euromaxx: The Truth About Germany - Fairy Tales

[xxnecspenecmetuxx]

too bad german fairy tales are not even german (or at least most of them), but italian. indeed most of these fairy tales had already been collected two hundred years earlier by giambattista basile in his book "il pentamerone", in the neapolitan language. search for it! it's much more funny and spicy than its german counterpart!

[Lintflas]

@xxnecspenecmetuxx

Most famous German fairy tales were written by the German Grimm brothers.

[xxnecspenecmetuxx]

@Lintflas the fact that they were collected by german grimm brothers doesn't automatically make them german fairy tales. i'm not saying that they copied all of them, but certainly the grimm brothers borrowed a lot from the pentamerone. if you search some information about this book, you will see it for yourself.

[Lintflas]

@xxnecspenecmetuxx

Whatever you say, doesn't change the fact that the most popular and widespread fairy tales all come from Germany. That is a fact.

[xxnecspenecmetuxx]

@Lintflas well, yes, indeed grimm brothers fairytales versions are the most popular worldwide, but I think that's a sad fact because I wish that the pentamerone had the world recognition it deserves for being the first european collection of fairytales.

[darkchamberofdark666]

Good wins over evil?No, most fairy tales ended cruelly. Its more like a moral lesson or its just plain sadistic. The truth about fairy tales

[laramenke]

I watched the movie "the brothers grimm" while over there and the "natives" had no clue that it was the brothers grimm who collected the fairy tails, let alone that they were german. and they had already seen the movie before...

[laramenke]

well, I'm germany and I spend last year in monroe, Wisconsin and i guess there are some similarities when it come to the countryside, but only a part of germany looks somewhat like wisconsin.

the climate in the different part of germany is more different that in the parts of WI and that's why the german nature has a lot more variety. and besides, a lot more hills (at least in the south).

[SuperTravis898]

@laramenke a short and a bit incorrect summary of my homeland is forest, hills, fields. yes as said a lot more spread out then being up close detail, and yes i am from hessen

[jfv65]

cool car!! BMW 02 forever!

[Sylvesteria]

I'm german but i never knew that we're famous for fairy tales :D

[Lintflas]

Germany is the fairyland of Europe.

[Gkruchell]

No Germany looks like wats it is Germeny Wisconsin USA has the worst Roads in the Worlds even thow we have more Germens in World

[hardstyle905]

@Gkruchell sorry for being rude but your english is not very good considering ur an american.

[old87country]

Not Wisconson, not West Virginia......It looks like southern Indiana.

[gandhifan93]

jup, dank disney sind wir jetzt ein exportschlager in sachen märchen. :-)

[Jackenfan]

maybe Wisconsin looks like Germany

[rrmfg]

Wow Germany looks just like Wisconsin!!!!

[shrikechan]

@rrmfg The countryside looks more like West Virginia.

[ElectronicPJAN00VIP]

Germany is Better!!!

[GlossyGlam87]

@rrmfg well, definitely not.

[aIpha]

@rrmfg I thought Wisconsin looked like Switzerland, hence why it is sometimes called Swissconsin

[septip123]

sehr gut, sehr lustig

[introduction1988]

sehr gut gemacht:)