Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2016
Abstract
This contribution is concerned with the German Reception of Three Nuts for Cinderella. The film reached extraordinary popularity in East as well as West Germany and after the unification it became an all-German phenomenon.
Above all the paper analyzes the critical discourse in the East German press, for which highlighting Božena Němcová as the author of the original artwork was characteristic. The East German pess credited her with creating Cinderella as a modern and emancipated heroine, who differs from the image assigned to her by the Grimm Brothers.
Subsequently the text observes how the film-critical discourse approached fairy tales as a literary and film genre and what demands were laid upon it.