Kuttel Daddeldu tells his children the fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood and even draws them something about it

Kuttel Daddeldu tells his children the fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood and even draws something for them in a manuscript by Joachim Ringelnatz published in 1923 .

Original edition

"Joachim Ringelnatz Rotkäppchen" was handwritten by Ringelnatz in October / November 1923 in a total edition of ten copies for the Alfred Richard Mayer publishing house in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, as stated in the preliminary remark. The ten copies are each provided with a full-page monogrammed and colored pen drawing and 11 original pen drawings by the author in handwritten text. The individual copies are illustrated differently, proof of all variants is not possible.

Ringelnatz had designed the fairy tale in September 1923. 12 handwritten copies were planned, but he only managed 10 copies. He was relieved to be able to complete the work that had become annoying for him in November 1923.

Facsimile print by Karl Schönberg

The 10th copy of the handwritten original served as the template for this facsimile print; it was published in 1935 by Karl Schönberg in a posthumous edition of 30 copies. The original watercolor drawing on sheet 2 of this edition, as well as the JRM monogram, are not from Ringelnatz.

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	envelope	Joachim Ringelnatz Little Red Riding Hood
	1	Joachim Ringelnatz Kuttel Daddeldu tells his children the fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood and even draws them something about it
	2 and 3	Joachim Ringelnatz wrote this book for Alfred Richard Meyer in October 1923, partly in Salzwedel and partly in Liverpool, in ten numbered copies with a faithful seaman's hand. Each book has always been illustrated differently by the author, the literary historian for the joke . Copy Nro. 10 Joachim Ringelnatz
	4 and 5	So Kinners, if you can shut up for five minutes, then I'll tell you the story of Little Red Riding Hood, if I can still figure it out. The old captain Muckelmann told me about it when I was so little and so stupid as you are now. And Captain Muckelmann never lied. So liss do mi. There used to be a little girl. That was called Little Red Riding Hood - that is called it. Because it had a red cap on its head day and night . That was a
	6 and 7	beautiful girl, as red as blood and as white as snow and as black as ebony. With such big round eyes and very big legs in the back and in front - well, in short, a damn beautiful, wonderful, clean girl. And one day her mother sent her through the forest to see her grandmother; of course she was sick. And mother gave Little Red Riding Hood a basket with three bottles of Spanish wine and two bottles of Scottish whiskey and a bottle of Rostocker Korn and a bottle of Swedish punch and a buttel with Köm and a few more bottles of beer and cake and stuff like that, so that Grandmother can strengthen herself first should. "Little Red Riding Hood," said the mother extra, "don't go astray, because there are wild wolves in the forest!" (The whole thing must have happened at Nikolayev's or elsewhere in Siberia.)
	8 and 9	Little Red Riding Hood promised everything and went off. And in the forest she met the wolf. He asked: "Little Red Riding Hood, where are you going?" And then she told him everything you already know. And he asked: "Where does your grandmother live?" And she told him exactly: "Schwiegerstrasse thirteen to the ground floor." And then the wolf showed the child juicy raspberries and strawberries and lured them off the path into the deep forest . And while she was busily picking berries , the wolf ran under full sail to Schwiegerstrasse number thirteen and knocked on grandmother's door on the level ground . The grandmother was a suspicious old woman with many gaps in her teeth. So she asked harshly: “Who is knocking on my little house?” And then the wolf outside answered with a disguised voice: “It's me, Sleeping Beauty!” And then the old woman called: “Come in!”
	10 and 11	And then the wolf swept into the room . And then the old woman put on her night jacket and put on her night cap and ate the wolf with skin and hair. Meanwhile Little Red Riding Hood had lost his way in the forest. And as such pissing stupid girls are, she started to howl loudly. And the hunter heard this in the deep forest and hurried over. Well - and what does it matter to us what the two of them have been planning to do with each other there in the deep forest, because it had become quite dark in the meantime , at least he put them on the right track. So now she ran into Schwiegerstrasse. And then she saw that her grandmother was very bloated . And Little Red Riding Hood asked: "Grandmother, why do you have such big eyes?"
	12 and 13	And grandmother replied: “So I can see you better!” And then Little Red Riding Hood asked: “Grandmother, why do you have such big ears?” And grandmother answered: “So that I can hear you better!” And then Little Red Riding Hood asked further: “Grandmother, why do you have such a big mouth?” Well, it's not right when children say something like that to an adult grandmother. So then the old woman went mad and couldn't utter a word , but devoured poor Little Red Riding Hood with skin and hair.
	14 and 15	And then she snored like a whale. And outside the hunter was just passing by. And he wondered why a whale came to Schwiegerstrasse . And there he loaded his rifle and drew his long knife from its sheath and stepped into the room without knocking . And then, to his horror , he saw the bloated grandmother in bed instead of a whale . And - diavolo caracho! - someone hit the deck for a long time! - It is
	16 and 17	hard to believe! - After all, the voracious old woman ate the hunter too. - Yes, you brats stare and open your mouth as if something else was coming . - But get out of the wind now , or I'll make you legs. Anyway , my throat is completely dry from the stupid stories, all of which were just lies and drowned. March away! Let your father have a drink now, you - superfluous fry!
	Imprint	To commemorate Joachim Ringelnatz , Karl Schönberg had this facsimile print of a manuscript book handwritten and drawn by Joachim Ringelnatz in 30 copies for his friends and for friends of the poet .

Reprint facsimile edition (with self-portrait)

Ringelnatz self-portrait, India ink drawing

A new edition of the facsimile edition was produced in 1961, a self-portrait by Ringelnatz was inserted for the watercolor of the previous edition, a pen drawing that was first printed in a 1925 edition of “ The Cross Section ”.

literature

• Walter Pape : Joachim Ringelnatz - The Complete Works, in seven volumes and one volume . Hensel Verlag, Berlin 1982–1985
• Joachim Ringelnatz: Kuttel Daddeldu tells his children the fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood and even draws them something about it. Reprint of the manuscript with the text that can be folded out, on the occasion of Ringelnatz's 100th birthday on August 7, 1983 and the 50th anniversary of his death on November 16, 1984 . Henssel, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-87329-129-0 .

Web links

• Narration as audio book spoken by Wolfgang Gerber on ringelnatz.net (free download available).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Copy No. 5, catalog from M. Edelmann, Nuremberg 1961
2. ↑ Copy No. 6, Ketterer Kunst, auction, Hamburg 2011.
3. ↑ Copy No. 2, Koller Auctions , Zurich 2012.
4. ↑ Letter no. M329, October 18, 1923 limestone . In: Walter Pape (1982–1985), letter tape.
5. ↑ Letter no. M342, November 5, 1923 limestone. In: Walter Pape (1982–1985), letter tape.
6. ↑ Walter Pape (1982–1985), Volume 4, p. 405.
7. ↑ Der Cross Section 5, Issue 8, August 1925, p. 714.