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Grimm family estate brought to Kassel
Many art objects, paintings, drawings, photographs, porcelain, linen, silver, furniture, jewelry, clothing and books allow to tell about almost all aspects of life of the Brothers Grimm and their family museum. These objects from the estate of the Grimm family have been preserved until our time by their descendants up to the Wurf family in Haldensleben. The reasons for this were the high symbolic value that later generations attached to this family heritage, the culture of collecting cultivated in the family and, last but not least, the habitual use value of many objects.
"It is a stroke of luck for the design of a new exhibition on the Brothers Grimm with supraregional and international impact that we now have at our disposal in Kassel such diverse, multifaceted and multicolored life documents from the nuclear family of the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm," said Prof. Dr. Holger Ehrhardt, holder of the Grimm professorship at the University of Kassel.
The descendants of Wilhelm and Dortchen Grimm have resided in Haldensleben, a small town on the Mittelland Canal near Magdeburg, for more than 100 years. Since one son of the family went to the West after World War II, the remaining holdings were divided. Only in the last ten years was everything that remained of the Grimm legacy from both branches of the family reunited and - shortly before the 150th anniversary of Jacob Grimm's death - brought to Kassel.
Lord Mayor Bertram Hilgen was delighted with the culturally and historically significant estate, which is now coming to the city of Kassel and will soon be on display in the emerging Grimm World on the Weinberg.
"The collection shows that there are still new things to discover about the Grimms," Hilgen said. He thanked the Kasseler Sparkasse, Prof. Dr. Holger Ehrhardt and Dr. Berthold Friemel of Humboldt University Berlin for their successful commitment to bringing the estate to Kassel.
This was made possible by the Brüder-Grimm-Platz e.V. association. Kasseler Sparkasse supported the purchase of the Grimm family estate with a donation of 30,000 euros. "We are very pleased to contribute with our donation to support Kassel's claim as the Grimm capital," said Ingo Buchholz, Chairman of the Board of Kasseler Sparkasse. "We are looking forward to the new Grimm Museum!"
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Prof. Dr. Holger Ehrhardt
University of Kassel
FB 2 Humanities and Cultural Studies
Department of the Work and Impact of the Brothers Grimm
Tel.: 0561/804-7455