1. Grimms Brothers

2. Popular Work
They are among the best- known story-tellers of folk tales from Europe, and their work popularized such tales as "Rumpelstiltskin", "Snow White", "Sleeping Beauty", "Rapunzel", "Cinderella", "Hansel and Gretel", "The Frog Prince” and “Little Red Riding Hood.”

3. About the Authors…

4. Who are the Grimm Brothers?
Jacob Ludwig Grimm
Wilhelm Carl Grimm

5. Life of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Jacob (January 4, September 20, 1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (February 24, December 16, 1859), were German academics who were best known for publishing collections of folk tales and fairy tales.

6. Life of the Grimms' Brothers
They were born in a town near Frankfurt, Germany, amongst a family of nine children, six of whom survived infancy.
Their early childhood was spent in the countryside in what has been described as a "perfect" state.

7. When the eldest brother Jacob was eleven years old, their father, Philip, died and the family moved into a cramped urban residence.
Two years later, the children's grandfather also died, leaving their mother to struggle to support them in reduced circumstances.

8. Their harsh background influenced the ways in which the brothers wrote their stories.

9. Education The two brothers studied law at the University of Marburg.
They were in their early twenties when they began studying linguistics and philology.

10. Grimm's Law
Jacob began to specialize in the history and structure of the German language. The relationships between words became known as Grimm's Law.
Grimm’s law,  description of the regular correspondences in Indo-European languages formulated by Jacob Grimm in his Deutsche Grammatik (1819–37; “Germanic Grammar”); it pointed out prominent correlations between the Germanic and other Indo-European languages of Europe and western Asia. The law was a systematic and coherent formulation, well supported by examples, of patterns recognized as early as 1814 by the Danish philologist Rasmus Kristian Rask. It is important for historical linguistics because it clearly demonstrates the principle that sound change is a regular phenomenon and not a random process affecting only some words, as had been thought previously

11. Death of the Brothers
Wilhelm died in Berlin on December 16, (73).
Jacob continued work on the dictionary and related projects until his death in on September 20, (78).

13. Collecting Tales
In 1812, the Brothers published a collection of 86 German fairy tales.
They wrote a two-volume work, which included 585 German legends; these were published in 1816 and
The brothers arranged the regional legends thematically for each folktale creature, such as dwarfs, giants, monsters.

14. Their Achievements
The Grimm brothers produced a significant amount of books during their lifetime
Jacob Grimm publishes 21
Wilhelm Grimm publishes 14
Together the brothers published 8
Children's and Household Tales volume 1 and 2

15. Grimm’s Scholarly Contributions
Folklore
History
Ethnology
Religion
Jurisprudence
Lexicography
Literary Criticism

16. 4 elements of German Romanticism
Looked to the Medieval Era
Traveling
Nature
Gothic elements

17. Further More
1819 Jacob and Wilhelm receive honorary doctorates from the Marburg University
1825 Wilhelm marries Henriette Wild a former story teller, having 4 children(3 boys & 1 girl)
Jacob resides with Wilhelm and Henriette
The Grimm brothers were always inseparable

18. Fairy Tales
They’re not your average bedtime
story…

19. What is a Fairy Tale? Short stories in prose, originally for adults.
Told from a peasant perspective, quite unlike the aristocratic perspective in heroic legends.
Unlike legends, which deal with ostensibly historical events, fairy tales have vaguely medieval, undefined settings
Often set in common in exotic lands.

20. The Typical Fairy Tales…
Have no character development.
Strongly contrast “good” and “bad” characters.
Often include the use of magic and magical items.
Feature familial settings
Frequently the family is dysfunctional or incomplete
Explore family tensions (as a main
source of conflict in the plot)
Rely heavily on stock characters
and very well-known motifs and
plot structures.

21. The Basics… Fairy tales are stories either
created or strongly influenced
by oral traditions.
Their plots feature stark conflicts between good and evil, with magic and luck determining the usually happy endings.
While each culture and geographic region of the world has its own body of folk tales and fairy tales that it considers "its own," certain themes and motifs tend to be repeated across many cultures and time periods.
Universal human emotions such as love, hate, courage, kindness, and cruelty appear in bold, broad strokes on the canvas of fairy tales.

22. The Setting… Is typically set in an unspecified place
Often, the time is unspecified
Sometimes, the story is set in the distant past.
It can be presented as historical fact from the past.

23. The Characters…
The tales feature archetypal characters, many times without specific names
- For example, "Cinderella" means nothing more than "girl of the
cinders"
Unlike Arthurian Legends, fairy tales frequently have female protagonists.
The stories do NOT need to include
actual fairies
The characters are “flat,” thus, they
never develop typically
Nearly all fairy tales incorporate clearly
defined good characters and evil characters

24. The Plot… Fairy tales have a simple plot that
focuses on a problem or conflict that
needs to be solved.
Usually, the protagonist leaves home.
The story features extreme conditions
(beauty, riches, poverty etc.)
Includes magical elements, often magical people, animals, objects, or magic spells
The existence of magic may be positive or negative.
Frequently, the story includes objects, people, or events in groups of threes (three battles, three tasks, etc.)

25. The Plot… The hero (or heroine) has bad luck
The hero (or heroine) must perform impossible tasks
The hero (or heroine) must fight villain
The hero (or heroine) meets helpers
The hero (or heroine) is treated badly
The hero (or heroine) is in danger
The villain is punished
The hero (or heroine) is rewarded with
wealth
The hero (or heroine) is rewarded with happy marriage

26. The Plot… The characters experience social mobility
- For example, poor can marry royalty
There is often a a physical transformation
- For example, a beast turns into a prince
Frequently, there is a character transformation
- For example, the ugly duckling turns out to have been a swan all along
There is almost always a happy ending in which order is restored in the end based on the resolution of the conflict

27. Fairy Tales or Horror Tales?
The primary reason the Grimm Brother wrote the stories was to teach important life lessons to their audience.
The stories are
amongst the most
violent and
gruesome tales ever
told.

28. Typical Themes… “Good is rewarded and evil is punished”
Encourage middle-class social values
Teach a
lesson or
demonstrate
values important
to the culture

29. Their Intentions The Grimm’s were writers of violent vivid imagery
Their fairy tales would allow us to work through our fears
Also the Grimm’s wanted to teach people lessons on moral values “Right & Wrong”
The number one message that people were to gain out of their stories was… “Children should use their brains to overcome any situation”

30. Walt Disney Today's versions of children's stories are toned down
Its more of a “Happily Ever After” theme
It was made so children wouldn’t have fear or nightmares

31. The German Fairy Tale Route[1] (German: Deutsche Märchen Straße) is a tourist attraction in Germany originally established in With a length of 600 kilometers (370 mi), the route runs from Hanau in central Germany to Bremen in the north. Tourist attractions along the route are focused around the brothers Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, including locations where they lived and worked at various stages in their life, as well as regions which are linked to the fairy tales found in the Grimm collection, such as The Town Musicians of Bremen. The Verein Deutsche Märchenstraße society, headquartered in the city of Kassel, is responsible for the route, which travellers can recognize with the help of road signs depicting the heart-shaped head of a pretty, fairylike creature

32. The Fairy Tale Road ambles for 370 miles through German Landscapes
That evoke dreams-and nightmares.

34. Some stories with Violent Themes
Snow White
Cinderella
Red Riding Hood
The Goose Girl
Hansel and Gretel
Sleeping Beauty

35. Some Examples Of The Violence
In Hansel and Gretel the witch was burned to death in her oven
In Cinderella the stepsisters try to cut off parts of their feet in order to fit into the slipper, thus deceiving the prince pigeons came and pecked their eyes out
In The Goose Girl a servant girl was dragged to death in a barrel spiked with nails
In Snow White the witch is forced to wear red hot iron shoes and danced herself to death

36. Little Red Cap
Once she gave her a little cap of red velvet, which suited her so well that she would never wear anything else; so she was always called Little Red-Cap.

38. Illustrations of Snow White
Grimm’s Snow White
Disney’s Snow White

39. Illustrations of the Grimm’s Cinderella

40. Interesting Things To Know
Kinder-und Hausmarchen came second only to the Bible as the best seller in Germany and remains that way today
There are theme parks, films, books, and plays dedicated to the brothers Grimm

41. In the Museum of Steinau