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„Every era has a Sleeping Beauty. I have eliminated the prince in mine. Through the rose thorns, my Sleeping Beauty finds her own path out.“—Ursula Reuter Christiansen
The legend of Sleeping Beauty has fascinated generations for centuries and has seen many different challenges for its main character. In Nordic mythology, the Valkyrie Bryhnhild disobeyed the chief god Odin and was punished with his Sleeping Thorn. In this Saga of the Volsungs, it was the famous dragon slayer Sigurd who had to fight his way through a wall of fire to get to her.
Much later, in the Brothers Grimm’s fairytale, …