Right out of a children's storybook

[actionschnils@feddit.org]

Yeah, ist just a meme and nobody likes smart arses. But Struwelpeter isnt a FairyTale. It was kind of a teaching book for bad behaving kids. As far as I rember, the author was part of movement, to modernize education. From our perspective ist seems "a little" harsh for kids, but back then it was really progessive.

"Grimmschen Märchen" (Grimms Fairytales) on the other hand are the classic German Fairytales. But for most of the stories, many characters in this stories have a comparable or even more fucked up life. Like many other European Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Anders, Russian Fairy Tales, I dunno).
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As long as you take the Original and not the Disney-Version.
For Example or spoiler: The little Mermaid isnt living happily ever after :<

[urheber@discuss.tchncs.de]

why? this has nothing to do with it.

[takeheart@lemmy.world]

Fun fact: the monikers used for these children in the book are used in coloquial speech to describe children that misbehave or exhibit behavioral discrepencies:

• shock headed Peter: an unkempt, filthy child
• fidgety Philip: ADHS or hyperactive child
• Johnny-Head-in-the-Air: daydreaming, absent mindedness
• wicked Frederick: cruelty to animals (sociopathy, lack of empathy often reveal themselves this way early on)
• Soup Caspar: eating disorder, perhaps
• etc

The original book was written by a medical doctor dealing with children, go figure!

[anubis119@lemmy.world]

Learn your rules. You'd better learn your rules.

[illi@lemm.ee]

Not sure if trolling or serious tbh

[treczoks@lemmy.world]

There were times when kids were no snowflakes.

[hakunawazo@lemmy.world]

Yes, but now you aren't a thumb sucker anymore, right? By the help of that skillful guy.

[sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Soft shits create hard times and hard times create hard shits.

If you have too hard shits tho you should look into your diet

[aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

The twist is that it's a German Humoristic tale.

[lorindol@sopuli.xyz]

I had this book when I was a child.

The illustrations are permanently burned to my mind's eye.

[saledovil@sh.itjust.works]

She was burned alive because she played with matches.

[acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org]

wasn't she burned alive for playing with fire?

[samsy@lemmy.ml]

Me too. Can't forget the child who starves to death. Drawing stick figures was a pain.

[samsy@lemmy.ml]

You can stick a lot of German words together, but it isn't easy to give this mess a meaning. It isn't normally used. More than 3 is blasphemy.

[samsy@lemmy.ml]

Most of the book yes, but the kid with animal cruelty and the racism story, were good stuff.

[samsy@lemmy.ml]

But how? In a Final Destination flow, where the audience is thinking: "oh boy, these kids will all die after school."

[sasquash@sopuli.xyz]

Wo sind die Eltern wo?

[yesman@lemmy.world]

German fairy tales are dark

laughs in Irish.

[yetanotheruser@discuss.tchncs.de]

Zu Hilf'! Das Kind brennt lichterloh!

[undergroundoverground@lemmy.world]

Burned alive for using the wrong sewing technique / burned alive for worshiping the wrong god or maybe the "right" God but, in the wrong way, who knows?

Either way, somehow, someway, the idea of being burned alive for not following rules seems to be almost literally burned deep into the Germanic saxon psyche.

They're not a humourless people. They're just terrified someone might catch them not working or following the rules.