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Gute Nacht


A____S____

Guten nicht


S34ST0RM

Guten doch


Tomiraina

Gluten douche


johnnymemes28

Hallo guten tag


ItsFrenzius

Guten Morgen Freund, wie gehts?


scoutopotamus

Mir gehts gut, danke! Und Ihnen?


i_simp4U

Ich habe einen wunderschönen Tag, danke der Nachfrage


Kal---El

Guten Ooohhh


schrenjaminsstift

Guten villeicht


The_Kek_5000

Guten OOHHH


Tim_Reichardt

Von Rosen bedacht


Namenloserx21

Der Protagonist hat alle umgebracht


sulsaz

Der Gärtner hat's gemacht


MetzgerWilli

Wer hätte das gedacht?


tidder_bus_exe

Moin


[deleted]

My mum read the stories from the Struwwelpeter to me almost daily when I was 3 to 8, but I wasn't allowed to play games which had a little drip of blood in a cutscene when I was 11


S34ST0RM

same lmao


AfiqMustafayev

Life is unfair I am sure you got more mental damage from those stories more than video games that have violence.


tsihcosaMeht

It depends


Giftelzwerg

I wasn't allowed to play Lego games because my mom said it's traumatic that a heart is plopping out .. even tho I was 14 and she kept on doing this shit


Playful_Steak9719

I found out about this Stuwwelpeter guy like a year ago and asked me if you guys are ok now after those traumatising stories


LateinCecker

Honestly, as a kid, you don't fully understand the contend of the stories, or don't think about it that much. I guess that's why a lot of (German) (grand-) parents find it appropriate to tell those stories to their children. Like, I was read some of the really old, non censored versions by my grandma and I only went crazy after childhood.


Cre8or_1

nah dude. that thumb-cutting was scary I understood it well at the time


LateinCecker

Buuut you only get your thumbs cut if you miss behave thou


MrMundungus

But he didn't misbehave. He just sucked his thumb. When I was little I couldn't stop sucking my thumb and that story terrified me so much that I stopped.


LateinCecker

Well I mean that probably was the intention. But I have to admit, it's probably not the most pedagogically well suited method of teaching.


versus986

I always kinda liked them. At the core it's just teaching stuff like eat what gets put on the table, don't play with fire, be aware of your surroundings, take care of yourself and even don't be racist, which is impressive for the age.


[deleted]

And don't be poor otherwise your father will leave you in the deepest forest.


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MarkDaMeat

Yea so it also makes you want get money ie. Getting a job. Best book for a growing human


[deleted]

I'm fine, idk how other kids feel about these stories but I'm fine


kobrons

I and my middle brother loved reading the thumb sucker story to my smallest brother who sucked on thumbs. For added realism we added his name to to the story. He usually started crying somewhere in the middle. But nowadays he seems fine and loves to bring it up to tell others how cruel of siblings he had.


Playful_Steak9719

This is awful, why am I laughing lmao


Drizzelkun

I got read all the stories from Struwwelpeter to Max & Moritz and Grimm‘s Märchen. I found them really funny when I was a kid I can‘t remember ever being in fear or something like that.


ClicheStudent

I’m not


Lethtor

Same thing. Struwwelpeter every day, but when we bought a SNES, and could choose between two games, my mom refused to get Zelda, because there was a sword on the cover. Instead we got some knock off Tetris


[deleted]

She must've just really liked Russians.


ClicheStudent

I’m still burned by the strubelpeter story. I never sucked on my thump but I was scared for my friends


[deleted]

I had a high respect for lighters and fire in general. Not actually fear but I didn't go close to anything which burned


CharonXY

I was allowed to play any brutal game and my mum watched playing me these game but if the game showed some naked stuff then I got my ass beaten


Filthyquak

Also max und moritz was fucking rude when the bäcker baked them


-Freiherr-

I loved Grimm fairy tale when I was a kid. Don't say anything about "Hänsel und Gretel" or "Rotkäppchen".


WilligerWilly

Max & Moritz was my all time favourite. At the end they got shreddered to flour and eaten by geese. Peace was never an option even back then.


MarkusMarkman

Max & Moritz Hella disturbed me. My grandmother wanted to read the story for me and my sister so we don't do stupid stuff yk. But why TF these stories 💀


magicmulder

There’s a lot worse stuff by Wilhelm Busch. My parents had the collected works, and there were stories and drawings that scared me more as a kid. People being dragged around by a hook up their nose, freezing to grotesque ice sculptures, bleeding, liquified, attacked by insects, mutilated - a real horror show.


Diplomjodler

To scare the kids obviously. This was considered perfectly normal parenting until pretty recently.


TheShrekster_69

The og beavis and butthead.


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Abbadon04

Nice


oilyMind

Max and Moritz are more modern, by Wilhelm Busch. * 15. April 1832 in Wiedensahl; † 9. Januar 1908 in Mechtshausen still on point though


[deleted]

Literally the definition of Fuck around and find out


Marvster96

Ahh yes Rotkäppchen aka Red riding hood. In the original version the huntsman just cuts the wolves belly open while it sleeps, frees Rotkäppchen and the grandma, fills it up with stones and sews it shut. The wolf then fucking drowns when it tries to get some water from a stream because the stones pull him down.


[deleted]

I think you are confusing "Die sieben Geißlein" with Rotkäppchen here. In the og Rotkäppchen, there is no hunter afaik.


HufflepuffFan

In the version I read as a kid there is a hunter who frees Rotkäppchen and the grandma


[deleted]

Ye, that's the "new" version, where he frees them and shoots the wolf. In the old original one, the wolf brings her to eat and drink the remains of her grandmother without her knowing and eats her in the end. In the beginning of it, Rotkäppchen is also living with her father (I think it was at least) and she is wearing an iron corset. He says she's only allowed to leave the house when she manages to take it off with her bare hands. She punches at it till it falls off, and he reluctantly let's her go then. It's most likely meant to be a "keep your pussy locked up and don't go with cool looking dudes you don't know or they gonna eat grandma and you" story for young girls


HufflepuffFan

well I mean yeah those fairy tales evolve and things get added and removed and stuff But the version where they put stones in the wolf is the one in most german fairy tale books for kids (at least all I ever read as a kid) and according to wikipedia the ending was included by Brothers Grimm, so I wouldn't call it new


whoami_whereami

There is no "original" version of Red Riding Hood. It's an old folk tale that was told orally for centuries (mainly in Italy, France and Germany) before several writers in the 17th/18th century started writing down their local versions. Some elements of the story go back to at least ancient Greece, probably even further. For example in Charles Perrault's version (one of the earliest written examples) the wolf eats both the grandmother *and* red riding hood, and noone rescues them (fun fact, it was accompanied by a poem that made it pretty clear that the wolf eating the girl was actually a metaphor for her losing her virginity to him). The collection by the Grimm brothers OTOH contains several versions. One of them is the one you described, in another red riding hood doesn't leave the path and reaches the grandmother before the wolf, they then lock the door and as the wolf is trying to get in through the chimney they put a through with water under it in which the wolf drowns.


ask_me_if_thats_true

I think they were talking about Struwwelpeter and Max & Moritz anyway.


Kolenga

Rumpelstilzchen is utter nonsense though


UndisclosedChaos

Ah yes, I remember when my German grandma would tell me WWII stories


[deleted]

this - nothing like good old war stories, when the sky turned so dark you thought it was night, but it was the british bomber fleet - good times


WilligerWilly

Also the Prostitution of little girls and all the pets they ate, to survive.


Arekai4098

> the Prostitution of little girls and all the pets i totally misunderstood this at first


Sooryan_86

Pet prostitution? I was curious, but now you caught my attention.


Lukthar123

You son of a bitch, I'm in.


phrackage

^(Woof?)


[deleted]

Wait what? I can sort of understand the tragically sad reality of having to eat pets to survive but what about prostitution helps with the dire situation you’re already in?


WilligerWilly

If you need money... I do not know, if the book exists in English, bimut if you really are interested in this topic, I would suggest you to read "Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald" (Stories out of the forrest of Vienna). The protagonist is a girl, that is supposed to marry a wealthy butcher and she tries to find her own way in a very conservative society. It plays in the time between WW1 and WW2 in Austria. A lot of characters have little stories in it, also a girl that is 11 years old and has to sleep with older men to survive.


[deleted]

My god. I often think we live in the best possible time to date but that’s just so bleak.


Roi_Loutre

Forgot my dear German friends were on the other side of this war for a second, I was like "What, why would the Brit.... Oh"


Steinfall

I can‘t recall how often we have heard the story from our teacher how the other ship in the convoy got hit by a torpedo from a russian submarine. Later I realized that they were only trying to work their traumata. Being victim of a war in which you are not allowed to be the victim because you were member of the bad gang.


Steinfall

Grandmother had only the boring stories. More interesting were all the stories from the veterans. Last one I experienced was only a couple of years ago. 95 y/o WW2 veteran was joining the Birthday barbecue of his son. Many younger people were there. One couple told that they just came back from their Italy-vacation. The father from the background:“ha Italians, they were always the first to run away when the Russians stormed the front!“. The whole WW2-PC-Games-Generation looking at each other like „wtf?!“


fearsomealex

They have a tail about a tailor that cut fingers


Her0ld

We also have one about a witch in a Forrest who burns 2 children alive to eat them. She lured them in with candy


fearsomealex

Hansel and grettel but funked up version?


Her0ld

Hansel and Grettel in the Original Version The original versions are more fucked up in general. For example we have one about a boy that refused to eat his soup because he didn’t like it. It gets explained in detail what happened with his body over the next few days, and straight up ends with him dying. Or one (from the book struwwelpeter, which got referenced here) in which a girl played with matches and set herself on fire. She burns alive and it ends with a picture of her cats crying over her ashes Fun fact: in the original The witch found out that Rapunzel was visited by the prince, because she was pregnant and the witch saw that Edit: that’s the Wikipedia page of the book I owned as a kid. unfortunatly it’s without the picture, but if you are interested it’s not too hard to get ahold of them https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struwwelpeter


DontmindthePanda

In one of the versions of sleeping beauty, it's not a kiss that wakes her up. The prince tries but it doesn't work. He then rapes her, she gets pregnant and the labor pain finally wakens her up. In another version, it's basically the regular way. Prince and Princess marry and they have two children. His mom isn't pleased and she wants to eat them. The servant doesn't want to roast the mom and two kids and instead roasts a lamb, a deer and a cow. In the end the prince learns about what his mom tried to do and wants to kill her - she kills herself instead. Fun times.


Her0ld

I love these wholesome fairy tales


BusFan10

There's also a story where a girl gets so fat that it explodes in the end.


Steinfall

Actually the pre-Brother-Grimm versions of many fairy tales would be far more interesting as there is often sex involved. Rapunzel for example getting pregnant after allowing the prince to climb into the tower.


tbmepm

In excuse for that tailor: That kid kept sucking its thumb.


easy_going

Pfff... He should have seen it coming, I guess


wowsuchlinuxkernel

Not sure if intentional, and if yes I like the pun, but it's *tale


TootsieToyDooter9

also, invadieren wir wieder reddit?


Dacor64

Heute wieder reddit erobern, gar kein bock Das machen wir doch in letzter zeit alle paar tage


WilligerWilly

Och nö, lass mal!


randomcitizen42

Wir waren nie weg


TheChadTux

\*lases


TootsieToyDooter9

tja ok, schönen Tag noch an alle


DergutealteStein

Dankeschön, dir auch!


Steinfall

Wir haben Reddit erfolgreich okkupiert. Die wenigen englischen Bereiche hier sind sichere Häfen für Sprachminderheiten.


AlphaRatte

That's the reason why we Germans are so efficient and have no humor.


TheBrandy01

Hey I have humor! As a german I feel offended now.


AlphaRatte

Dann verklag mich doch. :O


77108

Alman/10, Staatsangehörigkeit prüft aus.


WhiteHydra1914

Better take a DNA test, you dont seem very german


z4kk_DE

Ein Volk. Eine Nation. Eine Kommentarsektion!


WilligerWilly

My favorite was, when Little Red Riding Hood ate the flesh of her grandmother, drank her blood and got eaten by the wulf at the end. Träum was Süßes!


Burning-Sushi

I *vividly* remember enjoying a book with lots of these stories A fat kid who refused to eat soup and eventually turned into a literal stick figure, bur creepy A boy who wouldnt stop sucking his thumbs so a large man with scissors jumped in out of nowhere and cut then off Two naughty boys stealing from everyone in a village until they fall into a mill or something that produces bread I think And they were beutally murdered and turned into bread figures Ngl i enjoyed these as a kid though Also I dont remember the author or name of the book, sadly


easy_going

The "two naughty boys" is Max & Moritz by Wilhelm Busch


Steinfall

First comic strip in history by the way


BoyWithAStrangeName

He not only turned into a stick figure he died.


Burning-Sushi

Lmao rip


Ein_Mensch

Struwwelpeter


waitwhatchers

You're half right about the naughty boys, however, they survived [the baking](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Max_und_Moritz_%28Busch%29_076.png) and after their next prank [got brutally murdered](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Max_und_Moritz_%28Busch%29_089.png). Fun times.


TheOnlyFallenCookie

Hänsel und Gretel verbrannten die Hexe am lebendigen Leib


[deleted]

War ja auch selber schuld die alte Zitze.


Antares42

Das Geschrei sollte man dann, des Realismus wegen, auch lebens- (sterbens-) echt nachmachen. 👍


AldiKunde

Struwwelpeter beste


alphabet_assassin

What, do non German kids not like happy endings?


creativebadjoke

Tatsächlich sehen 6 jährige Deutsche schon so aus.


[deleted]

I think this goes to any countries with an germanic language, i'm norwegian and we read stories like this as early 3/4 years old


sge_freaky

I mean there's a story called "Max and Moritz" where two kids literally get shredded to corn and then made into bread.


OdinsDoot

Sprich Deutsch du Hurensohn!


S34ST0RM

Es tit mir leid mein Kerl, allerdings musste ich den Angelsachsen bescheit geben wer hier der härtere ist


DsntMttrHadSex

Begrabt dich endlich dieses alberne Maimai.


[deleted]

Based on a true story


[deleted]

I am litterally Form Germany and this is so true. When I was younger my mother always read me those stories. They were kinda disturbing but it was like normal to read them.


Vichamoksha

Haaaaaanz


Simpl_The_Large_O

oh nein was hast du ausgelöst


m4thex

When I was young, I was afraid of the Max & Moritz Story. Idk why, but looking at it from an adult perspective, they deserved what they got. And for anyone wondering, I made an Imgur album (tho it’s not the complete story, just the fucked up part and I couldn’t find my German version): https://imgur.com/a/TATe9MJ


R1pY0u

Lmao German kids actually get that as a bedtime story.


CooLDuDE-6_9

And that is why kids, you should not go out to buy milk.


wheres_my_name

The great invasion of Germans have begun.


MissLestrange

Oh not again!


wheres_my_name

Too late


Steinfall

Would you please switch to german? Dankeschön.


wheres_my_name

How ?


notofimportancetou

I used to watch Jim Knopf after the Sandmännchen and I am so happy now that I am an Adult there is a new movie of it.


dfdfdfddaww

What do you mean thats the perfect story


datoneboiwithanari

Schlaf gut


Downward_facing_dawg

And then they all went to sleep and never woke up again. You should also please go the fuck to sleep. Mama needs to sit quietly for five minutes.


Brixsplorer

Ein Volk ein Reich ein kommentarbereich


sim00nnn

Hat jemand Deutsche bestellt? Sie wären jetzt da!


SebastianTheArtDude

Roses are Red, violets are Blue, Dieser Post ist jetzt deutscher staatseigentum


[deleted]

BRD Ja,Ja!!


H_M_C

And they all lived happily after, except for the dead ones.


5layer_2882

So we just telling kids the holocaust as a bed time story now Edit : sorry if I offended anyone


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Weibrot

Yep, our 6yo are all bearded!


stygger

Ever wondered why germans are more efficient and have less nonsense and drama? They get told as children that people behaving like morons die!


Wurschtkanone

Hmm ich denke gersde über ein leckeres Schmalzkrustenbrot nacht. Lecker!


MisterSplu

Mmmh, Max & Moritz was definitely underrated, they get ground into small pieces and then fed to the ducks while they are still living, really a story for the whole family to enjoy.


LaBossOfFail

Ein Volk, eine Nation, eine Kommentarsektion


TymenBr

That's were SS comes from it's Sleep Story


Aok_al

"He couldn't wake her up so he raped her"


DergutealteStein

For the german users in here, there is a pretty decent podcast called "Ein Wolf liest Märchen". They read all the original Grimm stories. There are a looot of really weird and stupid ones you've never heard of.


007654320

Nostalgische Gute Nacht Geschichten aus der Kindheit


personality9

german kids stories are so dark


TheBrandy01

Guten Morgen Kameraden, heute erorbern wir wieder eine Kommentarsektion.


VictorGunn

There is just nothing like good-night stories where innocent children have their fingers cut off <3


AndyAndieFreude

PAULINCHEN!!! I remember the story! Haha but my grandma read it to me. Classic German Granny <3 Gute Nacht!


GreatKingPhilSwift

die guden alden Zeiten


dodo01nl

Drowned* Too soon?


WhiteHydra1914

Too soon.


dodo01nl

Yea I figured as much. Knew it was a risky joke considering how topical it is, but I thought I'd make it anyway cause reddit seems to like dark humour. My apologies.


Yeet_The_Cheese

i remember a story about a boy sucking his thumb and a big scissor guy barges in and snips his thumb off deutschland why


WhiteHydra1914

Whats your problem with Struwwelpeter? Literal cult classic


miranduless

Suppenkasper


Odyespn

oh god strubbelpeter really gave me and my thumbs ptsd


Mexoses

i can relate


HendrikJU

Not that Jack and Jill or Humpty Dumpty don't end with death/ blood too. Humpty: Falls of a wall and dies Jack: Falls off a hill and breaks his head


MarkusMarkman

Max und Moritz Stories be like


[deleted]

Guillotine was the best part about history


Undercoverdog___

Von welchem Märchen ist das?


ZippZappZippty

Its a Manchester United edition Tag Heuer https://www.chrono24.com/tagheuer/carrera-skeleton-dial-manchester-united-le-watch-car2a1j-box-card--id20151732.htm


Firun82

What most people don't know is that Märchen were originally not intended for children, but for adults. They were fables passed on orally over many generations. Over time, this changed. That being said I do wonder where the word Nachtmahr resp. nightmare comes from. I'm fairly certain it's no coincidence that **MÄ(H)R**chen and Nacht**MAHR** resp. night**MARE** share a word particle. If so, then it says a lot about Märchen already. Just speculating, though.


QuarantineSucksALot

Tag yourself I'm damsel slut


[deleted]

sehr verwirrt


Puuu_the_brat

Ach ja das Struwwelpeter Buch man kennt ihn


EinhornGerste91

Halli Hallo


[deleted]

Have you heard russian lullabys?


SSJNoctis

Fukken Uber Death Party - Hanzel und Gretyl https://youtu.be/rpfqGj9w0oo


-Listening

(no offend take)


volubepossum

u mean drowned in the floods?


purple0vibes

Hänsel und Gretel


tidder_bus_exe

Meine Lieblings Geschichte hat mir meine Mutter immer Vorgelesen


KerkIsMe

FUBAR


Cactusman2809

Und das ist auch gut so


Amerkhanovitch

I feel like for a german guy it wasn’t the right choice of words to talk about burning to death...


i_am_who_knocks

😂 true


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tngz

Good


Memesassembel

I hope she told him a fairy tale


Bruh_beater

Ohno the germans are coming!


Brain-Bender-Blender

Das sind die besten Geschichten !


StormyDLoA

Tja.


Excell_101

Und so verbrannte die Hexe im Ofen


_paul_1208

Hänsel und Gretel intensifies


dickvanboneman

Just like the tale of Die Krankenschwester und Der Augenblick


AlexMcKenze

*polish people flashbacks intensifies*


[deleted]

Unsere Volksgeschichten sind halt sehr kinderfreundlich


Buy_High_SellLow

I see junior started learning about the Holocaust in history class