The German National Library in cooperation with the Institute for Children’s Book Research of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main extend a cordial invitation to leaf through children’s worlds of a present-day picture book. Stories relate in quite different ways to Struwwelpeter as original text of the modern book.

The design structures the exhibition called Struwwelpeter´s Descendants in various, perceptible and interactive spaces. On the one hand you can find the characters like in a kitchen, the bathroom or the living room, on the other hand the Wild Huntsman, Johnny Head-in-Air or the Inky Boys are located in a garden area with fencing and a big tree. An interactive stockpot tells the story Kaspar, a postcard flies away with the message of Robert and the Cruel Frederik presents his soft, innocuous and unbreakable chairs and rolling pin.

in collaboration with Sebastian Herkner, Kai Linke and Daniel Weitenauer
commissioned by Institute for Children’s Book Research of Goethe University Frankfurt and the German National Library Frankfurt