Meanwhile, Hayes’ dialogue perhaps intends to sound like poetry written for children, but its simplicity and the actors’ delivery often make scenes fall flat. Gretel & Hansel is quietly and perfectly eerie, moving with a languorous grace that might put horror fans of jump scares to sleep. The Los Angeles Times’ Kimber Myers said of the film:
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But the main knock may be that what is ostensibly a horror movie may not really appeal to fans looking for one. It sounds like Gretel & Hansel might go to the well too many times with some tricks and that the film never truly engages with its deeper themes. At 87 minutes, it feels either too long or too short, returning to its more ominous imagery often enough that the impact starts to dull, but never properly digging into some of the richer veins it begins to tap. Paremiology, Folklore, Language, and Literature: 491–503.The problem is that so many of its virtues feel compromised. "Das 'Lohrer Schneewittchen': Zur Fabulologie eines Märchens" (PDF). ^ "Ossegg oder die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel".^ "Ossegg oder die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel (1987) - IMDb".Wanted for murder: Haensel and Gretel - Behind the classic Christmas-season fairy tale is a gruesome true story of entrepreneurial greed. The True Stories Behind Classic Fairy Tales. Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales. ^ Jack Zipes, The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, p."A Grim Discovery" Los Angeles Times November 19, 1974, page F1. ^ a b SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg, Germany.In October 2021, Tim Harford released the episode The Truth About Hansel and Gretel in his podcast Cautionary Tales about Traxler's satire. The theory was primarily inspired by Traxler's book. In the 1980s, in another area neighboring the Spessart Forest, German pharmacist Karlheinz Bartels published a joking theory that Snow White was based on a real person named Maria Sophia Margarethe Catharina, Baroness von und zu Erthal. In 1987, a one-hour twenty-two minute movie, Ossegg oder Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel, loosely based on the novel, was released in Germany. Vanessa Joosen has called the book a "fictive nonfictional text," which "carries the features of a nonfictional text but consciously misleads the reader." In popular culture ĭespite its fictional nature, the hoax convinced many in Germany at the time, and continues to have some traction. In reality, Ossegg did not exist and the details of the story were fabricated by Traxler. Hans and Grete Metzler lived in a village in the Spessart Forest during the Thirty Years War, and killed an old woman named Katharina Schraderin in order to steal her recipe for Nürnberger Lebkuchen ( gingerbread). The book is a satire which purports to tell the story of how teacher Georg Ossegg uncovered archeological evidence of the "real" Hansel and Gretel in 1962.Īccording to the book, Ossegg determined that the fairytale, Hansel and Gretel, was based on the story of a 17th-century baker named Hans Metzler and his sister Grete. The Truth About Hansel and Gretel ( German: Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel) is a book written by German caricaturist Hans Traxler, which was published in 1963.
Book written by German caricaturist Hans Traxler in 1963
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