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a n n iIn spring of 1929, the students in the Kindergarten-Hort class were required to write an extended essay onthe theme, “Do children and fairy tales belong together?”Anni worked on this assignment for several months; theessay she turned in is more than four times as long as thesummary printed here.Children and fairy tales are inseparable –one cannot beimagined without the other. Children and fairy talesbelong together in the deepest sense because the basicelement of a fairy tale is living deeds. There is nothingabstract or intellectual in them; the focus is completelyon the action of the story, and there is nothing senselessor unrelated in the plot.Unburdened by rational thought and classifying, criticizingconsciousness, primitive peoples could create anddevelop such themes. Therefore there is a naturalness,unconcern, and freshness to fairy tale characters thatseems impossible to the modern, self-conscious person.It is no longer possible for modern man to create storiesin this way; the talent of an artist is necessary nowadays.But that does not mean modern man can no longer relateto fairy tales. These stories touch on something that ishidden deep within him, beneath all the strata of rationalthought and mechanical knowledge.The search for an absolute is never finished; it stirspeople’s hearts again and again and troubles the people oftoday just as much as it did the primitive people of longago. A fairy tale, therefore, is not subject to the course oftime: it springs from the eternal question of the spiritual38
t h a l ec o l l e g eexistence of mankind, which modern man must also faceabove and beyond all the fantastic, strange, comical, andtragic elements of life.Now we come to the question: Is there a particularspiritual connection between children and fairy tales?This question can be answered with a simple “yes,” andthis “yes” must be spiritually, inwardly founded in someway, since it would be completely contrary to the natureof a child to take a merely superficial liking to something.It only remains for us to discover how and whythe strong relationship between children and fairy talesexists.The whole being of a child is life-affirming, since thechild itself is life, deeds. The child is in a constant processof making himself one with all things. He takes everythinginto himself: the natural world, humankind, thesupernatural. This inward connection with all thingsmeans that a child can only believe in the fundamentalgood of it all. “The world is good,” or “Everything categoricallyhas to be led to a good end, to a good resolution.”And that is, of course, exactly what we find againand again in every fairy tale. That’s why it says, “and theylived happily ever after.”For the child and for the fairy tale there is always a resolution,a result. The child can’t do otherwise than believeagain and again in the power that arises from becomingone with all things. It is curious that the perceptions ofan adult follow an exactly converse path. The adult seeksand struggles for fulfillment in life, but when it comesdown to it knows that he is better off not reaching the39
Page 3 and 4: Letters & Writings of Annemarie Wä
Page 6 and 7: This book is dedicated to Annemarie
Page 8 and 9: ForewordDear Reader,The writings in
Page 10 and 11: t h ef o r e w o r dAs a young woma
Page 13 and 14: 1.ChildhoodThe baby was christened
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Page 19 and 20: c h i l d h o o dpreferring romanti
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Page 23 and 24: 2.Leaving HomeIn fall of 1925, Anni
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Page 31 and 32: l e a v i n gh o m eFlame, free us
Page 33 and 34: l e a v i n gh o m eThe summer sols
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Page 41 and 42: l e a v i n gh o m eThe St. John’
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Page 45 and 46: 3.Thale CollegeAnni had entered the
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Page 59 and 60: t h a l ec o l l e g eeducating chi
Page 61 and 62: t h a l ec o l l e g eThale, May 18
Page 63 and 64: t h a l ec o l l e g eOn Whitsunday
Page 65 and 66: t h a l ec o l l e g etop to bottom
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l a s t m o n t h s i n t h a l ehu
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l a s t m o n t h s i n t h a l eTh
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6.CrossroadsAfter a summer vacation
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c r o s s r o a d sDuring the sprin
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c r o s s r o a d sknow. There coul
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c r o s s r o a d ssomething differ
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c r o s s r o a d sspoke with great
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c r o s s r o a d sMargret, who was
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c r o s s r o a d sprofession. She
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c r o s s r o a d swrote to Emi-Mar
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c r o s s r o a d sWe all feel very
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c r o s s r o a d swell-it was diff
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c r o s s r o a d smistakes and goo
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c r o s s r o a d sexperienced the
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c r o s s r o a d sexperience I had
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c r o s s r o a d sin the thought o
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c r o s s r o a d sto visited Emi-M
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c r o s s r o a d scoming, and I pa
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a t t h e s p a r h o fIn actual fa
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a t t h e s p a r h o fthe men. The
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a t t h e s p a r h o fjuniper, hea
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a t t h e s p a r h o fyes. For ins
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a t t h e s p a r h o fa clearly de
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a t t h e s p a r h o fevery man, a
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a t t h e s p a r h o fexertion. It
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a t t h e s p a r h o fmisinterpret
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8.A Fixed PointAnni’s letter was
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a f i x e d p o i n tBecause, by di
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a f i x e d p o i n twork and life
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a f i x e d p o i n teach one’s p
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a f i x e d p o i n tbehind everyth
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a f i x e d p o i n ttheir strength
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a f i x e d p o i n treally can be
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a f i x e d p o i n tdetermined thi
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a f i x e d p o i n ttwo people, an
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a f i x e d p o i n tsure-really in
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a f i x e d p o i n torder to stand
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a f i x e d p o i n tremains person
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a f i x e d p o i n ton a community
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a f i x e d p o i n tglorifying the
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a f i x e d p o i n tThe girls all
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a f i x e d p o i n tagain? How is
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a f i x e d p o i n tUniting love w
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a f i x e d p o i n tclarity and pu
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c o n s e q u e n c egenuinely chil
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c o n s e q u e n c eYou wrote abou
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c o n s e q u e n c ethe actual, pr
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c o n s e q u e n c eevident that e
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c o n s e q u e n c earound the fir
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c o n s e q u e n c eSparhof, June
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c o n s e q u e n c eLooking forwar
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c o n s e q u e n c eduties to our
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c o n s e q u e n c ecan you look o
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10.Radicalism of Surrender;Radicali
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a d i c a l i s mshe was to be acce
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a d i c a l i s mdeep foundation. W
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a d i c a l i s mWe ask you once mo
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a d i c a l i s mfaithfulness to Go
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a d i c a l i s mit to us, I beg an
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a d i c a l i s mcame here through
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a d i c a l i s mIt was often so ho
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a d i c a l i s mIn late August, An
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a d i c a l i s mreligious experien
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a d i c a l i s mmade everything so
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a d i c a l i s mhighest point of o
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a d i c a l i s mwas a twig of pine
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a d i c a l i s mit arrives in time
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a d i c a l i s mWe don’t want to
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a f t e r w o r dI was in my room i
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a f t e r w o r drepudiated Nazism.
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a f t e r w o r dNow Reinhold was t
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a f t e r w o r dof people today se
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