German fairy tale book

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German Fairy Tale Book is the title of a fairy tale collection by Ludwig Bechstein , which appeared from 1845 to 1857. From the 12th edition of 1853 it appeared illustrated as Ludwig Bechstein's fairy tale book . From 1856 onwards, Bechstein's New German Book of Fairy Tales also appeared .

Bechstein's preface to the 1845 edition delimits the terms fairy tale , saga , legend and myth , the latter of which he excluded from this collection. He found his sources in old writings and oral tradition, but also accepted help in revising them. In the first edition of 1845, the fairy tales were provided with brief introductory notes on their origin. The order was later changed and some texts were replaced.

Influences

Bechstein apparently took the following fairy tales from Grimm's fairy tales : No. 1 The Brave Little Tailor , No. 2 The fairy tale of the seven Swabians , No. 4 The sample pieces of the master thief , No. 8 Hansel and Gretel (after Gubitz ), No. 9 The Little Red Riding Hood , No. 12 Gevatter Tod , No. 22 Hans im Glücke , No. 24 The seven ravens , No. 26 The teardrop jug , No. 27 From the chicken and the chickens , No. 38 The little table covers you, donkey stretch out, clubs out of the sack , No. 41 The miller and the mermaid , No. 47 The seven little goats , No. 50 The fairy tale of the land of plenty , No. 51 Snow white , No. 52 The Sleeping Beauty , No. 60 The race between the hare and the hedgehog , No. 62 Cinderella , No. 66 The Juniper Tree , No. 70 The Fairy Tale of the Knight Bluebeard , No. 74 Rupert, the Bearskin , No. 80 The Scary . Particularly similar are also No. 28 The Ears of Corn (in Grimm's The Ears of Corn ), No. 53 Schwan, kleb an ( The golden goose ), No. 79 The Partridge ( The clear sun brings it to light ). No. 34 Little Tom Thumb , No. 70 The fairy tale of the Knight Bluebeard go back to Charles Perrault .

From Antonius von Pforr's The Book of Examples of the Wise Men , No. 56 The Little Mouse Sambar or the Faithful Friendship of Animals , No. 57 The Man and the Snake , No. 58 The Rooster and the Fox , No. 59 The Life Story of the Mouse Sambar , No. 75 Vogel Holgott and Vogel Mosam , No. 76 From Two Monkeys , No. 77 From the Wolf and the Mouse Dogs , No. 78 The Cat and the Mouse (as well as in Bechstein's New German Fairy Tale Book No. 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 ).

Bechstein took some texts (No. 6 , 28 , 29 ) from his Thuringia in the present , others from Joseph von Laßberg's Liedersaal (No. 15 , 20 , 33 , 79 ), Karl Müllenhoff's sagas, fairy tales and songs of the Duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg (nos. 17 , 36 , 39 , 67 ), Zuccalmaglios and Kretzschmer's German folk songs in their original ways (nos. 10 , 21 ) and other sources.

Texts included (last edition, 1857)

Texts that were still included in the first edition from 1845

Book edition

  • Ludwig Bechstein: German Fairy Tale Book , 2 volumes (first edition 1845), Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim / Zurich / New Yort, NY 2003, ISBN 3-487-11991-9 (reprint of the Kesselring, Hildburghausen 1835 and 1836 edition).

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