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Hermann Kletke (14 March 1813 – 2 May 1886) was a German poet, novelist, and journalist.

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5-612: The Magic Swan is a European fairy tale collected by Hermann Kletke . Andrew Lang included it in The Green Fairy Book . Two older brothers abused the youngest son , Peter. An old woman advised him to run away. When he did, she told him he should go to a certain tree, where he would find a man asleep and a swan tied to a tree; he should take the swan without waking the man, and everyone would fall in love with its plumage, but when they touched it, he could say "Swan, hold fast" and they would be prisoners. With this, he could make

10-579: A princess who never laughed to laugh. He collected a great string of people, and the princess laughed at the sight. The king offered him a choice of land or gold, and he took the land. Then he trapped the princess with the swan and won her as his wife, but the swan flew off. Hermann Kletke Kletke is primarily a children's writer; his songs are full of warm feeling, heartfelt simplicity and naive humor, Including Kinderlieder and Die Kinderwelt . His fairy tales for youth are poetic and instructive, for example Almanach deutscher Volksmärchen . Kletke

15-524: The Vossische Zeitung . He remained at the paper until his death, succeeded as editor-in-chief by Friedrich Stephany. Kletke died in Berlin on 2 May 1886, at age 73. Kletke is primarily a children's writer; his songs are full of warm feeling, heartfelt simplicity and naive humor, including Kinderlieder and Die Kinderwelt . His fairy tales for youth are poetic and instructive. His poem "Der Sandmann"

20-526: The German playwright Arthur Müller, philologist Ernest Wahner, and ancient historian Walter Otto . In 1836 while in Breslau , Kletke's poetry was published for the first time, his collection Gedichte . However, because of ruler Klemens von Metternich 's restrictive censorship on published literature, one year later he decided to move to Berlin. Later he travelled to Vienna and then Berlin where he began working for

25-519: Was born in Breslau , Prussia (now Wrocław, Poland), on 13 March 1803. His experience with writing poetry and children's tales began during his schooling, although he would go onto graduate with a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Breslau . In 1832, Kletke was registered as a part of the Corps Borussia Breslau  [ de ] , an educational fraternity with members such as

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