The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

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Kaffeterkreis

Kaffeterkreis (Coffee Circle),
initially an exclusively female literary salon established by Gisela, Armgart, and Maximilia von Arnim in Berlin in 1843. The circle produced numerous fairy tales and fantasy plays. The members were daughters of Berlin's intellectual and political aristocracy and bourgeoisie. Their anonymously submitted art works and literary and musical compositions appeared in final form in the Kaffeterzeitung (Coffee Circle News). The group also often wrote and performed fairy‐tale plays to the likes of the Prussian monarch, the Prussian Minister of Justice, Eduard Mörike, Hans Christian Andersen, and the Prussian crown prince. Plays featured strong female characters like Frau Holle, Loreley, Undine, and Melusine.

The Kaffeterzeitung was lost...

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