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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Die 30 besten Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen
Divers - Released by Lamp und Leute on 29 apr. 2016
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Däumelinchen / Das Sparschwein / Die Schnecke und der Rosenstock / Der fliegende Koffer
Hans Christian Andersen, Manfred Steffen
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Deutsche Grammophon Literatur on 4 okt. 2019
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10 histoires pour les petites filles (Les plus beaux contes pour enfants)
Hans Christian Andersen, Frères Grimm, Charles Perrault
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by SAGA Egmont on 1 jan. 2017
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Le bonhomme de neige de Hans-Christian Andersen (Les plus beaux contes pour enfants)
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by SAGA Egmont on 1 jan. 2017
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Sterne, Schnee und Weihnachtsduft - Meine schönsten Weihnachtsgeschichten (Ungekürzte Lesung)
Joseph Eichendorff, Theodor Storm, Hans Christian Andersen, Peter Rosegger
Kinderen - Released by Argon Verlag GmbH on 21 sep. 2007
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The World of Fairy Tales, Vol. 1 (The big audiobook box)
Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm, Jürgen Fritsche
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by BÄNG Management & Verlag on 13 aug. 2021
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Fairy Tales (The Fir Tree, Little Tuk, the Ugly Duckling, Little Ida's Flowers, Little Thumbelina, Sunshine Stories, the Darning-Needle, the Little Match Girl, the Loving Pair)
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing on 22 jun. 2021
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Die Märchenwelt des Hans Christian Andersen
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by POLAR Film + Medien GmbH on 1 aug. 2023
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La petite poucette de Hans-Christian Andersen (Les plus beaux contes pour enfants)
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by SAGA Egmont on 1 jan. 2018
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Les plus belles histoires pour enfants (Les plus beaux contes pour enfants)
Hans Christian Andersen, Frères Grimm, Charles Perrault
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by SAGA Egmont on 1 jan. 2017
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Tobias mit dem fliegenden Koffer/Der Schatten des Herrn Alexander (Märchen)
Hans Christian Andersen, Franz Lehár, Helmut Schmidt
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by SWR Mediaservices GmbH on 13 nov. 2013
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Der Schneemann plus vier weitere Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen (Der Schneemann, Aufgeschoben ist nicht aufgehoben, Der Teetopf, Zwölf mit der Post, Ein Blatt vom Himmel)
Hans Christian Andersen, Luna Luna, Jürgen Fritsche
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by BÄNG Management & Verlag on 5 apr. 2024
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Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse plus vier weitere Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen (Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse, Der unartige Knabe, Der böse Fürst, Der Engel, Das Feuerzeug,)
Hans Christian Andersen, Luna Luna, Jürgen Fritsche
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by BÄNG Management & Verlag on 31 mrt. 2024
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Die roten Schuhe plus vier weitere Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen (Die roten Schuhe, Das ist wirklich wahr, Fünf aus einer Hülse, Das Liebespaar, Die Hirtin und der Schornsteinfeger.)
Hans Christian Andersen, Luna Luna, Jürgen Fritsche
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by BÄNG Management & Verlag on 9 apr. 2024
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Der fliegende Koffer plus vier weitere Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen (Der fliegende Koffer, Tölpel-Hans, Die Lumpen, Das stumme Buch, Der Buchweizen.)
Hans Christian Andersen, Luna Luna, Jürgen Fritsche
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by BÄNG Management & Verlag on 16 apr. 2024
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Fairy Tales Stories Vol: 1
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by FrontPage Publishing on 27 okt. 2018
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The Little Match Girl (Unabridged)
Divers - Released by Bookstream Audiobooks on 25 aug. 2020
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B. J. Harrison Reads the Snow Queen
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by SAGA Egmont on 8 dec. 2020
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Les 10 plus beaux contes pour enfants
Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by SAGA Egmont on 1 jan. 2012
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Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse
Hans Christian Andersen, Die schönsten Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by SAGA Egmont on 21 dec. 2021
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Die wilden Schwäne
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by SWR Mediaservices GmbH on 10 nov. 1964
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