Wilhelm Hauff, Three Fairy Tales - Hardcover

Hauff, Wilhelm

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3936681333 ISBN 13: 9783936681338

Verlag: Edition Axel Menges, 2009

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Text in English & German. "Poverty is the greatest plague, wealth is the highest good", Goethe wrote in his ballad "The Treasure Seeker". Over the course of the poem, however, it becomes apparent that this is a mistaken conclusion. The search for riches, fame and power often brings with it greed, inhumanity and violence, as Wilhelm Hauff shows us in this book of fairytales. The best known of these is The Cold Heart, in which the wish for a better life leads Peter Munk the charcoal-burner to seek the help of the spirits of the Black Forest. The first spirit he encounters is the kindly glass manikin, who makes him the owner of a glassworks, but, as he never wished for the necessary understanding, he cannot give the running of his glassworks the attention it deserves. He becomes idle, fails miserably and falls victim to Hollander Michael, the evil spirit, who demands Peter's heart in return for helping him and gives him a stone in return. With a heart of stone, Peter loses all his social competence, and is filled with avarice, which, however, does not prevent him from pursuing his new profession as a businessman and money-lender. Rather, it helps him to succeed. But when he kills his wife for showing kindness to a destitute man, he finally comes to his senses, with the assistance of the glass manikin, who helps him to recover his original heart. And so everything turns out for the best. Peter Munk becomes a charcoal-burner again, and lives humbly but happily with his mother and his wife, restored to life by the glass manikin, for the rest of his days. The Cave of Steenfoll has a less happy outcome. In this story, greed becomes an obsession and even a madness that finally leads to the death of William Falcon. Having found the long-sought treasure -- a little chest full of gold pieces -- he is still not satisfied, and he dives into the sea a second time, never to emerge again. The fairytale of Said's Adventures is the opposite of the other two. The hero, a man under the protection of a good fairy, embarks on a dangerous journey. The hero encounters greed and avarice everywhere during his adventures, but they have no place in his own character. He is a skilful fighter, but always guided by compassion. Finally, he is rewarded with wealth, good fortune and contentment.

Biografía del autor:

Reinhard Gieselmann studied architecture in Danzig and Karlsruhe. From 1969 until 1992, he was professor at the Technische Universitat Wien. Gieselmann is one of those who were not satisfied, already in the early post-war years dominated by the credo of rationality, functionalism and formal self-limitation, with explaining building simply as meeting functional needs. Seeing design as a "search of style" runs through all Gieselmann's numerous theoretical statements, which mark him out as a sensitive thinker.

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• Verlag: Edition Axel Menges
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 3936681333
• ISBN 13: 9783936681338
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96
• Zeichner: Gieselmann Reinhard