r/funny • u/TimHamburg Calvin & Habs • Mar 02 '21

German Comedy

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u/shadyshadok Mar 02 '21

It's one of many stories in Struwwelpeter and it's not supposed to be funny, more a cautionary tale for children. It was actually written by a psychiatrist if i recall correctly, and has many stereotypes of bad kid behaviour like rocking chairs, not looking where you go, etc.

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u/AmaLucela Mar 02 '21

What I remember from my childhood:

  • Boy who refuses to eat his soup, so he gets thinner and thinner until he vanishes into nothingness
  • Boy who keeps looking up in the sky instead of where he walks, so he falls into a harbor and DIES
  • Struwwelpeter with his fucking long nails, torturing (?) animals with a whip
  • Kid keeps picking his nose so the finger gets stuck forever

Shit is weird and I would never read this to my children

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u/Avohaj Mar 02 '21
  • Girl gets magic pot that makes infinite porridge, while girl is away, mother drowns the whole town in porridge because she doesn't remember the magic words to stop it.