Ethnologica Dalmatica, Vol. 26 , 2019.
Professional paper
Janko and Marika, the Predecessor of Hansel and Gretel. The Ethnologist From the Shadow – Wilibald Von Schulenburg
Slavica Vrkić Žura
; Put Petrića 28a, 23000 Zadar
Abstract
German landscapist and ethnologist Wilibald von Schulenburg was born on April 6, 1847 in Scharlottenburg, and died April 29, 1934 in Berlin (Zehlendorf). It originates from the branched noble family. Like most young men of his social background, he enrolls in a military school. He participates in the German-French War in 1870 and remains without his left hand, after which he leaves the military service. At the court of Friedrich III he was offered a secretary's place, but he declined to say that he would dedicate himself exclusively to the artistic title. He traveled to study tours in Germany and recorded a lifestyle of people, their homes, clothes, footwear, etc. He was particularly interested in the workman, and since the same people wanted to say something to him, he wrote it dullly. He had to rest for a few weeks. He was thus locked up in a village house in Upper Bavaria where he began to record and chart everything he had seen and heard.
Keywords
Wilibald von Schulenburg; Hansel and Gretel
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223291
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Publication date:
24.7.2019.
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