The dancing shoes

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The dancing shoes is a fairy tale ( ATU 306). It is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 133 (KHM 133).

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The king's twelve daughters always have their shoes danced to pieces in the morning. The king wants to find out where they secretly dance at night. Whoever finds out should be allowed to take one of them as a wife. But if he doesn't find out after three nights, he has to die. Although some suitors volunteer, they all fail to unravel the secret because they fall asleep at night. Finally, a poor, wounded soldier reports who has received advice from an old woman to wear a camouflage coat and not to drink the evening drink brought by the eldest daughter. So he succeeds in following the daughters three times unnoticed on their secret path into an underground castle. There they dance with twelve enchanted princes to redeem them. He takes a piece of evidence with him every time. So after three days the king gave him the eldest daughter to wife at his request. The twelve cursed princes are then cursed again.

Grimm's note

The fairy tale is in the children's and house fairy tales from the second part of the first edition of 1815 (there as no. 47) in position 133. The note notes from the Münsterland (by Jenny von Droste zu Hülshoff ) and tells a Paderbörn variant (from Familie von Haxthausen ), from which the sponge under the soldier's chin comes: He is supposed to find out how the shoes of the three king's daughters break in two every night. Twelve have already been hung in front of him and tried in vain. He follows the daughters through the corridor to a lake, through which three giants carry them to a copper castle. The soldier takes a cloak and shoes from a lion and a fox, over which they fight, with which he wishes to go to the castle. There he sits down next to the oldest and eats everything before her mouth. The second and third night there is a silver or gold lock and he sits next to the middle one or the youngest, which he finally receives from the king as a wife.

In a third from Hesse, the king's daughter dances twelve pairs of shoes every night. The youngest of the twelve journeymen who bring them every day hides under the bed. He sees the king's daughter climb through a trap door with eleven others, go to twelve gardens in a boat and dance in a castle with twelve royal sons. One of them doesn't want to get up in the morning until the fellow brings her shoes that she is marrying.

For the dispute about the three miraculous gifts, compare KHM 92 The King of the Golden Mountain (KHM 93 , 122 , 193 , 197 would be added ), for the death penalty if the puzzle solution failed, KHM 22 The Riddle and KHM 134 The Six Servants (KHM 191 ).

interpretation

Many fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm revolve around the fact that an often simple man receives the king's daughter by completing a certain task or solving a riddle (KHM 4 , 20 , 134 ). In this respect, the poor soldier is not entirely atypical as a hero (KHM 101 , 116 , 16a ). The fact that such a son-in-law is then put in the way of special obstacles may be averted here by opting for the oldest daughter. It was also she who switched off all applicants with the sleeping draft (KHM 93 , 113 , 193 ). The youngest, on the other hand, is often the dearest (KHM 62 , 169 ). She suspects that she shouldn't have gone dancing, but lets the eldest persuade her. The underground castle they go to at night represents a mysterious otherworld or underworld. The character of the cunning old man is also very common, although she is not always benign as here (KHM 93 , 122 , 123 ).

According to Hedwig von Beit , the simple soldier is the undeveloped personality in contrast to the king. Its originality finds access to unconscious secrets. The wound (of Wotan , Prometheus or Amfortas ) makes him a healer. For Ortrud Stumpfe he is the one who consciously fights for order, who has learned to connect with the things he wants to fathom in such a way that he becomes inconspicuous, similar to Friedel Lenz . The evil side of the anima is often portrayed as an involuntary compulsion. It is less common that demons also seek redemption. Heino Gehrts points out that the aforementioned metals copper , silver and gold stand for the stars Venus , moon and sun , i.e. represent a world beyond that those involved enter in their sleep, which is reminiscent of somnambulia , which the hero reveals and makes aware . The broken shoes also indicate a disturbed relationship to earth (to reality).

The fairy tale researcher Hans-Jörg Uther finds it illogical that the daughters despise the soldier and want to redeem the enchanted prince, who is then enchanted again. Even Walter Scherf looks embarrassed solutions in the marriage of the old suitor with the oldest daughter and the extension of the curse of the prince, which therefore must be demons. His approach to interpretation: The escapades of the imprisoned daughters suggest a daughter-father conflict (as in AaTh 870: KHM 198 ; AaTh 510B: KHM 65 ; AaTh 301: KHM 91 ; AaTh 307, 507). In fairy tales like those of the grateful dead , the hero himself is in a son-father conflict. Also Verena Kast sees the daughters of Father demons bound.

Variants and edits

The English Wikipedia calls a variant Kate Crackernuts in Joseph Jacobs ' English Fairy Tales , this fairy tale by Jacobs combines Cinderella motifs from the Norwegian Cinderella Kari Holzrock with the fairy tale of the princess disappearing at night. Furthermore, the art fairy tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Charles Deulin is concerned with the Grimm material of the shoes that were danced to pieces . It comes from Deulin's tales of King Gambrinus ; A Russian variant of the fairy tale comes from Alexander Nikolajewitsch Afanassjew . As a fictional adaptation, there is a story by Jeanette Winterson Sexing the Cherry .

Cf. in Giambattista Basiles Pentameron II, 2 Verde Prato .

Stage plays

  • The dancing shoes, a cheerful fairy tale dance pantomime in 4 pictures , by Franz bei der Wieden 1941
  • The Dancing Shoes - A musical fairy tale for children from six years and adults by Ueli Blum. Music by Erich A. Radke. World premiere at the Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord Wilhelmshaven, 2000
  • The dancing shoes fairy tale with a lot of music by Ueli Blum. Music by Erich A. Radke. New version by Kay Link . Verlag Felix Bloch Erben , Berlin 2013. World premiere at the Theater der Junge Welt Leipzig, November 2011
  • The secret of Jan Patrick Faatz's shoes that were danced to pieces. The fabric was re-spoiled in the style of Rapunzel or The Frozen Re-worked. World premiere at Theater Sechseckbau in Kiel, November 2014.

Film adaptations

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. 227-228, 495 .
  • Hans-Jörg Uther : Handbook to the "Children's and Household Tales" by the Brothers Grimm. Origin, effect, interpretation . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 284-285 .
  • Walter Scherf: The fairy tale dictionary . tape 2 : L-Z. Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-39911-8 , pp. 1441-1444 .
  • Ortrud Stumpfe: The symbolic language of fairy tales . Aschendorffsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Münster, ISBN 3-402-03474-3 , p. 34, 47, 48, 75, 177, 184 .
  • Heino Gehrts: The fairy tale of the shoes being danced to pieces . In: Heino Gehrts, Gabriele Lademann-Priemer, European Fairy Tale Society (Ed.): Shamanism and magic fairy tales . Erich Röth, Kassel 1986, ISBN 3-87680-344-6 , p. 160-177 .

Web links

Wikisource: The Dancing Shoes  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ by Beit, Hedwig: Contrast and Renewal in Fairy Tales. Second volume of «Symbolism of Fairy Tales». Second, improved edition, Bern 1956. pp. 182-183. (A. Francke AG, publisher)
  2. ↑ Ortrud Stumpfe: The symbolic language of fairy tales . Aschendorffsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Münster, ISBN 3-402-03474-3 , p. 48 .
  3. ^ Friedel Lenz: Visual language of fairy tales . 8th edition. Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-87838-148-4 , p. 248 .
  4. ↑ by Beit, Hedwig: Contrast and Renewal in Fairy Tales. Second volume of «Symbolism of Fairy Tales». Second, improved edition, Bern 1956. pp. 196–197. (A. Francke AG, publisher)
  5. ↑ Heino Gehrts: The fairy tale of the shoes that were danced to pieces . In: Heino Gehrts, Gabriele Lademann-Priemer, European Fairy Tale Society (Ed.): Shamanism and magic fairy tales . Erich Röth, Kassel 1986, ISBN 3-87680-344-6 , p. 160-177 .
  6. ^ Friedel Lenz: Visual language of fairy tales . 8th edition. Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-87838-148-4 , p. 250 .
  7. ↑ Hans-Jörg Uther : Handbook on the "Children's and Household Tales" by the Brothers Grimm. Origin, effect, interpretation . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 284-285 .
  8. ↑ Walter Scherf: The fairy tale dictionary . tape 2 : L-Z. Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-39911-8 , pp. 1441-1444 .
  9. ↑ Kast, Verena: Love. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Volume 8. S. 1047. Berlin, New York, 1996.
  10. ↑ English edition of Deulin in Andrew Lang's The Red Fairy Book
  11. ↑ Charles Deulin: tales of King Gambrinus from French transmitted by Friedrich v. Oppeln-Bronikowsi therein Die Zwölf Tanzprinzessinnen , pp. 65–76; Eugen Diederichs-Verlag, Jena 1923
  12. ↑ Charles Deulin: tales of King Gambrinus from French transmitted by Friedrich v. Oppeln-Bronikowsi: Die Zwölf Tanzprinzessinnen , pp. 65–76; Eugen Diederichs-Verlag, Jena 1923