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Märchen#

Fairy Tale, maerchen, popular folk tale, fanciful story mixing reality and the miraculous. Indeterminate in terms of time and location, fairy tales do not necessarily deal with fairies. They raise no claim to credibility and their purpose is neither to instruct nor to frighten or edify the audience, such as is the case with Legends and Sagas. The object of fairy tales is entertainment; they were originally meant for an adult audience and were spread by professional story-tellers and members of their audience. The collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm served as a model for many similar undertakings in Austria: In the 19th century the brothers Ignaz Vinzenz and Josef Zingerle collected fairy tales from the Tirol, Viktor Geramb and Romuald Pramberger did the same in Styria, Karl Haiding in Burgenland, Upper Austria and compiled fairy tales from all over Austria.


Fairy tales as an art form (such as those by Oscar Wilde or Hans Christian Andersen) also continue to play a role in present-day Austrian literature, especially children's literature (for instance those by F Tegetthoff).

Literature#

M. Luethi, Das europaeische Volksmaerchen, 1981; L. Roehrich, Maerchen und Wirklichkeit, 41979; K. Haiding, Oesterreichischer Maerchen-Schatz, 1953ff.; I. Reiffenstein (ed.), Oesterreichische Maerchen, 1979.

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