Christmas Fairy Tales / Christmas Stories

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Which Christmas fairy tales / Christmas stories / Christmas movies do you like best? Which characters do you like?

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Last year, I watched a lovely Christmas movie with the kids. It was an animated film called “Klaus.” It was absolutely wonderful and told the story of Santa Claus in a very touching, whimsical, and funny way. ;)

Otherwise, I like to watch “3 Nuts for Cinderella” during the Christmas season :D.

Best regards,
Sonja

well, I hate Three Wishes for Cinderella like the plague; I didn’t like the movie even back when it came out, can’t explain why, but I have such a strong aversion to this movie, for whatever reason
I really like Ebenezer, Scrooged, but my favorite fairy tale is The Little Match Girl. It’s not exactly a Christmas fairy tale, but it is a winter tale, even if it’s a sad one.

Best, Inge

I don’t really have any specific preferences—it always depends on my mood at the time. But
*The Ghosts I Summoned* is always a good choice, no question. And I really like *We Are No Angels*, that old movie with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Ustinov.

Back in the day—way, way back—the Advent season always included the four-part series from the Augsburger Puppenkiste; it was always so great, even if the stories weren’t necessarily Christmas-themed.

Yessss, the Augsburger Puppenkiste was actually part of the Advent season back in the day :-)

We listen to “Weihnachten mit Bockwurst” by Fredrik Vahle on repeat (on cassette!).
I’ve always liked almost all of the children’s songs, and somehow this wonderful Christmas story just crept its way into our lives, so we often listen to it while baking cookies...

I always loved *The Three Nuts for Cinderella* until, at some point, this strange hype surrounding it started, and so the movie was kind of “taken away” from me.

Dickens’ Christmas story is, of course, a classic, but here at home we actually prefer the Disney version—though Scrooge McDuck is a good choice too ;-)

And then, of course, “It’s a Wonderful Life” with Jimmy Stewart, and on Christmas Eve, Dean Martin sings the classic Christmas carols (classic to me, anyway).

I also think Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is great! Although as a kid, I always thought the Disney version was the original and that everything else was just a copy 😅

For me personally, Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York are also part of Christmas! They were totally “my thing.” They came out when I was a kid and aired every year at Christmas.

Otherwise, I generally love Christmas movies. Whether they’re movies about clueless parents scrambling to get last-minute gifts or sappy Christmas rom-coms.
But that’s the great thing about November—the streaming services are flooded with them 😊

...and while this isn’t a story, it’s still worth mentioning:
The pre-Christmas season just isn’t the same without listening to Rolf Zukowski’s Christmas carols. It’s best to do so while baking “in the Christmas bakery” 😊

Tina, you’re sooo right😂
Our “little one” is already 17 years old, but Rolf Zuckowski is still a part of our lives!

Yes, Rolf Zuckowski and his Christmas CDs—I still love them too, ever since my son was little, and he’s already 46 now. My two grandchildren listen to him, too.

For me, Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is a classic too. I practically know it by heart—but it’s always lovely to revisit.
Home Alone is always a good choice, too.
I also still enjoy watching Little Lord Fauntleroy.

It’s funny—I just can’t get into Dickens’s Christmas story at all.
Instead, I always enjoy watching “Christmas at the Hoppenstedts” by Loriot.

And the Christmas episode of “Neues aus Büttenwarder” is a must, too.
(As you can see, I prefer things that aren’t too sappy.)

I have a lovely story to share with you: when we were kids—there were five of us siblings—our father would always organize a fairy tale afternoon for us kids on the Sundays during Advent. My father had a slide projector, and I think there were 8 fairy tales on slides: *Hans in Luck*, *Puss in Boots*, *Snow White*, *Snow White and Rose Red*, *Sleeping Beauty*, *Hansel and Gretel*, *The Frog Prince*, and *Frau Holle*. The narration for the fairy tales was on a record. Every Sunday, we’d get to see two fairy tales; it was so quiet in the living room you could have heard a pin drop—we sat there so quietly on the sofa, mesmerized by the screen. That’s one of my fondest childhood memories of Christmas. My own children and my siblings’ children also got to experience these fairy-tale afternoons with Grandpa, and they still rave about them today. The fairy tales are still around today—my oldest brother got them.

Back then, these beautiful old fairy tales hadn’t yet been picked apart by some self-important intellectuals and declared unsuitable for children—I never understood that anyway; apparently, they would have needed afternoons like that as children, too.

Love, Inge

So Christmas fairy tale movies are a must, whether they’re live-action or computer-animated. “Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella” is a classic—it has to be there.
Every now and then, “Dickens’ A Christmas Carol,” or those Barbie movies like “The Nutcracker.”
And of course, all the GDR fairy tale movies, as well as “Father Frost” (Russian fairy tale movies), “The Snow Queen” (both animated and live-action versions). I’d also like to watch “The 12 Months” again. It’s wonderful.
I also like the movie “The Polar Express.” And those English movies like “A Christmas Carol,” etc.
The variety is just sooooo huge.

Have fun watching Christmas fairy tales!

My traditional Christmas movie: “Hogfather”—based on a Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett. In it, Death plays the role of Discworld’s “Santa Claus,” the Snow Father.

Otherwise, around this time of year, there might be more Christmas episodes of shows like Doctor Who or The Simpsons. So, nothing quite as classic as many of the titles mentioned so far.

Have you put together your entertainment lineup for Christmas?