Historical dream account · English · machine translation
The cemetery below the new house
Friedrich Hebbel (1813–1863)
Friedrich Hebbels Tagebücher. Zweiter Band (1887) · Printed p. 468
Dreamer identified by the source: Hebbel’s wife (as identified in the diary)
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My wife had two fantastic dreams in the last week. In one, we have bought a house, tasteful, cheerful and comfortable; but on the ground floor there is a cemetery, whose snow-covered gravestones and monuments can be seen below from the first floor.
Den 18. Nov.; 1859 sequence, dream within the preceding week.
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The cemetery below the new house
Meine Frau hatte zwei phantastische Träume in der letzten Woche. Einmal: wir haben ein Haus gekauft, geschmackvoll, heiter und comfortable, aber im Parterre befindet sich der Kirchhof, auf dessen verschneite Leichensteine und Denkmäler man vom ersten Stock hinab sieht.
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Hebbel records the first of two explicitly distinct dreams of his wife in the preceding week. The source’s introduction mentioning both is retained; the following Rudlof encounter is admitted separately as the second episode. The house’s cemetery is a dream setting.
Friedrich Hebbel, Friedrich Hebbels Tagebücher. Zweiter Band (Berlin: G. Grote’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1887), edited by Felix Bamberg, Printed p. 468. Dreamer: Hebbel’s wife (as identified in the diary); recorded by Friedrich Hebbel. Original German witness: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, Biogr.506sv-2, via Internet Archive. Editorial title and navigation metadata added by Synastry; source wording, narrative uncertainty and distinct reported voices retained.
The heading reads Den 18. Nov. in the sequence immediately followed by the explicit Den 22. Nov. 1859 entry. The dream is one of two said to have occurred in the last week; the heading is not an exact dream date.
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Original German diary passage from the independently witnessed 1887 second volume, edited by Felix Bamberg (1820–1893), of Friedrich Hebbel (1813–1863). The 1887 publication has an expired-US-publication basis; author/editor ordinary life-plus-70 terms have elapsed. No modern edition or English translation is copied. Public archive access is not itself a reuse grant; no new licence or blanket worldwide clearance is asserted.
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Printed p. 468
The original text and redactions are preserved. The page title is an editorial navigation label.
Original-scan-witnessed OCR letter/punctuation repairs; long-s transcribed as s; physical line/page furniture and division hyphens normalized exactly as the reversible ledger records. Historical spelling, wording and dream uncertainty retained. First of two expressly distinguished dreams (Einmal / Heute Sonntag) in the same paragraph. Retain the introduction stating there were two; do not duplicate the second episode within this first account.
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