Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales

[3][4] Like the technical periodical Fabula it is published by the Walter de Gruyter GmbH publishing house[5] with working premises at the Georg-August University of Göttingen and as a project of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences.

The forerunner of this work was the Handwörterbuch des deutschen Märchens (Handbook of German Fairy Tales), of which only two volumes were published.

[7] The Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales provides an overview in the following areas, as relevant to folk narrative research:[3][8] The project was begun by Kurt Ranke in the early 1960s with a small staff, and the first fascicle appeared in 1975.

Other editors included Elfriede Moser-Rath (1963-1987),[9] Max Lüthi (1973-1984), Rudolf Schenda (1973-1992), Lutz Rohrich (1973-2006), and Regina Bendix (2005-2006).

Technical editors included Doris Boden, Ulrich Marzolph, Ulrike-Christine Sander, and Christine Shojaei Kawan.