Storyteller

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Storytellers , often also referred to as storytellers , storytellers or storytellers , are people who perform religious , cultic or educational tasks in many cultures , but whose art is also used for entertainment . In Central Europe, the profession of stories went teller probably from the spectrum of the medieval minstrels , troubadours and jesters out.

term

In the Anglo-American and European languages one uses the term storyteller (or storyteller ) mostly as a generic term for fairy tales - and storyteller, city and museum guide and writer. In other cultures, however, a strict distinction is often made: for example, women in the Sahel zone tell fairy tales that are primarily intended for entertainment, while the job of a griot sometimes also provides financial support.

tasks

Basically, it is the storyteller's job to entertain their audience and convey the experiences of older generations or certain cultures to them. The orally presented stories can serve as examples of culturally desirable or frowned upon behavior and for dealing with interpersonal conflicts or life crises. Storytelling is an art form with an event character that is largely shaped by the interaction between the narrator and the listener.

The repertoire of a storyteller can include genres such as folk tales , art fairy tales , wisdom stories , parables , fables , epics , sagas , dares , autobiographical stories , anecdotes , myths , adapted literature or plays , poems , songs, etc. Depending on the line of tradition, the stories are presented verbatim or completely freely based on a written template.

There is a wide range of partly intended purposes and effects. Fairy tales are seen, for example, as entertainment, as food for the soul in the sense of handing down human experience, as a religious message or philosophical truth, as a symbol of abstract processes and emotional states, as bearers of hope and as tradition.

Accordingly, stories are told in different frames, but also recited or read aloud. In addition to artistic and entertaining forms in literature, poetry slams, theater and cabaret, this also includes more application-oriented areas such as rhetoric, pedagogy and psychology. In many cultures, storytellers also perform ritual and religious duties. This is the case with many shamans and in Sufism , for example . The job description of the storyteller now overlaps with other professions, such as B. Educators, actors, writers or therapists.

Professional folk singers in West Asia who recite epic tales include the Aşık in Turkey, the Dengbêj in the Kurdish regions, and the Manastschi in Kyrgyzstan .

See also

literature

  • Johannes Merkel, Michael Nagel: Storytelling, the rediscovery of a forgotten art . Reinbek 1982
  • Kristin Wardetzky : Storytelling - Art or Non-Art? . Berlin, March 2005
  • Stefan Kuntz: Listen-Tell-Write . WortSpiegel 3/4, 2004
  • Josef Mahlmeister : Pierre Gripari and his Rue Broca stories . With an excursus on the subject: storytelling. GRIN Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3656186137 .
  • Barbara Greiner-Burkert: Telling really well - skilfully presenting stories and fairy tales . Tausendschlau Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3943328394 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Margaret Read MacDonald: The Storyteller's Start-Up Book . 1993, ISBN 0-87483-305-1 , pp. 92-94; Norbert Kober: Yes, of course! I tell freely. Textbook and reading book . 2015 (4th edition), ISBN 978-3-940190-87-1 , pp. 33–35, 211–224.
  2. ↑ Linde Knoch: Praxisbuch Märchen , 2010 (4th edition), ISBN 978-3-579-02309-0 , pp. 16-24.
  3. ↑ Norbert Kober: Yes, of course! I tell freely , pp. 225–245.