lol.2 inches of snow in USA: Disaster alarm! People stay at home! National guard is alarmed! Germany: People change their sandals for closed shoes, and shut down open air water parks.
Struwwelpeter is full of stories like this. My favourite story in the book is about the kid that sucked his thumbs so a guy cut them off or the kid that doesn't like his soup so he starved
Die Geschichte von den schwarzen Buben / the story of the black boy already dealing with rasicm. Story short: three boys get punished by a saint for making fun of a black boy.
Maybe "Das Mädchen mit den Zündhölzern" or "Hans Guck-in-die-Luft". I wanted to say the same 😄 Just look up the original endings of fairy tales. Or just not so popular fairy tales. Quite a few of them are not happy 😁 Cannibalism, rape, mutilation, cruelty in general, gruesome deaths and so on.
From Finland and we had a copy of Max and Moritz (now that I think of it, would like to know why). My mom keeps reminding me how it was my favourite as a kid.
Wilhelm Busch is definitely more fun, also it has a lot of blood and gore. Best known story is of Max & Moritz. The story ends with both boys killed in korngrinder by two angry townpeople and the remaining pieces of meat feed to geese.
Hahahaha, I loved that book when I was a kid. Loved the Struwwelliese even more. And Max und Moritz! Kids nowadays get scared by everything. It was supposed to scare us but my brothers and I just laughed about it.
@@sonniew7616 LOL... "Ich esse meine Suppe nicht, NEIN, meine Suppe ess ich nicht." Finally: Er wog nur noch ein halbes Lot, am 7. Tage war er tot. Beneidenswert - ich wollte ich hätte als Kind auch mal hin und wieder so reagiert und nicht alles brav aufgegessen, egal ob's geschmeckt hat oder nicht.
I have this book on a cassette. And also recommend 'das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern', Brüderchen und Schwesterchen und die sieben Raben (cruel but i like it). The most horrible for me is die Gänsemagd. Don't eat before reading.
@@kerry4385 Das kleine Mädchen mit den Schwefelhözern ist allerdings kein deutsches Märchen. Es stammt vom Dänen Hans Christian Andersen. Die Dänen stehen den Deutschen also in nichts nach, wenn es um grausame Märchen geht.
Aber als "grausam" wie Grimm-Märchen würde ich Andersens Geschichten nicht bezeichnen... sie sind eher emotional gesehen brutal...heftige aber extrem rührende Geschichten. Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern z.B. erhält ja trotz allem Leid Würde und Wärme.
Love it. The real Nalf is back. Props for the piano playing and reading in German- the full immersive experience- I’ve come to know and expect! 👍😎Cheers Prost
That one is FWD not AWD so it's pretty much the same as any FWD car. Also, no one, in particular the driver, appeared to understand anything about basic physics.
Honestly, who in their right mind drives a car with FWD? My car isn't even made to be driven offroad and it has all-year tires on because snow has become a rarety where I live and I usually don't drive when it snows too much, but it would still have been able to deal with that little snow.
@@swanpride "Honestly, who in their right mind drives a car with FWD?" Almost everyone in Europe. It's no problem to drive in snowy conditions with winter tyres. RWD is where the fun ends in the winter.
Those aren’t bedtime stories, those are warning stories „Warngeschichten“. Those were not supposed to get your children asleep, you read them to your children to terrify them, in this case from fire, so that the act correctly and don’t bring themselves into danger and that their listen to their parents.
It's actually more a compendium of pediatric psychiatry. The hypermotoric child is the one who can't sit still at the table, the one not looking where he steps likely has ADD. The one who refuses to eat and starves himself is anorexic. The list goes on. But yes, it was used as a cautionary tale to frighten children into obedience, even though that kind of behaviour isn't their fault and that's what makes it highly problematic. Those stories really did a number on me and I have refused to expose my son to the book. Maybe later, when he's old enough to have a discussion about it.
@@JM-xv6wu you don't have to tell me XD I had nightmares. I am fond of the stories because they are part of our culture but I wouldn't tell them to my children like they are supposed to be.
I noticed a significant diffference between the German version of Rotkäppchen and "Little Red Riding Hood" which I read to my hostkid in California. I don't recall the difference since it was in 2007 but I remember the feeling of amusement about this really watered down version. So, yes, as already suggested here, look into the German versions of these tales.
@@jk_vogt.7091 There are different versions, most of the stories have long been told and passed down by traders, singers, bards and sometimes slightly changed.
@@OkabexKurisu Cinderella is a special case. That is a french fairy tale in the original version and that is the version Disney adapted. The german version "Aschenputtel" is its own adaptation of that french fairy tale.
It was very nice hearing again that story, after so many years. My mother used to read me such stories when I was a child. Rumpelstilzchen is another Grimm-story that I well remember!
basically every older version of a German children's story is horrifying. Most of the stories the brothers grimm collected are, but if I had to tell you a particular one it would be the original story of cinderella or "Aschenbrödel/Aschenputtel"
I wonder if British or American fairy tales of the Victorian Era were any different. Might be interesting to see if this grimness is a cultural thing at all, or just the way education was understood back then.
I would go as far and claim that all of the original fairy tales were very gruesome. No matter where they originated as they were intended as lessons for children and less as entertainment
I recommend my favourite fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm: "Märchen von einem, der auszog das Fürchten zu lernen" or in English: "The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was"
The author of the Struwwelpeter wrote this book as a christmas gift for his children. Heinrich Hoffmann was a psychiatrist and founder of the first modern psychiatric hospital in Frankfurt am Main. The burning girl in the book was modeled on a real living girl who burned down the curtains in her parents house, but she didn't died in this accident but in the cause of tuberculosis. Her grave can be visit on central cementary in Frankfurt am Main.
"Der Wolf und die sieben Geißlein"- a wolf eating six baby goats gets caught and got his belly cut open by the mom (his stomach was refilled with little rocks and he died...)🙈 that's a creepy story🤷🏻♀️
Well, the wolf in that story doesn't merely die from the rocks in his stomach - they just cause him pain, so he goes to a well to get something to drink, the weight of the stones then makes him topple over and fall into the well, where he drowns.
There's a version where they throw the wolf into a dry well, where he can't climb the out of, because of the weight of the rocks in his stomach. So he dies of hunger and thirst. Actually, the Grimm Brothers toned down a lot of the stories already.
And once again it's obvious how much his whining is feared in the world. Even his siblings exclude him from all strenuous tasks in order to avoid possible avalanches through excessive, loud and unbearable whining. Oh no, I forgot, he is the big bro who is allowed to preserve his delicate hands and successfully delegates tasks. Mojo Jim, you've gotta be proud of me, I've been paying attention. Meow meo...Mia and Leo...And a Man-Child up to no good...Those similarities. Uncanny.
My grandma had the Struwelpeter book and I always read it when I was at her house. Never occurred to me as a child how horrifying these stories were! Same with 'Max und Moritz' or any Grimm fairytale
Exactly! I wonder about all the nightmare-stories people talk about - I never had any 🤷! I remember on the contrary that as soon as I was able to read I read those stories over and over again by myself because I liked the rhythm & rhyme and the pictures 😉......!
you did a great job at both the piano and the reading!! I studied German for only 2 years----may try to take it up again. Such alliterative "childrens" stories. i bet they needed that kind of cautionary tale in the old days of wooden homes and real fires.
It is (or was) an educational book with some of those disturbing storys. One kid refused to eat His soup.. and died. One kid didn't take care were he's going.. and died. One kid didn't sit quiet at the dining table.. and died. And some other stories. So, obey your parents or you'll end in a horrible way.
My son LOVED Struwwelpeter and the stories in it as a small child, and his cousins did too. I had to keep telling them to them all the time, so much so that I knew them by heart after a while xD I particularly recommend "Der Daumenlutscher".
First survival-rules for german Kids. And yes, I red them with my daughter... But at "Paulinchen" I am always crying... Did you find the 1. Mistake at the Story: "Paulinchen war allein zu Haus, Die Eltern waren beide aus..." Don't let your children alone at home.
bullshit, back in the time you would starve to death, if not both parent got to work. In the 19th century and before there was almost no social security.
Lass sie nicht alleine Zuhause, lass sie nicht alleine raus, überhaupt lass sie nicht ohne 800€ Iphone, fahr sie lieber zur Schule... Helikoptereltern und ihre armen Kinder die kein normales Leben haben und zu ängstlichen Stubenhockern erzogen werden^^
@Mad Rooky, also mein Kind lasse ich unter 8 Jahren mal noch nicht alleine zu Hause. Und Paulinchen war ein Kind... Aber klar, ich kenne die Helikoptereltern nur zu gut, da ich neben einer Schule wohne und fast täglich sehe, wie Eltern ihre Teenager fast in Klassenzimmer fahren.
Mate there are alot, we got: -Max und Moritz -Inky Boys -Struppelpeter -Suppenkasper -Daumenlutscher -Hans watch your step -Zappel Phillip There you go😉 I grew up with these
I rewrote all of those and put them in a book... save for Max and Moritz (which I might rewrite soon, however) and the Inky Boys. Okay, I DID rewrite the Inky Boys, I just didn't publish my rewrite in my book. Here it is for free: A boy named Colin, one fine day, (He had dark skin, I have to say) Went for a walk with his umbrella, He was a friendly little fella. But then came Edward running fast, Waving his flag that was made to last, Then in leapt Arthur from the loft, Clutching a pretzel salty and soft, And William rolled his hoop along, Then told the others to sing a song. They sang to Colin out of spite, “Hello, there, kid as black as night!” Then great big Nikolas walked along, and heard the naughty boys’ cruel song. He placed his inkstand on the ground, looked at the three boys dashing around, and shouted to them, “Kiddos, quiet! Don’t try to make an awful riot about a child with darker skin! It doesn’t matter what color you’re in! Your character is what matters most!” But alas, the three continued to boast about how Colin was dark as tar, and Nikolas decided he’d go more far. He grabbed them, yes, that’s very true, and dunked them in ink through and through, but then decided he’d do much worse to give those boys a terrible curse. He stomped on Edward’s foot first thing, then twisted Will’s arm into a ring, and then yanked Arthur by the leg, although the three of them started to beg. He didn’t stop, no, not at all, Until they ceased to loudly call About how Colin was black as a crow. And Colin himself, I’m sure you know, Was happy to see them in such pain, But he’s afraid they might mock him again, And so he ran very far away And hasn’t seen those three to this day.
Ah yes, "Der Struwwelpeter" is a collection of many such stories. As I child, I wasn't really scared, I just thought "Well, those are some dumb kids, I'd never do this."
You make my childhood sound weird. 😑 My favourite traumatizing story my grandma read to me since... I can remember... was "Die Gänsemagd" which would make a pretty good movie I guess. A princess is sent far away to marry some prince by her mother (king is long dead) . The mother gifts her a talking horse named Falada and a cloth with 3 drops of her blood as a talisman (don't ask!). Her bitchy servant accompanies her. When the servant girl refuses to fetch the princess water with her golden cup, the princess loses the cloth (cause she's not used to doing shit by herself and bends over a river). Bitchy servant girl smells her chance and forces the princess to change clothes with her and to swear to not ever tell the truth... which the princess obliges to. So of course the servant marries the prince and the princess gets send off to take care of some geese with a boy named Kürdchen (minimizationof Kurt). The bitchy servant beheads the talking horse Falada cause she fears that it'll spill her dirty trickery. But for whatever reason the princess begs the butcher to nail the horse's head at the gate that she has to pass daily with her geese. Everyday she talks with the Zombie horse head which greets her with her title. One day she tries to braid her golden her when the boy Kürdchen tries to steal a few hairs. Apparently she's also a witch cause she says a spell that blows off the boy's hat and while he's chasing it she finishes her braid. He's upset about that and sees it fit to talk to the king about it... the king gets suspicious and starts spying on her. When he confronts her she refuses to talk because of her oath to the servant. Then the king tells her to confess to the oven (I know), which she does. Obviously he listens , the prince learns the truth and the servant girl get punished by getting dragged to death in a barrel covered with nails. Prince and princess lived happily ever after.
"Falada, der Du da hangest"... "Königstochter, die Du da gangest. Wenn dies Eure Mutter wüsste, das Herz bräche ihr entzwei." Ich liebe das Märchen, Monheim am Rhein hat die Gänsemagd im Stadtwappen. Immer wenn ich auf der Autobahn an Monheim vorbei fahr, muss ich an das Märchen denken.
Yo genau ! Des hamma gern, diese mords Karren fahren - hier in D eine Zumutung ! - und dann bei ein bisschen Schnee grandios scheitern. Da würde ich mir halt gleich einen 4WD hertun, wenigstens zuschaltbar.
Hey there Nalf. There is a Rammstein song called "Hilf mir" from the album "Rosenrot" based on that exact story. It has many of the original lyrics in it...
Sending a child out on the road in these weather conditions with bad tires is at least as horrible as the story of Paulinchen. Even the car was making noises like a cat. Meow! Mio! Meow! Mio! Hope Mikey arrived safely.
the whole concept of having your own car (and a mid-sized SUV at that) let alone going back to college in one seems foreign from a German perspective. We used to take the train and got an obligatory semester pass for public transport at a reduced rate, did most of our stuff cycling around town. not judging, just making an observation : )
Jepp as an old car buff my heart was bleeding when I saw the footage, even watching Nick in that old MB S class Limo (I think it was a W 140 (so late 90th)) was like thanks God he is in Oregon during the winter months.
I had that book growing up in English in OK, amazing illustrations. Getting the thumbs cut off, and the poor girl who burns down, and the boy who won't eat soup and dies! good stuff!!! ha ha... :) great episode, Nalf!
Always nice and relaxing to watch your videos. I watched and often binged most of them in the last few month. And they inspired me to buy a smoothymaker and one day visit Schwäbisch Hall, a City the only thing I knew about was the Bausparfuchs. 😏 So thanks to you I have a citytrip to look Forward to after Corona and eat more healthy vegetables than before. You did good👍🏼😊
Ha ha, I really can understand the skipping part! ETA Hoffmanns' Sandman is kind of an artificial fairytale that he wrote with very special intentions and it is studied a lot but doesn't really fit into this context of childrens' fairytales. I know because a looong time ago I had to study it and I hated it 😉........
Poor Mikey! That’s waayy too much gas! That’s why we in Germany prefer driving with manual gearbox. If there is ice on the street, you start the car in the second gear, or even third gear to make the wheels really slowly. I am an American citizen, too, but after all my time in Hamburg I would never drive an automatic car. No fun and you’re f*cked during winter.
@@bryanjordan8997 🙂 I live in the north of Sweden... I drive an automatic front wheel drive car... And I don't get stuck in any snow unless it starts reaching the level of my head lights. Just saying...
I read the stories of "Struwwelpeter", "Max und Moritz" and alike that often to my kids, I knew them by heart. But that was 20 years ago. The author of "Struwwelpeter" was a medical doctor in Frankfurt/Main(?) with many children as patients. He recognized many behavioral disorders among his little patients (that were only classified in ICD decades or a century later) and wrote stories about these disorders in the style of nursery rhymes hoping to create awareness and avert fatal consequences. E.g. Hans Guck in die Luft describes ADD and Zappelphillip describes ADHD.
I'd really LOVE to hear you read "Max und Moritz". It's also cruel but a little funnier. And as for the ice: just try some salt and better winter tires... (and not so much gas on starting)
Haha that's not a lot of snow! I live in southern bavaria near the Alps and we sometimes have half a meter or more snow. Btw your german is really good. Keep up!
This is hilarious! We all loved Struwelpeter and so did our children! Talk about violence? ? Watch American cartoons from the 40s to the 80s! A constant killing, dropping, beating, burning and shooting! Bugs Bunny dies a thousand horrible deaths! Yosemite Sam is a killing machine and on top of it, he constantly hits his horse between the ears with his rifle or whatever he can find. Violent ! Most Americans cartoons are about destruction, blowing up and killing! The German children books are meant to teach....it worked!
It always make me laugh to see how Americans can't deal with driving on snow. In Germany we are used to it, just use the gas pedal smoothly, never try the 'much is more' system, it does not work.
Finally, you read that story , and I’m sure by now have dabbled at the rest of them with all the comments you’ve received ... I grew up on those stories and so did my kids... Good ole stories hahahaha.... get back to SHA ! I’m missing my KL
Thumbs up for practising your German by reading out loud 👍. Maybe you guys should think about getting some winter tires now 😉. PS: I can't recommend the Struwelpeter. It gave me nightmares as a kid. Struwelliese is way better ☺.
@@Jodio-Joestar -If you make fun of a black boy you will get dipped into ink -If you don't cut your nails or hair everyone will hate you -If you don't eat your soup/dinner you will starve to death -If you suck your thumbs a mean tailor will break into your house and cut them off -If you look at the sky while walking you will fall into a river and drown -If you fidget at the dinner table you will pull all the food down onto the floor and make your parents angry
If you look into the Struwwelpeter you find a very interesting story about St. Nikolas and how to punish racist bullies or the story of the hunter and the hare that is all about gun security, if you ask me.
Also, if you are looking for even more stories, get the book "Max und Moritz"... and the story you have in this episode is from "der Struwwelpeter", which has quite a few more classic illustrated stories (the boy who didnt eat all his soup/food and withered away...etc.).
That story reminds me of a Rammstein song called "Hilf Mir" on the Rosenrot album. The music you chose for the clip of you guys walking to the store was awesome! Keep using stuff like that! It's good to see you're doing well Nick. Do you know when/if you'll be going back to Germany? Love from Florida.
I,m from the Midwest who now lives on the north Oregon coast, need to teach you how to drive and deal with the small amount of ice and snow Oregon gets each year.
Somehow I feel a little bad for smiling and being extremly entertaint by hearing a children story about a burning child but damn I can not help it. Extremly entertaining to listen to you reading it... ;) I am no expert about the car, but that is not alot of snow and only looks a little icy... you do not have winter wheels on the car, right? But hey, you've got a good workout there ;). And I really like that you took the oportunity to be in that jury. Very cool!
6:34 Might I ask whether you have ever heard of winter tyres? What you see there isn't normal. I bet those are summer tyres. I once saw a Dutch car on summer tyres in the midst of winter, on new fallen snow on a road through the mountains where I am from. It was horrible to behold. Please, all you people out there who think that you don't need special tyres for cold conditions consider consider using winter tyres! Even on non-snowy roads and temperatures over but close to freezing point winter tyres are the safer option!
The Tube has not been notifying me of your videos. Anyway, most fairytales are not Disneyesque. How long did it take Mikey to get out of the driveway? Take care Alfieris.
Another example for an horrifying German children story is Grimm's ''Hansel and Gretel": It is about burning an old female cannibalistic serial killer in an oven. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansel_and_Gretel
Der Strubbelpeter was actually written by a doctor, who wanted to show what is the right way to behave to prevent inguries or to get burned. This book is full of stories like that. Der Zappelphilip is the first time a hyper active child is mentioned. That's why before they said ADHD here they said Zappelphilip-Syndrom.
Read out this almost 200 years old Story in german by nalf was helarious! German upbringing in former times was creepy. Children get nightmares after reading this book. Shoveling snow in shorts and t-shirts? Have you ever heard about Winter tires?
I had all the books and stories that are considered “horrific“ today. I liked them and didn't get any nightmare as a kid. But I got nightmares for month from E.T. This thing looked so damn creepy.
Maybe you don't sucked your thumb as a child. And you live in fear that someone will come and cut your thumbs like in this book. And you would dazzle...
My parents and Grandparents all read them to me when i was a child, I still have Struwwelpeter to this day. Truely awsome. Just a fact that the changed most of them when turned into movies is sad. In „Hänsel und Grätel“ the evil Cannibalist doesn’t burn in the oven anymore which is just making the ending completely diffrent
@@emjayay I spent 60 years of my life in Chicago - I know about snow shoveling. I have lived in Portland the last 16 years and know how Oregonians dress.
My grandmother was born in 1895 and I have her childhood copy of Der Struwwelpeter. My father's personal favorite was Max u. Moritz. They turned out just fine...
Well there discounting the Brother's grimm versions of a lot of fairy tales that are decidedly darker than Disney's versions, you might want to look at 'Max und Moritz' and 'Struwwelpeter'
Nick, it is good to see and hear you again. Dreadful Story of Pauline and the Matches." When I was about 6 years old, an aunt gave me a book for Christmas called American Childhood's Best Books. by Mary Perks c. 1942 and published by The American Crayon Company. It was an anthology of stories and poetry for children of ages 4-8. In it, there was a section of such "teaching stories" as Pauline. One was about a boy who was cautioned by his mother not to suck his thumb while she was out because a tailor might drop by who , if he saw boys sucking their thumbs, would cut them off with his big scissors. I was sure to never suck my thumb. So I guess the stories worked. I still have that book which is 76 years old. I suspect that many stories like that came from the German culture. Auf Wiedersehen
Struwwelpeter was my personal child horrorstory. I had literal nightmares bc of that. Well when i wasnt dreaming about falling or shooting out of the elevator shaft because i got stuck 2 times alone when i was little...
This is actual rare footage of Americans WALKING to a store. For the first time caught on camera, please enjoy this extraordinary moment.
Well, at least Americans in the suburbs. Some of us Americans walk to the store all the time.
Someone should buy them proper winter shoes.
And facemasks.
lol.2 inches of snow in
USA: Disaster alarm! People stay at home! National guard is alarmed!
Germany: People change their sandals for closed shoes, and shut down open air water parks.
@@diymicha4905 Finnland: Wanna go swim?
Struwwelpeter is full of stories like this. My favourite story in the book is about the kid that sucked his thumbs so a guy cut them off or the kid that doesn't like his soup so he starved
"Suppenkasper"
Mine is Der fliegende Robert
Die Geschichte von den schwarzen Buben / the story of the black boy
already dealing with rasicm. Story short: three boys get punished by a saint for making fun of a black boy.
Struwelpeter too - and "Max & Moritz" have a bad ending too after a lot of people suffered.
Hans Guck-in-die-Luft
Struwwelpeter. Or Max und Moritz. Or almost every fairytale...
I loved both as a kid...
Max und Moritz is different. It's actually a parody of books like Struwwelpeter and wasn't written for children in the first place.
Maybe "Das Mädchen mit den Zündhölzern" or "Hans Guck-in-die-Luft".
I wanted to say the same 😄 Just look up the original endings of fairy tales. Or just not so popular fairy tales. Quite a few of them are not happy 😁
Cannibalism, rape, mutilation, cruelty in general, gruesome deaths and so on.
From Finland and we had a copy of Max and Moritz (now that I think of it, would like to know why). My mom keeps reminding me how it was my favourite as a kid.
@@heidien5154 I loved it as a kid, too.
The story almost lost all its thrilling terror due to your charming accent. Thank God for your dramatic piano accompaniment 😍
From drone-flying outlaw to member of a Schwäbisch Hall jury! This man is living the German dream!
"Frau Holle", if you consider that pouring someone with hot tar is basically a death sentence
"Max und Moritz" from Wilhelm Busch
Did you know a roller coaster named and themed after Max & Moritz opened in the Efteling theme park (NL), last year?
Wilhelm Busch is definitely more fun, also it has a lot of blood and gore.
Best known story is of Max & Moritz.
The story ends with both boys killed in korngrinder by two angry townpeople and the remaining pieces of meat feed to geese.
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Hahahaha, I loved that book when I was a kid. Loved the Struwwelliese even more. And Max und Moritz! Kids nowadays get scared by everything. It was supposed to scare us but my brothers and I just laughed about it.
Struwelliese 🙌🏽.
My brother's comment to the 'Suppenkasper': "Such a stupid mother! Why didn't she cook something different?" Hes was about 3 years old then...
@@sonniew7616 LOL... "Ich esse meine Suppe nicht, NEIN, meine Suppe ess ich nicht." Finally: Er wog nur noch ein halbes Lot, am 7. Tage war er tot.
Beneidenswert - ich wollte ich hätte als Kind auch mal hin und wieder so reagiert und nicht alles brav aufgegessen, egal ob's geschmeckt hat oder nicht.
Just read the whole Struwelpeter book. 😅 Nightmares for days. 😬
I have this book on a cassette. And also recommend 'das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern', Brüderchen und Schwesterchen und die sieben Raben (cruel but i like it). The most horrible for me is die Gänsemagd. Don't eat before reading.
Totally agree!
@@kerry4385 Das kleine Mädchen mit den Schwefelhözern ist allerdings kein deutsches Märchen. Es stammt vom Dänen Hans Christian Andersen. Die Dänen stehen den Deutschen also in nichts nach, wenn es um grausame Märchen geht.
@@felixklusener5530 ja, genauso wie die kleine Meerjungfrau, die eigentlich auch überhaupt nicht gut ausgeht.
Aber als "grausam" wie Grimm-Märchen würde ich Andersens Geschichten nicht bezeichnen... sie sind eher emotional gesehen brutal...heftige aber extrem rührende Geschichten. Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern z.B. erhält ja trotz allem Leid Würde und Wärme.
Nalf pelase read some more of the Struwwelpeter stories. You were great!
Love it. The real Nalf is back. Props for the piano playing and reading in German- the full immersive experience- I’ve come to know and expect! 👍😎Cheers Prost
All this SUVs „offroad cars“ that get stuck instantly in a few inches of snow. 😂
That's why winter tires/climate appropriately tires are such a big deal...
That one is FWD not AWD so it's pretty much the same as any FWD car. Also, no one, in particular the driver, appeared to understand anything about basic physics.
Honestly, who in their right mind drives a car with FWD? My car isn't even made to be driven offroad and it has all-year tires on because snow has become a rarety where I live and I usually don't drive when it snows too much, but it would still have been able to deal with that little snow.
@@swanpride "Honestly, who in their right mind drives a car with FWD?"
Almost everyone in Europe. It's no problem to drive in snowy conditions with winter tyres. RWD is where the fun ends in the winter.
@@TheDirtypair RWD is, where the fun begins. Under any conditions.
And of course no electronic assistants.
Creativity level 100+ ... .achieved! Love the music in the background.
Those aren’t bedtime stories, those are warning stories „Warngeschichten“. Those were not supposed to get your children asleep, you read them to your children to terrify them, in this case from fire, so that the act correctly and don’t bring themselves into danger and that their listen to their parents.
yeahh but its still 'black pedagogy' an should not used any more.
@@hovawartfreunde4599 I is not wrong to warn kids and remaind them to be careful - but these kind of stories are inadequately shocking.
It's actually more a compendium of pediatric psychiatry. The hypermotoric child is the one who can't sit still at the table, the one not looking where he steps likely has ADD. The one who refuses to eat and starves himself is anorexic. The list goes on. But yes, it was used as a cautionary tale to frighten children into obedience, even though that kind of behaviour isn't their fault and that's what makes it highly problematic. Those stories really did a number on me and I have refused to expose my son to the book. Maybe later, when he's old enough to have a discussion about it.
@@JM-xv6wu you don't have to tell me XD I had nightmares. I am fond of the stories because they are part of our culture but I wouldn't tell them to my children like they are supposed to be.
Wobei diese Wahrngeschichten gerne vor dem zu Bett gehen, vorgelesen wurden.
I noticed a significant diffference between the German version of Rotkäppchen and "Little Red Riding Hood" which I read to my hostkid in California.
I don't recall the difference since it was in 2007 but I remember the feeling of amusement about this really watered down version.
So, yes, as already suggested here, look into the German versions of these tales.
disney had a huge deal in watering down german fairy tales. look up cinderellas original story if you are interested.
But Rotkäppchen is a French Tale. The brothers Grimm traveled through Europe to collect "their" tales.
@@jk_vogt.7091 There are different versions, most of the stories have long been told and passed down by traders, singers, bards and sometimes slightly changed.
@@OkabexKurisu Cinderella is a special case. That is a french fairy tale in the original version and that is the version Disney adapted. The german version "Aschenputtel" is its own adaptation of that french fairy tale.
It was very nice hearing again that story, after so many years. My mother used to read me such stories when I was a child. Rumpelstilzchen is another Grimm-story that I well remember!
basically every older version of a German children's story is horrifying. Most of the stories the brothers grimm collected are, but if I had to tell you a particular one it would be the original story of cinderella or "Aschenbrödel/Aschenputtel"
I wonder if British or American fairy tales of the Victorian Era were any different. Might be interesting to see if this grimness is a cultural thing at all, or just the way education was understood back then.
uhhh yes. all the hacking limbs off just to fit a shoe... spooked me as a child but I still loved this story!
I would go as far and claim that all of the original fairy tales were very gruesome. No matter where they originated as they were intended as lessons for children and less as entertainment
Or Sleeping Beauty/Dornröschen.... 😶
Stefanie Grimm Ms. Grimm, you would be the authoritative source in this matter.
I recommend my favourite fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm: "Märchen von einem, der auszog das Fürchten zu lernen" or in English: "The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was"
meine Lieblingsgeschichte als Kind..;)
Amazing flashback to my childhood. My grandma used to read me the book „der Struwwelpeter“
The author of the Struwwelpeter wrote this book as a christmas gift for his children.
Heinrich Hoffmann was a psychiatrist and founder of the first modern psychiatric hospital in Frankfurt am Main.
The burning girl in the book was modeled on a real living girl who burned down the curtains in her parents house, but she didn't died in this accident but in the cause of tuberculosis. Her grave can be visit on central cementary in Frankfurt am Main.
Das kann nur ein Frankfurter wissen!
Das kalte Herz by Wilhelm Hauff. A fairy tale from the black forest
I read this by myself when I was something aroung six or seven. Haunted me for years!
Ja, den hab ich mit 4 Jahren im Fernsehen gesehen... Die anatomischen Herzen an der Wand... Sozusagen mein erster Spladderfilm.
who did the Music? that was just perfect movie like music, i love it. And greedings from Bavaria, hope to see you again in Schwäbisch Hall
"Der Wolf und die sieben Geißlein"- a wolf eating six baby goats gets caught and got his belly cut open by the mom (his stomach was refilled with little rocks and he died...)🙈 that's a creepy story🤷🏻♀️
Well, the wolf in that story doesn't merely die from the rocks in his stomach - they just cause him pain, so he goes to a well to get something to drink, the weight of the stones then makes him topple over and fall into the well, where he drowns.
@@BrokenCurtain True... I forgot about that part🤔😅👍🏻
@@BrokenCurtain That story is clearly the essence of Germanness.
There's a version where they throw the wolf into a dry well, where he can't climb the out of, because of the weight of the rocks in his stomach. So he dies of hunger and thirst.
Actually, the Grimm Brothers toned down a lot of the stories already.
6:33 thats not how you use the gas pedal on this kind of snow lol
dont you have snow in oregon regularly? thought it was one of the colder states
"WHOA" is right !!! Love this . . . bring more such stories on !
Dude, that was read out pretty well! Enjoyed both listening & watching. Cheers from the Sauerland region! :)
And once again it's obvious how much his whining is feared in the world.
Even his siblings exclude him from all strenuous tasks in order to avoid possible avalanches through excessive, loud and unbearable whining.
Oh no, I forgot, he is the big bro who is allowed to preserve his delicate hands and successfully delegates tasks.
Mojo Jim, you've gotta be proud of me, I've been paying attention.
Meow meo...Mia and Leo...And a Man-Child up to no good...Those similarities. Uncanny.
What’s the book called with the illustrations you liked so much? The one with the boys getting shredded in the corn mill? Isn’t that a scary one too?
@@nelehiphiphooray4827 ahhh, that’s ‘Max and Moritz’. Wilhelm Busch. Very detailed book.
All the benefits of being the boss bro. I can’t say that I don’t enjoy them.
What about ‘The Nalfmare before Christmas’? That was a scary one 😬
@@itwasellinotme5957 Yes. That’s the one! It’s scary.
Nalf discovered the Struwwelpeter, congrats, you will have lots of "fun" with this book ;)
that could be my potential new favourite format on your channel
My grandma had the Struwelpeter book and I always read it when I was at her house. Never occurred to me as a child how horrifying these stories were!
Same with 'Max und Moritz' or any Grimm fairytale
Exactly! I wonder about all the nightmare-stories people talk about - I never had any 🤷! I remember on the contrary that as soon as I was able to read I read those stories over and over again by myself because I liked the rhythm & rhyme and the pictures 😉......!
Same with me but I actually remember being traumatized
Thanks Nalf, really enjoyed this video!
you did a great job at both the piano and the reading!! I studied German for only 2 years----may try to take it up again. Such alliterative "childrens" stories. i bet they needed that kind of cautionary tale in the old days of wooden homes and real fires.
It is (or was) an educational book with some of those disturbing storys. One kid refused to eat His soup.. and died. One kid didn't take care were he's going.. and died. One kid didn't sit quiet at the dining table.. and died. And some other stories. So, obey your parents or you'll end in a horrible way.
@@kilsestoffel3690 I gave the stories rewrites so they actually learn their lessons.
My son LOVED Struwwelpeter and the stories in it as a small child, and his cousins did too. I had to keep telling them to them all the time, so much so that I knew them by heart after a while xD I particularly recommend "Der Daumenlutscher".
First survival-rules for german Kids. And yes, I red them with my daughter... But at "Paulinchen" I am always crying...
Did you find the 1. Mistake at the Story:
"Paulinchen war allein zu Haus,
Die Eltern waren beide aus..."
Don't let your children alone at home.
bullshit, back in the time you would starve to death, if not both parent got to work. In the 19th century and before there was almost no social security.
Lass sie nicht alleine Zuhause, lass sie nicht alleine raus, überhaupt lass sie nicht ohne 800€ Iphone, fahr sie lieber zur Schule...
Helikoptereltern und ihre armen Kinder die kein normales Leben haben und zu ängstlichen Stubenhockern erzogen werden^^
@Mad Rooky, also mein Kind lasse ich unter 8 Jahren mal noch nicht alleine zu Hause. Und Paulinchen war ein Kind... Aber klar, ich kenne die Helikoptereltern nur zu gut, da ich neben einer Schule wohne und fast täglich sehe, wie Eltern ihre Teenager fast in Klassenzimmer fahren.
@@mikemiller2131 yes, and normally there were aunts and Grandparents at home to look for the children...
@@mikemiller2131 and thanks for the nice and lovely "bullshit"... 💕
Mate there are alot, we got:
-Max und Moritz
-Inky Boys
-Struppelpeter
-Suppenkasper
-Daumenlutscher
-Hans watch your step
-Zappel Phillip
There you go😉
I grew up with these
I rewrote all of those and put them in a book... save for Max and Moritz (which I might rewrite soon, however) and the Inky Boys.
Okay, I DID rewrite the Inky Boys, I just didn't publish my rewrite in my book. Here it is for free:
A boy named Colin, one fine day,
(He had dark skin, I have to say)
Went for a walk with his umbrella,
He was a friendly little fella.
But then came Edward running fast,
Waving his flag that was made to last,
Then in leapt Arthur from the loft,
Clutching a pretzel salty and soft,
And William rolled his hoop along,
Then told the others to sing a song.
They sang to Colin out of spite,
“Hello, there, kid as black as night!”
Then great big Nikolas walked along,
and heard the naughty boys’ cruel song.
He placed his inkstand on the ground,
looked at the three boys dashing around,
and shouted to them, “Kiddos, quiet!
Don’t try to make an awful riot
about a child with darker skin!
It doesn’t matter what color you’re in!
Your character is what matters most!”
But alas, the three continued to boast
about how Colin was dark as tar,
and Nikolas decided he’d go more far.
He grabbed them, yes, that’s very true,
and dunked them in ink through and through,
but then decided he’d do much worse
to give those boys a terrible curse.
He stomped on Edward’s foot first thing,
then twisted Will’s arm into a ring,
and then yanked Arthur by the leg,
although the three of them started to beg.
He didn’t stop, no, not at all,
Until they ceased to loudly call
About how Colin was black as a crow.
And Colin himself, I’m sure you know,
Was happy to see them in such pain,
But he’s afraid they might mock him again,
And so he ran very far away
And hasn’t seen those three to this day.
"Max und Moritz", Struwwelpeter, Suppen-Kaspar, Zappel-Philipp, etc.pp.
I had a whole book of stories like that when I was a kid (about 45 years ago)!
Ah yes, "Der Struwwelpeter" is a collection of many such stories. As I child, I wasn't really scared, I just thought "Well, those are some dumb kids, I'd never do this."
You make my childhood sound weird. 😑
My favourite traumatizing story my grandma read to me since... I can remember... was "Die Gänsemagd" which would make a pretty good movie I guess.
A princess is sent far away to marry some prince by her mother (king is long dead) . The mother gifts her a talking horse named Falada and a cloth with 3 drops of her blood as a talisman (don't ask!). Her bitchy servant accompanies her. When the servant girl refuses to fetch the princess water with her golden cup, the princess loses the cloth (cause she's not used to doing shit by herself and bends over a river). Bitchy servant girl smells her chance and forces the princess to change clothes with her and to swear to not ever tell the truth... which the princess obliges to. So of course the servant marries the prince and the princess gets send off to take care of some geese with a boy named Kürdchen (minimizationof Kurt). The bitchy servant beheads the talking horse Falada cause she fears that it'll spill her dirty trickery. But for whatever reason the princess begs the butcher to nail the horse's head at the gate that she has to pass daily with her geese. Everyday she talks with the Zombie horse head which greets her with her title. One day she tries to braid her golden her when the boy Kürdchen tries to steal a few hairs. Apparently she's also a witch cause she says a spell that blows off the boy's hat and while he's chasing it she finishes her braid. He's upset about that and sees it fit to talk to the king about it... the king gets suspicious and starts spying on her. When he confronts her she refuses to talk because of her oath to the servant. Then the king tells her to confess to the oven (I know), which she does. Obviously he listens , the prince learns the truth and the servant girl get punished by getting dragged to death in a barrel covered with nails. Prince and princess lived happily ever after.
"Falada, der Du da hangest"... "Königstochter, die Du da gangest. Wenn dies Eure Mutter wüsste, das Herz bräche ihr entzwei." Ich liebe das Märchen, Monheim am Rhein hat die Gänsemagd im Stadtwappen. Immer wenn ich auf der Autobahn an Monheim vorbei fahr, muss ich an das Märchen denken.
@@NoSabine ja ich hab es auch geliebt, aber Falada hat mich immer traurig gemacht. 😄
Schneesturm? Das sieht wie normaler Winterschnefall aus.
dachte ich mir auch😂
Yo genau ! Des hamma gern, diese mords Karren fahren - hier in D eine Zumutung ! - und dann bei ein bisschen Schnee grandios scheitern. Da würde ich mir halt gleich einen 4WD hertun, wenigstens zuschaltbar.
This is absolutely adorable. Looking forward to your next vid already. J
Hey there Nalf. There is a Rammstein song called "Hilf mir" from the album "Rosenrot" based on that exact story. It has many of the original lyrics in it...
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Sending a child out on the road in these weather conditions with bad tires is at least as horrible as the story of Paulinchen. Even the car was making noises like a cat. Meow! Mio! Meow! Mio! Hope Mikey arrived safely.
the whole concept of having your own car (and a mid-sized SUV at that) let alone going back to college in one seems foreign from a German perspective. We used to take the train and got an obligatory semester pass for public transport at a reduced rate, did most of our stuff cycling around town. not judging, just making an observation : )
Jepp as an old car buff my heart was bleeding when I saw the footage, even watching Nick in that old MB S class Limo (I think it was a W 140 (so late 90th)) was like thanks God he is in Oregon during the winter months.
Don't you have "Winterdienst" in Oregon? :-)
I had that book growing up in English in OK, amazing illustrations. Getting the thumbs cut off, and the poor girl who burns down, and the boy who won't eat soup and dies! good stuff!!! ha ha... :) great episode, Nalf!
Du machst das total gut. Bleibe so engagiert wie du immer schon warst. Wie läuft es in deiner Heimatstadt? Dein Deutsch wird immer besser. Respekt!
I loved that book as a Kid. I think most parents think everything needs to be sugar coated for children. Apparently us germans don't.
Always nice and relaxing to watch your videos. I watched and often binged most of them in the last few month. And they inspired me to buy a smoothymaker and one day visit Schwäbisch Hall, a City the only thing I knew about was the Bausparfuchs. 😏 So thanks to you I have a citytrip to look Forward to after Corona and eat more healthy vegetables than before. You did good👍🏼😊
Thank God for subtitles.
I have to admit I took the Rudi approach to this and skipped the German part.
The Sandman by E.T.A. Hoffman. My favorite.
Ha ha, I really can understand the skipping part!
ETA Hoffmanns' Sandman is kind of an artificial fairytale that he wrote with very special intentions and it is studied a lot but doesn't really fit into this context of childrens' fairytales.
I know because a looong time ago I had to study it and I hated it 😉........
Do you know "Hilf mir" a song made by Rammstein? That one is based on this story.
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Poor Mikey!
That’s waayy too much gas! That’s why we in Germany prefer driving with manual gearbox.
If there is ice on the street, you start the car in the second gear, or even third gear to make the wheels really slowly.
I am an American citizen, too, but after all my time in Hamburg I would never drive an automatic car. No fun and you’re f*cked during winter.
I’m from the Midwest, home of snow and ice and yes front wheel drive cars LOL They need to learn how to drive in all weather.
@@bryanjordan8997 🙂 I live in the north of Sweden... I drive an automatic front wheel drive car... And I don't get stuck in any snow unless it starts reaching the level of my head lights. Just saying...
I read the stories of "Struwwelpeter", "Max und Moritz" and alike that often to my kids, I knew them by heart. But that was 20 years ago.
The author of "Struwwelpeter" was a medical doctor in Frankfurt/Main(?) with many children as patients. He recognized many behavioral disorders among his little patients (that were only classified in ICD decades or a century later) and wrote stories about these disorders in the style of nursery rhymes hoping to create awareness and avert fatal consequences. E.g. Hans Guck in die Luft describes ADD and Zappelphillip describes ADHD.
Good point besides and beyond all the cruelty!
Good old times... My grandma used to read this to me
My grandma gifted it to me and my mother was really angry about it. She made her best to made fun of the stories.
Das hast du sehr gut vorgelesen! 😁👌🏼
I'd really LOVE to hear you read "Max und Moritz".
It's also cruel but a little funnier.
And as for the ice: just try some salt and better winter tires... (and not so much gas on starting)
Haha that's not a lot of snow! I live in southern bavaria near the Alps and we sometimes have half a meter or more snow.
Btw your german is really good. Keep up!
Thanks for the video!!
This is hilarious! We all loved Struwelpeter and so did our children! Talk about violence? ? Watch American cartoons from the 40s to the 80s! A constant killing, dropping, beating, burning and shooting! Bugs Bunny dies a thousand horrible deaths! Yosemite Sam is a killing machine and on top of it, he constantly hits his horse between the ears with his rifle or whatever he can find. Violent ! Most Americans cartoons are about destruction, blowing up and killing! The German children books are meant to teach....it worked!
Yes! The cartoon violence is only for “fun“ while in the old German stories it was part of the whole story.
Grimmy Tales: Fitchers Vogel, Der Hund und der Sperling, Das Mädchen ohne Hände. You´re not in Disneyland anymore.
It always make me laugh to see how Americans can't deal with driving on snow. In Germany we are used to it, just use the gas pedal smoothly, never try the 'much is more' system, it does not work.
I’m from the Midwest, home of snow and ice and yes front wheel drive cars LOL They need to learn how to drive in all weather.
Finally, you read that story , and I’m sure by now have dabbled at the rest of them with all the comments you’ve received ... I grew up on those stories and so did my kids... Good ole stories hahahaha.... get back to SHA ! I’m missing my KL
Learned this as a child and still know every word.
Never played with fire, never sucked my thumbs and I love eating soup... 😅🤗
Wunderbar, Herr Nick!
Here in Austria we put the car floor mat under the car tyres when we get stuck ❄️ ⛄️
so schön erzählt....ja so war das früher....und sehr gut gesprochen.😁
Thumbs up for practising your German by reading out loud 👍. Maybe you guys should think about getting some winter tires now 😉.
PS: I can't recommend the Struwelpeter. It gave me nightmares as a kid. Struwelliese is way better ☺.
Honestly as an American i think this is a good way to teach kids not to play with fire.
Yeah and if you are being a prankster you will turn into cernal and get eating by the birds
@@Jodio-Joestar good. Fuk pranksters. I can't stand them .
@@Jodio-Joestar
-If you make fun of a black boy you will get dipped into ink
-If you don't cut your nails or hair everyone will hate you
-If you don't eat your soup/dinner you will starve to death
-If you suck your thumbs a mean tailor will break into your house and cut them off
-If you look at the sky while walking you will fall into a river and drown
-If you fidget at the dinner table you will pull all the food down onto the floor and make your parents angry
are there no "Schneeketten" in Oregon?
If you look into the Struwwelpeter you find a very interesting story about St. Nikolas and how to punish racist bullies or the story of the hunter and the hare that is all about gun security, if you ask me.
Max & Moritz oder alles andere von Wilhelm Busch =)
Don't you guys have "Winterreifen" in the US? :-)
You should have saved a bit of this snow, to mitigate the heat in Oregon on June 28 (45⁰C or so).
Also, if you are looking for even more stories, get the book "Max und Moritz"... and the story you have in this episode is from "der Struwwelpeter", which has quite a few more classic illustrated stories (the boy who didnt eat all his soup/food and withered away...etc.).
Sehr gut! I really enjoyed this. Well done. Every German knows the stories of Struwwelpeter ;-)
That story reminds me of a Rammstein song called "Hilf Mir" on the Rosenrot album.
The music you chose for the clip of you guys walking to the store was awesome! Keep using stuff like that!
It's good to see you're doing well Nick. Do you know when/if you'll be going back to Germany?
Love from Florida.
The song actually is based on this story... Soo
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Du bist einmalig!
"Reading A Horrifying German Children's Story" Me when i was a 5 year old German Child: *Interesting*
I swear I remembers having this book when I was 3 and thought it was innocent
I,m from the Midwest who now lives on the north Oregon coast, need to teach you how to drive and deal with the small amount of ice and snow Oregon gets each year.
Somehow I feel a little bad for smiling and being extremly entertaint by hearing a children story about a burning child but damn I can not help it. Extremly entertaining to listen to you reading it... ;)
I am no expert about the car, but that is not alot of snow and only looks a little icy... you do not have winter wheels on the car, right? But hey, you've got a good workout there ;).
And I really like that you took the oportunity to be in that jury. Very cool!
6:34 Might I ask whether you have ever heard of winter tyres? What you see there isn't normal. I bet those are summer tyres. I once saw a Dutch car on summer tyres in the midst of winter, on new fallen snow on a road through the mountains where I am from. It was horrible to behold. Please, all you people out there who think that you don't need special tyres for cold conditions consider consider using winter tyres! Even on non-snowy roads and temperatures over but close to freezing point winter tyres are the safer option!
The Tube has not been notifying me of your videos. Anyway, most fairytales are not Disneyesque. How long did it take Mikey to get out of the driveway? Take care Alfieris.
Another example for an horrifying German children story is Grimm's ''Hansel and Gretel": It is about burning an old female cannibalistic serial killer in an oven.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansel_and_Gretel
Der Strubbelpeter was actually written by a doctor, who wanted to show what is the right way to behave to prevent inguries or to get burned. This book is full of stories like that. Der Zappelphilip is the first time a hyper active child is mentioned. That's why before they said ADHD here they said Zappelphilip-Syndrom.
Read out this almost 200 years old Story in german by nalf was helarious!
German upbringing in former times was creepy.
Children get nightmares after reading this book.
Shoveling snow in shorts and t-shirts?
Have you ever heard about Winter tires?
But I don't know any child that got nightmares from this book.
I had all the books and stories that are considered “horrific“ today. I liked them and didn't get any nightmare as a kid. But I got nightmares for month from E.T. This thing looked so damn creepy.
Maybe you don't sucked your thumb as a child. And you live in fear that someone will come and cut your thumbs like in this book. And you would dazzle...
You don't use winter tires over there, do you?
We have All Season Tires, good for the whole year.
Summmer-Tires ?
Bwahaha
My parents and Grandparents all read them to me when i was a child, I still have Struwwelpeter to this day. Truely awsome. Just a fact that the changed most of them when turned into movies is sad. In „Hänsel und Grätel“ the evil Cannibalist doesn’t burn in the oven anymore which is just making the ending completely diffrent
Snow shoveling in Tshirts and shorts.... k 😂
True Oregonians! :) Be happy they weren't in their shorts and flip flops!
@@nejdro1 Unless it's windy you produce so much heat while snow shoveling that you could be naked wearing flip flops.
@@emjayay I spent 60 years of my life in Chicago - I know about snow shoveling. I have lived in Portland the last 16 years and know how Oregonians dress.
My grandmother was born in 1895 and I have her childhood copy of Der Struwwelpeter. My father's personal favorite was Max u. Moritz. They turned out just fine...
Uaaaa, der Struwwelpeter! 😱
It lurked in my grandma's night table drawer... 😆
The Struwelpeter always gave me nightmares as a kid. I liked the female version Struwelliese way better.
@@derfloh88 oh I heard of but never read that one...😃🤔
Well read!
It's really part of growing up in a German family 😅
Well there discounting the Brother's grimm versions of a lot of fairy tales that are decidedly darker than Disney's versions, you might want to look at 'Max und Moritz' and 'Struwwelpeter'
Nick, it is good to see and hear you again. Dreadful Story of Pauline and the Matches." When I was about 6 years old, an aunt gave me a book for Christmas called American Childhood's Best Books. by Mary Perks c. 1942 and published by The American Crayon Company. It was an anthology of stories and poetry for children of ages 4-8. In it, there was a section of such "teaching stories" as Pauline. One was about a boy who was cautioned by his mother not to suck his thumb while she was out because a tailor might drop by who , if he saw boys sucking their thumbs, would cut them off with his big scissors. I was sure to never suck my thumb. So I guess the stories worked. I still have that book which is 76 years old. I suspect that many stories like that came from the German culture. Auf Wiedersehen
Invest in better winter proof tyres 👍❄️
Do you not have winter tyres in Oregon?
We use All Season Tires.
@@avioncamper hmmm they're not that good
Read all of the Max und Moritz stories!! Those are pretty dark!!
In contrast to all that snow: today, Schwäbisch Hall, me wearing shorts, tanktop and no shoes
Try to find "Der Eispeter" by Wilhelm Busch ... just be cautious when doing outdoors sports ...
That was the only book my grandma had. Yeah, fun times. Still remember vividly when Struwelpeter got his thumbs cut off 😂
Only, it was Konrad, who got his thumbs cut off...
@@twinmama42 Probably true. After 25 years the not so traumatizing details of the story are a bit hazy, I apologize
Struwwelpeter was my personal child horrorstory. I had literal nightmares bc of that. Well when i wasnt dreaming about falling or shooting out of the elevator shaft because i got stuck 2 times alone when i was little...