Stories
Stories
Prof. Dr Sabine Doering
Institute for German Studies I’m sure you’ve all thought this at some point: it would be great if you could visit Harry Potter at 
at the weekend or invite Pippi Longstocking to your birthday party. But that’s not possible, because they’re both fictional characters, and we only learn about them from books. Nevertheless, we often know exactly what Harry, Pippi and their many friends would be thinking and doing at any given moment. And I suppose we’d all quite like to do a bit of magic ourselves. In this lecture, we’ll explore together why we simply can’t get enough of stories that are different from our own reality. Even a very long time ago, people told each other stories of wizards, talking animals and eerie events. Some stories have travelled a long way from country to country. We’ll trace this journey together with ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, which originally had a completely different name. And finally, we’ll set out in search of the world’s oldest stories. I wonder if we’ll find them?
Presenter: Martin Reckweg (NDR) Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 4.30 pm
Audimax Lecture Centre 