weighing which hunter shoots fast and which one fidgets.
He picks his moment and goes straight for the gap between two guns, zigzagging as he runs. The hares of Knubbendorf are watching him. The tale is funny, but it also shows how well Löns knows the cleverness of the animal he pursued himself.
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Questions about Mümmelmann
What is Mümmelmann about?
It is a collection of short animal tales by Hermann Löns. The stories follow hares, woodcocks, martens, foxes, crows, stags, hedgehogs and a few pets, showing how they live, hunt and cope with hunters and a changing countryside.
Who is Mümmelmann?
Mümmelmann is an old three-legged hare in the title tale. He warns his neighbors and uses cunning against a ring of hunters. A later tale features another old hare with the same family name.
Are the stories true or made up?
They are invented tales, but based on real habits that the author observed as a hunter and naturalist. The animals speak, but their behavior, such as a fox testing the wind or a hedgehog's courtship, is true to life.
Is Mümmelmann easy to read?
Each tale is short and can be read alone, so you can take the book one story at a time. The language is clear, the animals have lively voices, and many pieces are light and funny.
Who was Hermann Löns?
Löns was a German writer, journalist and hunter who loved the heaths and forests of northern Germany. He wrote novels, poems and many nature sketches, and he died in 1914 during the First World War.