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Cinderfellas: The Long-Lost Fairy Tales (New Yorker)
Bavarian fairy tales going viral? Last week, the _Guardian _reported that five
hundred unknown fairy tales, languishing for over a century in the municipal
archive of Regensburg, Germany, have come to light. The news sent a flutter
through the world of fairy-tale enthusiasts, their interest further piqued by
the detail that the tales--which had been compiled in the mid-nineteenth
century by an antiquarian named Franz Xaver von Schonwerth--had been kept
under lock and key. How astonishing then to discover that many of those "five
hundred new tales" are already in print and on the shelves at Widener Library
at Harvard (where I teach literature, folklore and mythology) and at Yale,
Stanford, and Berkeley.
Schonwerth--a man whom the Grimm brothers praised for his "fine ear" and
accuracy as a collector--published three volumes of folk customs and legends
in the mid-nineteenth century, but the books soon began gathering dust on
library shelves. In 2010, over a hundred of the fairy tales culled from the
archive were published by the Schonwerth champion Erika Eichenseer, under the
title _Prinz Rosszwifl._ So the _Guardian_'_s_ news wasn't exactly new. To be
sure, those tales have not yet been translated into English, and ...
New Yorker
