150th anniversary of death of Wilhelm Hauff - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1977 - 40 Pfennig

The 150th anniversary of the anniversary of the death on 18 November 1977 is the occasion to commemorate the writer Wilhelm Hauff. Hauff, who was born in Stuttgart on November 29, 1802, studied theology in Tübingen after finishing high school in Tübingen and after attending the convent school in Blaubeuren. While still a student, Hauff was seized by a feverish urge to write. He produced effortlessly with almost inconceivable rapidity, and his light, agile, restless feather, as if he suspected his early death, could not rest. Apart from a few poems, almost all of Hauff's work consists of narrative prose. Strong talents betray several of his stories that deal with historical or contemporary subjects. The artistically most successful are the »Fantasies in the Bremen Ratskeller«. First and foremost, however, Hauff's name combines with the fairy tales, which, artfully embedded in frame narratives, appeared in three almanacs in the years 1826, 1827 and 1828. They have become dependent on old traditions, above all the pre-Romantic era, but have become works of art of their own, since Hauff has developed his models in a free, creative form. The fairy tales have been translated into many languages, and so "Calf Stork", "Dwarf Nose", "The Little Muck" or "The Cold Heart" have become fairy tale characters of world literature. Hauff stands between romanticism and early realism, but is also dependent on literary trends of pre-Romantic times.