Stories
Stories
Prof Dr Sabine Doering
Institute for German Studies You've probably thought the same thing: it would be great if you could visit Harry Potter at the weekend 
or invite Pippi Longstocking to your birthday party. But that's not possible, because both are 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 we would probably all like to do a bit of magic. In this lecture, we want to find out together why we can't get enough of stories in which things are different from our reality. People have been telling each other stories about magicians, talking animals and scary events for a very long time. Some stories have travelled a long way from country to country. We want to follow this together with "Little Red Riding Hood", who initially had a completely different name. And finally, we want to go in search of the oldest stories in the world. Will we find them?
Moderator: Martin Reckweg (NDR) Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 4.30 pm
Audimax Hörsaalzentrum 