Bauhaus stamps from Berlin, East Germany and Germany

On Thursday I bought the new German stamps.

This is one stamp pair I bought:

100 years Bauhaus (issued 04-04-2019)

I also bought the FDC of this stamp.

Recently I also bought some other Bauhaus related stamps for my collection. One stamp is from Berlin (issued 13-02-1986) and shows Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the Bauhaus' third director, and the other issue is from East Germany (issued 27-05-1980) and shows six Bauhaus-style buildings. If you want to know more about the Bauhaus check out my history blog. There I will publish a Bauhaus post soon.

The Brothers Grimm and their Fairy Tales

On Thursday the new Welfare stamps will be issued and lucky for me they feature, like the last years, my favourite theme, fairy tales. The series of Welfare stamps has the Fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm as theme. Hansel and Gretel and the Sleeping Beauty were already featured, this year the stamps will show motives about the Little Red Riding Hood.

In my collection I already have many stamps about the Brothers Grimm and their fairy tales, so it is now time to show some of them.

The Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, were born in Hanau. Jacob Grimm was born in 1785, Wilhelm Grimm in 1786. They are especially known for their collection of fairy tales, although they published also other works like the German dictionary. Wilhelm Grimm died in 1859, Jacob Grimm in 1863.

On 10th January 1985 a stamp was issued about the 200th birthday of Jacob Grimm. It shows Jacob Grimm together with his brother Wilhelm and a part of the German dictionary.

The Brothers Grimm did not invented the fairy tales on their own. They collected them from different sources. Three persons who helped them with their collection were Clemens Brentano, Achim von Arnim and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff.
In my collection I have three stamps featuring the three persons. They were issued on 17th August 1978 in the Federal Republic of Germany, on 15th January 1981 in Berlin and on 27th December 2003 in the Federal Republic of Germany.

The first collection of the Children’s and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm was published in 1812. It was the first systematic compilation and the first scientific documentation of the entire European and Oriental fairy tale tradition. Today the fairy tales were translated in over 160 languages and are one of the most well-known and most widely distributed books worldwide of German cultural history. Since 2005 they are a part of the Memory of the World Programme of the UNESCO.
On 14th June 2012 a stamp was issued about the 200th anniversary of the first publication of the Children’s and Household Tales. In my collection I have a mint block of four, five stamps issued in a coil, the stamps with the First Day Postmarks from Berlin and Bonn and the First Day Sheet. The stamp shows an opened book and various fairy tale characters, the First Day Postmarks show the signatures of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.

It is not the first time that the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are shown on the Welfare stamps. Already the Welfare stamps issued between 1959 and 1967 had the fairy tales as theme.

The Star Money and Brothers Grimm (issued 01-10-1959)

Little Red Riding Hood (issued 01-10-1960)

Hansel and Gretel (issued 02-10-1961)

Snow White (issued 10-10-1962)

The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids (issued 23-09-1963)

Sleeping Beauty (issued 06-10-1964)

Cinderella (issued 06-10-1965)

The Frog Prince (issued 05-10-1966)

Mother Hulda (issued 03-10-1967)

Wilhelm Busch

Yesterday I bought the new German stamps.

This is one of them:

150 years Max and Moritz (issued 02-04-2015)

Max and Moritz is an illustrated story by the German author Wilhelm Busch and was first published in 1865. The stamp shows an illustration of the third prank out of seven.
The works of Wilhelm Busch were often shown on German stamp. The oldest Wilhelm Busch I have in collection were issued on 9th January 1958 and remembered Wilhelm Busch's 50th day of death. The left stamp shows a self portrait of Wilhelm Busch and the right stamp an illustration of the sixth prank.

The next Wilhelm Busch stamp was issued on 15th April 1982 and celebrated his 150th birthday. The stamp shows the Pious Helene. In my collection I have both, a mint stamp and one cancelled with the First Day Special Postmark. The stamp shows an illustration of the third chapter and the postmark one from the fifth chapter.

On 19th April 1990 four stamps were issued to celebrate 125 years of Max and Moritz. The first stamp shows an illustration of Widow Bolte from the first prank, the second stamp shows the second prank, the third stamp one from the third prank and the fourth stamp the illustration of the preface.

The Teacher Lämpel was used on a stamp (issued 09-08-2001) to encourage to lifelong learning. Teacher Lämpel was featured in the fourth prank of Max and Moritz.

The latest stamps of the Federal Republic of Germany showing a character of Wilhelm Busch were issued on 14th June 2007 to celebrate Wilhelm Busch's 175 birthday. The stamps show a sequence of pictures from Hans Huckebein. The First Day Special Postmark shows again a self portrait of Wilhelm Busch.

Not only the Federal Republic of Germany showed characters of Wilhelm Busch. Switzerland featured Max and Moritz on one stamp from a Pro Juventute set about Characters from children's books (issued 26-11-1984).

The other stamps from the set show Heidi by Johanna Spyri, Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi and Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren.

The German Federal Post of Berlin issued four stamps about Max and Moritz on 19th April 1990 to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the publishing of the story. The stamps show illustrations of the fourth, sixth, seventh and fifth prank.