Struwwelpeter or Shock Headed Peter

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Creepy kid's movies, goody two shoes - what about a Struwwelpeter thread? So which of Heinrich Hoffmann's cautionary tale for children is your favourite?

There's a fair few online versions and even the london stage version
http://www.fln.vcu.edu/struwwel/struwwel.html

― tigerclawskank, Thursday, 28 November 2002 17:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Having been exposed an old family copy as a kid it was Die Geschichte vom Daumenlutscher (The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb) that scared the crap out of me.

― tigerclawskank, Thursday, 28 November 2002 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

The London stage version with music from David Thomas and The Two Pale Boys was staggeringly great.

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 28 November 2002 17:11 (twenty-three years ago)

A less staggeringly great stage adaptation was the one by me for the 1994 Queen's College Garden Show.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 28 November 2002 17:14 (twenty-three years ago)

EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 28 November 2002 17:18 (twenty-three years ago)

oh no not the red-legged scissorman fellow!!! this place is scary and i don't like it here anymore.

― jones (actual), Thursday, 28 November 2002 17:21 (twenty-three years ago)

The German texts are way better than the english ones.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 28 November 2002 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Haven't seen the David Thomas version, but saw it with Martin Jacques as the singer (The Tiger Lillies) and thought it was great. I can only presume they chose David Thomas to take over as he's probably the only other person on the planet with the same kind of strangled falsetto.

Saw it with my girlfriend while she was pregnant and I'm convinced it freaked out the baby as well as us. So far he's not done anything too naughty - the cautionary tales obviously worked.

― James Ball (James Ball), Thursday, 28 November 2002 17:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Obviously Vic is OTM about the original text, much more menacing.

I also am amused at the way that the ballad of the inky boys has been updated and made more PC. In the original the nasty boys are rude to a young African German (???well what??) and are punished by being dropped in ink to make them black too.

― tigerclawskank, Thursday, 28 November 2002 17:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Struuelpeter had the BEST HAIR EVER!! I have spent my entire life eschewing haircuts and combs and fingernailclipping and the like, trying to get my hair to look that cool, but i've never ever succeeded. Sigh.

The original Skanky Ho Boy/Dirty Dronerock Boy or what, eh?

― kate, Thursday, 28 November 2002 18:27 (twenty-three years ago)

The Story Of Little Suck-A-Thumb frightened my sister so much she couldn't even bear to look at the book after she'd read it.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Thursday, 28 November 2002 22:23 (twenty-three years ago)

pictures that spooked mark c and real actual mr jones as grown-ups (for scissorman scroll down)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 28 November 2002 22:56 (twenty-three years ago)

(no don't!!)

― jones (actual), Thursday, 28 November 2002 23:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Andrew Thames used to make scissors noises and pretend to be the scissorsman at night and I'd get quite scared! This happened this year as well.
The one about the little girl who caught on fire used to always scare me, it might have been the crying cats.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Friday, 29 November 2002 01:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I've just told little Rener that if she slams the door while I'm away, Der Schlammer will come and slam the door on her head.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 29 November 2002 10:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm so dead when she reads this.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 29 November 2002 10:14 (twenty-three years ago)

In the original the nasty boys are rude to a young African German (???well what??) and are punished by being dropped in ink to make them black too.

that's weird, because it simultanaeously suggests that being rude to Africans is BAD, while being black is also BAD. Maybe the original idea was that making fun of Africans is like making fun of those with life ability.

Meanwhile, Chriddof is reminding me of a storybook I had when I was small that had a picture in it that frightened me so much that the page it was on had to be paperclipped closed so that I would never accidentally look at it. I can't quite remember what it was of. Which is good.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 29 November 2002 10:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Der Scheiseemailgepostenzorner will get you Vic.

― tigerclawskank, Friday, 29 November 2002 10:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah my parents just took out the whole centre bit of my copy of Stuwwelpeter so I didn't have to encounter the scissor-man. This also meant I missed out on half of the inky boys too. With the result that the most frightening thing in it for me was Johnny Head-In-Air - I adopted a slouched, looking-at-shoes posture immediately and hence Struwwelpeter TURNED ME INDIE!

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 29 November 2002 10:23 (twenty-three years ago)

does anyone think that the story of Fidgety Phillip lacks a certain over the top violence in its payoff?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Saturday, 30 November 2002 23:19 (twenty-three years ago)

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