Wednesday, February 22, 2012
balalaikaboss: ren-ne-rei: The red-legged scissorman from “Struwwelpeter”, a famous german children’s book that is, while of undisputed literary value, just completely fucking terrifying. I think it was my granny who read it to me when I was like five years old, and earlier today the memory crept back… so, a drawing happened. If you’re interested and if you don’t know it already anyways, you can read the poem about the scissorman here (in english) —> Little Suck-a-Thumb I don’t have the book anymore, which is a shame : ( I assume my parents hid it in the darkest corner of the basement or gave it away ages ago, along with “Max und Moritz” and “Allerhand Kurzweil” and the original “Grimm’s Märchen” and all the other cute books for kids.  German fairy tales in the late 19th century: little more than an excuse for parents to terrify the fuck out of their children in case the Prussian school system didn’t work well enough.  Best description of German fairy tales ever.

balalaikaboss:

ren-ne-rei:

The red-legged scissorman from “Struwwelpeter”, a famous german children’s book that is, while of undisputed literary value, just completely fucking terrifying. I think it was my granny who read it to me when I was like five years old, and earlier today the memory crept back… so, a drawing happened.

If you’re interested and if you don’t know it already anyways, you can read the poem about the scissorman here (in english) —> Little Suck-a-Thumb

I don’t have the book anymore, which is a shame : ( I assume my parents hid it in the darkest corner of the basement or gave it away ages ago, along with “Max und Moritz” and “Allerhand Kurzweil” and the original “Grimm’s Märchen” and all the other cute books for kids. 

German fairy tales in the late 19th century: little more than an excuse for parents to terrify the fuck out of their children in case the Prussian school system didn’t work well enough. 

Best description of German fairy tales ever.

(Source: rennerei)

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    German kids, brought up by stories that should be rated NC17, yep, that’s how we do it…. And my elementary teachers...
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    Solid, golden truth right there.
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