Storytelling
Storytellers are people who perceive religious, ritual or with educational tasks in many cultures. In Central Europe, the storyteller went well out of the range of the medieval minstrels, troubadours and jesters.
Term
In the Anglo - American and European -speaking one uses the term storyteller (or storyteller ) mostly as a generic term for fairy tales and legends narrator, city and museum leader and writer. In other cultures is, however, often differentiated strict: for example, told women in the Sahel only fairy tales, which were mainly of entertainment during professional storyteller ( griot, French bard ) was formerly reserved for men and partly for the financial maintenance provided.
Tasks
Basically, it is up to the storyteller, the experience of older generations to the younger call to mind. Often they tell parables, which are intended to solve problems in decisions such as courtship or war issues.
In many cultures, they also fulfill ritual and religious duties. This is the case with many shamans and in Sufism. The transition to the priest is often blurred, which is reflected in today's religious education. In the therapeutic range storytelling is used as a healing method ( storytelling as a healing art ).
Since the spectrum of the storyteller in part, by marketing strategists to other professions, such as Actors, writers or therapists was extended, wins the purist concentration on the free narrative importance again.
Festivals
German -language storytelling festivals:
- Tales of Graz (Graz)
- Tell me what ( Remscheid )
- Intermediate times ( Aachen )
- Magic word (Nuremberg)
- International Erzählfestival ( Bergisch Gladbach)
- Fairytale Festival ( Neukirchen )
- Dialect storytelling and Volxtöne ( Zurzach )
- Märchenfestspiele Tiengen - fairy tales, legends and stories ( Waldshut- Tiengen )
Multilingual storytelling festivals: