The giant and the tailor
The giant and the tailor is a swank ( ATU 1049, 1053, 1051). He stands in the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm from the 5th edition of 1843 instead of 183 (KHM 183) and is based on Franz Ziskas The tailor and the giant in Austrian folk tales of the 1,822th
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A tailor meets a giant he has to serve. He tries to impress the giant by boasting and get away again. When he is supposed to bring water, wood and wild boars, he says:
"Why not prefer the well with the spring?", "Why not prefer the whole forest with one stroke,
- the whole forest
- with young and old,
- with everything he has
- gnarled and smooth? "
and “Why not a thousand at a time, and all of them here?” The terrified giant grumbles twice: “The guy can fry more than apples, he has mandrake in his body. Be on your guard, old Hans, this is no servant for you. ”Finally he lets him sit on a willow rod so that he flips off into the air.
origin
The Brothers Grimm took over the Schwank from Franz Ziska's Austrian folk tales (1822). Her comment on KHM 20 The Brave Little Tailor also reproduces it. In the 1819 preprint in Johann Gustav Gottlieb Büsching's weekly news , the source read: “From a farmer's wife from Döbling in Lower Austria” (today the 19th district of Vienna ). There is no structurally comparable written template. Wilhelm Grimm did not change anything, but translated in the first sentence "in da Wöld umma z'-schau'n" with "to look around in the forest" (instead of "in the world") and to the wild boars "Z'weg'n wos denn nöd liaba glai daus'nd mid van'n Schus und di dozua? "with" Why not a thousand at one shot, and all of them here? "(instead of" and you too ").
Comparisons
The mention of the iron that would have saved the tailor from flying away is reminiscent of KHM 163 The Glass Coffin . In fairy tales, the tailor is often the knocker and fearful rabbit, the giant is greedy and gullible, cf. KHM 20 The brave little tailor , KHM 90 The young giant , KHM 92 The king of the golden mountain , KHM 93 The raven , KHM 107 The two hikers , KHM 111 The trained hunter , KHM 121 The king's son who is not afraid of anything , KHM 126 Ferenand trü and Ferenand untroubled , KHM 177 The messengers of death , KHM 193 The drummer , KHM 197 The crystal ball .
parody
At Janosch , the tailor in the tram impresses the giant with spitting on the floor, smeared windows and smoking until the inspector throws him out.
literature
- Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 749-751. Düsseldorf and Zurich, 19th edition 1999. (Artemis & Winkler Verlag; Patmos Verlag; ISBN 3-538-06943-3 )
- Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Last hand edition with the original notes by the Brothers Grimm. With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin, not published in all editions, published by Heinz Rölleke. Volume 3: Original Notes, Guarantees of Origin, Afterword. Pp. 266, 510-511. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
- Rölleke, Heinz (Ed.): Grimm's fairy tales and their sources. The literary models of the Grimm fairy tales are presented synoptically and commented on. 2., verb. Edition, Trier 2004. pp. 424–429, 578. (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier; series of literature studies, vol. 35; ISBN 3-88476-717-8 )
- Uther, Hans-Jörg: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Berlin 2008. pp. 378-379. (de Gruyter; ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 )
- Hedwig von Beit: Contrast and Renewal in Fairy Tales. Second volume of «Symbolism of Fairy Tales». 2nd Edition. A. Francke, Bern 1956, p. 500.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Janosch: The giant and the tailor. In: Janosch tells Grimm's fairy tale. Fifty selected fairy tales, retold for today's children. With drawings by Janosch. 8th edition. Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim and Basel 1983, ISBN 3-407-80213-7 , pp. 227-228.
