Berlin fairytale days

The Berlin Fairy Tale Days were founded in 1990 by Horst-Dieter Klock as a project of the New Society for Literature (NGL) and led by him until 1999. It was held for the first time from September 11th to 16th, 1990 under the motto Authors from East and West tell fairy tales for children, and Horst-Dieter Klock, Eberhard Alexander-Burgh and Hans Häußler were responsible for their conception . In 2000, Silke Fischer became the project manager of the Berlin Fairy Tale Days within the NGL and, among other things, postponed the series of events from September to November. Since 2004, the Märchenland e.V., founded at the same time by Silke Fischer and the former NGL managing director Monika Panse in Berlin . V. organized the newly designed fairytale festival under both management.

Events from 1990

The first fourteen Berlin Fairy Tale Days until 2003 were held as a project of the New Society for Literature (NGL). Already during the first five events the number of participating authors as well as those of the event locations and the duration of the event - from 6 to 18 days at the beginning - grew considerably. In contrast to the events after 1999, the thematic mottos of the Berlin Fairy Tale Days were kept very open under the direction of Horst-Dieter Klock and were awarded the German Children's Culture Prize in October 1999 . Starting in 2000, Silke Fischer changed the concept of the Berlin Fairy Tale Days as a project manager within the NGL and in 2004 she took on the role of director of the Märchenland e. V. hived off from the NGL, which is why the information on this can be found in the following table from 2000 onwards. In addition, the current sources only allow information for the first five Berlin fairy tale days from 1990 to 1994 to be given here.

Period	motto	patronage	Events	Venues	Visitors
September 11-16, 1990	Authors from East and West tell fairy tales for children	(not known)	?	?	?
September 10-20, 1991	Fairy tales of our city	Governing Mayor of Berlin Eberhard Diepgen	?	?	?
September 6-20, 1992	Fairy tales build bridges	Governing Mayor of Berlin Eberhard Diepgen	?	?	?
September 1st to 19th, 1993	Fairy tales show the way	(not known)	270	40	?
September 1st to 18th, 1994	Fairy tales encourage	(not known)	470	109	over 30,000 children
1995 to 1999	?	?	?	?	?

Award

October 1999: German Children's Culture Prize for the Berlin Fairy Tale Days, last year under the direction of its founder Horst-Dieter Klock .

Events from 2000

From 1990 to 2003 the Berlin Fairy Tale Days were a project of the New Society for Literature (NGL). With Silke Fischer, from 2000 project manager of the Berliner Märchentage within NGL and from 2004 director of the Märchenland eV association she co-founded . V. , the series of events was conceptually changed by her and spun off from the NGL in 2004, which is why the table here shows the information for the events from 2000 onwards.

Every year from 2000 to 2015 inclusive , the Berlin Fairy Tale Days presented a foreign culture and fairy tale circle from around the world. In cooperation with the embassies and institutions of the respective countries, fairy tales , myths and stories from all epochs were presented by international artists in readings, dance, theater and music events in libraries, bookshops, schools and event rooms on an average of 17 days . In addition, scientific symposia , exhibitions and film events were held. Since 2016 the mottos of the Berlin Fairy Tale Days have again been without national or regional reference and instead negotiate topics such as love and hate or power and powerlessness.

The series of events is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Education, Youth and Sport , the German Lottery Foundation and the Federal Agency for Civic Education .

Period	motto	patronage	Events	Venues	Visitors
November 23, 2000 to December 3, 2000	Nordic fairy tales, myths and stories	Governing Mayor of Berlin Eberhard Diepgen The ambassadors of the Nordic countries in Berlin	450	200	40,000
November 8-18, 2001	Fairy tales and stories from 2001 night	Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit President of the German-Arab Society Secretary General of the League of Arab States	500	200	50,000
November 14th to 24th, 2002	The tsar's treasury	Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit Ambassador of the Russian Federation Sergei B. Krylov	600	250	75,000
November 6-16, 2003	Fairy tales, myths, the Mediterranean	Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit Minister for Cultural Affairs of Italy Giuliano Urbani Minister of Culture of Greece Evangelos Venizelos	700	250	77,000
November 5th to 21st, 2004	Sixteen in one go	Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit Presidents of the Federal Council Dieter Althaus and Matthias Platzeck	1,077	350	100,000
November 3rd to 20th, 2005	Hans Christian Andersen	HRH Margrethe II of Denmark Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit	1500	400	150,000
November 2nd to 19th, 2006	The Danube - a fairy tale river	Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit	1,000	275	160,000
November 8th to 25th, 2007	Of lions 'hearts and robbers' daughters	Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit Swedish Ambassador in Berlin Ruth Jacoby	850	350	150,000
November 6-23, 2008	TELLstories - Swiss fairy tales	Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit Swiss Ambassador Christian Blickenstorfer	827	250
November 5th to 22nd, 2009	World stories - of creators and creatures	Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit Ministry of Foreign Affairs	930	350
November 4th to 21st, 2010	From the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego - fairy tales and stories	Governing Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit Ambassador of the Republic of Ecuador and Chairman of the Group of Ambassadors for Latin America and the Caribbean, Horacio H. Sevilla Borja	730	350
November 10-27, 2011	The land of unlimited possibilities - fairy tales and stories from the USA	Governing Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit Ambassador of the United States of America, Philip D. Murphy	700	350
November 8th to 25th, 2012	“ROTKÄPPCHEN COMES FROM BERLIN!” 200 years “Children's and Household Tales” by the Brothers Grimm	Governing Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit	1,200	350
November 7th to 24th, 2013	“Around the world in 18 days” fairy tales and stories from the Francophonie	Governing Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit Ambassador of the French Republic, Maurice Gourdault-Montagne Ambassador of Canada, Marie Gervais-Vidricaire Ambassador of the Republic of Togo, Essohanam Comla Paka Ambassador of the Kingdom of Cambodia, Dr. Widhya Chem	800	300
November 6-23, 2014	ONCE UPON A TIME Fairy tales and stories from the UK	Governing Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Berlin, Sir Simon McDonald	850	300
November 5th to 22nd, 2015	Of CARAVANS, DESERTS and OASES Fairy tales and stories from the Arab world	Governing Mayor of Berlin, Michael Müller Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Berlin, Doyen of the Council of Arab Embassies, Ossama Abdul Majed Shobokshi	850	300
3rd to 20th November 2016	SLEEPING BEAUTY AWAKE…! Girls and women in fairy tales and stories	Governing Mayor of Berlin, Michael Müller President of Willkommen in Berlin, Tone Korssund-Eichinger	800	300
November 9th to 26th, 2017	Love is a heavenly power - fairy tales and stories of love and hate	Ralf Wieland, President of the House of Representatives and Michael Müller, Governing Mayor of Berlin
November 8th to 25th, 2018	The golden thread of fate - fairy tales and stories of power and powerlessness	Governing Mayor of Berlin, Michael Müller Mayor and Senator for Culture and Europe in Berlin, Klaus Lederer	600	260

Fairy tale price

In 2005, on the occasion of Andersen's 200th birthday, the “Golden Pea” was launched as an undoped honorary prize as the Berlin fairy tale prize . The golden pea - based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Princess and the Pea - stands for sensitivity and the conveyance of ethical values. The director Silke Fischer honors with the Golden Pea honorary prize people who give hope through social and cultural commitment.

date	Venue	Award winners
November 3, 2005	Red City Hall , ballroom	Maria Teresa Mestre Uwe-Karsten Heye Klaus Wowereit
November 25, 2007	Red City Hall , ballroom	Peter Maffay Henning Mankell Heidi Oetinger
November 23, 2008	Red City Hall , ballroom	Jette Joop Pastor Ernst Sieber Bernd Siggelkow
November 5, 2009	Goya Berlin	Reinhold Messner Sabine Christiansen Dirk Rossmann
November 4, 2010	Palazzo mirror palace	Stephanie zu Guttenberg Iris Berben Marion Horn
November 15, 2011	Estrel Festival Center	Gail Halvorsen Steffi Jones Carmen Nebel Bettina Wulff
November 20, 2012	ZDF capital studio	Hermann Bühlbecker Hans Georg Näder Vicky Leandros Alfred Theodor Ritter
November 7, 2013	Canadian Embassy	Monika Grütters Ulrich Wickert Patricia Riekel
November 6, 2014	British Embassy	Anna Loos Sir Rocco Forte Walter Kohl Royston Maldoom David Chipperfield
November 10, 2015	Schauspielhaus Berlin	Norbert Lammert Sheikha Jawaher Bint Mohammed Al Qasimi Ali M. Thunayan Al-Ghanim Khadra Sufi Naserr Shamma
November 14, 2016	Hotel Adlon	Susanne Klatten Regina Ziegler Sophie Boissard
20th November 2017	Berlin House of Representatives	Seyran Ateş Nora Tschirner Patrick de Saint-Exupery The jam grandma and her grandson Janik
November 13, 2018	Chinese embassy	Sara Nuru Kirsten Boie William Li Uschi Glas
November 13, 2019	Red Town Hall , Hall of Arms	Samuel Koch Josefine Helbling Ruth Bader Ginsburg Esther Bejarano

Student competition

Since 1998, the annual writing and painting competition, which has been advertised nationwide since 2004 and internationally since 2008, has been aimed at the 4th, 5th and 6th school classes. As part of the Berlin Fairy Tale Days, students should invent their own fairy tales based on a given topic. Behind Märchenland stands a jury of experts, including children's book authors, storytellers and researchers, teachers, journalists and decision-makers from federal ministries. Awards will be given to the twelve most beautiful fairy tale ballads together with the twelve most successful pictures, which are published in a fairy tale calendar and are awarded prizes in kind.

year	motto
2004	Children lie with Munchausen vied
2005	With the galoshes of happiness through time and space
2006	Fairy tale ballads from the water
2007	I make the world the way I like it
2008	From peaks and grottoes - fairy tale ballads from highs and lows
2009	Space stories of distant planets and unknown creatures
2010	The secret of the forgotten books
2011	The world needs new heroes
2012	If I were King of Germany ...
2013	In the waters of our earth
2014	Scare yourself or be brave, that is the question!
2015	Aladin, the genie from the magic lamp and me
2016	In the long run, only double power helps! (Super) heroines and (super) heroes in action.
2017	All love or what?

Web links

MÄRCHENLAND - German Center for Fairy Tale Culture , official website for the Berlin Fairy Tale Days

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Chronicle of the NGL events 1974–1994 , section 1990, September , s. P. 277 and 278; for the following September dates up to 1994 s. P. 281–311 in: Olav Münzberg , Bernd Erich Wöhrle (eds.): Literatur vor Ort - a literary-documentary anthology about the New Society for Literature Berlin . New Society for Literature (ed.). Argon Verlag , Berlin 1995.
↑ Märchenland - About us. Retrieved February 28, 2017 .
↑ Federal Cross of Merit for “Fairy Tale Days” initiator Dr. Klock , press release of the Berlin State Chancellery of the Governing Mayor of Berlin from February 10, 2003, online at berlin.de
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o Berlin Fairy Tale Days since 2000 at a glance Information on the Berlin Fairy Tale Days from 2000 to 2014 on the Märchenland e. V. , PDF file with 20 pages, online at maerchenland-ev.de

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Berlin fairy tale days review. Retrieved March 6, 2017 .

↑ Fairy tale culture awards the golden pea. In: bz-berlin.de. November 7, 2013, accessed March 16, 2019 .

↑ FOCUS Online: Fairytale award . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on March 6, 2017]).

↑ Fairy tale ballads for school competition 2017. In: Ganztagsschulen.org. December 23, 2016, archived from the original on March 1, 2017 ; accessed on August 24, 2019 .

[ChroVA-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Chronicle of the NGL events 1974–1994 , section 1990, September , s. P. 277 and 278; for the following September dates up to 1994 s. P. 281–311 in: Olav Münzberg , Bernd Erich Wöhrle (eds.): Literatur vor Ort - a literary-documentary anthology about the New Society for Literature Berlin . New Society for Literature (ed.). Argon Verlag , Berlin 1995.

[2] Märchenland - About us. Retrieved February 28, 2017 .

[PM-Bvk-3] Federal Cross of Merit for “Fairy Tale Days” initiator Dr. Klock , press release of the Berlin State Chancellery of the Governing Mayor of Berlin from February 10, 2003, online at berlin.de

[ML-PDF-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o Berlin Fairy Tale Days since 2000 at a glance Information on the Berlin Fairy Tale Days from 2000 to 2014 on the Märchenland e. V. , PDF file with 20 pages, online at maerchenland-ev.de

[ML-html-5] Berlin fairy tale days review. Retrieved March 6, 2017 .

[6] Fairy tale culture awards the golden pea. In: bz-berlin.de. November 7, 2013, accessed March 16, 2019 .

[7] FOCUS Online: Fairytale award . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on March 6, 2017]).

[8] Fairy tale ballads for school competition 2017. In: Ganztagsschulen.org. December 23, 2016, archived from the original on March 1, 2017 ; accessed on August 24, 2019 .