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- Title
“Es war (noch) einmal": Grimm Versions of New Fairy Tales in the GDR.
- Authors
Sheedy, Melissa; Wilcox, Brandy E.
- Abstract
Irmtraud Morgner's fairy tale “Bennos erste Geschichte" intro-duces her famous Trobadora Beatriz, a reimagined Sleeping Beauty who embarks on a magical flight from the patriarchy. Along with tales by Kers-tin Hensel and Stefan Heym, Morgner's story represents a body of new and retold East German fairy tales. As part of the “fairy tale wave" of the 1970s GDR, the production of new fairy tales along with renewed interest in the Grimms marked a renaissance of the Volksmärchen, Couched within seemingly innocuous children's literature, fairy tales functioned both as state-sanctioned ideological vehicles and as platforms for political critique. Through psychoanalytic and feminist perspectives, this essay explores re-tellings of familiar tales as well as new creations for children (and adults) of the GDR, In examining three tales by Morgner, Hensel, and Heym, we inves-tigate the role of the fairy tale at the crux between reality and the fantastic, the didactic and diverting, and between children's and adults' literatures
- Subjects
BENNOS erste Geschichte (Short story); DA ward gutes Essen aufgetragen (Short story); DER kleine Konig, der ein Kind kriegen musste (Short story); HENSEL, Kerstin; HEYM, Stefan, 1913-2001; MORGNER, Irmtraud; FAIRY tales -- Adaptations; EAST German literature
- Publication
Colloquia Germanica, 2017, Vol 50, Issue 1, p79
- ISSN
0010-1338
- Publication type
Literary Criticism