Everyday fairy tales
Everyday fairy tale is the title of a collection of stories by the German writer Julius Stinde , which was published in 1873 by the Hamburg publisher JF Richter.
The stories appeared in two volumes, which could be purchased individually, but which the publisher also offered as a book with separate page numbers for volume 1 and volume 2. The collection contains 19 stories that had previously appeared in newspapers and magazines. So far, the first printing can only be verified for eight of them, for a second, Gypsy King's son , there is a later second publication. Many journals of the time are only incomplete, so that the first prints of the remaining ten can probably no longer be determined through bibliographic research or only with great effort.
In the preface, Stinde writes that fairy tales are a beautiful childhood memory, but that they no longer seem to fit into the hustle and bustle of the present. Only the poet still has understanding for the fairy-tale, which is not to be sought in exceptional romantic situations, but in everyday life, especially where "love made two human hearts happy". Not all stories are about love, there is also anecdotal and humorous element in these stories.
Stinde was 31 years old in the year the book was published. He could already look back on a number of book publications, had published numerous scientific articles in newspapers and magazines, had written several plays that were successfully performed in the Carl-Schultze-Theater , but he had not yet emerged as a writer with a poetic claim. His great public success with the play Hamburger Leiden could not yet be foreseen, his move to Berlin not yet planned, where he later achieved world fame as the author of the stories about the Buchholz family. The everyday fairy tales are Stinde's first attempt to make himself known in the literary world as a poet and serious prose author.
In bookshops the book was offered in paperback with a colored cover illustration as a reading copy and in a reputable representative cover with gold lettering and gold decorations. The book does not seem to have had a wider impact. So far, no reviews or other mentions can be proven.
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