2. structure
1. Who are the brothers Grimm?
2. their life
3. their works
4. popular works
5. game
6. appreciations
3. Who are the brothers
Grimm?
- Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm
(1786–1859)
- German academics, linguists, cultural
researchers, lexicographers and
authors
- collected and published folklore
4. Their lifes
• grown up in a big family by their
parents and 4 other sibilings
• were sent to their aunt in Kassel to
become lawyers
• Jakob finished studies in law at the
Philipps-University in Magdeburg
→ following year also Wilhelm
5. - examined the historical
development of German literature
- not only in german ; also in English,
Scottish and Irish
-workplaces:Skandinavia,Finnland,
the Nethterlands,Spain and Serbia.
7. Their works
- after university 1806: collecting
mostly fairytales and sagas by Achim von Arnim
and Clemens Brentano
- weren't written by Jakob and
Wilhelm; just summarized and slightly
revised
- also important people supported the fairytale
collection e.g. Dorothea Viehmann
18. • one part of their scientific estate is located in the
Berlin State Library
• another part is kept in the Hessian State Archive
Marburg
• art objects, furniture, etc. are in a permanent
exhibition at the Museum Haldensleben
• Letters of Jacob and Wilhelm and some works by
their brother are located in the Brothers Grimm
Museum Kassel
