EXPEDITION GRIMM

The Brothers Grimm had a close relationship with the city of Kassel. While they were born in
Hanau and raised in Steinau, it was in Kassel they spent their school years and the years that
followed their studies in Marburg. They described these years as the “most industrious and
perhaps most fruitful time” of their lives. Not only did Jacob and Wilhelm compile their
Children's and Household Tales in this city; they also launched many more of their globally
influential works from Kassel, including the German Grammar and German Dictionary.
The Hessian exhibition is being organised to mark the bicentenary of the publication of the
Children's and Household Tales, the first edition of which appeared on 20 December 1812, as
well as the 150 th anniversaries of the deaths of both Jacob and Ludwig Emil Grimm, which fall
in 2013. As well as the large-scale EXPEDITION GRIMM exhibition in Kassel, throughout the
year there will be numerous other events around the Federal State of Hessen and along the
German Fairy Tale Route. Starting things off will be the international conference, “Fairy Tales,
Myths and Modernity – 200 years of the Grimm Brothers’ Children's and Household Tales”,
which tales place from 17 to 20 December 2010, at the University of Kassel.
For further information: www.expedition-grimm.de
EXPEDITION GRIMM Press contacts
The Office of the Hessen State Exhibition
Mirjam Flender, Silke Günnewig, c/o projekt2508 Gruppe
Riesstraße, 10 53113 Bonn, Germany
presse@expedition-grimm.de
www.expedition-grimm.de, www.grimm2013.de