#der zauberlehrling

[thequeerlibrarian]

JOMP Challenge | June 5 | Poetry: Der Zauberlehrling by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - a poem most germans know because you have to memorise it as a student

[legitimatesatanspawn]

Okay so I've never seen illustrations of the source material before.

But this sight gives funny reason for Mickey's outfit. Like, we know why MICKEY dresses like that because aside from specific short films or video games he rarely wears a shirt.

But? OG Sorcerer Guy? Where's your pants?

[haveyoureadthispoem-poll]

"Die ich rief, die Geister, / werd ich nun nicht los."

Read it here | Reblog for a larger sample size!

[fairytalemovies]

[brandybradyrandyandyndy]

Die Melodie ist so ein Banger, ich kann mir die so gut im Hintergrund eines nischigen DS-Spiels vorstellen

[chrysalis-the-butterfly]

I watched and loved Fantasia 2000 when I was a child, but it was only a few months ago that I found out about Goethe's poem, and how much of Disney's segment wasn't original at all. I almost felt like my childhood was a lie!

To anyone wanting to read the original poem, here's a link to the German original and a translation.

I also quite like this modern translation by Katrin Gygax.

Pet Peeve: I am tired of Goethe not being credited with The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. The moment anyone hears that title they immediately think of Mickey Mouse.You probably know that famous Mickey Mouse short from Fantasia where Mickey puts on the sorcerer’s cap and makes the brooms do the work for him but they go out of control. When he tries to smash the enchanted brooms they multiply and it becomes chaotic. Well, the music in that animated segment and the plot of that story were both inspired by the poem The Sorcerer’s apprentice by Johann Von Goethe, the author of Faust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorcerer%27s_Apprentice The poem is about a sorcerer’s apprentice who does precisely as Mickey does in the animated segment. 

And yet none of the Disney-tie-in story books or even the live action Sorcerer’s Apprentice movie starring Nicolas Cage (which has the broom sequence) none of them credit Goethe.   I tried to argue with IMDB that Goethe should be credited as the source of the plot of Sorcerer’s apprentice as the 2010 film credits inspiration from the animated short and the animated short credits Goethe, but for some reason they wouldn’t accept it. To me it’s as bad as not giving Mary Shelley credit for The Frankenstein monster just because you’re using the story very loosely. The entire plot of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice short story was by Goethe, not Walt Disney. The irony is if you watch Fantasia, Walt Disney, himself, introduces the segment by mentioning Goethe’s poem.   Walt Disney was a big Goethe fan.  Parts of the Night on Bald Mountain short and most of Walt Disney’s medieval German village imagery in his animation came from the 1926 silent film adaptation of Faust. But after Fantasia, when Walt Disney credited Goethe, it’s like the Disney Corporation consciously decided to forget that the plot of the story was from an eighteenth century poem and Goethe hasn’t been credited for it since.Disney went out of their way to let people mistakenly think The Sorcerer’s Apprentice was somehow an original idea created for Mickey Mouse.When people think of “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” now they think of Mickey Mouse in a wizard hat.  And they don’t realize it’s a nearly three-hundred-year-old poem.  And it’s a shame. I happen to love Goethe. End of rant.

[excelsian]

The original poem? Thats one of the coolest poems you get to learn in german class, especially when the teacher tell you to turn it into a song or """"rap""" (saying it real fast with the implication of a rythm). amazing Poem

This came to me in a dream last night:

Frosty the snowman is a Golem, right?

Given that he's animated with Christmas cheer or w/e I don't think hes a golem.

[corainne]

The German cover and blurb are out, and they are once again providing more information than the English ones do

Ein stürmischer Tag, ein totes Schaf, eine Menge Magie – Peter Grant is back!

Der Fund eines toten Schafs mag in Schottland nicht sehr überraschend sein, aber dennoch deutet sehr viel an dieser Schaf-Geschichte auf magische Beteiligung hin. Und so beschließt Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, sich die Sache mal genauer anzuschauen. Sein inzwischen schon recht erfahrener »Zauberlehrling« Peter Grant macht sich ebenfalls auf ins stürmische Schottland.

Doch als Vater von zweijährigen Zwillingen kann man schlecht allein reisen, also kommen alle mit: die Kinder, Beverley und zu allem Überfluss Peters Mutter, die sich als Babysitterin andient. Nach einer Erholungsreise klingt das nicht und prompt wartet in Schottland noch weit mehr als nur ein totes Schaf auf Peter ...

Translation:

Title: The Mermaids of Aberdeen

A stormy day, a dead sheep, a lot of magic - Peter Grant is back!

The discovery of a dead sheep might not be very surprising in Scotland, but still much of this sheep affair points towards magical involvement. And so Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale decides to take a closer look. His by now rather experienced "wizard apprentice" Peter Grant also sets off for stormy Scotland.

But as a father of two-year old twins Peter can hardly travel on his own, so everyone is coming along: the children, Beverley, and to make matters worse, Peter’s mother, offering herself as babysitter. It doesn’t sound like a relaxing trip and there’s a lot worse awaiting Peter in Scotland...

[wojakgallery]

Title/Name: Mickey Mouse in The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Fantasia) Known As: Fantasia is a 1940 American animated musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney Productions, with story direction by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer and production supervision by Walt Disney and Ben Sharpsteen. It consists of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski, seven of which are performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas, based on Goethe's 1797 poem "Der Zauberlehrling", features Mickey Mouse, the young apprentice of the sorcerer Yen Sid, who attempts some of his master's magic tricks but does not know how to control them. Country: USA Wojak Series:  Soyjak (Variant) Soyjak image by: Unknown Fantasia image edit by: Wojak Gallery Main Tag: Mickey Mouse Wojak

[princesssarisa]

What is Märchenperlen? Do you all find these fairy tale movies online? Do they have English subtitles?? I’ve been wanting to expand the movies I watch, but I’m a little overwhelmed and not sure where to start.

Do you have any advice?

I do recommend watching Märchenperlen. They're unique and inventive fairy tale adaptations, but still with a classic fairy tale feeling, just right for the Christmas season they were produced for.

You can find several installments – mostly the more recent ones – on the website of ZDF, the German network that produced the series. Here's the link.

If you use the Google Translate option to translate the website into English, and then select the option for subtitles at the bottom of the screen, it will show those subtitles in English.

As for the other installments, they can be found on YouTube and elsewhere, though usually without subtitles.

Here's the complete list of installments. The ones I've highlighted are the ones available on the ZDF website with the option of English subtitles.

Rotkäppchen (Little Red Riding Hood) (2005)

Hänsel & Gretel (2006)

Rumpelstilzchen (Rumpelstiltskin) (2007)

Dornröschen (Sleeping Beauty) (2008)

Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren (The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs) (2009)

Aschenputtel (Cinderella) (2010)

Der Eisenhans (Iron Hans) (2011)

Die Schöne und das Biest (Beauty and the Beast) (2012)

Die sechs Schwäne (The Six Swans) (2012)

Die goldene Ganz (The Golden Goose) (2013)

Das kalte Herz (The Cold Heart) (2014)

Die Schneekönigin (The Snow Queen) (2014)

Die weiße Schlange (The White Snake) (2015)

Rübezahls Schatz (Rübezahl's Treasure) (2017)

Der Zauberlehrling (The Sorcerer's Apprentice) (2017)

Der süße Brei (Sweet Porridge) (2018)

Schneewittchen und der Zauber der Zwerge (Snow White and the Magic of the Dwarfs) (2019)

Die Hexenprinzessin (The Witch Princess) (2020)

Zwerg Nase (Dwarf Nose) (2021)

Das Märchen vom Frosch und der goldenen Kugel (The Tale of the Frog and the Golden Ball) (2022)

Rapunzel und die Rükkehr der Falken (Rapunzel and the Return of the Falcon) (2023)

Dornröschen und der Fluch der siebten Fee (Sleeping Beauty and the Curse of the Seventh Fairy) (2024)

[ich-bin-der-baer]

Random German Vocabulary (97)

die Abwärtsspirale -- downward spiral der Docht (pl. die Dochte) -- wick die Nebelschwaden (pl.) -- wisps of fog der Zauberlehrling -- sorcerer's apprentice

besänftigen -- to soothe; to calm knarzen -- to creak (jemanden) schmähen -- to malign (someone) verunglücken -- to have an accident

absolviert -- successfully completed evolutionär -- evolutionary frappierend -- striking; remarkable gerechtfertigt -- justified

mit knapper Not -- narrowly; barely zwischen Tür und Angel -- in passing (das) ehrenamtliches Engagement -- volunteer work hoher Besuch -- distinguished guest

[astraea802]

My surprising personal connection to The Sorcerer's Apprentice

So, my followers know me for writing fanfic based in part on The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010)....

Which in turn is based on "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" Fantasia short (1940)...

Which is turn was based on The Sorcerer's Apprentice symphonic poem by Paul Dukas (1897)...

Which in turn was based on the Johann Wolfgang van Goethe poem "Der Zauberlehrling" (1797).

Right? Right.

Well, what I didn't know until today was that Goethe was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and later spent two years in Sicily.

I have great-grandparents from both those places. I don't have much info on my family past great-great grandparents, but some distant branches of my family likely spent generations there.

So I don't know, it's possible that distant relatives of mine interacted with the person who created the work that later inspired the work I'm now writing about, over 200 years later. A writer that travelled from Germany to Sicily, a story that travelled from Germany to America (via France).

I don't know, it's fun to think about, however much it's highlighted by conjecture and not fact.

[imaginationstimulation]

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Illustration of Der Zauberlehrling. From: German book, "Goethe's Werke", 1882, drawing by Ferdinand Barth (Künstler)

"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (German: "Der Zauberlehrling") is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe written in 1797. The poem is a ballad in 14 stanzas.

Story

The poem begins as an old sorcerer departs his workshop, leaving his apprentice with chores to perform. Tired of fetching water by pail, the apprentice enchants a broom to do the work for him, using magic in which he is not fully trained. The floor is soon awash with water, and the apprentice realizes that he cannot stop the broom because he does not know the magic required to do so.

The apprentice splits the broom in two with an axe, but each piece becomes a whole broom that takes up a pail and continues fetching water, now at twice the speed. At this increased pace, the entire room quickly begins to flood. When all seems lost, the old sorcerer returns and quickly breaks the spell. The poem concludes with the old sorcerer's statement that only a master should invoke powerful spirits.

[verschwoerer]

US-Präsident Donald Trump musste kapitulieren. Ausgerechnet vor den von ihm geliebten «Märkten».

US-Präsident Donald Trump hat seine Eröffnungsschlacht der zweiten Amtszeit verloren. Kolossal.

Sein 90-tägiges Zoll-Moratorium ist das Eingeständnis, dass er sich total verschätzt hat. Die Tafel mit den Kingsize-Strafzöllen, die Coolness rund um den Aktien-Crash, das Gebärden als römischer Cäsar: Alles nur Bluff. Enttarnt durch die Crowd.

Die Investoren-Crowd. Sie geriet in Panik: Rezession, Handelskrieg, Inflation – nix wie weg hier. Grosse Player schmissen ihre Aktien auf den Markt, Apple, UBS, der ganze SMI verloren wie im Covid-Exodus.

Nach der Ankündigung des Moratoriums ging es schnurstracks in die Gegenrichtung. In Japan schoss der Nikkei um 9 Prozent hoch. Die US-Börsen kannten schon in der Nacht kein Halten mehr. Die Anleger wittern eine Once-in-a-Lifetime-Kaufchance.

Trump brach wegen der Zinsen ein. «Der Obligationenmarkt ist verzwickt. Ich habe mir die Sache angeschaut … den Leuten wurde ein bisschen mulmig», sagte er bei der Ankündigung seines Zoll-Moratoriums.

Die bekannte Financial-Times-Analystin Gillian Tett sieht China als «den Elefanten im Raum»: «Das Risiko, dass sich der Handelskrieg zwischen den USA und China ausweitet und Peking dazu veranlasst, sich aus Dollar-Anlagen zurückzuziehen.»

Wer gibt dem hoch defizitären US-Staat noch Geld? Wenn nicht die Chinesen: Wer sonst? Niemand will noch mehr US-Schulden im Portefeuille.

Gleichzeitig machten die verrückten Zölle eine weltweite Rezession wahrscheinlich; die Aktien drohten, ins Bodenlose zu fallen.

Grosse der Finanzwelt, allen voran Jamie Dimon und Bill Ackman, machten Trump Anfang Woche klar, was er mit seinem Zoll-Krieg angerichtet hat: Playing with the world.

Jetzt ist Trump, der noch übers Wochenende von «Medizin» schwafelte, die es manchmal brauche, wenn der Patient zu krank sei, eingeknickt. Effektiv hatte er der Welt Gift verabreicht. Die Medizin wäre jetzt vom Fed nötig geworden.

Dass die Finanzwelt ein Kartenhaus ist – da hat Trump schon recht mit seinem Hinweis auf eine schwere Krankheit. Nur war seine Chemo mit Bestrahlung kombiniert mit 100-Grad-Sauna und türkischem Bad der absolute Killer zu einem Zeitpunkt, als alles ruhig war; zumindest oberflächlich.

Der US-Präsident ist damit als Wirtschafts-Zauberlehrling entlarvt, der die Welt als sein Puppenhaus sieht, in dem er herumfuchteln kann, wie es ihm gerade passt. Den Meister gezeigt haben ihm ausgerechnet die von Trump geliebten «Märkte».

Der 47. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten hat nicht nur seine Glaubwürdigkeit verloren. Sondern er steht da als das, was er nie, nie, nie sein wollte: als Loser. https://www.infosperber.ch/wirtschaft/trump-verliert-zoll-poker-nun-steht-er-als-loser-da/

[fernsehfunk-berlin]

Meisterwerke der Poesie - Der Handschuh von Friedrich Schiller

Wer kennt dieses Gedicht nicht. Zu Schulzeiten hatte man die Wahl zwischen Goethes "Zauberlehrling" und Schillers "Handschuh". In jedem Falle sind es beide Meisterwerke der Poesie.