Struwwelpeter: What's Up with Violent German Children's Books?
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- I took a little dive into a classic German children's book: The Struwwelpeter, or: What people in the 1800s thought was good morals & parenting. A bunch of children die and get mutilated for not doing as they're told - you know, healthy consequences!
This is, no joke, a culturally very important piece of literature that you should know about if you are learning about Germany. It coined several terms that are around until today. It also has genuinely memorable and funny elements - and was never meant to be taken quite as seriously as people like to make it out to be.
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A kids' storybook that looks like Mortal Kombat "Fatality" scenes? That's why I love German culture. :) Thanks for another fun and informative vid Katja!
The tale of Hanns Guck-in-die-Luft could be repurposed today to apply to those people who walk around staring at their cellphones! The next time I have to sidestep one of them so that he doesn't absently walk right into me, I'll look around for the three laughing fish.
Obviously there is nothing uniquely German about gruesome morality tales for children. In the early 1800s, a series of children's stories were published in Britain called _The History of the Fairchild Family,_ in which, for example, a father punishes his children for quarreling by caning them and then forcing the terrified children to look upon a corpse hanging from a gallows, explaining that this is the fate of those who have hatred in their hearts. Like _Struwwelpeter,_ _The History of the Fairchild Family_ also contains a story of a girl who plays with candles and perishes in fire.
I loved hearing Katja's insightful analysis and listening to her read the poetry. It's also interesting to consider how the German language has changed over time. (Likewise for English.)
I mean... Some people really fell in hole while playing Pokemon Go...
22:20 you made a really good point, I wish more people could say this
You've helped me over the years. You're channel is great for those who are learning German language and culture🤗🤗🤗. No on screen mention necessary.
Suppen-Kaspar could be another example of neurodivergent behavior from an 1800s perspective. A lot of kids who are considered picky eaters are just autistic or ADHD kids who have sensory issues set off by certain foods.
The stream was super fun, glad to learn about the culture as well as well as the language :)
Thank you for this! I grew up with this book and bought it for my American kids and read it to my Grandkids. I never saw it as "shocking" lol.
Just that..there will be a consequence for wrong actions- kind of a thing.
My granddaughter loved it. She saw it's as "scary kid stories" lol.
I mean..these are STORIES!
Not Disney-Ford fairytales that the American is used to.
You did a great job explaining it! Vielen Dank dafür!! ☺️👍
I mean yeah ok he didn’t look where he was going but wow the fish are mean af for laughing at him, like bruh STOP
Maybe I was a weird child, but the Struwwelpeter stories for some reason neither bothered nor scarred me. I actually liked to read the book, don't know what that says about little me xD
Also, at least as someone born in 2000, basically all my friends that are my age also grew up with the book, so at least in the 2000s it was still very prevalent.
Haha. Well, that's the thing - there is a difference between "make a lasting impression" and "traumatize, right? I think we (inlcuding me) tend to use the word "scarred" quite liberally nd flexibly, especially when we're playfully exaggerating. It's interesting nothing bothered you at all though, maybe you just felt very safe :D But as much as the tailor in particular scared me, I read the book a lot, too. Thanks for the insight from 2000s babies! :D Guess my impression/feeling was right.
@@DeutschFuerEuch At least the tailor didn't bother me enough to still remember any sort of reaction I might have had as a kid. I was more scared of the dark than anything, that was enough already. The tailor probably wasn't all that scary to me because of that, at least he's something you can see lol
Children are little treasures that pass through our lives.
Have you done a video where you recommend german children's books ? - If not would you consider it ? - I'm now at that level where I can read simple texts like you would find in children's books and comics and that's basically what I'm doing now to increase my vocabulary and it would be nice to have some more recommendations.
I haven't and I can't say I'm an expert. But I could try doing some research - what, say, age group material are you looking for?
@@DeutschFuerEuch Well perhaps something like the book in this video - I understand about 80% of the words so that difficulty fits me well and I kind of like the nostalgic fun of old books like this - I found Struwwelpeter on Kindle on amazon and bought it and also Grimms Märchen which might be perhaps slightly more difficult but I loved to read those as a kid in Icelandic.
I remember we had that book my parents came to Canada after the war and in Hamilton Ontario we had a section of downtown that sold all German things in the early sixties.😮Denningers used to give out pink wurst to the kids ,they still do
How about a story about Rotkäppchen auf deutsch.
I love all the German names in this book.
These stories are always fun to read for Germans, because the names are so hilariously archaic lol
I made some rewrites of the stories in this book.
How about Max und Moritz? one of the first books my dad gave me when i was little!! in German & i didn't and don't speak German! But talk about the Pictures! that are so In My Mind 4Ever! have you read this?
Of course, another German staple :) might do one on it in future!
Ich liebe deutsche Märchengeschichten wirklich sehr. "Struwwelpeter" ist eine Geschichte, die ich zum ersten Mal lese, aber dank des Videoerklärung habe ich sie gut verstanden und fand sie unterhaltsam. Vielen Dank. ✌✌
I got this book I'm half German on my mom's side lol
I am curious….. where or how did you learn English? You accent is perfect, and I love to listen to your voice when you speak German.
The short version is: A knack for languages and a LOT of exposure to English, mostly through online content and stand-up. Also thank you c:
@@DeutschFuerEuch Ich danke Dir.....but, did you study outside of Germany to learn English or did you do a year of exchange in an English speaking country. Where did you get your exposure to the English language. Ich bin nur neugierig......Ich lerne Deutsch. Ich werde immer einen Akzent haben....but you do not....
Btw am I the only kid in 3rd grade that we were given this to read? I think we liked the cover because blonde hippies with Afros were all over in San Francisco back then. My older siblings were hippies.
Y’all why did Fredrick whip his mom???
Oh those sweet childhood Memories
I had Aesop’s Fables growing up
Thanks! No mention please
🇩🇪😂 I grew up on this book!
My mother in the 60s made a handmaid character with his hair and his nails hand stitched ..
Blah blah nevertheless I was a nanny and I was explaining this book to one of the children and I got fired and I lasted 24 hours lol now I understand why I was 18. What can I say 😊
I have this book ....published around 1903.....lol I love it
I don't find any of these stories that bad, though I remember when I was 5, my nan used to tell me an my twin brother not to play with our Penis's or the Geese would get it. So thank you for this video an the little trip down memory lane it provided me 🤣
LMAO wtf?
Yeah sometimes it's useful to throw a glance at the not-so-distant past :-)
To me, using the f-word in speaking about this shows our perceptions about civilized behavior have changed a lot. You can use terms that were considered truly shocking while speaking about simple moral tales to keep children in line while most children had to stay with other siblings while mutti went to the market... people were different then and I often think we could use instead of, in America, we teach little black Americans that the men in blue will kill you no matter what you do instead of not trying to break laws to begin with is just as bad as anything In Struwwelpeter.
Seemed a bit long for some, but interesting. I would have sworn the stories where meant to do just that, scare the heck out of kids to behave and do right. Interesting culture and intent. 😊
I’ve always heard of “scary/violent German fairy tales/stories” but what the actual f is this lol
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Dein ständiger Gebrauch von dem F Wort ist total fehl am Platz, ungeschickt and annoying.
Was genau meinst du? Sie hat "fu**" zweimal gesagt, um die Stimmung aufzulockern. Ist auf privaten Kanälen üblich, v.a. wenn man Englisch nicht als Muttersprache spricht.
stop playing with your hair!