Editing Struwwelpeter (section)

==Media influences==
[[File:Warmhalteteller Suppenkaspar Berlin SlgKiJu.jpg|thumb|right|''Struwwelpeter'' Soup rim bowl featuring the story of fidgety Phillip and on the edge the story of the Soup-Kaspar]]

===Literature===
English author [[Edward Harold Begbie]]'s first published book, ''The Political Struwwelpeter'' (1898), is of British politics, with the [[Royal Arms of England|British Lion]] is as Struwwelpeter, "bedraggled, with long, uncut claws."<ref>Sherefkin, Jack. [https://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/05/15/influence-struwwelpeter "The Influence of Struwwelpeter,"] New York Public Library website (15 May 2013).</ref>

[[W. H. Auden]] refers to the Scissor-Man in his 1930 poem "The Witnesses" (also known as "The Two"):
{{blockquote|And now with sudden swift emergence<br />Come the women in dark glasses, the humpbacked surgeons<br />And the Scissor Man.}}

[[Adolf Hitler]] was parodied as a ''Struwwelpeter'' caricature in 1941 in a book called ''Struwwelhitler'', published in Britain under the pseudonym [[Dr. Schrecklichkeit]] (Dr. Horrors).<ref name="Hoffman entry"/>

The "Story of Soup-Kaspar" is parodied in [[Astrid Lindgren]]'s ''[[Pippi Longstocking]]'' (1945), with a tall story about a Chinese boy named Peter who refuses to eat a swallow's nest served to him by his father, and dies of starvation five months later.

English illustrator [[Charles Folkard]]'s imaginative study "A Nonsense Miscellany," published in 1956 in [[Roger Lancelyn Green]]'s anthology ''The Book of Nonsense, by Many Authors'', is a seaside scene that incorporated [[Baron Munchausen]], ''Struwwelpeter'', and a variety of characters from the works of [[Lewis Carroll]] and [[Edward Lear]].<ref>Dalby, Richard (1991), ''The Golden Age of Children's Book Illustration'', Gallery Books, p. 111. {{ISBN|0-8317-3910-X}}</ref>

[[Jamie Rix]] said that the book inspired him to create ''[[Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids]]'' when his publisher asked him to write more short stories about rude children.<ref name="creatives">{{cite web |title=Honeycomb Animation: The Grizzly Creatives |date=6 April 2011 |url=https://grizzlytales.blogspot.com/2011/04/gruesome-creatives.html |publisher=[[Blogspot]] |access-date=20 November 2019}}</ref> His mother had given him the book as a child and the stories gave him nightmares.<ref name="creatives"/> Rix wanted to create a similar series of books for his children's generation.<ref name="creatives"/>

''Der Fall Struwwelpeter'' ("The Struwwelpeter Case"), 1989, by Jörg M. Günther is a satirical treatment in which the various misdeeds in the story - both by the protagonists and their surroundings - are analyzed via the regulations of the German [[Strafgesetzbuch]].

The [[Jasper Fforde]] fantasy/mystery novel ''[[The Fourth Bear]]'' (Hodder & Stoughton, 2006) opens with a police [[sting operation]] by the Nursery Crime Division to arrest the Scissorman.

===Comics===
[[File:DPAG 2009 Heinrich Hoffmann.jpg|thumb|right|Stamp with two Struwwelpeter characters, Hans Guck-in-die Luft and Ludwig from "Die Geschichte mit den schwarzen Buben", issued on Hoffmann's 200th birthday]]

German cartoonist [[F. K. Waechter]]'s ''Anti-Struwwwelpeter'' (1970) is a parody of ''Der Struwwelpeter''.<ref name="Hoffman entry"/>

Comic book writer [[Grant Morrison]] references "Die Geschichte vom Daumenlutscher" in the first story arc of their ''[[Doom Patrol]]'' run with the recurring line, "The door flew open, in he ran / The great, long, red-legged scissorman."<ref>Morrison, Grant and Richard Case. “Crawling from the Wreckage, Part 2: Cautionary Tales, ” ''Doom Patrol'' Vol. 2, #20 (Vertigo/DC Comics, March, 1989).</ref> Doom Patrol member [[Dorothy Spinner]], who has the ability to bring imaginary beings to life, considers among her imaginary friends the characters Flying Robert (a ghost baby balloon thing) and The Inky Boys.

The ''[[2000 AD (comics)|2000 AD]]'' strip ''[[London Falling]]'' (June–July 2006), by [[Simon Spurrier]] and [[Lee Garbett]], explores bogeymen from English folklore and mythology wreaking havoc in a modern-day setting. Two of the characters, Peter Struwwel and The Tailor, are taken from ''Der Struwwelpeter''.

In the [[Wildstorm Comics]] series [[Top 10 (comics)|''Top 10'']], one of the officers in the precinct is called [[List of Top 10 characters#Officer Peter .22Shock-headed Pete.22 Cheney|Shock-Headed Pete]], ostensibly in reference to his electrical powers.

===Film and TV===
In a 1991 edition of the [[Thames Television]] detective series ''[[Van der Valk]]'', entitled "Doctor Hoffman's Children," the detective, played by [[Barry Foster (actor)|Barry Foster]], solves a series of murders after finding the book in the bedroom of his house, when his wife relates the tale of the scissorman to their granddaughter. The murders were all done in the style of events in the book.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRXTOwssal0 "Doctor Hoffman's Children,"] ''Van Der Valk'' season 4 episode 1 (1991), where the book is used to solve the murders.</ref>

Brief references are made to the book in the film ''[[Woman in Gold (film)|Woman in Gold]]'' (2015), when the central character reminisces about her youth in [[Vienna]] during the [[Anschluss]].

''[[The Office (U.S. TV series)|The Office]]'' references the book in Season 2, Episode 18: "[[Take Your Daughter to Work Day (The Office)|Take Your Daughter to Work Day]]" (2006). [[Dwight Schrute]] reads ''The story of Johnny head-in-the-air'' and ''The story of the thumb sucker''  to the children, but is interrupted by a horrified [[Michael Scott (The Office)|Michael Scott]].

''[[Family Guy]]'' references the "Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb" in a cutaway gag in "[[Business Guy]],"<ref name="Hoffman entry"/> the ninth episode in the eighth season, produced in 2009.

In ''[[Doctor Who]]'' Season 10 Episode 3 "[[Thin Ice (Doctor Who episode)|Thin Ice]]" (2017), The Doctor reads part of "The Story of the Thumb-Sucker" to the children of 1814 London.

===Music===
German band [[Rammstein]] included the song "Hilf Mir" "(Help Me)" on their album ''[[Rosenrot]]'' (2005) <ref name="Hoffman entry"/>
It is about a child whose parents are not at home. She discovers matches and sets herself on fire and burns completely. 
In the story, the girl's name is Pauline.

[[XTC]] were influenced by "The Story of the Thumb-Sucker" when they wrote "Scissor Man".<ref>[https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/hoffmann_dr_heinrich.htm "Hoffman entry"], ''Lambiek Comiclopedia''. Accessed 29 October 2017.</ref> from 1979's ''[[Drums and Wires]]''.

The British post-punk band [[Shock Headed Peters]], formed in 1982, took their name from the story.

American post-punk band [[Slovenly (band)|Slovenly]] used the popular cover illustration of Struwwelpeter for the cover of their 1987 album, [[Riposte (album)|Riposte]], on [[SST Records]].