The Tailor in Heaven
The tailor in heaven is a farce (ATU 800). He stands in the Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm from the second edition of 1819 at site 35 (KHM 35). Wilhelm Grimm published it first in 1818 by Justus Moser in the journal divining as The Tale of Cutter came into the sky.
Content
God walks. Only Peter remains there. He allowed no one involved, but to beg for a tailor, to sit behind the door. When Peter is gone, he looks around and sits down on the throne of God. He sees the world and throws angrily the footstool on a thieving laundress. Then he hides again. Aware of the loss as a god, he can come to the tailor, who told him. God pleads his arrogance and sent him away. The tailor went to Warteinweil to religious soldiers.
Origin
The farce is based on the 2nd and 3rd edition on Freys Garden Society No. 61 and cemetery Wendunmuth 1, No. 230, from the 4th edition more on Wickrams trolley book (Chapter 110). The Stop moved to Warteinweil comes from Brentano's fairy tale Bearskin ( in the newspaper for Hermit on June 15, 1808 Sp 173). Grimm's note calls have variants with Hans Sachs, the tailor with the ensign, the wolf German legends and fairy tales # 16 Jan in heaven, Ernst Heinrich Meier No. 35 and a mention at Moser in his mixed fonts 2, 332 and 2,235. Fish species in the flea treasure ( Dornavius 390 ) summarizes Peter's anger on:
Doyen Hymns 3 in Wolf's magazine for German Mythology 2.2 shows the cutter as a bogeyman:
Comparisons from Grimm's Fairy Tales
- Inlet at the Pearly Gates: KHM 81 Brother Lustig, KHM 82 De Hansel to KHM 167 The peasant in heaven
- Braggart in heaven: KHM 104 The wise people, KHM 112 The flail from heaven, KHM 178 Master Awl
Grimm Note on De Gambling Hansel explains the place Warteinweil that Peter had to concede to the soldiers because they are included neither in heaven nor in hell (p. 143 in the note volume).
Interpretation
The fairy tale parodies loud Eugen Drewermann our attitude of moralizing and the superior attitude and so shows the practical sense of dealing with fairy tales: Judge not, that ye be not judged. ( Sermon on the Mount Matt 7:1 )