Die Kauzburg : Roman aus dem Tagebuch eines Freundes by Hans Kaboth
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"Die Kauzburg : Roman aus dem Tagebuch eines Freundes" by Hans Kaboth is a novel written in the early 20th century. It centers on a forester who takes up residence in an ancient order-castle turned Forsthaus and records his experiences in a lyrical, introspective diary. The story blends nature-romance, superstition, and a resurfacing pagan past with the narrator’s unsettling fascination for a red‑haired young woman named Marianne, while a strict housekeeper and
local clergy frame the Christian order he is beginning to disrupt. The opening of the novel follows the forester’s arrival in a small river town and his move into the looming stone “Kauzburg,” whose nocturnal beauty and rumored hauntings unsettle and enchant him. He hires Marianne, a striking “child of the street,” and is quickly captivated; a fishing outing and moonlit walk intensify the charged, ambiguous bond between them. During a violent storm he searches for her, only to discover in the cellar a lightning‑revealed underpass and a carved owl over a kneeling figure, hinting at a buried pagan cult; in the darkness she embraces and bites him, then reappears demurely as if nothing happened. A solemn Catholic procession the next day casts Marianne as a Madonna‑like bearer of a wax child, sharpening the novel’s tension between pagan and Christian images. Alone, the narrator explores the tunnel, emerging into a hidden, untouched valley strewn with marked stones like an old altar site, where a soft, human sigh suggests new mysteries as the opening ends. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Kaboth, Hans, 1866-1928 |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Vesper-Waentig, Käte, 1879-1960 |
| Title | Die Kauzburg : Roman aus dem Tagebuch eines Freundes |
| Original Publication | Dresden: Verlag Deutsche Buchwerkstätten, 1925. |
| Credits | Alpo Tiilikka and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 83.9 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | German |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | German fiction -- 20th century |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 76240 |
| Release Date | Jun 8, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 313 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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