Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days

Collected Utopian Tales / New and Revised Edition

By: Jack Zipes (Editor)

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Paperback | 26 February 2018

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This book is a collection of traditional German fairy tales and fables, deliberately transformed into utopian narratives and social commentary by political activists in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). The Weimar period is one of the critical epochs in German history, for it marked the first time that Germans tried democracy, and it also gave birth to national socialism. Against a backdrop of financial and political instability, widespread homelessness, and the reformation of public institutions, numerous gifted writers such as Berta Lask, Kurt Schwitters, Hermynia zur Muhlen, Oskar Maria Graf, Bruno Schonlank, and Joachim Ringelnatz responded to the need for hope among the common people by creating fairy tales and fables that offered a new and critical vision of social conditions. Though many of their tales published in this collection deal with the grim situation of common people and their apparent helplessness, they are founded on the principle of hope, for both the disturbing and the utopian components of these tales provoke their protagonists and readers to realize that something has to be done to change their situation. This revised edition includes over 60 illustrations by contemporary international artists who reveal how similar the Weimar conditions were to the conditions in which we presently live. In this respect, the Weimar fairy tales and fables have not lost their spirit and significance.

Industry Reviews

"Zipes's collection is a marvellous book, one which will appeal to both the general reader and those working on fairy tales or those researching the Weimar Republic or German intellectual life before the outbreak of the Second World War." (Paul Quinn, Gramarye, Issue 17, 2020)

"This collection of thirty literary stories in the genre of fairy tales, assembled and translated by Jack Zipes, offers a good read to anyone who enjoys stories. ... This collection of stories is enjoyable also because of the smooth translations. ... The tales collected and presented in this volume are important for scholars of literature as well as of folktales, fairy tales, and fables. The volume is also meant for the simple pleasure of reading inspiring stories" (Sadhana Naithani, Journal of Folklore Research, April, 2019)

"Its creative wave of tales, some playful, some ironic, some wrenchingly utopian, speaks directly to the world we find ourselves in today." (Jo Radner, Storytelling Magazine, 2018)

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