Om genstanden
16 af H.C. Andersens eventyr på Bärndütsch. Oversat af Christian Schmid, Cosmos Verlag, Bern Schweiz 2005. Signeret af oversætteren, der også har skrevet forordet. 160 sider. ISBN 3-305-00407-X. Bärndütsch er en schweizisk-tysk dialekt talt i Bern. Gave fra den schweiziske ambassadør Florence Tinguely Mattli på foranledning af den serbiske ambassadør Jasmina Mitrović-Marić, der tog initiativ til "International H.C. Andersen Fairy Tale Library". Overrakt museet på den serbiske ambassade den 16. maj 2023. I et følgebrev til museet skrev ambassadøren:
"The Embassy of Switzerland in Denmark is pleased to convey a translation of H.C. Andersen's "The Princess and the Pea and other fairy tales" to the Intemational Fairy Tale Library of the Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Odense. These fairy tales have been translated into the Swiss German dialect of Bern. Bärndütsch, with the title "D Prinzässin uf
em Årbsli u angeri Määrli" by Christian Schmid, who is generously donating a copy of his translation.
"To travel is to live" H.C. Andersen wrote in "The Story of My Life” in 1855, which reflects Andersen’s twelve journeys to Switzerland. Sometimes he was just passing through, and sometimes Switzerland was his actual destination. He never dedicated a travel to Switzerland, instead he let his impressions influence his complete work in another way.
"The beautiful mountainous country”, as he often called Switzerland, remains one of his important destinations.
The capital city of Bern was one of the many cities that H.C. Andersen visited in Switzerland. We believe that he would have liked to hear “D Prinzässin uf em Ärbsli" in Bärndütsch, as this shows how all children, young and old, wherever they live, have made his tales their own."
