Hansel and Gretel got lost in the woods

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Hansel and Gretel got lost in the forest is a well-known children's song from around 1900. It is loosely based on the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel from the collection of the Brothers Grimm .

Execution as a moving Singspiel

The song can be played as a circle game , in which a previously selected child is positioned as a witch in the center of the circle, while the descriptive lyrics are pantomimed .

Text and melody

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1st stanza
Hansel and Gretel got lost in the forest.
It was so dark and also so bitterly cold.
They came to a cottage of gingerbread fine.
Who is the master of this little house?

2nd stanza
Hu, hu, there is an old witch looking out!
Lured the children to the gingerbread house.
She was very friendly, oh Hansel, what a need!
They wanted to roast him in the oven, brown as bread.

3rd stanza
But when the witch looked into the stove,
she was pushed by our Gretelein.
The witch had to roast, the children go home.
Now the fairy tale of Hans and Gretel is over.

history

The children's song is an anonymous work. In 1901 it was first printed in the song book Das Hör- und Notensingen in the elementary schools of the teacher Paul Hoffmann from Halle (Saale) . In 1922 it was recorded in the Pestalozzi-Froebel-Haus in Berlin.

reception

There are several parodies of the song , including various variants by Otto Waalkes . An erotic film game from 1970 by the Austrian director Franz Josef Gottlieb also bears this title, see Hansel and Gretel got lost in the forest .

The German band Hämatom released a rock version of the song with partially changed lyrics on their album Nein! in the year 2005.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Renate Sarr: Hansel and Gretel got lost in the forest (2007). In: Popular and Traditional Songs. Historical-critical song lexicon of the German Folk Song Archive
  2. ^ Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann : The book of children's songs. 4th edition. Schott, Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-7957-2063-6 , p. 299.
  3. ↑ Hansel and Gretel got lost in the woods at volksliederarchiv.de
  4. ↑ Online presence of music collectors , accessed on January 10, 2015.