Miau! Mio! Miau! Mio!
Zu Hilf'! Das Kind brennt lichterloh!
Wo sind die Eltern wo?
We äctually have a word for zhis, "Märchenbuchlebenswegbeschreitungszwang"!
Ah yes, the girl that was burned alive for not using ze proper sewing technique, an all time German classic Gutenachtgeschichte.
She was burned alive because she played with matches.
wasn't she burned alive for playing with fire?
My grandma had the Struwwelpeter book. I did kinda enjoy it if I remember correctly. The guy cutting off a kid's fingers with his huge scissors did kinda creep me out tho.
Burned alive for using the wrong sewing technique / burned alive for worshiping the wrong god or maybe the "right" God but, in the wrong way, who knows?
Either way, somehow, someway, the idea of being burned alive for not following rules seems to be almost literally burned deep into the Germanic saxon psyche.
They're not a humourless people. They're just terrified someone might catch them not working or following the rules and laughing isn't working.
Chillax madude i'm German myself. And I think it has more to do with how the Nazis shaped child education than some Germanic Saxon thing from wayback. Read about the Nazi education Ideology of Johanna Haarer whose dark "pedagogic" methods were influential until even long after the downfall of Nazi Germany.
Fun fact: the monikers used for these children in the book are used in coloquial speech to describe children that misbehave or exhibit behavioral discrepencies:
- shock headed Peter: an unkempt, filthy child
- fidgety Philip: ADHS or hyperactive child
- Johnny-Head-in-the-Air: daydreaming, absent mindedness
- wicked Frederick: cruelty to animals (sociopathy, lack of empathy often reveal themselves this way early on)
- Soup Caspar: eating disorder, perhaps
- etc
The original book was written by a medical doctor dealing with children, go figure!
Well that explains why my psychiatrist’s nickname for me is “Peter, Philip, and Johnny in a trenchcoat.”
I was particularily fond of the one where two boys play pranks on adults. Until they get ground to crumbs while alive and then fed to the geese in the end, that is...
Max und Moritz! Always admired Wilhelm Busch's drawing style.
Here in Estonia we have a meat comp named after them. Wonder what they make their sausage out of...
I had this book when I was a child.
The illustrations are permanently burned to my mind's eye.
Me too. Can't forget the child who starves to death. Drawing stick figures was a pain.
Oh man: Look up the Korean version of cindarella (Wikipedia has a brief on the cindarella page): The evil step sister (only one in that version) gets butchered and made into a korean dish and send to the evil step motger as a gift. after she ate it, she gets told that she just ate part of her daughter before also getting executed.
Edit: spelling
*Struwwelpeter
German fairy tales are dark
laughs in Irish.
The only one I know is Screecher's Reach.
Yo, is it too late to find another author? Asking for a friend.
This book didn’t traumatise me but I remember it was really dark and maybe too dark for kids.
Remembering the guy with the long legs cutting fingers off, this is horror movie material how I remember it… maybe traumatise it did
I still remember the soup standing ontop of the grave of the boy that didnt want to eat and so he just died. Also how thin he was in the last drawing of him. It was haunting.
After 4 days he was "as thin as a thread".
I haven’t thought about this book or story in over 22years, and now I remember how dark the impressions were.
Yes, but now you aren't a thumb sucker anymore, right? By the help of that skillful guy.
Most of the book yes, but the kid with animal cruelty and the racism story, were good stuff.
There were times when kids were no snowflakes.
Soft shits create hard times and hard times create hard shits.
If you have too hard shits tho you should look into your diet
The twist is that it's a German Humoristic tale.
Loved the book as a child
they made a children's book out of the allied firebombings?
The book is older than airplanes
I was just thinking the other day... Someone should make a move from the Struwwelpeter Book. PEGI 18
But how? In a Final Destination flow, where the audience is thinking: "oh boy, these kids will all die after school."
She must be one hell of a liar if her whole dress is on fire.
Don't make me call the taylor!
Learn your rules. You'd better learn your rules.
Oh man: Look up the Korean version of cindarella (Wikipedia has a brief on the cindarella page): The evil step sister (only one in that version) gets butchered and made into a korean dish and send to the evil step motger as a gift. after she ate it, she gets told that she just ate part of her daughter before also getting executed.
Yeah, ist just a meme and nobody likes smart arses. But Struwelpeter isnt a FairyTale. It was kind of a teaching book for bad behaving kids. As far as I rember, the author was part of movement, to modernize education. From our perspective ist seems "a little" harsh for kids, but back then it was really progessive.
"Grimmschen Märchen" (Grimms Fairytales) on the other hand are the classic German Fairytales. But for most of the stories, many characters in this stories have a comparable or even more fucked up life. Like many other European Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Anders, Russian Fairy Tales, I dunno). ... As long as you take the Original and not the Disney-Version. For Example or spoiler: The little Mermaid isnt living happily ever after :<
He made the book for a child in hid family without the intent of publishing it originally
Fuckin hell, can the Grimm brothers just leave me alone
Actually it is out of Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffmann
Thank you!! I appreciate it, I can only guess from the wikipedia page that this is "Die gar traurige Geschichte mit dem Feuerzeug", and knowing the context is even funnier
