The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

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Seidel, Heinrich

Seidel, Heinrich (1842–1906),
much loved German writer of children's stories and songs. He is best known for his novels on the Biedermeier idyll of the eponymous Leberecht Hühnchen (1882–90). Influenced by Robert Reinick and Hans Christian Andersen, he wrote his first fairy tale ‘Schmetterlingskönigin Wieglinde’ (‘Wieglinde, Queen of the Butterflies’) in 1864. Although didactic‐moral tales, the exquisite stories in his two‐volume collection Wintermärchen (Winter Tales, 1885) are also entertaining and have been published in various collections since 1945: Zitrinchen und andere Märchen (Citronella and Other Fairy Tales, 1958, 1969) and Das Zauberklavier (The Magic Piano, 1959).

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