TY - GEN digital ID - 131684873 TI - Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days : Collected Utopian Tales / New and Revised Edition PY - 2018 SN - 9783319692753 PB - Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Children's literature. Juvenile literature KW - Literature KW - History KW - History of Germany and Austria KW - History of Europe KW - popularisering wetenschap KW - geschiedenis KW - kinderen KW - literatuur KW - literatuurgeschiedenis KW - sprookjes (genre) KW - Europese geschiedenis KW - jeugdliteratuur KW - Ringelnatz, Joachim KW - Mühlen, zur, Hermynia KW - Lask, Berta KW - Schönlank, Bruno KW - Schwitters, Kurt KW - Graf, Oskar KW - Balázs, Béla KW - anno 1910-1919 KW - anno 1920-1929 KW - anno 1930-1939 KW - Eastern and Central Europe KW - Europe UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131684873 AB - This book is a collection of traditional German fairy tales and fables, deliberately transformed into utopian narratives and social commentary by political activists in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Against a backdrop of financial and political instability, widespread homelessness, and the reformation of public institutions, numerous gifted writers such as Berta Lask, Kurt Schwitters, Hermynia zur Mühlen, Oskar Maria Graf, Bruno Schönlank, and Joachim Ringelnatz responded to the need for hope among the common people by creating fairy tales and fables that offered a new and critical vision of social conditions. Though many of their tales deal with the grim situation of common people and their apparent helplessness, they are founded on the principle of hope. This revised edition includes over 50 illustrations by contemporary international artists who reveal how similar the Weimar conditions were to the conditions in which we presently live. In this respect, the Weimar fairy tales and fables have not lost their spirit and significance. ER -