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If the modernity of the German Empire is emphasized nowadays, as can be read several times in WELT, then that concerns the left-liberal bourgeoisie a lot because it is unconsciously still strongly influenced by that era: its organic stores, its feminists, its gay activists can be theirs Tracing traditions back to around 1900, and his children have names like Emma and Emil, Otto and Mathilda, which were fashionable 120 years ago.

At Easter in particular, citizens like to read to these children a book that wasn't published until 1924, but even then nostalgically evoked the past.

For example, the compulsory school prayer, to which the pupils of the “Bunny School” rise as a matter of course in the morning, was abolished by decree in Prussia and Saxony in November 1918.

Even when the mother asks her rabbit children before going to school whether they have a blackboard and sponge with them, the readers of the twenties understood that the book no longer takes place in their presence.

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The draftsman Fritz Koch-Gotha and the copywriter Albert Sixtus were two extraordinary masters who were successful with many other works.

Sixtus chose the trochaic four-lifters for the narrative and thus placed himself in a certain tradition.

This measure, with four two-syllable verse feet emphasized on the first syllable, was particularly appreciated by the romantics.

Every educated person immediately hears the sound of Heinrich Heine's great verses “Germany.

A winter fairy tale ”and“ Atta Troll ”.

Since Heine, the ethos of the verse has not only influenced the romantic evocation of the past and the loneliness of the forest, but also irony.

The school world that Sixtus describes contains - apart from patriarchy and corporal punishment - many things that today's educated citizens appreciate: Classes take place in the open;

a dream for parents who send their offspring to forest kindergartens.

There is a school garden and great emphasis is placed on musical education.

In class, the children are informed about the threats that threaten them - they do not fall for the mimicry of the fox, who, assuming a false identity, approaches them like some villain on the Internet.

And of course all rabbits are vegans.

Ecologically correct rabbit shaman

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Four years ago there was an animated film based on motifs from the bunny school.

Due to the zeitgeist, two female adult main roles were written into it.

The foxes are led by a kind of red-haired Ma Dalton with a bunch of idiot sons.

And the teacher was joined by an ecologically correct rabbit shaman as the long-eared second leading figure.

It wasn't as bad as it sounds, and it fitted.

The shaman would have been welcome on Monte Verità, where the dropouts and life reformers gathered around 1900.

In a sense, only the other side of the empire not considered by Sixtus was brought in retrospectively.