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Lecture at the Lossehaus: Criminalistic methods for researching Grimm's fairy tales
Today, fairy tales are usually only understood as stories for children or as untrue stories. However, from a scientific point of view, fairy tales are very interesting small literary forms that can have a long and difficult to explain, partly oral, partly written history of transmission. Even the Brothers Grimm's "Children's and Household Tales", the world's best-known collection of fairy tales, is still full of mysteries and many questions about its origins have still not been answered.
In the lecture "Criminalistic methods for researching the Grimm's fairy tales" by Prof. Dr. Holger Ehrhardt and his employees, current research questions will be discussed and unusual methods will be shown on how to track down the origin of these texts. Prof. Dr. Holger Ehrhardt has been conducting research at the Institute of German Studies at the University of Kassel since 2012 as head of the "Works and Impact of the Brothers Grimm" department. As part of his research activities, he has made a number of discoveries about the famous collection of the Brothers Grimm, for which he was awarded the European Fairy Tale Prize in 2023.
This event is organized as part of a #WisskommLab at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg für Apokalyptische und Postapokalyptische Studien (CAPAS) at Heidelberg University and is part of the Heimspiel Wissenschaft project.
Heimspiel Wissenschaft brings scientists from rural regions back to their home towns. There they talk about what, how and why they do research and what this has to do with all of our lives. In this way, science and research become tangible in the pub around the corner, in the community center, in the sports clubhouse or on the village square. Heimspiel Wissenschaft is a BMBF-funded joint project of the German Rectors' Conference (HRK), the science communication agency con gressa and the #WisskommLab at Heidelberg University.