Fairy tales

Wilhelm Hauff (1802–1827) was a German Romantic writer whose name is firmly linked to the history of world literature thanks to his fairy tales. Born in Stuttgart, he studied at the University of Tübingen, worked as a tutor, and then as the editor of a Stuttgart morning newspaper. His literary life was short: in November 1827, at just twenty-five years old, he died of a fever. However, within a fe...