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02/08/2019 | Pressemitteilung

New details about Grimm's fairy tales

An anthology published by German scholars at the University of Kassel provides new details on the history of the transmission of Grimm's Children's and Household Tales. The book was presented to the public yesterday (February 7) at the Grimmwelt in Kassel.

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For example, Dr. Holger Ehrhardt, holder of the professorship "The Works and Impact of the Brothers Grimm" at the University of Kassel, can identify a Mecklenburg widow as the source of the fairy tale "The Wren". The Japanese Germanist Takashi Hashimoto presents a previously unknown Japanese manuscript with the fairy tale of the night fly, to which Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm refer in the volume of annotations to the Kinder- und Hausmärchen of 1822. Other contributions in the anthology deal, for example, with the modern staging of fairy tales or the Grimms' impact beyond their collection of fairy tales.

The volume brings together a series of lectures from 2016 and other essays that resulted from research collaborations in Kassel German Studies. In addition to Prof. Ehrhardt, students Johann Friedrich and Marie-Louise Lange and Christopher F. Schütz are co-editors of the book.

Holger Ehrhardt, Johann Friedrich Lange, Marie-Louise Lange, and Christopher F. Schütz (eds.): Über Nachtfliegen, Zaunkönige und Meisterdiebe. New contributions to Grimm and fairy tale research. kassel university press 2019.


Prof. Dr. Holger Ehrhardt
University of Kassel
Department of "The Works and Impact of the Brothers Grimm"
Tel.: +49 561 804 7455
E-mail: holger.ehrhardt[at]uni-kassel[dot]de