Ostmeier’s courses on fairy tales, fantasy and the uncanny tackle the moves from utopian to anti-utopian tales and have inspired several essays on Michael Ende’s and Cornelia Funke’s fantasy texts, the film “Ever After” and the link between the Grimms’ concepts of nature and the marvelous. 

• “Rafik Schami’s Tales about Fairy Tales” in Bd. 2, Nr. 30 of Istanbul University’s electronic journal “Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur“.
• “Frogs and Salamanders as Agents of Romanticisms”
• “The Feminine Beast: Anti-moral Morality in Early 20th-Century Literature“