Struwwelpeter - The Story behind the most disturbing Children's Book

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
03:38 Struwwelpeter
04:13 The Story of Wicked Frederick
05:55 The Very Sad Tale with the Matches
09:52 The Story of the Inky Boys
12:40 The Story of the Wild Huntsman
14:50 The Story of the Thumb-Sucker
17:05 The Story of Soup Kaspar
19:30 The Story of Fidgety Philip
21:30 The Story of Johnny-Look-in-the-Air
23:30 The Story of Flying Robert
24:18 Outro
Music List:
Mozart Overture - 'Die Zauberflöte'
• Mozart: Overture - 'Di...
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
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[@snakey934Snakeybakey]

Im not German, but my father is a Germanophile who showed me this book as a kid. The only one of these stories that disturbed me was the one with the scissorman It was the prospect of it happening to the kid inside his own house... a scissorman just breaching his sanctuary like that.

[@beckys.8897]

3:08 dang that caught me off guard 😂

[@ryxan6968]

Me to

[@brotchiii]

Only found out now that you uploaded a new video when I was about to show my friend the Swiss Iceberg video ahahah Really interesting and fun short stories I definitely hadn't heard before, only few ones we read in german class/watched a film or two about were classics like Hänsel und Gretel so getting to hear about other messed up german children's story was definitely something I didn't know I needed until now. Keep up the good work 👍👍👍👍

[@Ruth_315]

I kind of like the book call Struwwelpeter 😊

[@ryxan6968]

Yah the storys are messed up, but as a kid you can tell realtiy from a story teaching you how to behave, if a kid get fucked but by storys like this, than the kid was secretly fucked up before and was outed by this storys as fucked up

[@nommh]

I read it, but I am 64 years old now I sincerely hope that I‘m the last generation to have done so. How were there psychiatrists in 1844? I recently looked up the word anorexia in my Shorter Oxford English Dictionary 1972 edition (which was still current when I was given it in the 1980ies) and anorexia is given as lack of appetite. And while we see the Zappelphillip as a mental illness, at Hoffman’s time all behaviours were considered to be entirely on a moral spectrum. The stories are really gruesome indeed! However, the illustrations are fun and the rhymes too, so strangely, I was not traumatised at all.

[@Teresa-du6ou]

I have a plush Struwwelpeter mohair teddy bear by Hermann with a miniature version of the book. It's one of my special treasures.