In the 1850s, Franz Xaver von Schönwerth traveled high and low across northern Bavaria to record fairy tales. Most of his work had been thought lost until 30 boxes of manuscripts were discovered in a German municipal archive. Louie Saenz will be speaking to co-editor of THE TURNIP PRINCESS And Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales, Maria Tatar, chair of the folklore and mythology program at Harvard.
Aired August 29, 2015.
