Rotkäppchen

Little Red Riding Hood

Brüder Grimm

Es war einmal ein kleines Mädchen, das hatte jeder lieb, der es kannte. Am allerliebsten aber hatte es seine Großmutter, die wusste gar nicht, was sie dem Kind alles geben sollte. Einmal schenkte sie ihm ein Käppchen aus rotem Samt, und weil ihm das so gut stand und es nichts anderes mehr tragen wollte, hieß es nur das Rotkäppchen.

One day her mother tells her to visit her grandmother in the forest with a cake and a bottle of wine to make her grandmother happy, because she is ill. Little Red Riding Hood should be very careful and has to stay on the path. She promises to do that.

Little Red Riding Hood walks into the forest and meets a wolf, but she does not know wolves are dangerous. The wolf asks her where she wants to go and what she has taken with her. She answers she wants to visit her grandmother to bring her some cake and wine.

On her way, accompanied by the wolf, she picks some flowers. Then the wolf goes to her grandmother’s house and knocks on the door. Pretending to be Little Red Riding Hood, he is allowed to go into the house. Then the wolf eats the grandmother and puts her clothes on.

After she has finished picking the flowers, Little Red Riding Hood goes to her grandmother's house. There she finds her grandmother much changed with big ears, big eyes, a big mouth and her big hands. The wolf jumps out of bed and eats Little Red Riding Hood, too, falling asleep afterwards.

A hunter passing the house notices the wolf's snoring. He enters the house and sees the wolf sleeping in the bed. He takes a pair of scissors and cuts the wolf open. Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother jump out of the belly alive and happy.

The hunter fills the wolf's belly with stones so when the wolf wakes up he could not run away, falls to the ground and dies. The hunter skins the wolf, the grandmother eats the cake and drinks the wine. Little Red Riding Hood thinks that she will not leave the path anymore.

The End

Acknowledgements:

Ilustrations: from „Mein erstes Märchenbuch: Die schönsten

Märchen der Brüder Grimm [Gebundene Ausgabe]“ Arena

Verlag. 2001. Illustrations by Silvio Neuendorf