Other Great Stories

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• Three Grimm Brothers "Witch Tales" (1812-1815)

  19 May by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

  The brothers Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859), co-authors of an extremely monumental modern German-language dictionary, are first and foremost renowned in the academic circles of their homeland as two of the main founders of German philology.
  But of course among us lesser (...)

• "In the Penal Colony" (1919) by Franz Kafka

  15 May by Franz Kafka

  A visiting European researcher is invited by the military commander of a penal colony to witness the execution of a soldier condemned for insubordination that is to be carried out in a very special manner by a very special machine that has performed the same task very many times in the past – (...)

• "The Golden Cup" (1812) by Ludwig Tieck - a classic of German romanticism

  30 April by Ludwig Tieck

  Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853) was one of the leading figures in the German romantic movement at the beginning of the 19th century, a movement that brought themes of the mysterious, the magical, the fantastic and the unexplainable into German-language letters at the time.
  It was in a way a precursor (...)

• "Shock-Headed Peter (Der Struwwelpeter)" (1845) by Heinrich Hoffmann - an extraordinary set of illustrated lessons showing children how to behave - or else!

  20 April by Heinrich Hoffmann

  Dr. Heinrich Hoffman (1809-1894) drew this sketchbook with verse lessons for his three-year-old son as a Christmas present for him in 1844, after having been unable to find any books able to really interest someone of that age in the bookstores in his town of Frankfurt – they were all either too (...)

• "Clothes Make People (Kleider machen Leute)" by Gottfried Keller (1874) - one of the most famous German-language stories now available in English

  15 April by Gottfried Keller

  This famous story by the Swiss writer Gottfried Keller (1819-1890) was first published in 1874 in the second volume of his collection of stories The People of Seldwyla about the mores and adventures of the people of the mythical but somehow very typical Swiss town of that name.
  It recounts – (...)