AKiCiF: German Language Question

[jeriendhal]

This is mostly directed at ankewehner and mjkj but if anyone else has suggestions I'd like to hear them.

I'm looking for a German translation of the phrase "Ambition Tales". Which for some reason when I run it through a couple of online translators, comes back as "Ambition Tales". O_o

Basic concept is a literary genre almost exclusively found in Gherwart, the Foxen German expy from my Red Vixen Adventures. It describes stories designed to help reinforce personal ambition for males [1], amounting to a cross between Horatio Alger stories and old Soviet style socialist realism propaganda along the lines of "A Boy and His Tractor", where a male sets an ambitious (but realistic!) goal for himself and struggles to reach it.

[1] Poor boys are almost always overshadowed by their sisters you see... ^_^

Comments

[ankewehner.livejournal.com]

Ambitionsgeschichten or Ehrgeizgeschichten. For a more low-key version you could go with "Strebsamkeitsgeschichten". At least according to my connotations, that'd be more "work hard and do the best I can" while the others would be more "I want to be famous/important/the best yxz"

(For the singular form, remove the final n)

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I think "Strebsamkeitsgeschichten" is what I'm looking for. There's a lot connotation with self-improvement and finishing a big project, rather than fame and fortune.

Thanks, Anke!

[mjkj.livejournal.com]

Sorry I am late. I just did not check my emails during the holidays and am just about to catch up :D

But Anke said it nicely.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Cool.

BTW Did you get my email about your Kickstarter reward?