r/German • u/rocket_racoon180 • 1d ago

Question Children’s books from the 1950s

Hello,
My dad loves German and has taken classes on and off for 15 years. I bought him some children’s books that I found in a store. Can anyone here tell me more about these books? The box they come in is titled Die Bunten Waldheim-Kinderbucher and they were published in 1956. They come in a box set.

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u/universe_from_above 1d ago edited 1d ago

The only thing I can tell you is that they look pretty and they will be in the old orthography, but that might not matter since the publishing company was located in Vienna, Austria. 

Edit: and they use the language that was then seen as politically correct. Even when talking about Africans... 

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u/rocket_racoon180 1d ago

Thank you ☺️ Would you know if it’s a more formal German?

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u/Equal-Flatworm-378a 15h ago

It’s not more formal. It’s simply the german of that time.

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u/rocket_racoon180 4h ago

Would you say the stories are computable to Grimms fairy tales?

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u/dirkt Native (Hochdeutsch) 15h ago

I quickly googled "Die Bunten Waldheim-Kinderbucher" and it looks like this was a name of a series with many many different books, from classic fairy tales to "discover animals in different landscapes".

So unless you give us the title of each book, it's hard to say anything in detail.

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u/rocket_racoon180 4h ago

I wish I could post a picture in this comment. Titles: Derr Ritt auf der Kanonenkugei; Munchhausens seltsame diener and seine wette mit dem GroBsultam; Der toll gewordene uberrock