GPS June 2020
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Baron von Münchhausen
Design: Julia Warbanow, Berlin
Theme: Münchhausen’s Ride on a Cannonball, Lithographie August von Wille
Value: 0,80 EUR
Size: Width 34.89 mm; Height 34.89 mm
Issue Date: 07 May 2020
One of the most widely read German children’s and folk books
are the stories about the untruthful Baron Munchausen. The historical
role model of the literary title character was Hieronymus Carl Friedrich
Freiherr von Münchhausen (1720-1797), who was endowed with an
astonishing storytelling talent and exuberant fabulous enthusiasm, but
did not himself write his stories on paper. The special postage stamp
“300th Anniversary of the Birth of Baron von Munchausen” is now
appearing on the occasion of his milestone birthday. The most famous
anecdotes are probably those of the ride on the cannonball, how the
baron pulled himself and his horse out of the swamp, and how he was
lifted up into the air by ducks that he had tied with bacon tied to strings.
The well over a hundred comic stories attributed to Munchausen arise
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