Nostalgie, Utopie und Spiel in Märchenerzählungen der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur

Authors : Ruth NEUBAUER-PETZOLDT

Pages : 79-97

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Publication Date : 2014-01-07

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Nostalgia, utopia and play in fairy tales of contemporary German literature Fairy-tale motives and narratives seem to be more up to date than ever and are employed and updated in a wide variety of mode in the German literature of the 20th and the 21th century. M.L. Kaschnitz’ Der alte Garten – a tale between idyll and apocalypse – offers an utopian concept of human life in harmony with nature, addressing men’s moral responsibility. Wit and irony, parody and gender play structure K. Duve’s fairy-tale-novel Die entführte Prinzessin and her ‘corrections’ of the KHM-pretexts in Grrrimm. Very different again is M. Lüder’s Aminas Restaurant using elements of oriental fairy tales as escape routes from reality. These and many other examples employ fairy-tale elements as collective survival narratives in – or even especially in – times of modern and postmodern crises. Keywords / Anahtar Sözcükler: Parody, gender play with fairy-tale motives, utopian concept, correction of Grimm-pretexts, escapist function, collective survival narratives in crises.
Keywords : Parody, gender play with fairy tale motives, utopian concept, correction of Grimm pretexts, escapist function, collective survival narratives in crises