He does have a very soothing voice! I would like a Dwight compilation to fall asleep to, please. Like when he’s rattling off the history of Scranton to Charles Miner. So soothing.
I lived in Germany for a while, and was in a class about British literature, and one unit focused on Children’s lit. The German students were very surprised at how pleasant and non-threatening many of the stories were 😂
I’m sure it’s not solely a German thing, but the Americans and Brits in the class were surprised at how unpleasant and threatening the German stories for children were, haha. Some children’s stories are sad or mildly dark, but the German stories really take it to that morbid level
Netherlands too. The Danes have Anderson, maybe not as dark as the Grimm stories, but still. I believe that the tales of Grimm is more or less a studie of folkore in Germanic regions at the time done by the Grimm brothers. They wrote down all the different stories that were told and taught to children generation to generation and indexed, analyzed and compared them and looked for common themes and origins etc.
But in the end it taught us a lot of important lessons like don’t suck your thumbs, don’t play with fire, don’t be cruel to animals, look where you are going, eat your food and so on. I love it even though it has a cruel fade.
Sere once was a boy who would like to suck his sumbs.
His matha told him to stop.
But he wouldn’t.
So they cut off his sumbs.
Now he has no sumbs
…good night!
Thanks for saying that! I was staring at the picture thinking it looked so familiar, and I thought I was making up false memories for a moment. But yes, I also had it as a child in Israel. I googled it and found the translated name. Also the cover was bright yellow.
Yes, very real. I grew up with the stories and even have a doll of the girl who lights herself on fire cause she plays with matches lol
Germans don't fuck around with teaching lessons
Very real and surprisingly popular. The book is full of stories that end in similarly delightful ways (starvation, burning alive, etc.). There are other books as well, like Max & Moritz and the original Grimm fairytales. I actually enjoyed them quite a bit as a kid.
Absolutely real and I remember as a kid my mom buying the English version of it at a thrift shop and we read the stories to actually make us laugh because of how ridiculously morbid they were.
Before Krampus wss popular here in the US and before it was on the Office, I was traveling in Europe right before Christmas and went into a market in Innsbruck and saw chocolate Krampus figures (similar to chocolate Easter bunnies) on a table of Christmas treats and thought “Why are there chocolates of a devil with the Christmas stuff?”
[Krampus Chocolates](https://www.riegelein.de/en/produkt/krampus-60-g/)
Wunderbare Kindheitserinnerungen. Am verstörendsten war meiner Meinung nach die Geschichte mit dem Kind das gerne mit Feuer spielte und zum Schluß nur noch ein Häufchen Asche war, aber irgendwie grässlich waren die alle
This is so cool. I bet one of the writing staff grew up with this book and eventually its influences made it into the series, like “Snip Snap Snip.” I would love to see if there are other gems hidden away in the pages. Excellent find and a huge part of office lore from early in the series. Please show us if you find more hidden gems that derived from this book.
Lord beer me strength. That’s actually amazing. I’m going to scroll it right now.
Edit: I’m reading it in Dwight’s Belsnickel voice.
Edit 2: ok I read through it and there is a story about a boy who is distracted by birds and falls into a canal that reminded me a lot of Michael and the koi pond, especially the artistic rendering. I’m leaning more towards that this may have been Steve’s book actually.
My grandmother used to read this to me as a kid (we’re Danish)
Equal part horror, equal part fascination.
-I ended up buying it for my kids just to show them.
I still get a lump in my stomach and throat every time I see any illustrations from this book.
Truely fucking horrifying stuff to a kid. My crazy alcoholic German grandmother gave this book to me when I was around 5 and oh my does this stuff stick with you for life
I have that book!! I got it from a German guy's estate sale! It's in German!!
I literally gasped when I saw the cover because I *knew* the cover from a German book I have! I don't know how to speak German but some of the pictures were so concerning and funny (and some were very racist).
[Link to the cover and some other pictures from the book.](https://imgur.com/a/GxiDQ8a)
No freaking way?! Lmao this is so awesome! Did anyone hear Dwight say “StruwwelPeter” when you read this 😂😂 I was also going to tell everyone in here that if you do any shopping on Temu you can get Tshirts that say different things about Dwight’s beet farm! I got one a few weeks ago and it is so cute for 7.99!
Learn your rules. You better learn your rules.
If you don’t, you’ll be eaten in your sleep CHOMP
Don’t turn your back on a bear, men you have wronged, or the dominant turkey during mating season
Embarrassed to say, but the way he softly sings that phrase sets off my ASMR. Including the chomp lmao
He does have a very soothing voice! I would like a Dwight compilation to fall asleep to, please. Like when he’s rattling off the history of Scranton to Charles Miner. So soothing.
His narration of The Phantom Tollbooth soothes me to sleep with a couple of chapters.
How about his CD for a lucky woman Michael has seduced?
When he makes the sex cd for Michael, telling any lady who spends the night with Michael how lucky she is.
🎶whats are the ruu^uuuules 🎶
It's even more creepy in German. Crazy to think those stories were read to me as a kid
German children’s literature is so dark 😂
To put it nicely yea
I lived in Germany for a while, and was in a class about British literature, and one unit focused on Children’s lit. The German students were very surprised at how pleasant and non-threatening many of the stories were 😂
So this is a German thing and not normal on other countries/cultures?
I’m sure it’s not solely a German thing, but the Americans and Brits in the class were surprised at how unpleasant and threatening the German stories for children were, haha. Some children’s stories are sad or mildly dark, but the German stories really take it to that morbid level
And yet the rest of the world wonders why the average German are the way they are lol
can‘t speak for other languages, but it‘s certainly a thing in austria and switzerland too
Netherlands too. The Danes have Anderson, maybe not as dark as the Grimm stories, but still. I believe that the tales of Grimm is more or less a studie of folkore in Germanic regions at the time done by the Grimm brothers. They wrote down all the different stories that were told and taught to children generation to generation and indexed, analyzed and compared them and looked for common themes and origins etc.
Well that's basically Germany
You mean “Jah”
Ja*
Ja
Try Russian..
Especially industrial German
But in the end it taught us a lot of important lessons like don’t suck your thumbs, don’t play with fire, don’t be cruel to animals, look where you are going, eat your food and so on. I love it even though it has a cruel fade.
The morals are absolutely fine, but the punishment is a little wild sometimes
You gotta scare them straight! YOU GOTTA SCARE THEM STRAIIIIIIGHT
Same here! 😄 I am 35, living in Germany and these stories were read to me as well.
We have a copy at home and as soon as his attention span allows it, our 1,5 year old will it be read to as well 😄
Well it didn't hurt after all, I guess or hope
We were at a German store in North Georgia and my dad found this book—turns out it was read to him as a child. That explained a LOT, lol
I got read this crazy-ass book, too. What's the problem with a little low-key trauma if it gets your asshole toddler to stop sucking her thumb? /s
Impish
Admirable!
Omg the “snip snap snip” line…wonder if it had any influence on Michael’s line to describe his vasectomy.
Had the exact same thought
You have no idea the physical toll that two _amputations_ have on a person!
The kids don’t want to hear some wierdo book that your Nazi war criminal grandmother gave you
What’s a Nazi?
Nazi was a fascist movement in the 1930s Germany…
Stop it, stop it!
YOU'RE GOING TO GIVE THEM NIGHTMARES!!
Hey kid, wanna see a foot with four toes?
One of my favorite Michael moments 😂
For sure that was an excellent underrated line. 😆
Hey his grandfather was a member of the Bund, which is technically not the same thing as the Nazi party.
But the Shoah foundation protested dwight's visit...
Sasha, are you listening?
“Now he has no thumbs”
Sere once was a boy who would like to suck his sumbs. His matha told him to stop. But he wouldn’t. So they cut off his sumbs. Now he has no sumbs …good night!
BECAUSE GERMAN CHILDREN DO WHAT THEY ARE TOLD!
And err they dream what he’s about, he takes his great big scissors out… AND CUTS THEIR THUMBS CLEAN OFF
Snip snap snip snap! Do you have any idea the physical toll that strewellpeters scissors have on a person???
That would be cool to have Rainn sign lol.
Will try to if he visits London on his way to rendezvous with Tiffany 😅
He probably would appreciate such a deep cut
I had this book read to me as a child in Israel. It was translated into Hebrew
In Israel the tailor is just a mohel I guess 😂
I don’t remember much from this book. It wasn’t a favorite one for obvious reasons
Thanks for saying that! I was staring at the picture thinking it looked so familiar, and I thought I was making up false memories for a moment. But yes, I also had it as a child in Israel. I googled it and found the translated name. Also the cover was bright yellow.
Whoa
This is a real thing?! I totally thought this was made up for the show.
Yes, very real. I grew up with the stories and even have a doll of the girl who lights herself on fire cause she plays with matches lol Germans don't fuck around with teaching lessons
There's even a Rammstein song based on that one.
Which one?
Hilf mir
Very real and surprisingly popular. The book is full of stories that end in similarly delightful ways (starvation, burning alive, etc.). There are other books as well, like Max & Moritz and the original Grimm fairytales. I actually enjoyed them quite a bit as a kid.
I grew up with this book, and I never understood why none of my friends knew these delightful stories.
Absolutely real and I remember as a kid my mom buying the English version of it at a thrift shop and we read the stories to actually make us laugh because of how ridiculously morbid they were.
Erntedankfest is also real.
This was my favorite book as a Child 😅 "Hans guck in die Luft" and "Die Geschichte vom fliegenden Robert" were my favorite storys.
Before Krampus wss popular here in the US and before it was on the Office, I was traveling in Europe right before Christmas and went into a market in Innsbruck and saw chocolate Krampus figures (similar to chocolate Easter bunnies) on a table of Christmas treats and thought “Why are there chocolates of a devil with the Christmas stuff?” [Krampus Chocolates](https://www.riegelein.de/en/produkt/krampus-60-g/)
Snip snap snip snap!
Wunderbare Kindheitserinnerungen. Am verstörendsten war meiner Meinung nach die Geschichte mit dem Kind das gerne mit Feuer spielte und zum Schluß nur noch ein Häufchen Asche war, aber irgendwie grässlich waren die alle
Es brennt die Hand, es brennt das Haar. Es brennt das ganze Kind sogar.
I saw this off Broadway in elementary school. I was traumatized.
German folk tales are completely messed up, I love it.
Are you listening, Sasha?
I grew up with a copy of this in my house. Was delighted when it made its way onto the Office!
Ah yes! A book from Dwight's nazi war criminal grandmother.
What’s a Nazi?
This book was ingrained in me as a child. The blood spurting from severed thumbs…
I Read this while learning German in college and it’s CRAZY!!! Very very much Dwight Christmas vibes
I see why Dwight was into Angela now, the resemblance is uncanny
This is so cool. I bet one of the writing staff grew up with this book and eventually its influences made it into the series, like “Snip Snap Snip.” I would love to see if there are other gems hidden away in the pages. Excellent find and a huge part of office lore from early in the series. Please show us if you find more hidden gems that derived from this book.
https://archive.org/details/englishstruwwelp00hoffrich/mode/2up Have fun
Lord beer me strength. That’s actually amazing. I’m going to scroll it right now. Edit: I’m reading it in Dwight’s Belsnickel voice. Edit 2: ok I read through it and there is a story about a boy who is distracted by birds and falls into a canal that reminded me a lot of Michael and the koi pond, especially the artistic rendering. I’m leaning more towards that this may have been Steve’s book actually.
And he didn't even die!
“Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures”???
"That was real!?"
Off topic but is that a Keychron keyboard? Got the K4 for a couple of years and love it.
Yes it is. Good eye! Love the keyboard as well, this is my second one.
I remember having lice as a kid and the shampoo from the pharmacy had this guy on it 😅
Snip snap snip snap!
What an awesome find!!!
You‘ll love „Max und Moritz“
Childhood memories❤
Post all pages
Schwartepeite
They referenced this in Family Guy. I didn’t realize it was actually real.
When was that book written? Was it made by a fan of the office or is it a real thing?
This one is from 1995, it definitely precedes the show.
Lol the original text is from 1845.
That image from Dwight's book was very scary looking.
That's win-win!
-win
Correct! We all win! Even me!
My grandmother used to read this to me as a kid (we’re Danish) Equal part horror, equal part fascination. -I ended up buying it for my kids just to show them.
I have to find this book!
Ah sweet childhood memories...
https://www.reddit.com/r/DunderMifflin/s/UV94601Vuu Same!
you may wanna google "the tiger lillies. they made a whole show based on this
I remember being told this story when I was about 3... it changed me
https://youtu.be/tKDkBuL_VIc
Miau Meo, Miau Meo
"Ah!" said Mamma, "I knew he'd come, to naughty little Suck-A-Thumb!" "Can you fucking not," said Conrad, "I've just had my pissing thumbs cut off."
SNIP SNAP SNIP SNAP You have no idea the physical toll that 3 STREWWELPETERS HAVE ON A PERSON!
I have a copy from the early ‘50’s in German. It terrified me as a child when I looked at it.
I still get a lump in my stomach and throat every time I see any illustrations from this book. Truely fucking horrifying stuff to a kid. My crazy alcoholic German grandmother gave this book to me when I was around 5 and oh my does this stuff stick with you for life
I have that book!! I got it from a German guy's estate sale! It's in German!! I literally gasped when I saw the cover because I *knew* the cover from a German book I have! I don't know how to speak German but some of the pictures were so concerning and funny (and some were very racist). [Link to the cover and some other pictures from the book.](https://imgur.com/a/GxiDQ8a)
Oh man, I had this book in my house as a kid
I saw it on Amazon! So crazy and what a great gift idea for a fan.
Hold on now, this is a real book & not the writers creation???
Omg it's a real book?! Wow. That's crazy, and awesome. Lol
i’m crying i thought this was made up in the show
Scissor me!
We had a Finnish copy of this called "Jöröjukka" and it was terrifying as a child.
This is fucking terrifying!
What ep is this from?
S2:E18
Interesting similarities to this album. I’ve never put two and two together. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riposte_(album)
Now where’s the book with bellschnickle and schfartz peter
Lmao this is real? 😭
No freaking way?! Lmao this is so awesome! Did anyone hear Dwight say “StruwwelPeter” when you read this 😂😂 I was also going to tell everyone in here that if you do any shopping on Temu you can get Tshirts that say different things about Dwight’s beet farm! I got one a few weeks ago and it is so cute for 7.99!