Mark Twain: Humorvolle Kurzgeschichten 8: Die Schrecken der deutschen Sprache und andere Vergnüglichkeiten

Geschrieben von Mark Twain und Jürgen Fritsche

Erzählt von Jürgen Fritsche

Die Schrecken der deutschen Sprache: Mark Twain befindet sich in Heidelberg, um Deutsch zu lernen. Die furchtbaren Mühe, die er sich dabei gibt, scheint leider keinen allzu großen Erfolg zu zeitigen: Zu komplex und widersprüchlich sind die Regeln des Deutschen… Wohl die berühmteste Geschichte Mark Twains - und eine, für die wir nur zu großes Verständnis haben! Eine schlaflose Nacht in Heilbronn: Mr. Twain und sein Reisebegleiter sind im ersten Haus am Platze abgestiegen, als Twain durch das Geräusch einer Maus erwacht. Seine Versuche wieder einzuschlafen resultieren in einer Katastrophe loriotschem Ausmaßes. Es ist gefährlich im Bette zu liegen: Zumindest gefährlicher, als mit der Eisenbahn zu fahren! Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt der Autor aufgrund eigener Erfahrung.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: BÄNG Management & Verlag
• Erscheinungsdatum: 8. Juli 2013
• ISBN: 9783955970765

Mark Twain

Mark Twain (1835-1910) was an American humorist, novelist, and lecturer. Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, he was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, a setting which would serve as inspiration for some of his most famous works. After an apprenticeship at a local printer’s shop, he worked as a typesetter and contributor for a newspaper run by his brother Orion. Before embarking on a career as a professional writer, Twain spent time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi and as a miner in Nevada. In 1865, inspired by a story he heard at Angels Camp, California, he published “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” earning him international acclaim for his abundant wit and mastery of American English. He spent the next decade publishing works of travel literature, satirical stories and essays, and his first novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873). In 1876, he published The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a novel about a mischievous young boy growing up on the banks of the Mississippi River. In 1884 he released a direct sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which follows one of Tom’s friends on an epic adventure through the heart of the American South. Addressing themes of race, class, history, and politics, Twain captures the joys and sorrows of boyhood while exposing and condemning American racism. Despite his immense success as a writer and popular lecturer, Twain struggled with debt and bankruptcy toward the end of his life, but managed to repay his creditors in full by the time of his passing at age 74. Curiously, Twain’s birth and death coincided with the appearance of Halley’s Comet, a fitting tribute to a visionary writer whose steady sense of morality survived some of the darkest periods of American history.