The anniversary

Grimm 2013
The fairy tale anniversary in Hesse and along the German
Fairy Tale Route.
The anniversary
200 years of the Children‘s and Household Tales by the
Brothers Grimm. A fairy tale anniversary year in Hesse
and along the German Fairy Tale Route.
20th December 2012 – 30th September 2013
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Grimm anniversaries
2012 – 2019
On 20th December 2012, the first edition of the Children‘s and
Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm, which is officially included
in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register, is celebrating its 200th
anniversary. Occasion enough for a remarkable series of events entitled
Grimm 2013. For, with their „Children‘s and Household Tales“, Jacob
and Wilhelm Grimm made Germany‘s best-known and most popular
contribution to world culture. People have grown up with the Grimms‘
fairy tales throughout the world. Characters like Cinderella, Sleeping
Beauty, Mother Hulda, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White and Rapunzel are loved and honoured everywhere. In the Brothers Grimm
Museum in Kassel, the valuable annotated copies of the first edition
are on display.
Grimm 2013 takes you into the world of the narrative: in fairy tales, legends, epics and stories from throughout the world, in dance, in painting
and in music. But the life and works of the Brothers Grimm is also at the
focus of Grimm 2013: biographical information, their national-romantic
thinking, the political awakening and the work for the language – research, cataloguing, linguistic reflection or the investigation of sources.
Events
Theatre, music, literature, exhibitions and lectures:
an initial overview of over 200 events.
Photo: © City of Kassel / Cultural Office, Andreas Berthel / Kassel
2012-2015
200 years of the Children‘s and Household Tales
(First published 20th December 1812)
2013
175 years since the start of the German Dictionary
4th April 2013150th anniversary of the death of
Ludwig Emil Grimm
20th September 150th anniversary of the death of Jacob Grimm
2013
14th March 2015225th birthday of Ludwig Emil Grimm
2016-2018
200 years of the German Legends
2019
200 years of the German Grammar
Grimm 2013 is a cooperation project of the state of Hesse,
Kultursommer Nordhessen e. V., the administrative districts of
northern Hesse, the city of Kassel, Grimmheimat Nordhessen,
and the German Fairy Tale Route.
Grimm 2013
c/o Kultursommer Nordhessen e. V.
Heinrich-Schütz-Allee 33 | D-34131 Kassel
Phone: +49 (0)561-988 393-0 | Fax: +49 (0)561-988 393-33
info@grimm2013.de
Fairy Tales, Myths and Modernity | 17.12. – 20.12.2012
Forest of Shadows − a Night with the Grimms |April / May 2013
International congress „200 years of the Children‘s and Household
Tales by the Brothers Grimm“ at the University of Kassel. An interdisciplinary discourse about the significance of the collection of fairy
tales within different fields of research.
Tourism contact:
Literary Spring 2013 | 15.03. – 24.03.2013
Wander with lanterns through the forest at night, where giant walls
of shadow tower high between the trees. This is the story of a night in
which the Brothers Grimm are haunted by the characters from their
fairy tales. An experience for your senses provided by Theater Anu
from Berlin, in cooperation with the illustrator and shadow player
Albert Völkl from northern Hesse.
GrimmHeimat NordHessen
Ständeplatz 13 | 34117 Kassel
Phone: +49 (0)561-97062-12 | urlaub@regionnordhessen.de
Deutsche Märchenstraße e. V.
German Fairy Tale Route
Kurfürstenstraße 9 | 34117 Kassel
Phone: +49 (0)561-920 47 910 | info@deutsche-maerchenstrasse.de
Grimm biographer Steffen Martus characterises them as the „most
modern traditionalists of their time“. For however consistently the
Brothers Grimm turned to the past, they advocated revolutionary
changes just as boldly.
This area of tension forms the conceptual framework for a literary
festival, which takes up and interprets the diverse aspects of their
work, and translates them into the modern age: with readings, debates and discussions – according to the Grimms‘ motto „All fruitful
understanding must be of an increasing nature“. At its premiere in
2012, Mario Adorf and Günter Grass were guests at Literary Spring.
Princess Day | 16.06.2013
Little princesses on a large scale: fairy tale day for the whole family
and especially for little girls in the park of the rococo Wilshelmsthal
Castle.
Premium hotels
The whole programme and all the event organisers can be found at www.grimm2013.de
Waldhotel Schäferberg Kassel
Wilhelmsthaler Str. 14 | 34314 Espenau
Phone: +49 (0)5673 - 996-0
www.waldhotel-schaeferberg.de
Maritim Badehotel Bad Wildungen
Dr.-Marc-Str. 4 | 34537 Bad Wildungen
Phone: +49 (0)5621 - 799-9
www.maritim.de
Landhaus Bärenmühle GmbH
35110 Frankenau
Phone: +49 (0)6455 - 759040
www.baerenmuehle.de
Landhotel Kern – 1. Themenhotel in Hessen®
Brunnenstrasse 10 | 34596 Bad Zwesten
Phone: +49 (0)5626 - 9970
www.landhotel-kern.de
Hotel DIE SONNE FRANKENBERG
Marktplatz 2-4 | 35066 Frankenberg
Phone: +49 (0)6451 - 750 0
www.sonne-frankenberg.de
Göbel’s Schlosshotel „Prinz von Hessen“
Schlossplatz 1 | 36289 Friedewald
Phone: +49 (0)6674 - 92240
www.goebels-schlosshotel.de
Hotel Gude
Frankfurter Str. 299 | 34134 Kassel
Phone: +49 (0)561 - 4805-0
www.hotel-gude.de
Hotel Stadt Hameln
Münsterwall 2 | 31787 Hameln
Phone: +49 (0)5151 - 9010
www.hotel-stadthameln.de
Vila Vita Hotel Rosenpark
Anneliese Pohl Allee 17 | 35037 Marburg
Phone: +49 (0)6421 - 60 05-0
www.rosenpark.com
BEST WESTERN PREMIER Hotel Villa Stokkum
Steinheimer Vorstadt 70 | 63456 Hanau Steinheim
Phone: +49 (0)61 81 - 664-0
www.villastokkum.de
Flair Hotel Zum Stern
Hersfelder Straße 1 | 36280 Oberaula
Phone: +49 (0)6628 - 92020
www.hotelzumstern.de
You can find further information on these premium hotels at
www.nordhessen.de/perlen and www.german-fairytaleroute.com.
You can also find a number of accommodation offers on the webpages
of the towns and regions.
Schönfeld Park in Kassel. With more than 100 events, the Brothers
Grimm Festival Kassel provides a fantastic programme every year.
At the centre of the festival is the large musical based on a Brothers
Grimm fairy tale, which is wonderfully supplemented by concerts and
theatre for children, and readings in the shade of gardens and hedges.
Fairy tale musical for all ages on a floating stage on the lake in
Parkhotel Emstaler Höhe
Kissinger Str. 2 | 34308 Bad Emstal
Phone: +49 (0)5624 - 509 0
www.emstaler-hoehe.de
Hotel Hohenhaus
37293 Holzhausen bei Herleshausen
Phone: +49 (0)5654 - 9870
www.hohenhaus.de
Puppet theatre dealing with fairy tales, legends and stories around
the historic Cistercian monastery in Morschen. With performers
from Belgium, Hungary, England, the Netherlands, Peru and Germany. Concept: Günter Staniewski.
Brothers Grimm Festival Kassel | July / August 2013
With selected pampering packages and warm hospitality, the exclusive
hotels take their guests away into fairy tale times.
Dornröschenschloss Sababurg
Sleeping Beauty Castle Sababurg
Im Reinhardswald | 34369 Hofgeismar
Phone: +49 (0)5671 - 8080
www.sababurg.de
International Puppet Theatre Festival | 30.05. – 02.06.2013
The state exhibition
27th April – 30th September 2013 / documenta-Halle Kassel
The highlight of the anniversary year
Visit the most important event in the anniversary year 2013: in the state
of Hesse‘s main anniversary exhibition on the life‘s work of the Brothers
Grimm, it is possible to experience the rich diversity of their work.
FREUND – DAS HOTEL UND SPA-RESORT
Sauerlandstraße 6 | 34516 Oberorke
Phone: +49 (0)6454 - 7090
www.hotelfreund.de
The exhibition presents not only the collectors of fairy tales, but also
the linguists, the legal historians, the artist brother Ludwig Emil, and
the politically active Brothers Grimm, whose home was Hesse.
Die Märchenburg Trendelburg
Steinweg 1 | 34388 Trendelburg
Phone: +49 (0)5675 - 9090
www.burg-hotel-trendelburg.com
Hotel Schloss Waldeck
Schloss Waldeck 1 | 34513 Waldeck
Phone: +49 (0)5623 - 589-0
www.schloss-hotel-waldeck.de
Photo: © City of Kassel / Cultural Office, Andreas Berthel / Kassel
Grimm Locations
Hanau, Steinau an der Strasse, Marburg, Kassel, Göttingen and Berlin: in these
six places, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm lived, studied and worked. But they also
left their mark on many other towns and rural communities in Hesse and across
its borders. GrimmHeimat NordHessen and the German Fairy Tale Route invite
you to discover them.
Hanau
„I can remember no less vividly how the two of us, Jacob and I, went hand in
hand through the market of the new town, and stopped in boyish delight to
watch the golden cockerel at the top of the tower that turned back and forth in
the wind.“
This is the market square where the national monument to the Brothers
Grimm was dedicated in 1896; since 1975, it has been the starting point of
the German Fairy Tale Route.
Hanau has been allowed to be called a Brothers Grimm town since 2006:
this is where Jacob, Wilhelm and Ludwig Emil Grimm came into the world.
The town honours its famous sons with a Literature and Art Prize, historical guided tours of the town, the annual Fairy Tale Festival and more than
50 anniversary events in 2012 alone.
Steinau
In their own words, in Steinau, the Grimms spent „a wonderful childhood
whose impressions were unforgettable for the rest of our lives“. Jacob Grimm
wrote the following: „I feel that my liveliest impulses and inspirations are
found in my hometown. I spent the freshest and happiest part of my life
there“.
Steinau, the much praised hometown of the brothers, has preserved its
appearance – even today, it would still be familiar to the Grimms.
In 1791, the family of the district magistrate Grimm moved to Steinau, into
the magistrate‘s house, which was more than 200 years old. After the death
of their father, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm lived there until 1798. Today, the
former magistrate‘s house, as the Brothers Grimm House, invites visitors
to discover traces of their life and works and their fairy tales.
Marburg
„They studied in Marburg.“ (Hermann Grimm)
In letters, the Grimms enthused about the „castle on the mountain“ that was
„gilded by the evening sun“. About the city itself, Jacob wrote: „I think that
there are more steps on the streets than in the houses.“
Whilst they were studying, between 1802 and 1806, they frequently climbed
the steps from their residence at Barfüßerstrasse 35 up to their professor in
Ritterstrasse.
Marburg invites visitors to enjoy fairy tale experiences: with guided tours
to the scenes of Otto Ubbelohde‘s illustrations to the Grimms‘ fairy tales,
the „Grimm Trail“, the Star Money Light Art Project, the Grimm Park and
numerous events. From July 2012, a permanent exhibition in the Landgrave Castle is going to provide new insights into the times of the famous
brothers.
Kassel
„In Kassel, they became librarians at the Hessian State Library...“ (Hermann Grimm)
Between 1798 and 1841, the Brothers Grimm spent over thirty years in
Kassel. Here they worked as librarians, and here they collected, recorded
and edited around 200 fairy tales and legends.
Their famous annotated copies of the Children‘s and Household Tales
are included in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register and can be
admired in the Brothers Grimm Museum. The capital city of the German
Fairy Tale Route also has a lot to offer in terms of events: for example, the
guided tour „In the footsteps of the Brothers Grimm“, the Brothers Grimm
Festival with the fairy tale musical, and the fairy tale Christmas market that
is dedicated to a different Grimm fairy tale every year.
GrimmHeimat NordHessen
In the centre of Germany, around Kassel, the Grimms‘ home region of northern Hesse
can be found.
During their long and productive time in Kassel, Jacob, Wilhelm, and even
Ludwig Emil Grimm took a lot of pleasure in travelling through what is
now northern Hesse. Their diary entries and letters show how attached they
were to their home region and how much they liked living here.
No wonder, for the towns and landscapes in northern Hesse seem to be
inseparably linked to the Grimms‘ fairy tales. Sleeping Beauty‘s Castle
Sababurg in the Reinhardswald is world famous. Here and in other places,
the fairy-tale diversity of the Grimms‘ home region of northern Hesse can
be discovered and experienced – from the Snow White Village to the Mother Hulda Pool and from the Rapunzel Tower to Little Red Riding Hood
Country.
German Fairy Tale Route
The worldwide fame of Grimms‘ fairy tales inspired the creation of the German Fairy
Tale Route. Since 1975, it has invited people to walk in their footsteps.
As a holiday route, it combines the living and working places of the worldfamous brothers with places in which their fairy tales and legends are
discovered.
It begins in Hanau, their place of birth, continues through the hometown
of their childhood Steinau an der Strasse and their university town Marburg
to Kassel. Here, the „Children‘s and Household Tales“ came into being
through decades of work.
From there, it runs along the Weser to the „Pied Piper of Hamelin“, the
„Town Musicians of Bremen“ and to „The Hare and the Hedgehog“ in
Buxtehude.
Göttingen
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm contributed to the profile of Göttingen as an „academic
town“ as librarians, professors and as two of the „Göttingen seven“.
This can be sensed at the time-honoured Georg August University and
tangibly experienced in thematic guided tours of the town.
Berlin
„Then came the final decades in Berlin.“ (Hermann Grimm)
In 1840, after a three-year interlude in Kassel as exiles and without employment, the new King of Prussia, Frederick William, summoned the brothers
to Berlin as members of the „Academy of Sciences“ with a special salary.
There, it is possible to visit their graves today in the old St. Matthew‘s
Cemetery.
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