The beautiful Katrinelje and Pif Paf Poltrie

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The beautiful Katrinelje and Pif Paf Poltrie is a fairy tale ( ATU 2019). It is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm at number 131 (KHM 131). Up to the 3rd edition, the title was written The beautiful Katrinelje and Pif, Paf, Poltrie .

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In order to be able to marry the beautiful Katrinelje, Pif Paf Poltrie has to ask his father Hollenthe, mother Malcho, brother Hohenstolz and sister Käsetraut for permission one after the other. All of them practice typical activities that rhyme with their names, such as B. "Where is Brother Hohenstolz then?" - "He's in the room chopping the wood." Everyone agrees, provided that everyone else agrees. Finally he asks the beautiful Katrinelja herself and asks what she has to offer as a bride's treasure , which is not much. Now she asks him what kind of job he has and begins to guess: a tailor, a shoemaker, a farmer, etc. He always replies: "Much better" until finally she advises the most beautiful craft that he practices: " A broom maker . "

Origin and interpretation

The text is in Grimms Märchen from the second part of the 1st edition (since no. 45) at position 131. The note notes from the Paderbörnischen (i.e. from the von Haxthausen family ) and describes a Bremen variant with other poems.

The children's and house tales also contain two rhyme stories about marriage: KHM 32 The clever Hans and KHM 38 The wedding of the vixen . To advertise wealth cf. KHM 84 Hans also marries .

The name Poltrie probably comes from English paltry , pathetic ',' barren '. The fairy tale is very simple in language and plot; it is characterized by slightly varied scenic repetitions and simple rhymes. It contains no magic whatsoever , the level of tension is flat, introductions and closing formulas typical of fairy tales are missing. This structure makes it suitable even for very young children and resembles simple rhyme stories, songs or can be used as a moving singspiel . Erich Colberg assigns it to the circle games family and recommends it for kindergarten and elementary school . As comparable games, he names Sleeping Beauty was a beautiful child and Who will see hardworking craftsmen? Due to this peculiarity, it also found its way into work with mentally handicapped children via the setting by the composer and music therapist Paul Nordoff .

Processing

In 1951 Hedwig von Lölhöffel (1913–1986) processed the fairy tale into a circle game for children, for which she also composed simple songs.

The composer and music therapist Paul Nordoff composed a singspiel with songs and piano accompaniment for mentally handicapped children about the fairy tale, the plot of which focuses more on binding a broom and sweeping up leaves scattered around the room than is done in the fairy tale. The repeated implementation of the game, in which the children - accompanied by the music therapist at the piano and a co-therapist - take on the various roles, can develop individual supportive, therapeutic and group dynamic effects depending on the characteristics of the disabilities.

Janosch changed some of the rhymes in his re-creations of Grimm's fairy tales, e.g. B. follows on "Where is Sister Käseltraut?" --- "Sitting at the piano and singing loudly" , on "Where is the beautiful Kathrin?" - "Sitting at the piano and eating aspirin" and parodies the form of having to repeatedly ask questions, by having "Piff Paff der Polterie" ask for eighty years until finally everyone has died and "The beautiful Kathrine and Piff Paff der Polterie" can finally marry at over a hundred years.

literature

  • Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm : Children's and Household Tales. With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin not published in all editions . Ed .: Heinz Rölleke . 1st edition. Original notes, guarantees of origin, epilogue ( volume 3 ). Reclam, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-15-003193-1 , p. 225-226, 495 .
  • Sabine Wienker-Piepho : Pif Paf Poltrie! In: Rolf Wilhelm Brednich (ed.): Encyclopedia of fairy tales . tape 10 . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2002, ISBN 3-11-016841-3 , p. 1056-1058 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bremen variant 1856
  2. ↑ Erich Colberg in: Hedwig von Lölhöffel: Pif Paf Poltrie and the beautiful Katrinelje. A circle game for children. The school series issue 64. Deutscher Laienspiel-Verlag, Rotenburg an der Fulda, 1951, p. 3
  3. ↑ Hedwig von Lölhöffel: Pif Paf Poltrie and the beautiful Katrinelje. A circle game for children by Hedwig von Lölhöffel. The school series issue 64. Deutscher Laienspiel-Verlag, Rotenburg an der Fulda, 1951
  4. ^ Paul Nordoff (Music), Clive Robbins (Lyrics): Pif-Paf-Poltrie. A musical working game for children. Theodore Presser Company, King of Prussia 1969
  5. ^ Paul Nordoff, Clive Robbins: Music as therapy for disabled children. Klett-Verlag, Stuttgart 1973, pp. 82-91 ISBN 3-12-926280-6
  6. ↑ Reiner Haus: Nordoff / Robbins play songs and work games, old hat or music therapy treasure trove? Orff Music Therapy Society , accessed on April 26, 2016
  7. ↑ The beautiful Kathrine and Piff Paff of the Polterie. 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. 209-214.

Web links

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