Fabelreich: Menschentorheit und Menschentugend im Maskenkleid des Aussermenschlichen

Title

en_US Fabelreich: Menschentorheit und Menschentugend im Maskenkleid des Aussermenschlichen

en_US Der deutsche Spielmann: Eine Auswahl aus dem Schatze deutscher Dichtung für Jugend und Volk

Description

en_US Language note: German

en_US Zweite, veränderte Auflage

en_US Ernst Weber

Creator

en_US No Author

Contributor

en_US Weber, Ernst

Date

2016-01-25T19:49:44Z

en_US 2001-07

en_US 1924

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:49:44Z

Date Issued

en_US 1924

Abstract

en_US Here is an eighty-eight page paperbound book of fables. Was Der Spielmann perhaps a magazine? The T of C at the end gives titles and authors. There are fifty-eight fables by a variety of fabulists, all German--as is fitting for the series. The first fable comes from Abraham a Santa Clara. It tells in detail the old story of unthankfulness, but adds a new chapter. In this version, a farmer listens to the plea of a snake which a stone has confined in a hole. When the freed snake wants to kill the farmer, the man asks for opinions of others. They meet first a horse and then a dog, both of whom speak of human unthankfulness. Finally a fox does the usual trick of getting the snake back into his enclosed hole. The man gratefully invites the fox to a meal of chicken soup the next day, but his wife kills the fox as soon as the animal arrives. The further chapter adds something to the story, I would say! There are frequent black-and-white illustrations of varying size, many of which show more than usual wit. One of the best of these is TMCM on 32. There are also four full-page colored illustrations. These colored pages have two panels. Perhaps the most curious of these colored illustrations is for Das Heupferd oder der Grashüpfer (27). Lessing's fable tells of the grasshopper (das Heupferd) who congratulates himself on getting an overloaded wagon moving. In the panel below the farm scene is a human being holding up a Zeppelin! The book was originally sold in the Treue Buchhandling in Sollstedt bei Nordhausen. Is that the Spielmann himself pictured on the colored cover?

Identifier

en_US 5871 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81353

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Georg D. W. Callwey Verlag des deutschen Spielmanns,

en_US Munich

Subject

en_US PN985.F37 1924

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole