Golden Goose

The Golden Goose is a fairy tale (ATU 571, 513B ). It is in the Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm in place 64 (KHM 64).

Content

A man has three sons, the youngest of them is called Simpleton, who is scorned at every opportunity. The oldest son is sent by the Father into the forest to chop wood. For this he gets from the mother good cake and wine. He meets a gray male, who asks him to give it to him. He refuses and then injured at work. The injury comes about through magical powers of the gray male.

Then Exactly the same happens to the second son. Now Simpleton persuaded his father to let him cut wood. The mother gives him with this cinder-cake and sour beer. Also Simpleton meets the gray males and responded to the request to give him something. When retrieving the ash cake has turned into good cake and the sour beer in good wine. As a thank you simpleton gets shown by the gray men a special tree. As a simpleton falls these, he finds among them a golden goose. With this he stayed at an inn. The host daughters want to steal a goose feather and stick to it.

Everyone who touches the goose remains, hanging on her. And anyone who touches someone from the adhesive chain remains attached to him. Simpleton goes on with the goose and gradually a priest, a clerk and two farmers get stuck. At the sight of the princess, who could never laugh must loudly laughing. The king had passed the law: "Whoever makes my daughter laugh, they may marry ." Simpleton she demands to the bride.

But the king did not like the son- and he introduces further conditions. Simpleton to find a man who drink a wine cellar and has to eat a mountain of bread. And then Simpleton to ansegeln with a ship that can travel on land and water. The little gray man helps Simpleton to meet all of these conditions. And so the king's daughter marries Simpleton.

After the death of King Simpleton inherit the kingdom and lived a long time happily with his wife.

Origin

Grimm's note quoted: Based on a story from Hesse and another from the Paderborn 's. In the latter Simpleton by the male gets a carriage in front of a little bird is excited. Three girls grab the bird and get stuck, because the bird calls " Riki " and Simpleton " Mature ", then wash women who beat the girl, then clerics with holy water. See Meier In the golden duck No. 17 In Pröhle fairy tale for the youth No. 27, KHM 106 The poor miller's boy and the kitten; Bzgl. of entanglement Loke (younger Edda, Dämes 51. ); to take regarding the cake sample Engelhart ( in the poem Konrad von Würzburg ), the three apples gets from his father to rich foreigners, and only as a friend, who will give back half. Comp. Johann Rudolf Wyss folktales S. 321 and S. 22, the note on the apple sample.; Bzgl. one who can eat or drink much, the people carrying the Pomeranian Cunegonde, KHM 71 Six soldiers of the whole world, KHM 134 The six servants.

The Golden Goose was with The Queen Bee, the three feathers and the white dove in the first edition under the generic title 64 of the Simpleton. Logically, this includes KHM 57 The Golden Bird, KHM 54 The Knapsack, the Hat and the horn, KHM 97 The water of life, KHM 165 The griffin.

See Giambattista Basile Penta Meron in the overall story, I, 3 Peruonto, I, 10 The Old battered, III, 5 The dung beetle, the mouse and Grille, V, 1 goose. See Swan, kleb in Ludwig Bechstein's Deutsches storybook.

Parody

In Janoschs parody stay overlooking rich marriage so many girls hanging on the goose that the boy would rather be alone.

Filming

  • Under the direction of Walter Oehmichen the fairytale was filmed in 1953 in The Golden Goose, among others, Hans Clarin, Ina Peters, Werner Lieven, Klaus Havenstein, Wilmut Borell and Nora Minor in the Federal Republic.
  • In the GDR followed the 1964 film adaptation of the DEFA The Golden Goose, including with Peter Dommisch, Gerd E. Shepherd and Walter E. foot of Siegfried Hartmann
  • Gurimu Meisaku Gekijo, Japanese cartoon series 1987, Episode 6: The Golden Goose

More

  • The Golden Goose (1932 ), American Cartoons
  • The Golden Goose (1944 ), German Animation of Lotte Reiniger
  • The Golden Goose (1994 ), German film directed by Franz Seitz
  • The Golden Goose (2013 ), German Movies ( from the ZDF - tale film series fairytale beads) by Carsten Fiebeler

Theater

  • In summer 2006, the musical " The Golden Goose " for the brothers Grimm Fairy Tales Festival in Hanau was first performed under the direction of Marc Urquhart, the book was inspired by Dieter Stegmann, the music of Alexander S. Bermange
  • In the summer of 2013, the colorful fairy tale comedy experienced in the stage adaptation of Ralph Langlotz its world premiere, played by the Sandhas'n eV in Neunkirchen am Sand, from December 2013 from the small stage 70 in Kassel, Director: Ralph Langlotz
Aarne–Thompson classification system The Water of Life (German fairy tale) The Griffin (fairy tale) Pentamerone Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft Die goldene Gans
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