Rechtsgeschichte ist ein Teil der Kulturgeschichte. Rechtsentwicklungen werden in Kunstwerken reflektiert, mitunter auch vorweggenommen. Umgekehrt vermögen juristisches Handwerk und juristische ...Reflexion häufig bei der Erschließung literarischer Werke Hilfestellung zu leisten. Die Abteilung "Recht in der Kunst" bietet diese Hilfestellung an. Sie enthält neben sekundärwissenschaftlichen Textsammlungen und Abhandlungen vor allem Textausgaben literarischer Werke, in deren Mittelpunkt Fragen des Rechts stehen und die mit je einem Kommentar aus literaturwissenschaftlicher Sicht und aus rechtlicher und / oder rechtshistorischer Sicht versehen werden.
Auch 2014 ist die Problematik des Kaspar-Hauser-Falles aktuell: Neben der bis heute ungeklarten Frage seiner Herkunft triumphiert insbesondere das menschenverachtende Vorgehen gegen ihn ungebrochen. ...Aus der Gegenuberstellung von Kriminalrechtsfall und Wassermann-Roman unterbreitet die Studie Vorschlage fur eine Reform des Strafgesetzbuches, die das Verbrechen am Seelenleben integriert.
Prager compares the treatment of Kaspar Hauser, the wild child found in Nuremberg in 1828, by German filmmaker Werner Herzog and Austrian playwright Peter Handke. Prager shows how they both function ...as criticisms of society and socialization. In both cases, that of Handke and that of Herzog, the Kaspar narratives adopt an inverse relationship to progress. The feral man introduced to language becomes less than he was; he looks like "an animal gone mad." The stories are much more about the violence of socialization and are a means to answer the question of who can be held responsible for such torturous pedagogy. In Handke's play the conclusion is inevitable: the audience members themselves are the Einsager.
While Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935) was a prolific writer in a variety of genres, some have charged him with melancholy ineffectiveness in combating the force of National Socialism during the Weimar ...Republic. Others saw in Tucholsky an outspoken prophet of his time. Beyond the political debate about the role of a writer, Tucholsky's identification with the legendary Kaspar Hauser figure reveals an alienated Lebensgefühl that shaped a powerful relationship between literature and life. This fictional kinship between Tucholsky and Hauser sheds light on the complexity of Weimar and stands for a witty yet solemn call for a spirit of common and inclusive humanity.
Blood will out Bryer, David
TLS, the Times Literary Supplement,
11/2012
5722
Journal Article, Trade Publication Article
This commentary looks at the life of the mysterious German youth Kaspar Hauser, the story begins when a teenage boy appears in Nuremberg in 1828 holding a letter, he could not walk well and was ...unable to speak coherently, only a few taught phrases, he was taken to the police station where it was discovered he could write a little and he wrote Kaspar Hauser which he then became known as. He was jailed as an impostor but the jailer declared he was innocent and had the mental age of a toddler, he was then released and went to live with the jailer, word soon spread about this mystery and people from all over began to visit him and he experienced from them compassion and cruelty. He began to talk more and stated that until he arrived in Nuremberg he had lived in a small dark cell, chained to a wall and was fed only bread and water, what he continued to eat exclusively, he also said just before he was released, he was taught to walk, write his name and speak a few sentences. Due to his failing health he was sent to live with Georg Friedrich Daumer who had been teaching him and he began to improve physically and mentally. However, some began to doubt his story and he was removed out of the town to stem public curiosity, Hauser came to the attention of Philip Henry, 4th earl Stanhope who took a strong interest in him and he was able to adopt him, the earl moved Hauser to Ansbach with the promise he would return and bring him to England - this never happened. In 1833, Hauser was stabbed in the chest after apparently being lured to a park to learn the identity of his mother, some say he was stabbed, others thought it was self-inflicted, he died three days after the stabbing. After his death Stanhope set about trying to convince everyone that Hauser was a fraud, his story a lie and his conditions play-acting. However there is another theory that he was the eldest son of Karl, Grand Duke of Baden and his wife Stéphanie who through relation by marriage was going to be made Napoléon's adoptive daughter. Stéphanie gave birth to a healthy child, which would be in effect Napoléon's grandson, but within a fortnight the baby was said to be sick and dying and neither the mother nor the wet-nurse was allowed to see it, it was then announced the child had died. Some theorise that Hauser was the healthy child, locked away for convenience, but despite two DNA tests, there is no evidence to prove this. (Quotes from original text)
A partir de uma abordagem histórico-cultural em Psicologia, este trabalho analisa o percurso de desenvolvimento de Kaspar Hauser, um personagem real e enigmático que, quando encontrado em Nuremberg, ...em 1928, com supostamente 15 anos, não sabia falar, nem andar e não se comportava como humano. Até hoje o seu enigma persiste: apesar de muitas hipóteses e suspeitas, não se descobriu sua origem. Apoiando-se em estudos de Vygotsky e Luria, que indicam que a percepção depende, sobretudo, da práxis social, necessária para gestar o referencial cultural de apreensão da realidade, a autora analisa como se articulam linguagem e pensamento no desenvolvimento cognitivo de Kaspar Hauser e como ele concebe o mundo que o cerca, tendo sido privado dos filtros e estereótipos culturais que condicionam a percepção e o conhecimento.Starting from a historical-cultural approach in Psychology, this work analyzes the development of Kaspar Hauser, a real and enigmatic character that didn't know how to speak, nor to walk and didn't behave as a human being when he was found in Nuremberg, in 1928, at supposedly age 15. Still today, his enigma remains: in spite of a lot of hypotheses and suspicions we have not yet discovered its origins. Leaning on studies of Vygotsky and Luria, which indicate that the perception depends, above all, on the social practice which is necessary to produce the cultural reference for the apprehension of reality, the author analyzes how language and thought are articulated in Kaspar Hauser's cognitive development and how he conceives the world that surrounds him, having been deprived from the filters and cultural stereotypes that stipulate the perception and knowledge.
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