"Knusper, knupser, Häuschen", "crunchy, crunchy, lille home", said a voice, when Hänsel and his Sister Gretel, abandoned in the woods cause the mean stepmother demanded again, hungry and all, found this house made of cookies!!
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Whilst I was preparing this post Ingo popped in and immediately recognized this mural!
Artist unknown, for 30+ years it sat - and sits - on one of the walls of the kindy my
Nieces went to.
The village Ingo grew up in.
I took the pic, getting one of the Nieces home a "long" time ago - they both attend school now.
The witch... that was Erich Honecker.
He helped split Germany to East and West and promised just the best.
Mikhail Gorbachev helped putting an end to the madness - he was Russian, how can history be so mad? He was a good guy, just sayin´....
The cookie house was not tasty and today we celebrate to be one free Germany again!
All my three Thomas-es I would´ve never met with the wall being still there!
With one I What´s App every day.
You know - if you read along on our hosts blog - how a Trabi, the typical East-German car - looks like so...
This is how the green light on the streets look like - I sadly lost the red earring.
Or is it sadly? I am on "go"!
Henry 🦁
It was "once upon a time", so I join Elle from Empire of the Cat again.
Happy Unity Day.
Addendum! River stated those ginger bread houses do not last long - ours did!!!
For Christmas 19...79 or later we baked the cookies, built a ginger-bread house and never touched it.
It was too precious!
Every Christmas our parents put it out again - and at some point you for sure did not even want to taste it!
They never.. .well... I was shortly "abandoned" in the woods at age 4... now I remember.. a story for another day!
When my Brother turned 14 he started calling me Schwesterchen and me hence automatically, like in the fairy tale, called him Brüderchen.
We still do.
The gingerbread-house is gone, but I still have a gingerbread-heart from Braunschweig.
It was too precious to eat. Sadly, age hits, I don´t know where I put it after it fell off the swing.
14 comments:
...this is a classic.
Outstanding!!! I Totally Agree With Brother Tom, Classic
Cheers
I heard about the cute little green man in the Walk/Wait signs when I visited Berlin a long time ago. As for the reason why Germany was divided -- that happened after World War II to prevent what the victorious Allies feared would be a resurgence of German nationalism, as it had happened after World War I. ANd Honecker wasn't the president of E.Germany until the 1970s. So I'm puzzled by your remark.
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That is an interesting mural Iris. And a good fairy tale too. Nice flag drawing too. And I hope you had a great unity day. hugs-Erika
We have a green walk man too, but he doesn't wear a hat. I think Hansel and Gretel is a fairy tale simply because of the gingerbread house, such a house would never stand for long in a forest or anywhere else.
Happy Unity Day.
Tom and Padre yes. We call each other Brüderchen and Schwesterchen, my Brother started this.
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Mae, to kids born in the 70´s it was always Honecker. He was the bad man who kept families apart, who mislead the other half of Germany.
Who kept his men at bay and weee, do travel to West Berlin! Do not look into the eyes, look down, otherwise they´ll take you out of line and search for everything and anything.
To West Germans of my age he was the bad man...
And, really, Germans were or are bad to the world still. But look at others, nearly every country has a bad history, just us Germans get it all served on a plate over and over again.
I am interested what my Nieces will learn in history class.
See, my parents were kids, their parents partly not German, the German one no soldier, yet I had to say "I am sorry for what I did to the Jewish people".
What did I do to "them"? ATM I read "Schindler´s list" and I think my German part of family would have supported him. Saved Jewish people.
I fail to understand in general why religion can take people to war. Why I cannot wear German summer clothes in German summer without fearing many of the Muslims here, I am getting called "Whore" and more (oh, a lille rhyme)...
The Russians took Königsberg, now Kaliningrad, that´s where my maternal family is from, I cannot visit and what do they do now with Ukraine.
War is but dumb. And today we just celebrate to be one again and there is no (or another) aggressor... or whimp, rather. Not that I would want to be chancellor, but this one is....embarrassing! Again.
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Erika, thank you, it´s but 05:20 a.m. (my stupid phone went off, cause... Monday... so much for sleeping in!
More time to do stuff ;-) Hugs
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River, ours lasted forever!!!!
Really, it did!
Our parents bought a do it yourself, so we baked the cookies, build that house of strong paper, glued the cookies on with edible stuff (I can´t remember, I was a kid) - and we didn´t touch it. It sat in the cupboard all year and each Christmas for a long time we put it out to... look at -
thank you for the memories!!!!
Maybe that´s why my Brother started calling me Schwesterchen when he turned 14!!! Icall him Brüderchen, hence, just like in the h fairy tale!
And... I still have a gingerbread heart from 20...17?
What a fine mural. I love fairy tales. And certainly if one comes true. Like the reunited Germany. Have a nice day
It's a great mural, Iris. It is a classic fairy tale.
I hope you are enjoying Unity Day. Your drawing is wonderful and it is charming for Elle's theme at Art Journal Journey, too.
Bertiebo, thank you, yes, it was a hard start, but "we" made it, we are one again!
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Elizabeth, yes to both!
Oh, I am too hectical to make a good drawing.
I do hope for slowing down with the years - for now I´m working on not clicking the mouse when someone says "yes" or such!
Progress on that front, really!!!
Cute mural. Happy Unity day Iris. Does the day get celebrated all over Germany?
The red and green Berlin traffic lights men are very cute.
Sami, no, it´s just a day off.
At least here in Braunschweig, maybe they do celebrate in Berlin - let´s wait for the news, maybe they show something.
I still am ashamed you had to tell me The Giants were in Berlin and I had no clue!!!
Bertiebo, it was some way, but we walked it!
Love the story and the mural and your drawing Iris, Thanks for joining me for the October theme at Art Journal Journey this month Elle/Empire of the Cat xx
I have seen many versions of the Hansel and Gretel story some are very scary! I love Gingerbread though! Hugs, Chrisx
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