Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days: Collected Utopian Tales / New and Revised Edition PDF
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NEW AND REVISED EDITION EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY JACK ZIPES Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days Jack Zipes Editor Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days Collected Utopian Tales / New and Revised Edition Editor Jack Zipes University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA Translated by Jack Zipes ISBN 978-3-319-69274-6 ISBN 978-3-319-69275-3 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69275-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017962405 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the pub- lisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institu- tional affiliations. Cover illustration: © Sharon Singer Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland The mirror of the fairy tale has not become opaque, and the manner of wish-fulfilment that peers forth from it is not entirely without a home. It all adds up to this: the fairy tale narrates a wish-fulfilment that is not bound by its own time and the apparel of its contents. In contrast to the legend which is always tied to a particular locale, the fairy tale remains unbound. Not only does the fairy tale remain as fresh as longing and love, but the demonically evil, which is abundant in the fairy tale, is still seen at work here in the present, and the happiness of ‘once upon a time’, which is even more abundant, still affects our vision of the future. —Ernst Bloch, ‘The Fairy Tale Moves on Its Own in Time’ (1930) C ontents Part I Introduction 1 Recovering the Utopian Spirit of Fairy Tales and Fables from the Weimar Republic 3 Jack Zipes Part II Learning from Mistakes 27 Happiness (1925) 29 Kurt Schwitters A Fairy Tale About God and Kings (1921) 33 Carl Ewald The Giant and His Suit of Armour (1920) 37 Edwin Hoernle The Boy Who Wanted to Fight with a Dragon (1921) 41 Berta Lask vii viii CONTENTS Kuttel Daddeldu Tells His Children the Fairy Tale About Little Red Cap (1923) 47 Joachim Ringelnatz The Little King and the Sun (1920) 51 Edwin Hoernle The Honest Seaman (1908) 55 Joachim Ringelnatz Learn to Grasp the World from Others (1931) 59 Joachim Ringelnatz The Fence (1924) 65 Hermynia zur Mühlen The Servant (1923) 71 Hermynia zur Mühlen The Victor (1922) 81 Béla Balázs The Patched Trousers (1928) 85 Bruno Schönlank The Fairy Tale about the Wise Man (1923) 91 Eugen Lewin-Dorsch Part III Kings, Tyrants, Misers and Other Fools 103 The Holy Wetness (1924) 105 Maria Szucsich CONTENT S ix The Enchanted King (1922) 111 Robert Grötzsch Burufu the Magician (1922) 119 Robert Grötzsch Baberlababb (1927) 127 Oskar Maria Graf The Fairy Tale about the King (1927) 133 Oskar Maria Graf The Castle with the Three Windows (1924) 139 Heinrich Schulz The Giant Spider (1928) 145 Anna Mosegaard Part IV Animal Wisdom 153 Felix the Fish (c.1922) 155 Robert Grötzsch The Poodle and the Schnauzer (1920) 161 Edwin Hoernle The Chameleon (1920) 165 Edwin Hoernle The Triumph of the Wolves (c.1925) 169 Felix Fechenbach x CONTENTS The Chameleon (c.1925) 173 Felix Fechenbach The Revolution in the Zoo (c.1920) 177 Felix Fechenbach The Fairy Tale about the Bear, the Wolf and the Sly Fox (1925) 181 Béla Illés Part V Freedom Through Solidarity 191 The Glasses (1923) 193 Hermynia zur Mühlen Once Upon a Time There Was a Tiny Mouse (c.1943) 199 Kurt Schwitters The Silent Engine Room (1924) 201 Heinrich Schulz Notes on the Authors and Illustrators 205 Bibliography 245 PART I Introduction
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