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Dr. Silvie Lang awarded the Lutz Röhrich Prize 2025
Dr. Silvie Lang was awarded the prize for her dissertation "Die Märchen aus dem Nachlass Franz Xaver Schönwerths. Source criticism, genre typology, history of tradition and motifs" theLutz Röhrich Prize 2025 from the Walter Kahn Fairy Tale Foundation (Munich).
The study is dedicated to the largely unnoticed fairy tales collected by Franz Xaver Schönwerth (1810-1886) in the Upper Palatinate around the middle of the 19th century. The corpus, most of which is still only available in manuscript form, comprises almost 500 fairy tale texts, which have been analyzed and classified in this dissertation at the highest level of textual philology. Silvie Lang's study has now brought to light for the first time the historical and mythological peculiarities - for example in comparison to the more central German collections of the Brothers Grimm -, the religiousness as a central motif, the interplay between orality and writing and the resulting peculiarity of this Upper German fairy tale collection. The elaborate transcription of the fairy tale writings in the appendix makes the texts available to researchers for further work.
The Lutz Röhrich Prize for folkloristic, historical and comparative narrative research of the Walter Kahn Fairy Tale Foundation (Munich) in the Association of German Foundations for the Promotion of Young Researchers has been awarded annually since 1994 in the amount of EUR 2,500. More information about the prize can be found here.
Further information on Dr. Silvie Lang and her research interests can be found here.