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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Das hässliche junge Entlein (Die schönsten Märchen)
Hans Christian Andersen, Denise Desombre
Children - Editado por junge Lauscher el 12 mar. 2023
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The Little Match Girl (Unabridged)
Varios - Editado por Bookstream Audiobooks el 25 ago. 2020
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Das Märchen Hörbuch - Teil 2 (50 Märchen aus aller Welt)
Hans Christian Andersen, Gebrüder Grimm, Jürgen Fritsche
Humour/Spoken Word - Editado por BÄNG Management & Verlag el 12 jun. 2021
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Das Feuerzeug
Hans Christian Andersen, Die schönsten Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen
Humour/Spoken Word - Editado por SAGA Egmont el 18 ago. 2020
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H. C. Andersen: Sämtliche Märchen und Geschichten: Das Judenmädchen
Children - Editado por BUCHFUNK Verlag el 20 mar. 2019
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Das Metallschwein (Aus: Eines Dichters Basar)
Humour/Spoken Word - Editado por SWR Mediaservices GmbH el 7 jul. 1984
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Die Prinzessin und der Schweinehirt
Humour/Spoken Word - Editado por SWR Mediaservices GmbH el 21 ago. 1969
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Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse / Die Nachtigall / Der Mistkäfer / Was Vater tut, ist immer gut
Hans Christian Andersen, Manfred Steffen
Humour/Spoken Word - Editado por Deutsche Grammophon Literatur el 4 oct. 2019
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B. J. Harrison Reads the Snow Queen
Humour/Spoken Word - Editado por SAGA Egmont el 8 dic. 2020
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10 histoires les plus inspirantes pour les enfants (Les plus beaux contes pour enfants)
Hans Christian Andersen, Frères Grimm, Charles Perrault
Humour/Spoken Word - Editado por SAGA Egmont el 1 ene. 2017
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Der fliegende Koffer
Hans Christian Andersen, Die schönsten Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen
Humour/Spoken Word - Editado por SAGA Egmont el 13 oct. 2020
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Märchen-Legenden 3 (Ein Unterschied ist da, Der Garten des Paradieses, Es ist ganz gewiß, Das Gänseblümchen, Die Galoschen des Glücks)
Sabine + Manfred Scheuermann, Hans Christian Andersen
Humour/Spoken Word - Editado por LILYLA Hörbuch-Editionen el 14 jul. 2022
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Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen 2 (Ungekürzt)
Varios - Editado por Bookstream Hörbücher el 12 sep. 2020
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Märchen zum einschlafen I
Brüder Grimm, Clemens Brentano, Hans Christian Andersen
Humour/Spoken Word - Editado por SAGA Egmont el 7 feb. 2022
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Die Märchen Box (Andersen, Die Schneekönigin / Hauff, Das kalte Herz / Die schönsten Märchen der Romantik) (Ungekürzte Lesung)
Hans Christian Andersen, Wilhelm Hauff
Children - Editado por Argon Verlag GmbH el 4 nov. 2013
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The Snow Queen
Literature - Editado por Hans Christian Andersen el 16 mar. 2022
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Die kleine Meerjungfrau (Ungekürzt)
Children - Editado por Amor Verlag GmbH el 10 jun. 2016
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Hans Christian Andersen: Die Nachtigall - Ein musikalisches Märchen
Children - Editado por Colosseum Records el 14 may. 2003
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Die zauberhafte Welt des Hans Christian Andersen
Children - Editado por Best Entertainment el 1 jun. 2012
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Prinzessinnen: Märchenbox (Ungekürzte Fassung)
Ludwig Bechstein, Hans Christian Andersen, Brüder Grimm
Children - Editado por Argon Verlag GmbH el 6 may. 2008
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The World of Fairy Tales, Vol. 2 (The big audiobook box)
Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm, Jürgen Fritsche
Humour/Spoken Word - Editado por BÄNG Management & Verlag el 13 ago. 2021
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