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Gebrüder Grimm und der Märchenstraße

Gebrüder Grimm und der Märchenstraße. Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm Born in Hanau, Germany (1785 and 1786). Germany. The Museum Bruder Grimm Haus, is the half- timbered house in Steinau where the Grimms lived a very happy childhood. Steinau.

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Gebrüder Grimm und der Märchenstraße

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  1. Gebrüder Grimm und der Märchenstraße

  2. Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm Born in Hanau, Germany (1785 and 1786)

  3. Germany

  4. The Museum Bruder Grimm Haus, is the half- timbered house in Steinau where the Grimms lived a very happy childhood.

  5. Steinau

  6. Their father died and they moved to Kassel, then on to Marburg where they studied law (and first became interested in fairy tales), then back to Kassel where they became librarians.

  7. "Maybe it was time to set down these tales in writing, for those who should be their custodians are steadily diminishing in number." Preface to the 1812 edition of the Children's and Household Tales

  8. 1812: publish Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children' and Household Tales) • 1814. Volume two of Kinder- und Hausmärchen • Final version contains 200 stories plus 10 "Children's Legends." • It is destined to become the best known and most influential book ever created in the German language.

  9. NOT original stories, but a collection of oral stories • Some are from Perrault’s collection • One of their most important sources was Dorothea Viehmann. As an innkeeper’s daughter, she heard many folk tales and fairy tales recounted by the travellers staying at her father's inn which she shared with the brothers. • Today, her birthplace is still a brewery and hostelry, and story hours are regularly held here during the summer months.

  10. Following the Fairy Tale Road The area between the brother’s childhood home (Hanau) and their adult home (Kassel) is full of woods and castles. Known as Rotkäppchenland, or “Little Red Cap” country. In this region, clothes indicated social status: • Old people wore purple and black • Young married couples green • and a little girl from this area would have worn her hair tucked into a little red cap…

  11. Little Red Riding Hood region with modern day “Little Red Cap”

  12. Lauterbach, home of the gnomes

  13. Alsfeld,known for half-timbered houses

  14. Göttingen and the little goose girl, Gänseliesel

  15. Sababurg, the Sleeping Beauty castle

  16. Sababurg Castle Gnome

  17. Sleeping Beauty Castle

  18. Trendleburgwhere Rapunzel let down her golden hair

  19. Cinderella's Castle in Polle, Germany

  20. Snow White and her seven dwarves

  21. Pied PiperofHamelin

  22. The Devil’s Bridge in Hameln

  23. Musicians of Bremen

  24. Brother’s graves in Berlin

  25. National Geographic Grimms’ Fairy Tales Interactive Site

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