Joachim Ringelnatz’s Parody of the Little Red Ridding Hood as an Anti-nationalist Response to the Brothers Grimm

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211025.026How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Joachim Ringelnatz, Brothers Grimm, Little Red-Cap, Fairy tale genre, Fairy tale parody, Folktale, Nationalism, The critique of ideology

Abstract

The article focuses on the most famous “fairy tale” of a popular German poet Joachim Ringelnatz, Kuttel Daddeldu Tells His Children the Fairy Tale About Little Red Cap (1923) and complements preceding scholarly discourse on the tales’ highly unconventional and subversive character by interpreting its’ anti-ideological and anti-nationalist dimension. Despite the fact of the tale being a parody of Brothers Grimms’ famous Little Red Riding Hood narrative (1812, 1819, 1857), only Craig Monk (1998) interpreted Ringelnatz’s text in relation to the Jacob Grimm’s and Wilhelm Grimm’s notions, whereas other interpreters (Pape, Zipe, Detken) explicated the fairy tales’ unchildlike character as its dominant feature. By juxtaposing tales’ “unchildlike character” with Grimm’s romantic, nationalist and idealistic conceptualization of the folktales’ “childlike purity” as originating from the morally ideal “Golden Age” of nations beginning, the text is explicated as an anti-nationalist response to nationalistic conceptualizations of the “folktale” within the Weimar period (1918 – 1933).

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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