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History of Grimm Fairy Tales The Grimm Fairy Tales are a famous collection of German folk stories collected by the two brothers Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm. Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin, Snow White and Rapunzel are the among the most well known of their collections. Between 1807 and 1814, the Grimms visited the people who lived and worked on farms and in villages around Kassel, Germany. They published the tales to preserve for Germany a work created by its people because they feared that fewer and fewer people would tell them accurately as time went on. The fairy tales collectively became a classic of world literature, giving new direction to writing for children and drew attention to the long neglected riches of oral traditions. In contrast to the extravagant fantasy of the Romantic school's poetical fairy tales which were popular at the time, the 200 stories originally printed in the "Kinder-und-Hausmarchen" aimed at conveying the soul, imagination, and beliefs of people through the centuries - or at a genuine reproduction of the teller's words and ways. The collection enjoyed wide distribution in Germany due to the very readable form they were written in and eventually were translated into 70 different languages. To this day the tales remain the earliest "scientific" collection of folktales. |
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