‘The Fat Count’ is a character in Daniel Kehlmann’s novel Tyll. The novel is set during the Thirty Years’ War in Central Europe in the first half of the 17th century.
The Fat Count is a bumbling character who embellishes accounts of his exploits to make his journeys seem more heroic than they were. He is in the employ of the Emperor who sends him to find and retrieve Tyll, who has become the most famous jester in the Empire. During their journey, they are caught in a brutal artillery attack near the forest of Streitheim.
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Wayne: This painting conveys how I visualised the horrors of the War and the oblivion of the ruling classes to the suffering of their people. Tyll can be seen to the right of the Count performing (probably quite inappropriately) one of his trick riding repertoires…anyway, that is how I imagined the scene to look.