Thursday, October 27, 2011

good morning poems 11/8/10

M.J. Trow in "The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade" (ISBN 978-0895263438) recreates each of the cautionary tales as the work of a serial killer.
Paulinchen, the young girl burned to death, was featured in campaign posters of the Christian Democratic Union Party in German elections in the 1990's. Playing up on her green dress and red bows and shoes, voters were warned "keine rot-grünen Experimente!" ("no red-green experiments!"), the implication being that a coalition of the SPD (Social Democrats, who traditionally use red in their campaign material) and Greens would entail a disastrous outcome for Germany.
"Die Geschichte von dem wilden Jäger" (The Story of the Wild Huntsman) is the only story not primarily focused on children. In it, a hare steals a hunter's musket and eyeglasses and begins to hunt the hunter. In the ensuing chaos, the hare's child is burned by hot coffee and the hunter falls into a well, presumably to his death.
Devilish Children and the Civilizing Process (2010) is a stage play adapted, produced, directed and performed by the Dream Theatre Company of Chicago. It is based on several of the stories from Der Struwwelpeter, including "The Story of Cruel Frederick", "The Dreadful Story of Pauline and the Matches" and "The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb". It also includes an adaption of "Cry Baby", from Slovenly Betsy, another children's book written by Heinrich Hoffmann and illustrated by Walter Hayn, in the spirit of Struwwelpeter; it was published in 1917 for an American audience. It is a liberal adaption written by Dream Theatre Company's co-founder and Artistic Director Jeremy Menekseoglu. It was originally performed for Halloween (a theatre tradition). The play is a bit more ghoulish than the original poems. It places a misbehaving 3-year-old Karl, in a 19th century boarding school, where he will be "taught to be civilized" by the "Devilish Children" as they go through "a series of grotesque cautionary tales in which bad children get far worse than they deserve". The original Chicago performance featured Annelise Lawson, Chad Sheveland, Judith Lesser, Bil Gaines, Rachel Martindale, Mishelle Apalategui, Anna Menekseoglu and Jeremy Menekseoglu; was designed by Anna Weiler, Giau Truong and Jeremy Menekseoglu; and staged managed by Kristi Bogart.
In "Die Geschichte vom fliegenden Robert" (The Story of the Flying Robert), a boy goes outside during a storm. The wind catches his umbrella and sends him to places unknown, and presumably to his doom.

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