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02/10/2022

02/10/2022

09/05/2022

The old man was all alone. One day he got tired of this, so he went and got some flour. He kneaded it into a great lump of dough, and made it into three pieces. Then he moulded it into three dolls, like beautiful girls. Then he dressed them: one in red, one in blue, and one in white. He also had a pot of rosemary. In the morning before he went out the old man, who was proud of his daughters, took the one in the white dress, and set her at the window, and put the pot of rosemary by her, and said to her: ‘My dear, in case you should feel lonely now that I am going away, you can sit at the window and amuse yourself by looking at the people going by. Mind you behave yourself, and don’t talk to anyone...'

My Lady Sea is a folk tale from Greece told by Evi Papanagiotou. You can hear the whole story on www.eswareinmalnicht.com

Photo (c) Maryam Mohammadi

18/03/2022

The Moon Fairy
(c) Maryam Mohammadi

An emperor of the house of Tang once sat drinking wine with two magicians on a mid-autumn night. One of them took a bamboo pole and threw it into the air; it turned into a sky bridge, and now the three of them climbed up to the moon together. There they saw a great castle, on which was written: The vast halls of the clear cold...
The Moon Fairy was told by Xiaoli Cui. You can hear the full story in English or German on https://www.eswareinmalnicht.com/stories/

15/03/2022

Simorgh
(c) Maryam Mohammadi
https://www.eswareinmalnicht.com/stories/

11/03/2022

The Unstoppable Grey Old Man is a folk tale from Mongolia told to us by Altantuya Bat-Ochir.

Once there was, and once there wasn’t. In an earlier time, there lived an old man who was known as the ‘Unstoppable Grey Old Man’. This old man had seven grey sheep, one grey horse that could fly, and one grey horse that couldn’t fly.
The Unstoppable Grey Old Man had set up his owoochoj – his yurt tent – on the Grey Hill of the Agreement, and there he lived. He would also graze his seven grey sheep on the Grey Hill of the Agreement. He always tied his flying grey horse to the right side of the yurt, and his non-flying grey horse to the left side of the yurt…
Listen to the full story in English or German on https://www.eswareinmalnicht.com/stories/the-unstoppable-grey-old-man/
Photo (c) Maryam Mohammadi

10/03/2022

Es war einmal, es einmal war nicht.. lautet der traditionelle Anfang von Volksmärchen aus vielen Ländern entlang der Seidenstraße.

Website unter www.eswareinmalnicht.com

Ein Foto- und Audioprojekt, das Volksmärchen sammelt, die von Frauen aus den Ländern entlang der alten Seidenstraße nach Österreich gebracht wurden.

Hören Sie online sechs Volksmärchen an, die auf Deutsch oder Englisch erzählt werden, jeweils mit einem Foto von Maryam Mohammadi.

Es war einmal, es war einmal nicht ist eine Online-Ausstellung und Audio-Erfahrung, die als wachsende Sammlung von Volksmärchen konzipiert ist, die von Frauen mit Migrationshintergrund aus den Ländern entlang der alten Seidenstraße – die sich von Japan bis Italien erstreckt – erzählt und dur...

10/03/2022

Once there was, and once there wasn’t
…is the traditional opening line of folk tales from many countries along the Silk Road.

Website www.eswareinmalnicht.com

A photo and audio project collecting folk tales brought to Austria by women from the countries along the ancient Silk Road.

Listen online to six folk tales told in German or English, each with a photo by Maryam Mohammadi.

Es war einmal, es war einmal nicht ist eine Online-Ausstellung und Audio-Erfahrung, die als wachsende Sammlung von Volksmärchen konzipiert ist, die von Frauen mit Migrationshintergrund aus den Ländern entlang der alten Seidenstraße – die sich von Japan bis Italien erstreckt – erzählt und dur...