Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales

Former workplace of the encyclopedia of fairy tales

The encyclopedia of fairy tales (abbreviation: EM ) is a German-language reference work for international narrative research founded by Kurt Ranke , which comprises 15 volumes.

history

A related project that was limited to German-language fairy tales, the concise dictionary of German fairy tales published by Lutz Mackensen , was discontinued after only two volumes in 1940 due to the war. Kurt Ranke began the preparatory work for an encyclopedia of fairy tales in 1955. At the German Folklore Congress in Nuremberg in 1958, he presented the project to a larger group for the first time. A job was set up at the University of Göttingen , which was financed by the German Research Foundation and the Volkswagenwerk Foundation . Since 1980, the EM has been a project of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences ; it was jointly funded by the federal and state governments in the academy program.

The EM was (like the trade journal Fabula ) published by Walter de Gruyter . The first delivery, beginning with the article "Aarne, Antti Amatus", appeared in 1975, the first volume ( A - Ba ) in 1977. In November 2014, the last delivery of the 14th volume appeared, since March 2015 volume 14 ( retaliation - Cyprus Supplements ) available as a whole. The final volume of registers was published in December 2015 (Volume 15: Directories and Registers ). The edition consists of 3000 copies. In 2016, the Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales was also published as the Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales Online database by De Gruyter Verlag.

Around 1000 authors from 80 countries took part in the EM . The editors were Rudolf Schenda (1973–1992), Lutz Röhrich (1973–2006), Max Lüthi (1973–1984), Regina Bendix (2005/2006) and Rolf Wilhelm Brednich (1983–2015).

content

The nearly 4,000 articles, annotated in the form of endnotes , provide an overview of the following topics:

• Biographies of researchers, collectors and authors of important source works
• Representations of theories and methods, questions of genre, style and structure problems
• Questions about the biology of the story ("who is telling whom why?")
• Overview presentations of a monographic type for important narrative types and motifs
• National and regional research reports

Regardless of its title, the EM not only deals with fairy tales in the narrower sense, but also other genres of folk tales such as sagas , legends , fables , etiologies , rascals or novellas . It thus follows the classification of the Aarne-Thompson Index .

Bibliographical information

Kurt Ranke [founder], Rolf Wilhelm Brednich, a. a .: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales. Concise dictionary for historical and comparative narrative research. 15 volumes. De Gruyter, Berlin 1977–2015.

• Volume 1: Aarne - Bavarian Hiasl. De Gruyter, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-11-006781-1 .
• Volume 2: Processing - Christ and the Blacksmith. De Gruyter, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-11-008091-5 .
• Volume 3: Chronicle Literature - Angels and Hermits. De Gruyter, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-11-008201-2 .
• Volume 4: Duck - Forester. De Gruyter, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-11-009566-1 .
• Volume 5: Fortuna - God is risen. De Gruyter, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-11-010588-8 .
• Volume 6: God and the devil on the move - Hyltén-Cavallius. De Gruyter, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-11-011763-0 .
• Volume 7: Ibn-al-Ğauzī - Little People. De Gruyter, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-11-013478-0 .
• Volume 8: Clergy - Maggio. De Gruyter, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-11-014339-9 .
• Volume 9: Magica Literature - Neẓāmi. De Gruyter, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-11-015453-6 .
• Volume 10: Nibelungenlied - process motifs. De Gruyter, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-11-016841-3 .
• Volume 11: Exam - Chimera Tales. De Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-11-017565-7 .
• Volume 12: Flaying - Sublimation. De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019936-9 .
• Volume 13: Search - Seduction. De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-023767-2 .
• Volume 14: Retaliation - Cyprus, Supplements Ābī - Zombie. De Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-040244-5 .
• Volume 15: Lists, registers, corrigenda. De Gruyter, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-045095-8 .

Brochure study edition:

• Volume 1-6. De Gruyter, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-11-016402-7 .
• Volume 7-15. De Gruyter, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-055191-4 .

See also

• List of encyclopedias and lexicons in German
• List of specialty encyclopedias

Web links

• Official website of the Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales Office (with databases and sample articles)
• Compilation of mediaeval key words from the encyclopedia of fairy tales in the Regesta Imperii of the AdW-Mainz
• Angela Wittmann: What the dwarfs didn't know . In: Zeit.de , December 26, 2005
• Nina May: Göttingen researchers complete the first comprehensive fairy tale encyclopedia . In: Goettinger-Tageblatt.de , December 21, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Interesting facts about the encyclopedia of the fairy tale Academy of Sciences in Göttingen
2. ↑ ^{a b} Press release from the Göttingen Academy of Sciences: The largest folkloric edition project has been completed , November 17, 2015.
3. ↑ See list of completed projects and information on the academy program Academy of Sciences in Göttingen
4. ↑ Göttinger Tageblatt: Göttingen researchers complete the first comprehensive fairy tale encyclopedia ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , December 21, 2014. 
5. ↑ De Gruyter publishes Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales as a paperback edition and online database. In: Buchreport.de. September 21, 2017. Retrieved August 12, 2019 . 
6. ^ Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales Online. In: DeGruyter.com. Retrieved August 12, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Project page ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 14, 2015.