Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days (eBook)

Jack Zipes is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, USA. Some of his recent publications include: Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre (2006), The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films (2010), and Grimm Legacies: The Magic Power of Fairy Tales (2014).

Recovering the Utopian Spirit of Fairy Tales and Fables from the Weimar Republic; Jack Zipes.Happiness; Kurt Schwitters.A Fairy Tale about God and Kings; Carl Ewald.The Giant and his Suit of Armour; Edwin Hoernle.The Boy who Wanted to Fight with a Dragon; Berta Lask.Kuttel Daddeldu Tells his Children the Fairy Tale about Little Red Cap; Joachim Ringelnatz.The Little King and the Sun; Edwin Hoernle.- The Honest Seamen / Learn to Grasp the World from Others; Joachim Ringelnatz.The Fence / The Servant; Hermynia Zur Mühlen.The Victor; Béla Balázs.The Patched Trousers; Bruno Schönlank.The Fairy Tale of the Wise Man; Eugen Lewin-Dorsch.The Holy Wetness; Maria Szucsich.The Enchanted King / Burufu the Magician; Robert Grötzsch.Baberlababb / The Fairy Tale of the King; Oskar Maria Graf.The Castle with the Three Windows; Heinrich Schulz.The Giant Spider; Anna Mosegaard.Felix the Fish; Robert Grötzsch.The Poodle and the Schnauzer / The Chameleon; Edwin Hoernle.The Triumph of the Wolves / The Chameleon / The Revolution in the Zoo; Felix Fechenbach.The Fairy Tale of the Bear, the Wolf and the Sly Fox; Béla Illés.The Glasses; Hermynia Zur Mühlen.Once upon a Time There was a Tiny Mouse; Kurt Schwitters.The Silent Engine Room; Heinrich Schulz.Notes on the Authors & Illustrators.