Floris van Schooten, A Still-life with Bread, Cheese and a cut Pie (17th Century). Wikimedia Commons
Hänsel und Gretel
The one with the house made of sweets.
To Explore
Confection and scarcity
What kinds of sweets and confections existed in early 19th-century Germany, and how might they have been imagined within the context of scarcity?
The figure of the witch
How does the witch function within German folklore and cultural imagination? What is the significance of her doubling with the mother figure, particularly in the 1812 edition, where they appear as the same person?
The forest as an enchanted space
What is Waldeinsamkeit, and how does it shape the representation of the forest in the tale? How should we understand the forest as a space that is at once sacred and threatening, especially within the framework of German Romanticism?
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