In 1851, he published "In Sweden", a volume of travel sketches. The publication received wide acclaims. A keen traveler, Andersen published several other long travelogues: "Shadow Pictures of a Journey to the Harz, Swiss Saxony, etc. etc. in the Summer of 1831", "A Poet's Bazaar", "In Spain" and "A Visit to Portugal in 1866". (The last describes his visit with his Portuguese friends Jorge and Jose O'Neill, who were his friends in the mid-1820s while he was living in Copenhagen.) In his travelogues, Andersen took heed of some of the contemporary conventions related to travel writing but he always developed the style to suit his own purpose.
Travelogues
Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen | Travelogues
"Shadow Pictures of a Journey to the Harz and Swiss Saxony. In Sweden, Shadow Pictures of a Journey to the Harz, Swiss Saxony, A Poet's Bazaar etc Yes, "Shadow Pictures of a Journey to the Harz, Swiss Saxony, etc. etc. in the Summer of 1831", "A Poet's Bazaar" are some of them Yes, "In Sweden", "A Poet's Bazaar", "In Spain"
what is the crew celebrating in the beginning of the little mermaid
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Prince Eric's birthday.
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what is the genre of the film?
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An animated musical fantasy.
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what is the plot about?
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The film tells the story of a mermaid Princess named Ariel, who dreams of becoming human and falls in love with a human prince named Eric.
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who produced it?
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Walt Disney Feature Animation and Walt Disney.
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was the plot influenced by any story?
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It is based on the 1837 Danish fairy tale of the same name.
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who wrote this tale?
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Hans Christian Andersen
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had he written travalogues?
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Each of his travelogues combines documentary and descriptive accounts of his experiences, adding additional philosophical passages on topics such as what it is to be an author, general immortality, and the nature of fiction in literary travel reports. Some of the travelogues, such as "In Sweden", even contain fairy-tales. In the 1840s, Andersen's attention again returned to the theatre stage, but with little success. He had better luck with the publication of the "Picture-Book without Pictures" (1840). A second series of fairy tales was started in 1838 and a third series in 1845. Andersen was now celebrated throughout Europe although his native Denmark still showed some resistance to his pretensions.
Hans Christian Andersen | Travelogues
That night while Peter surreptitiously reads the letter, a gust of wind whisks it from his hands and carries it into the theater through an open window, where a stage doorman finds it and delivers it to Doro. The next morning, Peter tells Hans that Doro has the letter, but Hans is unconcerned, believing that Doro's possession of the letter is a good omen. The next day, the entire ballet company sets off on their annual tour, leaving Hans bereft, but he soon finds comfort entertaining a new group of children with his stories. One day, Lars, a sad boy with a shaved head, remains behind after the other children tease him.
Hans Christian Andersen (film) | Plot
Andersen followed this success with a theatrical piece, "Love on St. Nicholas Church Tower", and a short volume of poems. He made little progress in writing and publishing immediately following the issue of these poems but he did receive a small travel grant from the king in 1833. This enabled him to set out on the first of many journeys throughout Europe. At Jura, near Le Locle, Switzerland, Andersen wrote the story "Agnete and the Merman". The same year he spent an evening in the Italian seaside village of Sestri Levante, the place which inspired the title of "The Bay of Fables".
Hans Christian Andersen | Early work
A colleague at the theatre told him that he considered Andersen a poet. Taking the suggestion seriously, Andersen began to focus on writing. Jonas Collin, director of the Royal Danish Theatre, held great affection for Andersen and sent him to a grammar school in Slagelse, persuading King Frederick VI to pay part of the youth's education. Andersen had by then published his first story, "The Ghost at Palnatoke's Grave" (1822). Though not a stellar pupil, he also attended school at Elsinore until 1827.
Hans Christian Andersen | Early life
He translated into Greek the stories of Hans Christian Andersen (for his nephews and nieces), and various Shakespeare plays.
Demetrios Vikelas | Translations
A very early fairy tale by Andersen, "The Tallow Candle" (), was discovered in a Danish archive in October 2012. The story, written in the 1820s, was about a candle that did not feel appreciated. It was written while Andersen was still in school and dedicated to one of his benefactors. The story remained in that family's possession until it turned up among other family papers in a local archive. In 1829, Andersen enjoyed considerable success with the short story "A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager." Its protagonist meets characters ranging from Saint Peter to a talking cat.
Hans Christian Andersen | Early work
In the 1830s, in the small Danish town of Odense, cobbler Hans Christian Andersen spends his day spinning fairy tales for the village children, teaching them lessons about pride, humility, love and growing up through his fanciful characters. One day, the stern schoolmaster, who believes Hans is wasting his pupils' precious time, implores the Burgomaster and councilmen to curtail the cobbler's habit of distracting the students with his storytelling, but even the adult citizens easily become a rapt audience for Hans' fables. Hans finally agrees to stop distracting the children and returns to his shop, where his teenage assistant, the orphan Peter, begs him to stop causing trouble.
Hans Christian Andersen (film) | Plot
A young Hans Christian Andersen, while seeking an opera ticket, suddenly discovers the inspirations and talents he will later have for his fairy tales.
The World of Hans Christian Andersen | Synopsis
Between 1845 and 1864, H. C. Andersen lived at Nyhavn 67, Copenhagen, where a memorial plaque is placed on a building.
Hans Christian Andersen | Travelogues
"The Sweethearts" is original with Andersen and owes no debt to traditional folk or fairy material. The tale's inspiration is likely found in Andersen’s relationship with Riborg Voight, the daughter of a Danish merchant who declined his marriage proposal in 1830. Following her rejection, Andersen slipped into a deep depression. He questioned both his artistic abilities and his sexuality. He needed to get away from Denmark and planned a trip to Germany – his first excursion abroad. Andersen met Voight again in 1843 while on holiday on Funen and discovered she had become a frumpy, middle-aged matron.
The Sweethearts; or, The Top and the Ball | Background
Peter, who has sought refuge from the police by hiding near the back entrance of the Royal Theatre, overhears choreographer Niels demand that a company producer send for a cobbler and asks them to free his friend, a cobbler, from jail. Meanwhile, Hans sees a lonely young girl outside his jail cell window and offers to introduce her to his companion. By drawing on his thumb, Hans creates a puppet he calls "Thumbelina" and brings a smile to the girl's face. Soon after, Hans is bailed out of jail by the theater company and taken to the theater where he becomes entranced by the beauty and talent of a Royal Danish Ballet dress rehearsal.
Hans Christian Andersen (film) | Plot
He published a total of six booklets with "Fairy Tales Told for Children" in the period 1835-1842, followed by "New Fairytales" published in the period 1843-1848. Andersen also wrote the novels "O.T." and "Kun en Spillemand" (1837) and completed "The Improvisatore" while he lived at Nyhavn 20. In his diary, he describes an episode where he suddenly felt cold while working on "The Improvisator". When he opened the door to the neighbouring room, he found out that his land lady and the maid had opened the windows and poured water on the floor, so that her four children could slide on it when the water froze.
Nyhavn 20 | 19th century
Reitzel paid Andersen thirty rixdollars for the manuscript, and the booklet was priced at twenty-four shillings. The second booklet was published on 16 December 1835 and contained "Thumbelina", "The Naughty Boy" and "The Traveling Companion". "Thumbelina" was completely Andersen's creation although inspired by "Tom Thumb" and other stories of miniature people. "The Naughty Boy" was based on a poem by Anacreon about Cupid, and "The Traveling Companion" was a ghost story Andersen had experimented with in the year 1830.
Hans Christian Andersen | Fairy Tales
Tale of Hans Christian Andersen: The Princess and the Pea.
Kotava | Example of text
Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author Anna Anderson, impostor of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia Andrew II of Hungary, King of Hungary
List of historical ballet characters | A
When Hans Christian Andersen came to Rome in 1833, he brought with him a collection of medieval Danish folk songs ("folkeviser") of which especially "Hr. Sverkel" would inspire him to write a dramatic play. In January 1835 he had finally completed the libretto to a singspiele entitled "LLoden Kirsten". Andersen handed the play over to the Royal Theatre and it was his intention that some of the songs should be performed to traditional folk melodies. It was criticized for suffering from "emptiness, thinness and dramatic poverty" but was all the same accepted. It was then handed over to the composer Ivar Bredal who was supposed to find and arrange the suitable folk melodies but never completed the work.
Liden Kirsten | Background
Little Hans Andersen is a 1903 musical fairy pantomime in two acts and seven scenes for children with lyrics by Basil Hood and music by Walter Slaughter. It was a revised version of Hood and Slaughter's pantomime "Hans Andersen's Fairytales", based on the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen which had opened at Terry's Theatre in December 1897. After the last performance of the Savoy Opera "A Princess of Kensington", produced by William Greet, the cast of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company dispersed and many of them moved to the Adelphi Theatre to appear in the new musical comedy "The Earl and the Girl" (1903), also produced by Greet, where they next appeared in "Little Hans Andersen" from 23 December 1903 to 16 January 1904 for 23 matinee performances.
Little Hans Andersen | Introduction
Hans Christian Andersen's works may be considered "literary fairytales.
List of fairy tales | Scandinavia
The plot of the song comes from the Danish folk-ballad "Elveskud". In 1842 Gade wrote "Agnete og Havfruerne" for solo, female choir and orchestra with text by Hans Christian Andersen, and the same Andersen had in 1846 premiered the opera "Liden Kirsten" with music by Gade's father-in-law J. P. E. Hartmann. Both were inspired by Danish folksongs. This may have encouraged Gade to try his hand at the same set of motifs with a major concert piece. The earliest information on "Elverskud" is a mention in a letter from Gade in 1849, in which he wrote that he had allowed Hans Christian Andersen to prepare a text.
Elverskud | Origins
Hans Christian Andersen (, ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875), in Denmark usually called H.C. Andersen, was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales, consisting of 156 stories across nine volumes and translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. His most famous fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Little Mermaid," "The Nightingale," "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Red Shoes", "The Princess and the Pea," "The Snow Queen," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Little Match Girl," and "Thumbelina." His stories have inspired ballets, plays, and animated and live-action films.
Hans Christian Andersen | Introduction
Composer/sounddesigner/actor at the following performances by author and dramatist Michael Svennevig: • "Ørkenshow." Teatret ved Sorte Hest, 2008 • "HEGN". About a Refugee's Life and Dreams in Denmark. Teatret ved Sorte Hest, 2008
Thulla | Theater
This particular scene, of which Jordaens painted many versions, illustrates a moralizing fable from "Aesop's Fables". The story begins with a man and a satyr. One cold day, as they talked, the man put his fingers to his mouth and blew on them. When the satyr asked the reason for this, the man said that he did it to warm his hands. Later on, when they sat down to eat, the man raised his dish of hot food towards his mouth and blew on it. When the satyr again inquired the reason, he said that he did it to cool the food.
Jacob Jordaens | "The Satyr and the Peasant"
A Folk Tale () is a ballet in three acts, created in 1854 for the Royal Danish Ballet by the Danish ballet master and choreographer August Bournonville to the music of Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann and Niels W. Gade. The first performance took place on 20 March 1854. Set in the Middle Ages, the ballet tells the story of a changeling living among the trolls and elves. Bournonville declared the ballet "The most complete and best of all my choreographic works."
A Folk Tale | Introduction
A teenaged Hans Christian Andersen the son of a poor shoemaker,daydreams instead of studying for school. He runs away from home. Whenever he falls asleep, he dreams that he is in strange adventures with tailors, a tiny girl no bigger than a thumb, a mermaid, a devil boy in Eden, and others. In reality, as well as in his dreams, Hans is searching for the Garden of Paradise, which he does not find. The dream sequences are puppet animation, complete with a puppet version of himself. These dreams become the basis for his fairy tale fictions, which he writes as an adult: "The Little Mermaid", "Thumbelina", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Emperor's New Clothes", "Little Claus and Big Claus", and "The Garden of Paradise".
The Daydreamer (film) | Plot
In 1851, he published "In Sweden", a volume of travel sketches. The publication received wide acclaims. A keen traveler, Andersen published several other long travelogues: "Shadow Pictures of a Journey to the Harz, Swiss Saxony, etc. etc. in the Summer of 1831", "A Poet's Bazaar", "In Spain" and "A Visit to Portugal in 1866". (The last describes his visit with his Portuguese friends Jorge and Jose O'Neill, who were his friends in the mid-1820s while he was living in Copenhagen.) In his travelogues, Andersen took heed of some of the contemporary conventions related to travel writing but he always developed the style to suit his own purpose.
Hans Christian Andersen | Travelogues
The second is very similar, but has a different refrain and links the song to the nearby church of Kaga instead of Kärna. The gist of the story is clearer in the 1673 version, which is longer than the one recorded in 1812: The three daughters of Pehr Tyrsson (Töre) and his wife Karin are killed by three highwaymen when on their way to church. Three wells spring up where the three maidens are killed. The men later visit the family farm and try to sell the girls' silk shirts. Karin recognises them and realises that the daughters must have been killed by the men, so she tells her husband.
Töres döttrar i Wänge | Story
According to his own confession, his favourite author is Hans Christian Andersen, whose tales formed the basis for more than 10 performances he staged ("The Nightingale", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "Thumbelina", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Princess and the Pea").
Mykhailo Urytskyi | Directing activity
Hans tells him the story of an ugly duckling who is ostracized by his peers until the ice melts at winter's end, and he sees his reflection in the lake and finds he has become a handsome swan. When not with the children, Hans counts the days by making pair after pair of brightly colored satin slippers for his absent ballerina and dreaming of her love. One day, Hans receives an invitation from the Gazette newspaper office, where Lars's father, the publisher, thanks Hans for helping his son overcome his difficulties and offers to publish "The Ugly Duckling" in the newspaper.
Hans Christian Andersen (film) | Plot
"The Flying Trunk" (Danish: "Den flyvende Kuffert") is a literary fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about a young man who has a flying trunk that carries him to Turkey where he visits the Sultan's daughter. The tale was first published 1839.
The Flying Trunk | Introduction
"The Galoshes of Fortune" () is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a set of time-travelling boots, considered to be inspired by the folktale of the "seven-league boots" ("syvmilestøvler"). The tale was first published by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen, Denmark on 19 May 1838 with "The True Soldier" (one-act verse play) and "That Was Done by the Zombie" (poem) in "Three Poetical Works". Reitzel paid Andersen 40 rixdollars for the story. In the tale, Andersen continues to perfect his colloquial style. Andersen read the tale aloud in the late 1830s with his novel "Only a Fiddler".
The Galoshes of Fortune | Introduction
The next day Oskar Braaten's "Stor-Anders" was played. In November 1913 the theatre played "Friarar" by Hoprekstad, and two plays by Gustaf af Geijerstam, "Lars-Anders" and "Jan-Anders". In 1914 the theatre played Molière's comedy "Arme Jørgen (George Dandin)", Arne Garborg's "Læraren", Oskar Braaten's "Ungen" (in Stavanger), Sigurd Eldegard's "Gamlelandet", and Hulda Garborg's "Tyrihans".
Det Norske Teatret | Early repertory
"The Wild Swans", Simply Read books, 2011. A fully illustrated edition of the classic Hans Christian Andersen story. The book is told in one single long image that measures 6.5 inches tall and unfolds to over 60 feet wide. The book is packaged in a box that also includes a small booklet with the original Andersen story.
Thomas Aquinas Maguire | Books
In Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy Opera "Iolanthe", the Lord Chancellor mocks the Fairy Queen with a reference to Andersen, thereby implying that her claims are fictional: It seems that she's a fairy From Andersen's library, And I took her for The proprietor Of a Ladies' Seminary! In Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music", the middle-aged Frederik contemplates reading erotic literature to his young, virginal bride in order to seduce her, but concludes: "Her taste is much blander / I'm sorry to say / But is Hans Christian Ander- / Sen ever risqué?"
Hans Christian Andersen | Cultural references
Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" has the basic elements of Tale 44, "Of what happened to a young Man on his Wedding Day". Tale 7, "Of that which happened to a King and three Impostors" tells the story that Hans Christian Andersen made popular as "The Emperor's New Clothes". Tale 23, "What happened to a good Man and his Son, leading a beast to market" is the familiar fable The miller, his son and the donkey.
Tales of Count Lucanor | Treatments derived from "Tales of Count Lucanor"
For opera and ballet see also List of The Little Mermaid Adaptations
Hans Christian Andersen | Stage productions
From 1 September 1834, Hans Christian Andersen was a lodger on the second floor, renting two rooms from Karen Sophie Larsen who was the widow of a skipper. Andersen's sleaping room faced the courtyard and the Botanical Garden which was then located in Vharlottenborg's garden, while his combined living room and study faced the canal. In a letter to Henriette Hanck from 1 January 1835, on her request, Andersen made a detailed description of his home at Nyhavn 20. Andersen wrote his first fairytales while living in the building. They were published in May 1835. The small booklet contained the stories "The Tinderbox", "Little Claus and Big Claus", "The Princess and the Pea" and "Little Idas Flowers".
Nyhavn 20 | 19th century
In September 1833, with financial support from Danish well-wishers, Andersen embarked on a cultural trip to Italy. Deeply impressed with everything he experienced and influenced by Madame de Staël's ""Corinne ou l'Italie"", he began writing his travel tale, "The Improvisatore". It was published by Reitzels Forlag in 1835. An immediate success and Andersen's breakthrough, the following year it was published in Germany and, in 1838, in France. For many years, "The Improvisatore" was the most widely read of all of Andersen's works.
The Improvisatore | Background
At age 18 he completed his first opera "The Story of a Mother", based on a tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Koppel composed the score in 1971 for the ballet "Dødens Triumf" (Triumph of Death) which was danced naked at the Royal Danish Theatre.
Thomas Koppel | Introduction
Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection. (Danish: "Eventyr, fortalt for Børn. Første Samling.") is a collection of nine fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. The tales were published in a series of three installments by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen, Denmark between May 1835 and April 1837, and represent Andersen's first venture into the fairy tale genre. The first installment of sixty-one unbound pages was published 8 May 1835 and contained "The Tinderbox", "Little Claus and Big Claus", "The Princess and the Pea" and "Little Ida's Flowers". The first three tales were based on folktales Andersen had heard in his childhood while the last tale was completely Andersen's creation and created for Ida Thiele, the daughter of Andersen's early benefactor, the folklorist Just Mathias Thiele.
Hans Christian Andersen | Fairy Tales
Andersen's earliest tales were published without illustrations, but in 1849, his popularity was growing and a new, five volume collection of his tales was published with 125 illustrations by Pedersen. The Pedersen illustrations found favor with the author, and, in Denmark today, are considered inseparable from the fairy tales in the same way that the John Tenniel illustrations are for Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" or Quentin Blake illustrations are for Roald Dahl's children's books. Woodcuts from Pedersen's drawings were first produced for a German edition of the tales published by Carl B. Lorck in Leipzig. Andersen's Danish publisher, C.A.
Vilhelm Pedersen | Hans Christian Andersen illustrations
Andersen had become increasingly ill after a fall in 1872. He relied increasingly on the care the Melchiors gave him, spending long periods at Rolighed. On 12 June 1875, he arrived there for the last time. A week later he was no longer able to write his diary which instead he dictated to the Melchiors and their children. At 11 a.m. on 4 August, he died peacefully in his bed.
Rolighed (Østerbro) | Hans Christian Andersen connection
The pantomime tradition of the theatre is a mixture of many elements that are apparently quite unrelated. When the peacock folds down its wings, the stage is obviously set somewhere in old Copenhagen, at the home of stodgy Cassander who lives alone with his beautiful daughter, Columbine. It remains unclear what has happened to her mother. Cassander is assisted by his servant, Pierrot, who has a white face like the clown he really is. And Cassander’s adversary with whom he is constantly struggling is Harlequin – a charming, masked scoundrel with little money to his name but who is deeply in love with Columbine and often well-connected to a friendly sorcerer or fairy.
Pantomimeteatret | Pantomime
Haakon Jarl's life also received literary treatment by Danish poet Adam Oehlenschläger, in his tragedy "Hakon Jarl", written in six weeks in 1805 during a stay in Halle, after reading Snorri's "Heimskringla". The theme is the conflict between paganism and Christianity. There is an English translation by J. C. Lindberg. Oehlenschläger's play later formed the basis for Smetana's symphonic poem "Hakon Jarl".
Haakon Sigurdsson | Oehlenschläger tragedy
Based on the tales of Hans Christian Andersen. When the time came for the prince to get married, an announcement appeared on the gate of the palace: A princess is required. But the prince did not wait for the visit and set off in search of himself. Going around a great many lands, the prince returned home, where he soon found the one he was dreaming of.
The Princess on a Pea | Plot
A large part of the narrative is told through song and ballet and includes many of the real Andersen's most famous stories, such as "The Ugly Duckling", "Thumbelina", "The Emperor's New Clothes" and "The Little Mermaid". The film was an international success at the time of its release.
Hans Christian Andersen (film) | Introduction
He spent the Christmas holidays at the estate of an aristocratic friend. His spirits lifted with the festivities and "The Snowman” was composed on New Year’s Eve 1860–61. Andersen determined to fully open his heart to Scharff. He sent the young dancer a photograph of himself in a languid and seductive pose with a salutation using the intimate “Du” form: "Dear Scharf, here you have again Hans Christian Andersen." The two men exchanged birthday gifts in the early months of 1861: Andersen gave Scharff a five-volume collection of his tales, and Scharff gave Andersen a reproduction of Danish sculptor Herman Bissen's "Minerva".
Harald Scharff | Scharff and Andersen
The playwright Henrik Ibsen had a small group of such characters which he referred to as his "devil orchestra"; a black boy climbing up a ladder on an elephant, a cat chewing another with rice twigs, singing after sheet music, writing, directing, devils pulling each other in wheelbarrows or carrying inkwells between them, a frog on ashtray playing on banjo . Ibsen used these as inspiration: "There should be Troll in what I write," he said. Some of the characters were reported missing from the exhibitions on October 6, 1980, and has never returned. The rest of the characters are safely preserved at the playwright's desk in Ibsenmuseet in Oslo.
Franz Xaver Bergmann | Trivia
The tale was first published as “The Most Extraordinary Thing” in an English translation by Horace Scudder in the United States in "The Riverside Magazine for Young People" in September 1870. The Danish original appeared in Denmark in the journal "Nyt Dansk Maanedsskrift" a month later in October 1870. The tale was reprinted in Denmark on 30 March 1872 and again on 20 December 1874 in collections of Andersen's tales. Andersen enjoyed performing before an audience and promoted many of his tales by reading them aloud at social gatherings. In the 1840s, the composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was present at such a reading in Germany and reported he was so elated and excited by the performance that he couldn't wait to thank Andersen but "jubilantly flew" at the poet exclaiming: "But you are a marvelous reader; no one reads fairy tales like you!" Many years later in the 1870s, the English author and critic Edmund Gosse had a similar perception and noted, "As soon as he spoke, yes, if he merely smiled, he genius was evident ...
The Most Incredible Thing | Publication history
When Niels ridicules lead ballerina Doro's performance, she in turn complains that her shoes need adjusting. Doro gives the slippers to Hans, who is immediately smitten with the ballerina. After Hans leaves, Peter learns that Niels and Doro are a happily married couple, despite their theatrical quarrels. When Hans returns, Niels is equating his wife's performance with an "elephant in the snow drift," prompting Doro to break into tears. After learning that the couple is married, Hans fantasizes that he can save Doro from her horrible fate with "the cruel" Niels. Later, when Peter explains that the couple is actually in love, Hans resists the idea and writes a love letter to Doro in the form of a fable called "The Little Mermaid," in which he tells her that she has chosen the wrong man.
Hans Christian Andersen (film) | Plot
He married the Danish singer Johanna Elisabeth Morthorst who were active at the theatre in Copenhagen in 1784–1827. Dahlén accepted a young Hans Christian Andersen as a ballet student in spite of his lack of talent. Andersen was also a frequent guest in Dahlén's home at Badstuestræde 18: He describes the relationship in "The Fairy Tale of My Life":
Carl Dahlén | Personal life
However, later that day Hans is drawn back to the schoolhouse to see the children. As he hears the schoolchildren drone mathematical phrases, he compares an inchworm's myopic measuring of beautiful blossoms to the schoolmaster's blindness to beauty and creativity. On yet another day, when the children do not arrive at the sound of the school bell, the schoolmaster deduces that Hans is again distracting his pupils. When the schoolmaster then demands that the Burgomaster and the councilmen choose between him and the cobbler, they decide that Hans must leave Odense. Peter, who has witnessed the verdict, returns to the shop and secretly tries to save his friend from the shame of being exiled by eagerly suggesting Hans travel to Copenhagen.
Hans Christian Andersen (film) | Plot
The didactic children's story compares one child's recollection of a boring walk with another's description of the many interesting things he saw on the same walk by slowing down to pay attention to his surroundings. Gilbert's libretto is loosely based on Hans Andersen's 1837 story, "The Emperor's New Clothes". Gilbert wrote in a programme note: "Hans Andersen has a tale in which two persons, for reasons of their own, pretend that an imaginary and non-existent garment is visible only to true and faithful men. As a natural consequence every one pretends that he can see it. On this hint the piece is founded." Both stories would have been familiar to Gilbert's audience.
Eyes and No Eyes | Background
One of Hans Christian Andersen's lesser-known fairy tales is considerably expanded and re-worked by Taylor in a comic opera using the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This was completed in 2010. All four comic operas, plus two plays, were published in Britain by Stagescripts Ltd in 2010.
Bernard J. Taylor | The Marsh King's Daughter
Around ten years later, Andersen searched for a subject for an opera for his friend J. P. E. Hartmann. From February through August–September 1844, he adapted "Liden Kirsten" into an opera in one act. He was then ready to show the result to Hartmann. It was in October handed over to the Royal Theatre where it was once again received with some skepticism. Johan Ludvig Heiberg commented that "there is no real plot but the situation is romantic and it has a certain poetic air about it which, accompanied by the music (if it is successful), may have a considerable appeal".
Liden Kirsten | Background
"Blockhead Hans" (Danish: "Klods-Hans") is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. It was first published in Danish in 1855. An early English translation (as "Blockhead Hans") appeared in Andrew Lang's 1894 "The Yellow Fairy Book", although Lang gave no source for the tale. The tale has been variously translated as "Clumsy Hans", "Silly Hans" and "Jack the Dullard". It is number 119 in the Hans Christian Andersen Centre's register of Andersen's literary works.
Blockhead Hans | Introduction
Reports exist of an illiterate female weaver in Dalby in the 1850s being able to recite the poem in its entirety, and a preacher in Laxey being able to recite on demand any passage of the poem. The first edition was of 120 pages, badly printed on poor paper, with numerous typographical and proof-reading errors. However, the poem’s brilliance was evident and a reprint soon followed.
Thomas Christian | "Pargys Caillit"
Thomas Vilhelm Pedersen (28 January 1820 – 13 March 1859) was a Danish painter and illustrator who is above all remembered for his illustrations for fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. He was the first artist to illustrate Andersen's works. His drawings were converted into wood prints and used in the Danish and German editions.
Vilhelm Pedersen | Introduction
Niels W. Gade provided the music for the beech forest scenes of Acts I and III, while J.P.E. Hartman composed the music with an Old Norse tone for the burlesque trolls in Act II. Act I presents the principal musical characteristics: the brisk music of the hunt, the ballad-like folksong melodies, the nobles' dignified minuet, the peasants' reel and the elf maidens' dance. Gade's orchestration shows patent inspiration from Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1957) and his "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Hartmann's music for Act II is typified by a clear-cut character idiom in which rhythmic tension and dark resonance dominate. For Hilda's solo he composed an elegant bolero and a festive galop for the drunken trolls.
A Folk Tale | Music
Axel and Valborg () is a tragedy in five acts by Adam Oehlenschläger. It was written in Paris in 1808 and printed in Copenhagen in 1810. There is an English translation by F. S. Kolle. The story is taken from a Danish romantic ballad, the last verse of which Oehlenschläger used as a motto: The ballad was well known throughout the Scandinavian countries long before Oehlenschläger's time. In Ludvig Holberg's poem “Peder Paars,” the bailiff's wife was almost drowned in a flood of tears because parts of it had been read to her.
Axel and Valborg | Introduction
"Hansel and Gretel" is the prototype for the fairy tales of the type Aarne–Thompson–Uther (ATU) 327A. In particular, Gretel's pretense of not understanding how to test the oven ("Show Me How") is characteristic of 327A, although it also appears traditionally in other sub-types of ATU 327. As argued by Stith Thompson, the simplicity of the tale may explain its spread into several traditions all over the world. A closely similar version is "Finette Cendron", published by Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy in 1697, which depicts an impoverished king and queen deliberately losing their three daughters three times in the wilderness. The cleverest of the girls, Finette, initially manages to bring them home with a trail of thread, then a trail of ashes, but her peas are eaten by pigeons during the third journey.
Hansel and Gretel | ATU 327A tales
The actual riddles posed in the large motif group do show discrepancies. In Anderson's analysis, the selection came off a list of sixteen questions. In some tales however, the sets of questions and answers used are extremely close to the three exchanged in the English ballad. Child noted three identical riddles (preceded by an extra one: "Where is the center of the earth?") were asked in local lore around James V; in it, the king aka "Gudeman of Ballengeigh" ask these questions to a priest of Markinch. The Norwegian folktale "" (Asbjornsen and Moe's "Norske Folkeeventyr" "Ny Samling" No. 26) is classed AT 922 also matches closely in riddle content.
King John and the Bishop | Tales with same three riddles
"The Steadfast Tin Soldier" (Danish: "Den standhaftige tinsoldat") is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a tin soldier's love for a paper ballerina. The tale was first published in Copenhagen by C.A. Reitzel on 2 October 1838 in the first booklet of "Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection." The booklet consists of Andersen's "The Daisy" and "The Wild Swans". The tale was Andersen's first not based upon a folk tale or a literary model. "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" has been adapted to various media including ballet and animated film.
The Steadfast Tin Soldier | Introduction
Overjoyed by the news, Hans asks that his credit be changed from "Hans, the cobbler" to "Hans Christian Andersen" and runs down the street singing his full name with pride.
Hans Christian Andersen (film) | Plot
True and Untrue is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe. It is Aarne-Thompson type 613, The Two Travelers: Truth and Falsehood.
True and Untrue | Introduction
"The Sweethearts; or, The Top and the Ball" (Danish: "Kjærestefolkene [Toppen og bolden]") is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about the unrequited love a mahogany spinning top suffers for a leather ball. It is likely the tale's inspiration lies in Andersen’s youthful relationship with Riborg Voight, a woman who declined his marriage proposal in 1830. "The Sweethearts" was published by C.A. Reitzel in Copenhagen in November 1843 with several other tales by Andersen in the book "New Fairy Tales". The collection was received by Danish critics and the public with great acclaim.
The Sweethearts; or, The Top and the Ball | Introduction
Andersen's tale is based on a 1335 story from the (or ), a medieval Spanish collection of fifty-one cautionary tales with various sources such as Aesop and other classical writers and Persian folktales, by Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena (1282–1348). Andersen did not know the Spanish original but read the tale in a German translation titled . In the source tale, a king is hoodwinked by weavers who claim to make a suit of clothes invisible to any man not the son of his presumed father; whereas Andersen altered the source tale to direct the focus on courtly pride and intellectual vanity rather than adulterous paternity.
The Emperor's New Clothes | Sources
Out of these components, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger wrote his drama.
Arnljot | Introduction
The first "paadham" has the poet telling us that the poem is being written on request from Antonio Pimental, the Archbishop of Cranganore; Pimental held the ecclesiastical office from 1721 to 1752, the poem is estimated to have been composed some time during the period 1721–1732.
Johann Ernst Hanxleden | "<a href="Puthen%20Pana">Puthen Pana</a>"
Airdate: November 20, 2011 For this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to memorize a poem on the base of the statue of Hans Christian Andersen on Andersens Boulevard and then use a map on a provided bicycle's wheel to navigate to the Teatermuseet i Hofteatret, where they had to recite the poem verbatim and with dramatic flair in order to receive their next clue. If they failed, they had to go back to the statue before returning to the theater to recite the poem again. Only one side of the Detour in Brussels was shown as a miscellaneous task, leaving the other Detour option unknown to viewers.
The Amazing Race 19 | Leg 9 (Denmark → Germany → Belgium)
After all is said and done, what the young ones say about it is the all-important matter." A decade after his significant literary contribution to "Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen" (1914), Walker published a short story (dedicated to Charles White Whittlesey) entitled "The Dust of Seven Days". The frontispiece to that Limited Edition appears to depict Mr Valiant-for-Truth from "The Pilgrim's Progress" as he is transported to Heaven - a particularly fitting subject given Walker's dedication. His work was noted for its fine detail, elaborate stippling, and lavish design.
Dugald Stewart Walker | Illustration
Act 1 Görge, a village youth, is engaged to Grete, a marriage arranged by Grete’s father, the Miller, in order to maintain ownership of the mill, which is Görge’s inheritance. Grete is disconcerted by Görge’s obsession with books and fairy-tales and when her former sweetheart, Hans, returns from military service, she is overjoyed. Hans is dismissive of Grete’s engagement to Görge. Görge recounts the vision he had of a beautiful princess come to him in a dream, much to Grete’s and Hans’s bemusement. Hans leaves disdainfully. Sitting on the bank of a stream, Görge again falls into reverie and the Dream-Princess appears once more, inviting him to join her in a magical world of beauty and make-believe.
Der Traumgörge | Synopsis
Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark on 2 April 1805 to Hans Andersen, a shoemaker, and Anne Marie Andersdatter. An only child, Andersen shared a love of literature with his father, who read him "The Arabian Nights" and the fables of Jean de la Fontaine. Together, they constructed panoramas, pop-up pictures and toy theatres, and took long jaunts into the countryside. Andersen's father died in 1816, and from then on, Andersen was left on his own. In order to escape his poor, illiterate mother, he promoted his artistic inclinations and courted the cultured middle class of Odense, singing and reciting in their drawing-rooms.
Thumbelina | Background
Producer Samuel Goldwyn conceived the idea for the film in 1936 and employed numerous writers to work on early drafts of the screenplay over the years. In 1941 he was reportedly in discussions with Walt Disney Studios to produce the film, but the deal fell through. The film was eventually produced in the spring of 1952. Danish authorities were not consulted on the film and there were complaints from Denmark that the film was a fairy tale rather than the true story of Andersen's life and the Danish Foreign Office considered making a formal protest against the film. (All songs have words and music by Frank Loesser).
Hans Christian Andersen (film) | Production
Opened as a museum in 1930, the house contains an exhibition of the cobbling tools used by his father and other items based on Andersen's own descriptions. Throughout the city there are numerous statues and sculptures representing characters from the stories of Hans Christian Andersen. They include the Steadfast Tin Soldier, the Mermaid, the Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep, the Toad, the Darning Needle, the Emperor's New Clothes, the Sea Horse, the Paper Boat, the Flying Trunk and the Wild Swans. There is also a distinctive statue of Andersen in "Eventyrparken" (The Fairy Tale Park) beside the cathedral. Sculpted by Louis Hasselriis in 1888, it shows the storyteller with a book in his hand, ready to entertain onlookers with his fairy tales.
Odense | Hans Christian Andersen connections
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale is a 2003 semi-biographical television miniseries that fictionalizes the young life of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. It was directed by Philip Saville and starred Kieran Bew as the title character. Various Hans Christian Andersen fairytales are included as short interludes of the story, and intertwined into the events of the young author's life.
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale | Introduction
Thoma's dramas, including "Die Medaille" ("The Medal", 1901), "Das Säuglingsheim" ("The Orphanage", 1913), and especially "Moral" (1908), reflect elements of folk theater.
Ludwig Thoma | Introduction
Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection. First Booklet (, 1838) is a collection of three fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen published in Copenhagen, Denmark by C. A. Reitzel on 2 October 1838. The collection consists of "The Daisy", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", and "The Wild Swans".
Fairy Tales Told for Children (1838) | Introduction
The original cross fell into the sea in a landslide in 1905, but a new cross stands close by today. It is also believed that the large hollow willow beside the Swiss House could have inspired him to write story of The Tinderbox.
Liselund | The Hans Christian Andersen connection
Henrik Ibsen, a relative of Hans Paus, paraphrased the poem in the drama "Lady Inger of Ostrat".
Stolt Anne | Introduction
Modern authors continue to invent their own resolutions. William Walton's "Troilus and Cressida" is the best known and most successful of a clutch of 20th-century operas on the subject after the composers of previous eras had ignored the possibility of setting the story. Christopher Hassall's libretto blends elements of Chaucer and Shakespeare with inventions of its own arising from a wish to tighten and compress the plot, the desire to portray Cressida more sympathetically and the search for a satisfactory ending. Antenor is, as usual, exchanged for Cressida but, in this version of the tale, his capture has taken place while he was on a mission for Troilus.
Troilus | Reinventing the love story
"The Tallow Candle" () is a 700-word literary fairytale by Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). It was written in the 1820s, making it one of his earliest works and his first known work in the fairytale genre, but its existence was apparently unknown to scholars or the public for almost two centuries. A copy of the manuscript was discovered in a filing box in the National Archives of Funen in October 2012.
The Tallow Candle | Introduction
"The Teapot" (Danish: Original title: "Theepotten"; in modern usage: "Tepotten") is a literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about a teapot and her adventures. The tale was first published 1863 and demonstrates the Andersen's talent for investing ordinary household objects with life, character, and personality.
The Teapot | Introduction
The satyr then informs the man, "I can no longer consider you as a friend, a fellow who with the same breath blows hot and cold." The moral of this story is the duality of human nature, although some believe that Jordaens chose this story not for his interest in its moral lesson, but for his interest in rendering a peasant scene. The particular moment which Jordaens depicts in his painting is when the satyr declares that he cannot trust the man. The man is eating while the satyr rises abruptly with raised hand prior to leaving the man's home.
Jacob Jordaens | "The Satyr and the Peasant"
Seame suffered the same fate, but when Hans told the iron man he was making a ship that would travel over land and sea, he made such a boat.
The Griffin (fairy tale) | Synopsis
A discussion of the Norwegian variants in English occurs in the piece written by Reidar Thoralf Christiansen for the "festschrift" to Stith Thompson (1957). The antagonist may be a giant ("Rise") instead of a troll, and indeed, Norwegian scholars often class the tale group under the title "Risen og de tre søstre". In some variants the hen has the habit of wandering off to lay her eggs, and the women tie a string to the hen's leg to follow the trail of where it went. Others bear the title "Gullskjaeren" ("Golden magpie"), and feature a gold magpie ("") that lures the sister to the giant's house.
The Old Dame and her Hen | Variants
For whatever reason it was never used by Gade, but a draft can be found among Andersen's papers. Some parts of the text were transferred to the final version. The next person who turned his hand to this text was Christian Molbech in whose papers there is a version that is closer to the final one, which by all accounts was developed by Gade's cousin Carl Andersen and the editor Gottlieb Siesby, while the atmospheric choral interlude "I østen stiger solen op" was written already in 1837 by B. S. Ingemann and received a tune by C. E. F. Weyse the same year.
Elverskud | Origins
"Little Claus and Big Claus" () is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, published in Danish in 1835 in the first instalment of his booklet "Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection." (Danish title: "Eventyr fortalte for børn. Første Samling.").
Little Claus and Big Claus | Introduction
George watches the report with a hint of interest. The report concludes and returns to the regularly scheduled ballet, featuring delicate ballerinas heavily weighed down to ensure that they are only as graceful as the average person. Just then, loud stomps can be heard approaching the stage, as the ballerinas cower in terror. Harrison Bergeron marches down the aisle and leaps onto the stage with a heavy thud, almost unhindered by the weight of his massive handicaps. In a deviation from Vonnegut's story, he begins his address to the audience in the theater and those watching at home by claiming to have a bomb under the stage, the detonator to which he holds in his hand.
2081 (film) | Plot
The latter was published originally in around 1790 and is considered to be amongst the finest composed of all Manx carvals. The poem is a condensed version of "Paradise Lost" and contains many lines which were to reappear in a very similar form in "Pargys Caillit". The following extract is an example of such lines:
Thomas Christian | Carvals
In a letter to Edvard Collin from 11 February 1866, Andersen mentions that he gave up his rooms at Nyhavn 67 back in September. He initially went on a journey to Sweden and then stayed at Hotel d'Angleterre before setting out on a new journey on 31 January. After his return to Denmark, Andersen stayed with the Melchior family at their country house Rolighed before lodging with Thora Hallager in Lille Kongensgade from 28 October 1856.
Nyhavn 67 | Anholm and Hans Christian Andersen
Paul Griffiths was more reserved about the "pleasant, straightforward fable", finding the vocal lines uninteresting except for the throat-singing but being happier with the orchestral sound.
Tornrak | Reception
"The Elf Mound" () is a literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). The tale is about a feast held in an elf mound for the Goblin Chief of Norway and his two sons, both of whom are expected to select elf brides. The tale was published in Copenhagen, Denmark by C.A. Reitzel in April 1845.
The Elf Mound | Introduction
Equally, some have raised concerns over the drastic abridging of longer stories such as "Pinocchio" and the right to retelling distinctly literary fairy tales with a clear author such as Hans Christian Andersen.
Well Loved Tales | Reception
Greet followed this with other productions at the Adelphi in which many of the same cast members appeared.
Little Hans Andersen | Introduction
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) was a Danish author and poet. Hans Christian Andersen may also refer to:
Hans Christian Andersen (disambiguation) | Introduction
Kaddara: Folkelivsbilleder fra Grønland (Sketches from the Folk Life in Greenland) is a 1921 Danish-language opera in four acts by Hakon Børresen to a libretto by C.M. Norman-Hansen (1861-1947).
Kaddara | Introduction
Despite its late origin, it grew to become one of the most popular ballads in both Denmark and Sweden. It has been described as the best-known and most widely discussed in all of Danish balladry. During the Danish Romantic Period, the motif inspired Jens Baggesen's poem "Agnes fra Holmegaard" (1808) and Adam Oehlenschläger's "Agnete" (1812). Hans Christian Andersen worked the material into the play "Agnete og Havmanden" (1834) which was staged, accompanied the music of Niels Gade, but the show was a flop. It also plays a significant role in Problemata III of Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling" (1843).
Agnete og Havmanden | Reception
Nielsen first considered writing an opera based on Holberg's play "Maskarade" around the turn of the 20th century. He contacted Vilhelm Andersen (1864–1953) whom he knew from his student days, hoping to persuade him to write a libretto. Andersen initially refused but finally agreed, allowing Nielsen to start composing in May 1904. The Royal Theatre scheduled the opera even before it was finished. In fact, Nielsen only completed the overture on 3 November, a week before the opera's premiere. The world premiere of "Maskarade" took place at Det Kongelige Teater in Copenhagen on 11 November 1906. It was a resounding success from the start with an exceptional run of 25 performances over its first four months.
Maskarade | Background and performance history
The Shadow () is a literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The tale was first published in 1847.
The Shadow (fairy tale) | Introduction
New Fairy Tales () is a collection of four fairy tales written by Hans Christian Andersen and published by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen, Denmark on 10 November 1843. As was customary at the time however, the title page is dated 1844. The tales are completely Andersen's invention, owe no debt to folk or fairy lore, and are the most autobiographical of his several fairy tale collections. The collection was received enthusiastically by the Danish critics and public and became Andersen's break-through in the fairy tale genre. "The Nightingale" and "The Ugly Duckling" have been adapted to various forms of drama.
New Fairy Tales (1844) | Introduction