Grimm-Portal (portal for digitized Grimmiana)

Research and access to digitized written and visual materials on the life and work of the Brothers Grimm

Researchers, teaching staff and students at the University of Kassel; general public

Kassel University Library

The Grimm Portal offers access to mainly digitized written material from and about the lives of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, including their manuscript copies of the Children's and Household Tales, letters from and to the brothers, photographs and drawings. The material comes from the collections of the UB/LMB Kassel and from various cooperation partners (City of Kassel, Hessian State Archives Marburg, Marburg University Library).

ORKA, German Digital Library, Europeana

• Research and view digitized Grimmiana
• Downloading digitized material
• Metadata display

• A literary scholar wants to study letters by the Brothers Grimm and needs digital images of the original documents.

Internet access and current web browser

• Open to the public, no registration required: https://www.grimm-portal.de/
• Registration required to use the Citizen Science module (process similar to ORKA, see FAQs for ORKA: https://www.grimm-portal.de/viewer/faq-zu-citizen-science/)

No training courses are currently offered.

• Public domain mark

• Citation of source required for use