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    Artist

  • Prym

    • Title

  • Nesthäkchen's Needle kit

    • Other Title(s)

  • Nesthäkchen's Nadelmappe

  • Physical Description

    1 needlekit : metal, cardboard ; 3 1/2" x 5" ; 8 cm x 12 1/2 cm +, + cardboard sleeve

  • Date

    circa 2022

  • Place of Publication

    Stolberg

  • Summary

    Set of 29 sewing and darning needles, in varying sizes, and a needle threading tool. These are stored in a cardboard sleeve that has an illustration of three young children, one of whom is the main character from German children's literature series, Nesthäkchen. There are other graphics on the cardboard sleeve of the needlekit, including stylized illustrations of children's toys, animals, and a sewing basket.

  • Subject

    Tailoring; Dressmaking materials; Sewing equipment and supplies; Children in art; Children's literature

  • Genre

    Objects

  • Medium

    Tools and equipment

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Biographical/Historical Information

“Nesthäkchen” is a famous and beloved German children's book series by Else Ury. The Nesthäkchen series follows Annemarie Braun, the golden-haired daughter of a Berlin physician, from childhood to old age in ten volumes. The books are a classic in the genre of the Backfischroman, which trace the development of girls from lively and sometimes rebellious children to dutiful but still vivacious housewives and mothers. Annemarie is six years old when we meet her in Nesthäkchen and her Dolls (1913) and 11 when the First World War Breaks out in Nesthäkchen and the World War (1917). Endearingly heedless and inept at some of the domestic skills expected of women, she goes on to study medicine in later books but stops her studies to settle down and have a family. In the final book in the series, Nesthäkchen with Gray Hair (1925), she is a grandmother celebrating her golden wedding anniversary. The books remained popular even after World War II, when revised editions were published (book four was removed from the series by Allied sensors who believed it glorified Germany’s role in WWI). A German mini-series was even produced in 1983. Few of the millions of Nesthäkchen readers realized that Else Ury was murdered in Auschwitz in 1943. That changed abruptly in 1992, when Marianne Brentzel published a biography of Ury entitled Nesthäkchen in the Concentration Camp

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Prym: Nesthäkchen's Needle kit, Leo Baeck Institute, 2022.09.