Film screening "Aschenputtel (Cinderella)"

Aschenputtel © ARD Degeto

The previous week saw our talk on fairy tales and how they were adapted to the region the Grimm brothers collected them from, and this week, on September 24, we screened a recent German TV adaption of Aschenputtel (Cinderella). In this version, Aschenputtel is a feisty young woman stuck in a situation going from bad to worse with a malicious stepmother and a jealous stepsister. Not losing her courage, though, Aschenputtel makes the impossible possible, attends the prince's ball and thereby finds a way out of her miserable situation. After the film, the dozen people in the audience indulged in story time, and Anna Bauer read out one of the versions of Aschenputtel in German, as recorded by the Grimm brothers. The screening of the film was made possible thanks to the support of the Goethe-Institut.

Auckland Goethe Society