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 |
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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 |
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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 | 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 |
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November 3, 2005 | Red City Hall , ballroom |
Maria Teresa Mestre
Klaus Wowereit |
November 25, 2007 | Red City Hall , ballroom | Peter Maffay |
November 23, 2008 | Red City Hall , ballroom |
Jette Joop
Pastor Ernst Sieber |
November 5, 2009 | Goya Berlin | Reinhold Messner |
November 4, 2010 | Palazzo mirror palace | Stephanie zu Guttenberg |
November 15, 2011 | Estrel Festival Center | Gail Halvorsen |
November 20, 2012 | ZDF capital studio | Hermann Bühlbecker |
November 7, 2013 | Canadian Embassy | Monika Grütters |
November 6, 2014 | British Embassy | Anna Loos |
November 10, 2015 | Schauspielhaus Berlin | Norbert Lammert |
November 14, 2016 | Hotel Adlon | Susanne Klatten |
20th November 2017 | Berlin House of Representatives |
Seyran Ateş
The jam grandma and her grandson Janik |
November 13, 2018 | Chinese embassy | Sara Nuru |
November 13, 2019 | Red Town Hall , Hall of Arms |
Samuel Koch
Josefine Helbling |
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 |
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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 .