Look, here he is ... And not just him, but (almost) all his friends are on stage with Struwwelpeter. They stumble, run, swim, wriggle, fall and fly. There is a lot of movement when Philipp simply cannot sit still at the table, Paulinchen plays with the matches or Soup-Kaspar doesn't eat his soup. Here, strict rules meet children with a spirit of discovery and a strong will, and sometimes you wonder where the parents actually are. The book Der Struwwelpeter was a forerunner of the comic strip and is bursting with movement, onomatopoeia, exaggeration and a drasticness that has nothing to do with realism. No matter how scary it gets, how many thumbs are cut off, how many plates, bottles and loaves of bread end up on the floor, there are theatrical moments that inspire laughter, horror, reflection and empathy.
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