Kranz Library
The Kranz-Bücherei is a German booklet series that appeared from the 1920s to the 1970s.
The series of booklets was initially published from the 1920s to 1940s by the youth literature committee of the teachers' association , namely Otto Metzker , Frankfurt am Main, and was published by Moritz Diesterweg Verlag, Frankfurt am Main. The booklets of this older series each had about 30 pages in the format 19.5 × 13.5 cm.
The series had to be discontinued in the 1940s and appeared again from the 1950s to the 1970s. The count began again with number 1. The newer booklets appeared under the motto “Class reading material for elementary school” They were a little larger in size of 21 × 15 cm and had a cardboard cover and usually had between 30 and 40 pages. As school reading material, they contained a note stating from which school year the content was to be used.
Series from the 1920s to 1940s
| No. | year | title | author | illustrator | Note |
| 1 | 1927 19.-24. Thousand |
Old Norse legends of the gods The Edda retold | Ernst Kniepkamp | With pictures after pen drawings by Hans Spitzmann | |
| 2 | 1924 | Fairy tales in the magic forest | Brothers Grimm | ||
| 3 | 1927 | Fairy tales from hearty fellows | Brothers Grimm | Otto Ubbelohde | |
| 4th | 1931 | Master Pfriem and other purring owls Schwankmärchen of the Brothers Grimm | with pictures based on old woodcuts | ||
| 5 | 1928 11-15 Thousand |
The bearskin and other soldiers' tales | |||
| 6th | around 1925 | From the frumpy mercenaries. Old teasers, purrs and songs | with pictures based on old woodcuts | ||
| 7th | |||||
| 8th | 1931 | When the buds jump. A spring book | Heinrich Grupe | Heinrich Schopp | |
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| 11/12 | 1924 | A story | Friedrich de La Motte Fouqué | Franz Hein | with pictures after pen drawings by Franz Hein |
| 13 | Forgotten children | Adolf Schmitthenner | |||
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| 15th | |||||
| 16 | 1929 | Small people: dwarf legends a. Dwarf tales from the popular tongue | Otto Stückrath and Olga Stückrath [Eds.] | Cover photo by Hans Spitzmann | |
| 17th | 1924 2nd A. |
Norwegian folk tales | After the first edition by Ludwig Tieck | ||
| 18th | around 1924 | The Marseillaise. Story from the days of the revolution in Strasbourg | Friedrich Lienhard | Paul Leschhorn | |
| 19th | 1926 | Youth days in the Bohemian Forest. Childhood memories of Johann Peter. | Johann Peter | Pen drawings by Hans Spitzmann | With pictures after pen drawings by Hans Spitzmann |
| 20th | |||||
| 21st | 1926 | About deer and fox | Hermann Loens | ||
| 22nd | 25th | From Schinkenburg Ernst-cheerful memories from the Biedermeier period | Ernst Koch | Otto Ubbelohde | Epilogue: Adolf Lehmann |
| 23 | 1927 | The Apprentice | Fritz Müller-Partenkirchen | ||
| 24 | around 1925 | When the minette chunk awoke technical stories | Fritz Müller-Partenkirchen | Reinold Gruszka | |
| 25th | around 1925 | Bare feet stories from the Bavarian mountains | Fritz Müller-Partenkirchen | Wilhelm Repsold | |
| 26th | around 1925 | Up! A German consolation book | Fritz Müller-Partenkirchen | Karl Grimm | |
| 27 | around 1925 | I serve ' stories from work | Fritz Müller-Partenkirchen | Wilhelm Repsold | |
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| 29 | 1927 | Through Kamchatka's ice desert Siberian travel experiences | George Kennan / Dr. Ernst Dröscher | ||
| 30th | 1927 6-10 Thousand |
The Rychiswyl broom maker A Swiss story | Jeremias Gotthelf | Ludwig Richter | |
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| 32 | around 1925 | The heath village | Adalbert Stifter | Fritz Jaspert | |
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| 39 | 1926 | Hansel's luck and end - the story of a starling | Bruno Schönfelder | ||
| 43 | 1931 | The shield citizens | Gustav Schwab | Oskar Pletsch | |
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| 52 | 1929 | The Golden Dreams A fairy tale | Isolde Kurz | Gerda Luise Matthei-Schmidt | |
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| 55/56 | 1925 | The Hohenwang plane | Hans Ludwig Rosegger | ||
| 57 | The Hohenwang plane | ||||
| 58/59 | 1929 | Stories about German poets from golden streets | Ludwig Bate | Double band | |
| 60 | At the Hunnenstein historical story | Peter Dörfler | |||
| 61 | around 1930 | Wonderland fairy tale | Joseph von Eichendorff and Ludwig Tieck | Gerda Luise Matthei-Schmidt | |
| 62 | around 1930 | Blessed World Two fairy tales | Novalis | Gerda Luise Matthei-Schmidt | |
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| 66 | The spirits of the Yellow River | ||||
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| 68/69 | 1926 | Loher and Maller The old hero story retold | Gotthold Klee | Karl Grimm | Double volume with 60 pages |
| 70 | 1926 | King Rother Retold the old minstrel song | Gotthold Klee | Karl Grimm | |
| 71 | around 1930 | God's peace Two Christmas stories | Selma Lagerlöf | Kurt Dammel | |
| 72 | 1928 | Childhood stories from my own youth | Selma Lagerlöf | Ernst Reupke | |
| 73 | Grimm's fairy tale . The queen bee | ||||
| 74… 79 | |||||
| 80 | 1929 | The pastor of Weinsperg Historical tale | Franz Freiherr von Gaudy | Pictures by Hans Röhm | |
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| 83 | 1926 | Old Russian Hero Stories Part One | Lili von Baumgarten | Pictures by Ada von Pagenhardt | |
| 84 | 1926 | Old Russian heroic stories Part two | Lili von Baumgarten | Pictures by Ada von Pagenhardt | |
| 85 | 1927 | Elsi, the strange maid | Jeremias Gotthelf | Hans Röhm | |
| 86 | 1926 | Romantic sagas | Jeremias Gotthelf | Hans Röhm | |
| 87 | 1926 | Historical legends | Jeremias Gotthelf | Hans Röhm | |
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| 89 | 1926 | Pictures and figures from the Mark Brandenburg Second part | Aleris Willibald | ||
| 90 | 1931 | From the Romanian War Diary | Hans Carossa | Hans Anton Aschenborn | |
| 91/92 | 1926 | Old Frankfurt legends | August publisher | with pen drawings by David Spier | Double edition |
| 93 | 1926 | Poor Heinrich Based on the poem by Hartmann von Aue | Bernhard Oest | ||
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| 95 | 1930 | Krambambuli - The Spitzin Two stories | Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach | Karl Mahr | |
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| 98 | 1926 | The Star of Bethlehem A game of the birth of Christ in four pictures | Fritz Grebenstein | Karl Mahr | |
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| 100 | 1926 | The rock image - God walks through the forest Two stories | Peter Rosegger | Kamilla Sodoma | |
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| 103 | around 1930 | Cheerful stories | Johann Peter Lever | Fritz Quidenus | |
| 104 | around 1929 | Serious stories | Johann Peter Lever | Fritz Quidenus | |
| 105 | 1927 | From time and eternity, fairy tales and legends | Grimm / Bechstein u. a. | ||
| 106 | around 1930 | The Dürande Castle story | Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff | with pictures after silhouettes by Gerda Luise Matthei-Schmidt | |
| 107 | around 1930 | The new Paris A fairy tale | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Paper cuttings by Gerda Luise Matthei-Schmidt | |
| 108/109 | 1927 | Queen Luise A picture of life in letters and documents | Ed. Paul Samuleit | Double volume with 70 pages | |
| 110 | |||||
| 111/112 | 1927 | The rogue from the mountains A folk drama | Wilhelm Dörffler | Double volume with 66 pages | |
| 113 | 1927 | Life memories | Werner from Siemens | ||
| 114 | around 1940 3rd A. |
The Graf Zeppelin A hero's life | Paul Garz | ||
| 115 | 1927 | Immensee novella | Theodor Storm | ||
| 116 | 1927 | Children's years of a poet From the memories of the poet's youth | Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach | ||
| 117 | 1931 | Peace on Earth. Dickkopf and Peterlein Two stories | Adolf Schmitthenner | Fritz Quidenus | |
| 118 | 1928 | Dornröslein A romantic and humorous fairy tale in three acts | Franz Pocci | ||
| 119 | 1927 | The blonde Eckbert - The two friends Two stories | Ludwig Tieck | Franz Hein | |
| 120 | 1927 | Heinrich Pestalozzi A picture of life from his writings and letters | Heinrich Grupe | ||
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| 125 | around 1925 | The Battle of the Fights of the Somme 1916 - From the author's war diary, fallen 11/16/1916 | Otto Ahrends | Rudolf Sievers | |
| 126 | 1927 | Peerke von Helgoland A historical story | Hans Hoffmann | Hans Röhm | |
| 127 | 1930 | The ruby and other stories | Friedrich Hebbel | Linocuts by Robert Rabolt | |
| 128 | 127 | Gold daughter and other fairy tales | Richard von Volkmann-Leander | Gerda Luise Matthei-Schmidt | |
| 129 | |||||
| 130 | 1927 | A pilgrimage to Beethoven | Richard Wagner | with a portrait of Beethoven by Karl Bauer; Book decorations by Moritz von Schwind and an afterword by Dr. Paul Bulow | |
| 131 | 1927 | Little people play theater Seven cheerful games for children | Wilhelm Wollenberg | Gerda Luise Matthei-Schmidt | |
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| 133 | 1929 | From the silent folk Irish fairy tales | Brothers Grimm | Erna Günther (silhouettes) | |
| 134 | 1929 | Funny spook from old Ireland Irish fairy tale | Brothers Grimm | Erna Günther | |
| 135 | 1928 | Unlucky and lucky child A game based on a fairy tale | Richard von Volkmann-Leander and Else Ute Ludewig | Gerda Lusie Matthei-Schmidt | |
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| 138 | 1928 | Folk tales | Ludwig Anzengruber | Anton Bishop | |
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| 140 | 1927 | Richard Wagner and his work by Bayreuth The Becoming and Essence of a German Art Facility, portrayed from Wagner's letters and writings | Paul Bulow | Karl Bauer | |
| 141 | 1928 | Homeless in the Fatherland A family fate at the time of reaction | Claire from Glümer | ||
| 142 | 1936 | Nibelungenlieder New High German | Wilhelm Bortfeldt | ||
| 143 | 1928 | Fool's Roots Two rogue games | Max Ittenbach | Paula Müller | |
| 144 | 1928 | Who is playing? Children's scenes and simple children's games | Irma Schollmeyer-Tecklenburg | Gerda Luise Matthei-Schmidt | |
| 145 | 1929 | Attila - Peter the Great Two historical sketches | August Strindberg | Karl Grimm | |
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| 147 | 1928 | The Coyote A tale of animal life on the prairie | Olai Aslagsson | Erna Ottilie Bercht | |
| 148 | 1928 | Dum, the dog tale | Anton Karl Gebauer | Erna Ottilie Bercht | |
| 149 | 1929 | Fairy tales of children and animals | Selma Lagerlöf | with silhouettes by Gerda Luise Matthei-Schmidt | |
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| 151 | around 1930 | Three experiences of the little Swabian stories | Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn | Karl Grimm | |
| 152… 154 | |||||
| 155 | 1928 | An angel of the prisoners - Mathilda Wrede | based on Eva Fogelberg's book Among Prisoners and Free and a contribution by Ingeborg Maria Sick, compiled by Else Liebermann | ||
| 156 | 1928 | Beach village stories serious and cheerful from the water's edge | Alfred Hartwig | ||
| 157 ... 160 | |||||
| 161 | 1928 | Franz Schubert. A German musician's life | Paul Bulow | ||
| 162 | 1931 | The town piper | Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl | Franz Müller-Munster | |
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| 165 | 1929 | Dreng, the prehistoric man | Johannes Jensen | Karl Grimm | |
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| 168 | 1930 | German-Bohemian Homeland Three stories | Hans Watzlik | Hans Spitzmann | |
| 169 | 1931 | A hero of kindness | Victor Hugo | Hans Anton Aschenborn | |
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| 171/172 | 1930 | A festival on Haderslevhuus | Theodor Storm | Hans Schroedter | |
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| 175 | Karl Renn | In the forefront from the 1917 Aisne-Champagne battle | Karl Grimm | ||
| 176/177 | 1929 | Hans Lütt. A story for little sailors | Gustav Brügmann | ||
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| 179 | 1942 | Tannenberg: 2 battles for the German east | Ernst Wichert | With picture decorations by Rudolf Riege and an overview map | |
| 180 | 1931 | South African characters Two stories | Hans Grimm | Hans Anton Aschenborn | |
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| 184 | 1929 | Flickdich or Die Rheinischen Spatzen |
Nikolaus Schwarzkopf | Hans Anton Aschenborn | |
| 185 | 1930 | Children in the far north | Agot Gjems-Selmer | Hans Anton Aschenborn | |
| 186/187 | 1930 | Lower Saxon legends between the Harz Mountains and the North Sea | Heinrich Karstens | Karl Grimm | |
| 188 | around 1930 | From armistice to peace dictation | Bruno Brehm | Erich Löffler, Dresden, took care of the selection, review and completion of this booklet | |
| 189 | We workmen | Heinrich Lersch | |||
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| 192 | around 1935 | German farmers in America | Johannes Gillhoff | ||
| 193 | around 1930 | A day for little Tom | Irmgard from Faber du Faur | Tilde Eisgruber | |
| 194 | around 1934 | Ernst Moritz Arndt's youth and home life | Ernst Moritz Arndt | ||
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| 196/197 | 1931 | Wurstel - The story of a boy from the suburbs | Franz Bauer | Hanna Forster | |
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| 199 | 1931 | The woman's advice. Goethe's mother portrayed from her letters and from the testimonies of contemporaries | Georg Schott | ||
| 200 | At 17 years before Verdun | Werner Beumelburg | |||
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| 203 | around 1930 | A picture of life based on his writings and letters compiled by Marie Anne Kuntze | Friedrich Froebel | ||
| 204 | around 1930 | The young Schiller The image of a heroic life | Otto Metzker | ||
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| 206 | approx. 1930 (5th A.) | Infantry on the Western Front The image of a heroic life | Friedrich Lehmann | From: "We from the Infantry", diary sheets of a Bavarian infantryman | |
| 207 | around 1930 | Tryggve three-man value A hero life from the Viking Age | Rolf Nordenstreng | Lothar Rohrer | |
| 208 | |||||
| 209 | around 1930 | A farm boy Childhood stories | Anton Gabele | ||
| 210 | around 1929 | Doctor Martin Luther A picture of life from his and his contemporaries' works, letters and speeches | Otto Metzker | with eight pictures after Lucas Cranach, Matthäus Merian u. a. | |
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| 212 | 1931 | The song of the Germans A folk song story | Kurt Arnold Findeisen | with a replica of the manuscript of the Deutschlandlied and a portrait of Hoffmann von Fallersleben | |
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| 219 | around 1920 | Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben - Adjutant to Frederick the Great and co-founder of the United States | Hans Rolf Sprengel | The officer of Frederick the Great. Turning point. The co-founder of the United States | |
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| 226 | around 1935 | Remote listening How mankind's dream came true | August publisher | ||
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| 229 | around 1930 | Savior from storm and ice A story from today's Iceland | Kristmann Guðmundsson | Heinrich Schuessler | |
| 230 | around 1930 | Cotopaxi The story of a little Indian who became a great man | Linda from Holdt | Lothar Rohrer | |
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| 233 | around 1930 | Old Icelandic sagas retold by Norse men and women | Heinrich Friedrich Lohrmann | ||
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| 236 | around 1930 | Barbarossa in Italy A historical novella | Josef Wenter | ||
| ... |
Series from the 1950s to 1970s
| No. | year | title | author | illustrator | Note |
| 1 | 1966 | Hazel catkins Natural history short stories from the early spring period | Heinrich Grupe | Martha Bertina | |
| 2 | 1966 | Juice, juice rise Natural history short stories from the spring time | Heinrich Grupe | Martha Bertina | |
| 3 | 19 .. | ||||
| 4th | 19 .. | ||||
| 5… 19 | |||||
| 20th | 1958 | Ole Fix tells fairy tales | Elli student | Martha Bertina | |
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| 25th | 1967 | Strange Raid A Dog Tale | Lotte Tiedemann | Martha Bertina |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Explanations of the booklet series in Die Bücherkiste , Detlef Heinsohn, 2015