Wilhelm Hauff
1802–1827
Biography
Wilhelm Hauff was a German poet and novelist of the Romantic period. He was born in Stuttgart in 1802, grew up there, studied at Tübingen, and became part of the Swabian circle of writers. He died of typhoid fever in Stuttgart in 1827, aged twenty-four, and his promising career ended almost as soon as it had begun.
His fairy tales combine foreign and magical material with German settings, and they are his most lasting achievement. The best known include Der kleine Muck (Little Muck) and Das kalte Herz (Heart of Stone). He also wrote Lichtenstein, a historical romance set in his home region of Württemberg in an earlier century, and Der Mann im Mond (The Man in the Moon), a parody.
Two of his works are on the site, and they are linked. The Märchen-Almanach auf das Jahr 1826 was his first fairy-tale almanac: merchants crossing the desert take in a mysterious stranger, and the evenings pass with stories, among them Little Muck. La Karavano is an Esperanto translation by J. W. Eggleton of that same frame story, so readers can meet his tales in German and in the international language.
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Books
La Karavano
by Wilhelm Hauff (translated by J. W. Eggleton)
Wilhelm Hauff's frame tale in J. W. Eggleton's Esperanto translation. Merchants crossing the desert take a mysterious stranger into their caravan and pass the evenings telling stories, among them Caliph Stork, the Ghost Ship, the Severed Hand and Little Muck, fairy tales in the…
Summary written by Claude Opus 5.5.Märchen-Almanach auf das Jahr 1826
by Wilhelm Hauff
A caravan of merchants crosses the desert, and to pass the time each traveller tells a story. Among them are Caliph Stork, who forgets the magic word that would turn him back into a man, the ghost ship, and Little Muck with his magic slippers. Wilhelm Hauff's first fairy-tale…
Summary written by Claude Opus 5.5.