(German Konig Drosselbart) - the hero of the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm "King Thrushbeard" (1812, translation version "King Thrusher"). K.-D. - a bright and peculiar character in the fairy-tale world of the Brothers Grimm. This hero, humiliated by a frivolous young princess and intending to prove to her his human usefulness, is endowed with only one funny feature - his chin protrudes. And for this, the mocking princess nicknamed him "King-thrush beard." There is nothing fabulous and nothing fantastic in the fairy tale. Just a humiliated person makes the obstinate princess go through all the circles of hell to prove to her that it's not about the chin. First, he becomes a beggar musician who took her as his wife, then a despotic husband, then an impudent cavalryman who broke her clay pots in the market. At the same time, K.-D., according to a fairy tale, is not a despot, not a villain, and not an avenger. He is a deeply suffering person, but when he reveals his true colors to the princess and takes her as his wife, having already married her once, there is no guarantee that this marriage will be happy.
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He ordered a magnificent celebration to be held and all young people who had not yet lost hope of pleasing the princess and winning her favor should be summoned from distant lands and neighboring cities.
A lot of suitors came. They were built in a row, one after another, according to the seniority of the family and the amount of income. First there were kings and crown princes, then dukes, then princes, earls, barons, and finally ordinary nobles.
One groom seemed too fat to her.
- Beer Barrel! - she said. The other is lanky and long-nosed, like a crane in a swamp.
- Long-legged cranes will not find their way. The third growth did not come out.
- You can’t see from the ground - I’m afraid to trample! The fourth she found too pale.
“White as death, skinny as a pole!” Fifth - too ruddy.
After that, the princess was led along the row. so that she can look at the suitors and choose for her husband the one who will most like her heart.
But this time, no one liked the princess.
The proud royal daughter laughed at all her suitors. Her father was tired of this behavior, for which he drove the princess out of the castle and forced him to become the wife of the first tramp he came across. History describes what this led to. Moral of the story: don't laugh at other people's faults.
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A certain king had a daughter that was too beautiful, but also too proud and arrogant, so that no suitor was on her shoulder. She refused one suitor after another, and even ridiculed everyone.
So one day the king, her father, arranged a big feast and invited to the feast both from near and from distant countries all those who had a desire to marry. All visitors were put in a row according to their dignity and position: first there were kings, then dukes, princes, counts and barons, and then ordinary nobles.
The king led the princess through the rows of suitors, but she did not like anyone, and she found something to notice about everyone.
One, in her opinion, was too fat, and she said: "He's like a wine barrel!"
The other is too lanky: "Long and thin, like flax in a meadow."
The third is too short: "Short and fat, like a sheep's tail."
The fourth is too pale: "Like death walking!"
And the fifth is too red: "What a garden beet!"
The sixth is not direct enough: “Like a warped tree!”
And so in everyone she found something to ridicule, and in particular she mocked one good-natured king, who was one of the first in the row of suitors. This king's chin was somewhat cut off; so she noticed this, began to laugh at him and said: “He has a chin like a thrush’s beak!” And so they began to call him King Thrushbeard from that time on.
And the old king, seeing that his daughter was doing nothing but ridiculing good people and rejecting all suitors gathered for the festival, became angry with her and swore that he would marry her to the first poor man who appeared at his doorstep.
Two days later, some wandering singer began to sing under his window, wanting to earn alms. As soon as the king heard his song, he ordered the singer to be called to his royal chambers. He entered the king in his dirty rags, began to sing in front of the king and the queen, and, having sung his song, began to bow and beg.
The king said: "Your song has pleased me so much that I want to give you my daughter in marriage."
The princess was frightened; but the king said to her firmly: "I swore that I would give you in marriage to the first beggar I met, and I will keep my oath!"
No subterfuge helped, the king sent for the priest, and the princess was immediately married to the beggar.
When this was done, the king said to his daughter: “Now it is not fitting for you, like a beggar, to live any longer here, in my royal castle, go through the world with your husband!”
The poor singer led her out of the castle by the hand, and she had to roam the world on foot with him.
By the way they came to a large forest, and the princess asked:
Oh, whose dark wonderful forest is this?
Thrushbeard owns that edge of the forest;
If you were his wife, he would be yours.
Then they had to walk across the meadow, and the princess again asked:
Oh, whose glorious green meadow is this?
Thrushbeard owns that large meadow; If you were his wife, he would be yours.
Oh, poor thing, I didn't know. Why did I refuse him!
Then they passed through a large city, and she asked again:
Whose city is this, beautiful, big?
Thrushbeard owns all that side. If you were his wife, he would be yours!
Oh, poor thing, I didn't know. Why did I refuse him!
“Well, listen! - said the singer. - I do not like that you constantly regret your refusal and wish yourself another husband. Or do you not like me?"
Finally they came to a very small hut, and the princess exclaimed:
Oh, Lord, whose house is this,
Small and cramped and trashy looking?
The singer answered her: “This is your house and mine, and we will live in it.” She had to bend down to enter the low door. "Where are the servants?" the queen asked. "Servants? What is this for? - answered the singer. - You have to do everything for yourself. Make a fire right now and cook something for me to eat, I'm very tired.
But the princess, as it turned out, did not understand anything about the economy: she did not know how to make a fire, or cook anything; her husband himself had to get down to business in order to achieve at least some sense.
After sharing their modest meal, they went to bed; but the next morning the husband got his wife out of bed early so that she could tidy up the house.
For a day or two they lived in this way, surviving somehow, and then all their supplies came to an end. Then the husband said to the princess: “Wife! Things cannot go on like this, so that we sit here with folded arms and earn nothing. You should start making baskets."
He went and cut willow branches and brought home a whole bunch of them. She began to weave, but the strong willow broke the princess's tender hands. “Well, I see that this business is not going well with you,” said the husband, “and it’s better for you to take up the yarn; maybe you can spin better than weave ... "
She immediately set to work on the yarn, but the stiff thread began to eat into her soft fingers, so that they all became bloodied ... “Well, if you please," her husband said to her, "you are not fit for any work, you are not a godsend for me! Well, let’s even try - we’ll start selling pots and earthenware: you will have to go to the market and start trading in this product. - "Oh my god! she thought. “What if people from my father’s kingdom come to the market and see me sitting there with goods and trading?” They'll laugh at me!"
But there was nothing to be done; she had to put up with it because of a piece of bread.
At the first appearance of the princess at the market, everything got away with it well: everyone bought goods from her very willingly, because she herself was so beautiful ... And they gave her the price she requested; and many even gave her money and did not take pots from her at all.
After that they lived for some time on their profits; and when everyone had eaten, the husband again bought a large supply of goods and sent his wife to the market. So she sat down with her goods on one of the corners of the bazaar, arranged the goods around herself and began to sell.
As if it were a sin, some drunken hussar on a horse turned around the corner, rode into the very middle of her pots and smashed them all to smithereens. The princess began to cry, and for fear she did not even know what to do. “What will happen to me! - she exclaimed. “What will I get from my husband for this?”
She ran to her husband and told him about her grief. “And who told you to sit on the corner with your fragile goods? Nothing to roar about! I also see that you are not fit for any decent work! So: I was in the castle with our king in the kitchen and asked if they needed a dishwasher. Well, they promised me that they would take you to this position; at least they will feed you for free.”
And the princess had to be in the dishwashers, and serve as a cook, and do the most menial work. In both of her side pockets, she tied up a pot and in them she brought home what was left of the royal table - and they ate this together with her husband.
It happened one day that in the castle above it was appointed to celebrate the wedding of the eldest prince; and now the poor princess also went upstairs and, together with the rest of the servants, stood at the door of the hall to look at the wedding.
Candles were lit, guests began to arrive, one more beautiful than the other, one richer and more magnificent than the other, and the poor princess, sadly thinking about her fate, began to curse her pride and arrogance, thanks to which she fell into such a heavy humiliation and poverty.
The servants, passing by her, from time to time threw to her crumbs and the remains of those delicious dishes from which the smell came to her, and she carefully hid all this in her pots and was about to carry it home.
Suddenly, the prince came out of the hall door, dressed in velvet and satin, with golden chains around his neck. And when he saw that the beautiful princess was standing at the door, he seized her by the hand and wanted to dance with her; but she resisted and was extremely frightened, recognizing in him King Thrushbeard, who wooed her and was ridiculed and rejected by her. However, her unwillingness did not lead to anything: he forcibly pulled her into the hall ...
And suddenly the cord on her belt, on which her pots for food were tied to her pockets, burst, and these pots fell out, and the soup spilled over the floor, and the scraps of food scattered everywhere.
When all the guests saw this, the whole hall resounded with laughter; ridicule was heard from everywhere, and the unfortunate princess was so ashamed that she was ready to sink into the ground.
She rushed to the door, intending to run away, but someone caught her on the stairs and again drew her into the hall; and when she looked round, she saw before her again King Thrushbeard.
He said to her affectionately: “Don't be afraid! I and the singer who lived with you in a miserable little house are one and the same person: out of love for you, I put on this mask. I also went to the market in the form of a drunken hussar who broke all the pots for you. All this was done in order to humble your pride and punish your arrogance, which prompted you to ridicule me.
Then the princess wept bitterly and said: "I have been very unfair to you and therefore unworthy to be your wife." But he answered her: “Consolation, the time has passed for you, and now we will celebrate our wedding.”
The court ladies approached her, dressed her in the richest outfits, and her father appeared right there, and the whole court; everyone wished her happiness in her marriage union with King Thrushbeard. Here the real fun began: everyone began to sing and dance, and to drink for the health of the young! ..
And what, friend, would it not be bad for you and me to be there?
The tale tells how, at the bridegrooms, the proud beautiful princess rejected one of them after another, while mocking their imaginary and real shortcomings. Especially went to the young prince, who occupied almost the most honorable place among the suitors. Any girl would have liked him, but the princess thought that his beard was much sharper than it should be and protruded too much forward, resembling a thrush's beak, so she nicknamed him "King Thrushbeard". As a result, all the noble suitors left with nothing, and the enraged old king swore to marry the girl to the first beggar who came to the palace. After some time, a wandering musician, dressed in dirty rags, came to the castle, and the king, keeping his word, gave him his daughter. The beggar dragged the princess through meadows, forests and mountains. When she asked her husband to whom all these lands belonged, he invariably replied that they were all the property of King Thrushbeard. So after a few days they arrived in a large city, which also turned out to be the possession of King Thrushbeard. The princess tried to get used to the hard life of the common people, living in a small hut owned by her beggar husband; she tried to spin and knit willow baskets - but her hands, not accustomed to hard work, could not cope with the work. Then her husband sent her to sell pots in the market. The first day was successful, and the girl earned some money, but the next day a drunken hussar on a horse ran into her goods and broke all the pots. In the end, the husband, through acquaintances, arranged for his wife to be a dishwasher in the royal castle. A few days later, during a feast at which the princess served for food, she suddenly saw King Thrushbeard entering the hall and dressed in precious clothes. He approached the girl and led her to dance, but then scraps suddenly fell from the floor of her dress and pockets, which the princess had collected at the tables and which she was going to take home. The courtiers immediately burst into loud laughter, and the girl, beside herself with shame, rushed out of the castle. Suddenly, the king himself caught up with her and opened up to her: he was the beggar musician to whom her father married her. It was he who broke her pots in the square and forced her to knit baskets and spin in order to humble her pride and teach her a lesson for the arrogance that prompted the princess to ridicule him. The tearful princess asked her husband for forgiveness for the previous insults, and the royal couple, reconciled, celebrated a luxurious wedding in the palace.
Tired of the bad temper of his only daughter, Princess Roswitha ( Karin Ugowski), King Löwenzann ( Martin Flöhringer) tried with all his might to find her a husband (of course, rich and noble). However, the princess made it clear to both him and the applicants for her hand that marriage was not included in her immediate plans. She not only rejected, but also publicly humiliated each of them, and since the suitors of the princess are all high-ranking persons (kings, princes, princes, counts, dukes), then, no matter how old, stupid and ugly they may be, it is not possible to humiliate them with impunity. given to no one. In anger, the king promised to marry his daughter to the first man who enters the gates of his castle, even if it is a beggar. A few minutes later, a wandering musician came to the royal castle ( Manfred Krug), resembling one of the rejected suitors the young king, whom Roswitha, because of his pointed beard, gave the nickname "King Thrushbeard" in appearance
Of course, the fact that the princess does not know how to run a household, and indeed has no idea about life outside the royal castle (in the market she stretches her hand to an apple, not even going to pay for it; entering the house of a beggar musician, she asks where his servants are ), it is not her fault because she was prepared for life in a palace with many servants, and not in a tiny hut on the outskirts of the city. But at the same time, her pride, selfishness and stubbornness know no bounds: she orders the coachman to drive faster and faster, and when the wheel of the carriage flies off from such a ride, she blames the coachman himself; knowing that her father and suitors are waiting for her, she sits down at the easel; throws uncomfortable shoes at his father; in the presence of her impoverished husband, she laments that she did not marry King Thrushbeard; does not want to learn how to run a household (“I’m a princess!”); quarrels with a tradeswoman in the market, who dared to reprimand her, and is rude to customers; finally, he chooses an extremely unfortunate place for trading pottery where horsemen and carts pass all the time. Her words and deeds evoke a corresponding reaction from those around her - the despair of the king-father, the misunderstanding of the court ladies, the malevolent laughter of the seven unfortunate suitors, who seek revenge for offended male pride, the incident with pottery in the bazaar (within the framework of the entire " educational work"The identity of the mysterious horseman, revealed at the end, is not difficult to guess). And yet, the main question: why is the beautiful princess so arrogant and capricious? And the answer is simple from boredom and loneliness in an unfavorable combination with external beauty and lively temperament: she has no friends, potential suitors look at her as a beautiful thing, her father-king seeks to marry her to a powerful ruler of a neighboring country so that both kingdoms unite into one, "which is unparalleled in the whole world." Obviously, for him this marriage is a good deal, and his own daughter is a commodity that needs to be sold at a higher price. But what to do if the transaction is impossible due to the unwillingness of the product to be a product? There is only one thing left to do: get rid of it.
It becomes clear that only life in a completely different society could re-educate Roswitha - without palaces and carriages, without gold and titles, without feasts and balls, without idle luxury, without lies and hypocrisy. And the king subconsciously understood this, but until the very last moment (until the offended leaders of neighboring states began to threaten him with war), he was afraid to admit it even to himself. A case came to the rescue in the person of a resourceful young man - the one who saw in the princess an unfortunate lonely girl, and not a beautiful doll in expensive outfits, someone who was always ready to help and protect, not allowing anyone to laugh at her (an episode when, upon leaving from the castle, the “tramp musician” shuts up the mouths of the maliciously laughing “magnificent seven” with one shout, makes you think would an ordinary beggar dare to raise his voice at kings and princes?), the one who, despite all her shortcomings, truly loved her and therefore he performed a miracle made Roswitha a different person.
The image of the king-father is also ambiguous: on the one hand, he is very tired of his daughter’s endless antics, on the other hand, he pities her and does not want to punish her, so when it’s time to fulfill the promise, he first tries to object, but understands that he gave the royal word , moreover, in the presence of other kings, and has no moral right not to fulfill it. But still regrets it can be seen in his eyes.
The seven candidates for the princess's husband look funny: one is more colorful (and more caricatured) than the other, and everyone is absolutely sure that the beauty will choose him. Looking at them, one has to notice that everything she told them, although it sounds unpleasant, is the pure truth. Against the background of sharply repulsive traits in Roswitha's character, one stands out not the worst: the heroine never lies or pretends, unlike most people of her circle, if she doesn’t like something, she directly says so.
And finally, about the most important thing: what is the moral of the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm? As in many wise tales, there is more than one moral here: Firstly, it is possible to re-educate an adult, but in order to eliminate the consequences, you need to know the reason if character traits are generated by the environment in which this character matured, then in order to change the character, you will have to change the conditions of life; Secondly, not all people are what they seem at first glance (and not only at first), and you should not judge a person by his appearance; Thirdly, no one is safe from a change in social status (not only from the bottom up, but also from the top down) even the princess was forced by life to get into the skin of one of those whom she and her entourage looked at like garbage under their feet; fourthly and this is the most important thing whoever humiliates others (showing his imaginary superiority given by a high position in society or some special qualities), he himself will be humiliated sooner or later I would like to believe in it.