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Hans Huckebein the Unlucky Raven is a picture story by Wilhelm Busch. It was first published in the sheets: Über Land und Meer, Stuttgart, Eduard Hallberger, X. Volume (October 1867-September 1868), 1/13, 3/45, 5/77, 8/125. The story of the unlucky raven Hans Huckebein is laid out in a similar way to rascals like Max and Moritz. Wilhelm Busch was 35 years old when he drew the picture story in June 1867 in his home village of Wiedensahl west of Hanover. One day when Busch was visiting his brother in Wolfenbüttel, he found out that the tame raven of a Wolfenbüttel gardener that he kept on his chicken yard had killed all the newly hatched chicks. Whenever they wanted to drink from the water bowl, he pecked them on the head. It cannot be ruled out that this story inspired him, but it is not known whether it actually influenced him and whether he even made the first sketches of the murderous raven on the chicken yard. At the time, the end of the raven that followed the murderous act mobilized one of a “Dr. Weber” group, which could have been a regulars’ table or a school class and which lamented the ugly death in a poem with 21 signatures.[2] Busch's answer later became the introduction to the book version of Hans Huckebein's Der Glücksrabe. It begins like this: "Although his end moves me / I'm not allowed to say otherwise / He dies because it was tragic / Was the character of this hero." of the Deutsche Verlagsanstalt) published magazine "Über Land und Meer". The picture story tells in rhyme form (pairs) of the unfortunate evil raven, called Hans Huckebein. The boy Fritz finds a young raven in the forest and absolutely wants to take him home. With cunning and cunning, he catches the frightened animal and brings it home to his aunt. She is immediately disappointed - the raven doesn't turn out to be a cute little animal, but rather bites her hard at first. Then he messes up his aunt's household: he steals a ham bone from the spitz, which leads to a heated argument among the animals, in which the tomcat is also involved. Since the raven is clever, he tricks the two and wins. Now he can no longer be stopped. He overdoes it the freshly cooked blueberry compote and when the horrified aunt tries to catch him, he gropes over her clean ironing. Now the aunt is chasing him, and when he escapes a lot gets broken: the plates on the shelf, a basket of eggs, the jug of beer, and finally a bucket of water flies, which the aunt gets. When she tries to hunt down the raven with a fork, it ends up in Fritz's ear. Huckebein hides, and when he is discovered, he bites his aunt on the nose. Cheeky as he is, he now grabs the liqueur and empties the glass with relish. Drunk, he staggers around, throws the liqueur bottle off the table and gets tangled in his aunt's knitting. He ends miserably by strangling himself with the twine. The verses appear with a moral ("Malice was his main plea. That's why - says the aunt - he's hanging here!") to end: After the evil raven has messed up the aunt's entire household, he finally ends miserably through his own fault. Here Wilhelm Busch's penchant for dark stories with black humor is evident, which runs through his entire work. It may be that some felt sorry for the raven. For Wilhelm Busch, as so often in his picture stories, he was just one more of many incarnations of evil, which in his opinion was in every human being and animal - and Huckebein is also repeatedly and expressly described as such:
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