Paul the Puppeteer

Paul the Puppeteer (German: Pole Poppenspäler) is an 1874 novella by the German writer Theodor Storm. It is about a Frisian woodturner who tells the story of how he got his nickname.

An English translation by Denis Jackson was published in 2004.^[1] The story has been adapted for film multiple times.^[2]

Film adaptations

1935 – Pole Poppenspäler, directed by Curt Oertel
1944/1945 – Der Puppenspieler, directed by Alfred Braun, left unfinished
1954 – Pole Poppenspäler, directed by Arthur Pohl
1968 – Pole Poppenspäler, directed by Günther Anders
1988 – Pole Poppenspäler, directed by Guy Kubli

References

^ Paul the Puppeteer, with The Village on the Moor and Renate. OCLC 52566801. Retrieved 2016-04-24 – via WorldCat.
^ Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 445. ISBN 9783110951943.

External links

Pole Poppenspäler at Projekt Gutenberg-DE (in German)

[1] Paul the Puppeteer, with The Village on the Moor and Renate. OCLC 52566801. Retrieved 2016-04-24 – via WorldCat.

[2] Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 445. ISBN 9783110951943.

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v t e Theodor Storm
Novellas	Immensee (1849) Paul the Puppeteer (1874) Viola Tricolor (1874) Aquis Submersus (1877) The Rider on the White Horse (1888)
Fairy tales	"Der kleine Häwelmann" (1849)