Are princesses nowasdays and also fairy tales "totally out"?

Abstract

The article is based on the characteristic features of a fairy tale, it deals with the form of a fairy tale as a literary and theatrical genre. Attention is paid to aspects of spectator / reader expectations and reception on the example of the fairy tale Die dicke Prinzessin by Austrian authors Martin Leutgeb and Lázsló Vavrasovszky.

Keywords

• The fairy tale genre
• a fairy tale in literature and on stage
• a fairy tale character, the expectations and experience of a child addressee
• Martin Leutgeb and László Varvasovszky: Die dicke Prinzessin.