Hans Christian Andersen
Born in a slum and struggling through his youth to break through Denmark's class structure, Hans Christian Andersen always considered himself an outsider. And so his plays, novels, and especially his fairy tales are populated by outsiders, some of whom do not live happily ever after. The young Andersen initially hoped to rise from his impoverishment as an actor, but a theater director instead raised money to send him to school. In 1829, he gained his first success not as an actor but as a writer, with "A Walk From Holmen's Canal to the East Point of the Island of Amager in the Years 1828 and 1829." Despite its unwieldy travelogue title, this was a tale of fantasy inspired by the work of E.T.A. Hoffmann. Still attached to the theater, Andersen went on to write several plays, few of which were particularly successful. He made his name more as a novelist, with such works as The Improviser (1835) and Only a Fiddler (1837). It was during this early phase of novel writing that Andersen also began turning out original little tales in folk style. The first of what would amount to 156 stories was published in 1835 as Eventyr, or Tales Told for Children. Eventyr was expanded in 1837 and a second volume came out in 1842. Related collections of stories were regularly issued through 1852, with a last publication, New Fairy Tales and Stories, finally arriving in 1872. One key to Andersen's popularity was his style, which was colloquial rather than literary. Yet he refused to write down to children; he introduced dark feelings and sinister turns of events and expressed special sympathy for outcasts, not just heroes and princesses. Some of his tales celebrated the triumph of goodness and were, indeed, overtly Christian, but others were pessimistic in the tradition of German Romanticism. Andersen was also a poet, and his verse has been set to music by such composers as Grieg, Nielsen, and Schumann (notably Der Spielmann). But his fairy tales have made the strongest impression on composers. Among musical adaptations, sometimes quite loose, of Andersen's tales are Prokofiev's song The Ugly Duckling, Mary Rodgers' musical Once Upon a Mattress (based on "The Princess and the Pea"), and Disney's animated feature The Little Mermaid.
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Der standhafte Zinnsoldat plus vier weitere Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen (Der standhafte Zinnsoldat, Das kleine Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern, Wie's der Alte macht, ist immer richtig, Der Kragen, Die Springer.)
Hans Christian Andersen, Luna Luna, Jürgen Fritsche
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Ein Jahr voller Märchen: Der Hörbuch-Kalender (9. Woche des Jahres, März (Teil 9/52))
Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm, Jürgen Fritsche
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Ein Jahr voller Märchen: Der Hörbuch-Kalender (3. Woche des Jahres, Januar (Teil 3/52))
Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by BÄNG Management & Verlag on 6 Jan 2022
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Das Gänseblümchen plus vier weitere Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen (Das Gänseblümchen, Die Windmühle, Tanze tanze Püppchen mein, Zwei Jungfern, Die glückliche Familie,)
Hans Christian Andersen, Luna Luna, Jürgen Fritsche
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Ein Jahr voller Märchen: Der Hörbuch-Kalender (4. Woche des Jahres, Januar (Teil 4/52))
Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm
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Ein Jahr voller Märchen: Der Hörbuch-Kalender (11. Woche des Jahres, März (Teil 11/52))
Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm, Jürgen Fritsche
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Alles am rechten Platze (Ein Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen)
Hans Christian Andersen, Luna Luna, Jürgen Fritsche
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Ein Jahr voller Märchen: Der Hörbuch-Kalender (12. Woche des Jahres, März (Teil 12/52))
Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm, Jürgen Fritsche
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by BÄNG Management & Verlag on 17 Mar 2022
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Der Rosen-Elf plus vier weitere Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen (Der Rosen-Elf, Die Störche, Erlenhügel, Am letzten Tage, Eine gute Laune)
Hans Christian Andersen, Luna Luna, Jürgen Fritsche
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by BÄNG Management & Verlag on 15 May 2024
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Ein Jahr voller Märchen: Der Hörbuch-Kalender (1. Woche des Jahres, Januar (Teil 1/52))
Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm, Jürgen Fritsche
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Ein Jahr voller Märchen: Der Hörbuch-Kalender (14. Woche des Jahres, April (Teil 14/52))
Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by BÄNG Management & Verlag on 8 Apr 2022
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Historias Mágicas de Todo el Mundo (Cuentos para Niños)
Hermanos Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza
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Fliedermütterchen (Ein Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen)
Hans Christian Andersen, Luna Luna, Jürgen Fritsche
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Ein Jahr voller Märchen: Der Hörbuch-Kalender (5. Woche des Jahres, Februar (Teil 5/52))
Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by BÄNG Management & Verlag on 28 Jan 2022
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Des Kaisers neue Kleider plus vier weitere Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen (Des Kaisers neue Kleider, Das Schneeglöckchen, Die Stopfnadel, Das Glück kann in einem Holzstöckchen liegen, Das Heinzelmännchen bei dem Krämer.)
Hans Christian Andersen, Luna Luna, Jürgen Fritsche
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by BÄNG Management & Verlag on 12 Apr 2024
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Der Goldschatz (Ein Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen)
Hans Christian Andersen, Luna Luna, Jürgen Fritsche
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Die kleine Meerjungfrau (Ein Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen)
Hans Christian Andersen, Luna Luna, Jürgen Fritsche
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by BÄNG Management & Verlag on 26 Mar 2024
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Ole Luk-Oie (Ein Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen)
Hans Christian Andersen, Luna Luna, Jürgen Fritsche
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by BÄNG Management & Verlag on 27 Apr 2024
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Die Schneekönigin (Ein Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen)
Hans Christian Andersen, Luna Luna, Jürgen Fritsche
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by BÄNG Management & Verlag on 29 Mar 2024
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Der Garten des Paradieses (Ein Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen)
Hans Christian Andersen, Luna Luna, Jürgen Fritsche
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by BÄNG Management & Verlag on 25 Apr 2024
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Ein Jahr voller Märchen: Der Hörbuch-Kalender (15. Woche des Jahres, April (Teil 15/52))
Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by BÄNG Management & Verlag on 15 Apr 2022
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