"Mamma had scarcely turn'd her back,
The thumb was in, alack! Alack!
The door flew open, in he ran,
The great, long, red-legg'd scissor-man."
- Heinrich Hoffmann, "Little Suck-a-Thumb"
🎨 Heinrich Hoffmann

In Hoffmann's nursery rhymes, children are cruelly punished for their bad habits.

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"Mamma had scarcely turn'd her back,
The thumb was in, alack! Alack!

The door flew open, in he ran,
The great, long, red-legged scissor-man.
Oh! Children, see! The tailor's come
And caught our little Suck-a-Thumb."

- Heinrich Hoffmann, "Little Suck-a-Thumb"
🎨 Heinrich Hoffmann

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The #Tigerlillies: Shock-Headed Peter, a junk opera.

Based on the cautionary tales of #HeinrichHoffmann in Der Struwwelpeter, in which various naughty children come to a sticky end.

#music #cabaret

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IryK6ZiQEmo

@MMagirius,

danke, das ist NOCH EINMAL so schön, wenn man die Originalgeschichte vom Fliegenden Robert aus #HeinrichHoffmann|s #Struwwelpeter kennt!

Ich hab’ als Kind oft davon geträumt, derart fliegen zu können 😄