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• Gebrüder Grimm
• und der Märchenstraße

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

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

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• "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

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• 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.

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• NOT original stories, but a collection of oral
  stories
• Some are from Perraults collection
• One of their most important sources was Dorothea
  Viehmann. As an innkeepers 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.

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Following the Fairy Tale Road

• The area between the brothers 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

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• Little Red Riding Hood
• region with modern day
• Little Red Cap

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Lauterbach, home of the gnomes
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Alsfeld,known for half-timbered houses
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Göttingen and the little goose girl, Gänseliesel
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Sababurg, the Sleeping Beauty castle
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Sababurg Castle Gnome
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Sleeping Beauty Castle
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Trendleburgwhere Rapunzel let down her golden
hair
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Cinderella's Castle in Polle, Germany
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Snow White and her seven dwarves
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Pied PiperofHamelin
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The Devils Bridge in Hameln
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Musicians of Bremen
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• Brothers graves in Berlin

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National Geographic Grimms Fairy Tales
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