German fairy tales and legends

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Deutsche Märchen und Sagen is an electronic anthology of public domain collections of folk tales and sagas from Germany, most of which were published in the 19th century. Its editor is the narrative researcher Hans-Jörg Uther .

The collection was published on CD-ROM in 2002 by Directmedia as Volume 80 of the Digital Library series .

The compilation is based on a total of 47 sources. It offers the full text of over 24,000 fairy tales, sagas, customs and legends from Germany. The bibliography for narrative research in the appendix lists over 20,000 titles. The high capacity and search options of the CD spoke in favor of the digital form. As part of the free zeno.org service, the individual collections (under their editors) are also available on the Internet.

Own representation

Uther describes the intention of his selection: “This first electronically recorded selection of collections of fairy tales and sagas between 1770 and 1920 aims to give a representative impression of the diversity of the narrative material and at the same time to document the change that is reflected in the conception of folk poetry: adaptation written sources up to the recordings from oral tradition, from the processing with regard to 'fidelity and truth' within the form up to the romantically transfigured and poetic embellishment of old materials and motifs, which have their roots as early as the 18th century. "

review

With a few exceptions, the CD reflects the most important and influential German collections since the end of the 18th century. Even if scans are missing, the CD, to the extent that it was groundbreaking in German-speaking folklore , had undeniable merits in making reliable editions accessible to research and the general public. The recorded works also include the very rare first printed German collection of sagas by Nachtigal.

The edition was well received in literary studies and folklore. Critical comments include: “Despite the amount, of the 362 collectors in the German-speaking area that Hannelore Jeske has identified, only 116 (32%) can be found at Uther.” Furthermore, “the content indexing, which is the responsibility of the publisher Hans -Jörg Uther falls, unfortunately some wishes open. "

Sources used for the collection

  1. Ludwig Aurbacher : A booklet for the youth. Containing the legend of Placidus and his family […]. Stuttgart / Tübingen / Munich, 1834.
  2. Ludwig Aurbacher: A Volksbüchlein. Containing: The Story of the Eternal Jew […]. From the estate of verm. And me Nachw. Ed. Joseph Sarreiter. Leipzig, Reclam, around 1878/79.
  3. Bernhard Baader : Folk tales from the state of Baden and the neighboring areas. Karlsruhe: Verlag der Herder'schen Buchhandlung, 1851.
  4. Bernhard Baader: Newly collected folk tales from the state of Baden and the neighboring areas. Karlsruhe: A. Geßner'sche Buchhandlung, 1859.
  5. Karl Bartsch : Legends, fairy tales and customs from Meklenburg 1–2. Vienna: Braumüller, 1879/80.
  6. Ludwig Bechstein : German book of legends. Leipzig: Georg Wigand, 1853. ed. Karl Martin Schiller. Meersburg / Leipzig: Hendel, 1930.
  7. Ludwig Bechstein: All fairy tales. With notes and an afterword by Walter Scherf, Munich: Winkler, 1971.
  8. Anton Birlinger , MR Buck: Legends, fairy tales and superstitions (folk things from Swabia 1). Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder'sche Verlagshandlung, 1861.
  9. Anton Birlinger: Customs and Customs (Popular things from Swabia 2). Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder'sche Verlagshandlung, 1862.
  10. Wilhelm Busch : Ut ôler world. Folk tales, sagas, folk songs and rhymes. ed. Otto Nöldeke. Munich: Lothar Joachim Verlag, 1910.
  11. Johann Gustav Büsching : Folk sagas, fairy tales and legends. Leipzig: Reclam, 1812.
  12. Carl Colshorn , Theodor Colshorn : fairy tales and legends. Hanover: Rümpler, 1854.
  13. Friedrich Gottschalck : The sagas and folk tales of the Germans 1. [no more published]. Halle: Hemmerde and Schwetschke, 1814.
  14. Johann Georg Theodor Grasse : Book of legends of the Prussian State 1–2. Glogau: Carl Flemming, 1868/71.
  15. Johann Georg Theodor Grässer: The legends of the Kingdom of Saxony. 2nd edition, Dresden: Schönfeld, 1874.
  16. Albert Ludewig Grimm : Lina's Mährchenbuch 1–2. 2nd edition, Grimma: Gebhardt, 1837.
  17. Brothers Grimm : Children's and Household Tales . Berlin: Realschule bookshop, 1812/15.
  18. Children's and Household Tales. Collected by the Brothers Grimm, Munich: Winkler, 1977.
  19. Brothers Grimm: German legends. Two volumes in one volume. Complete edition based on the text of the third edition from 1891, with the preface by the Brothers Grimm to the first edition in 1816 and 1818 and with a preliminary remark by Hermann Grimm. Afterword by Lutz Röhrich, Munich: Winkler, [1965].
  20. Ulrich Jahn : Folk tales from Pomerania and Rügen l. North / Leipzig: Diedr. Soltau's Verlag, 1891.
  21. Ulrich Jahn: Schwänke and purring from the farmer's mouth. Berlin: Mayer & Müller, 1890.
  22. Adalbert Kuhn : Märkische sagas and fairy tales along with an appendix of customs and superstitions. Berlin: Reimer, 1843.
  23. Adalbert Kuhn, Wilhelm Schwartz : North German legends, fairy tales and customs from Meklenburg, Pomerania, the Mark, Saxony, Thuringia, Braunschweig, Hanover, Oldenburg and Westphalia. Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1848.
  24. Adalbert Kuhn: Legends, customs and fairy tales from Westphalia and some others, especially the neighboring areas of Northern Germany 1–2. Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1859.
  25. Johann Heinrich Lehnert : Mährchenkranz for children, dedicated to exhilarating entertainment, especially in family circles. Berlin: Hasselberg, [1829].
  26. Johann Andreas Christian Löhr : The book of girls for childhood and adolescence, along with annoying gnats and purrs, graceful and instructive [1–] 2. Leipzig: Gerhard Fleischer d. Young., [Approx. 1819/20].
  27. Karl Lyncker : German sagas and customs in Hessian districts. Kassel: Verlag von Oswald Bertram, 1854.
  28. Ernst Meier : German folk tales from Swabia. Stuttgart: CP Scheitlin's publishing house, 1852.
  29. Karl Müllenhoff : Legends, fairy tales and songs of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg. Kiel: Schwerssche Buchhandlung, 1845.
  30. Johann Karl August Musäus : Folk Tales of the Germans. Based on the text of the first edition from 1782–1786. With an afterword and notes by Norbert Miller , Munich: Winkler, 1976.
  31. Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal : Volcks sagas. Bremen: Friedrich Wilmans , 1800.
  32. Benedikt Naubert : Folk tales of the Germans. New issue 1–4. Leipzig: Verlag von Gebhard and Reisland, 1840.
  33. Heinrich Pröhle : Harz sagas, partly in the dialect of the mountain people. 2nd edition, Leipzig: Mendelssohn, 1886.
  34. Heinrich Pröhle: Fairy tales for the youth. Halle: Orphanage bookshop, 1854.
  35. Heinrich Pröhle: Children's and folk tales. Leipzig: Avenarius and Mendelsohn, 1853.
  36. Heinrich Pröhle: Rhineland's most beautiful sagas and stories. For the youth. Berlin: Tonger & Greven, 1886.
  37. Heinrich Pröhle: Lower Harz legends. Aschersleben: Fokke, 1856.
  38. Georg Schambach , Wilhelm Müller : Lower Saxony legends and fairy tales. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1855.
  39. Franz Schönwerth : From the Upper Palatinate. Customs and Legends 1–3. Augsburg: Rieger, 1857/58/59.
  40. Alexander Schöppner : Legends of the Bavarian Lands 1–3. Munich: Rieger 1852/52/53.
  41. Emil Sommer : Legends, fairy tales and customs from Saxony and Thuringia 1. Hall: Anton, 1846.
  42. Karl Spiegel : Fairy tales from Bavaria. Scientific supplement to the annual report of the Association for Bavarian Folklore and Dialect Research in Würzburg [eV] for the year 1914, Würzburg: Self-published by the Association for Bavarian Folklore […], 1914.
  43. Karoline Stahl : Fables, fairy tales and stories for children. 2nd edition Nuremberg: Friedrich Campe, 1821.
  44. Ludwig Strackerjan : Superstition and legends from the Duchy of Oldenburg 1-2. ed. K. Willoh., 2nd edition, Oldenburg: Stalling, 1909.
  45. Jodocus Donatus Hubertus Temme : The folk tales of the Altmark. With an appendix of legends from the other brands and from Magdeburg. Berlin: Nicolai, 1839.
  46. Jodocus Donatus Hubertus Temme: The folk tales of Pomerania and Rügen. Berlin: Nicolai, 1840.
  47. Johann Wilhelm Wolf : German house fairy tales. Göttingen: Dieterich'sche Buchhandlung / Leipzig: Vogel, 1851.

Books with this title

  • Ludwig Bechstein: German fairy tales and legends . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin (GDR) 1959, DNB 450289036 .
  • Rosemarie Griesbach: German fairy tales and legends: edited for foreigners . Max Hueber, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-19-001022-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uther in the chapter "About this compilation", p. 66
  2. ^ A b Klaus Graf : Review of German fairy tales and sagas. ed. Hans-Jörg Uther (Digital Library 80), 2002. In: Fabula 45 (2004) 376-378 online
  3. ↑ Rüdiger Brandt, Jürgen zu Fröhlich: Uther: Deutsche Märchen und Sagen. Berlin 2003. In: Perspicuitas. Internet periodical for medieval linguistics, literature and cultural studies. ( online ; PDF; 235 kB)
  4. ^ Willi Höfig: Fairy Tale Collections on CD-ROM. In: Informationsmittel (IFB): digital review organ for library and science ( online )
  5. ↑ Reinhard Kaiser: German fairy tales and legends on CD. In: Deutschlandfunk , May 23, 2003 ( online )

Web links

Wikisource: German fairy tales and legends (Hans-Jörg Uther)  - sources and full texts