Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days

by Jack D. Zipes

Book Overview

Political "fairy tales" by progressive Weimar activists

Deliberately transforming traditional German fairy tales and fables into utopian narratives and social commentary, political activists wrote the stories in this collection for progressive youth groups during the years of the German Weimar Republic, 1919 to 1933. Noted folklore scholar Jack Zipes has edited and translated these thirty-two tales by sixteen Weimar authors, who include...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029915744X
• ISBN13: 9780299157449
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Who says fairy tales are just for kids?

This small collection of fairy tales written by different authors in Germany in the 1920s is an intriguing study of modern life. These writers used an older literary form prominent in their shared German heritage to express their ambivalence in contemporary society--gone are the millers, kings, and spirits of Grimm, replaced with the automobiles, noisy cities, and social conflicts of the 1920s and 1930s.