The anniversary
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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 www.grimm2013.de www.grimm2013.de 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 [email protected] 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 | [email protected] Deutsche Märchenstraße e. V. German Fairy Tale Route Kurfürstenstraße 9 | 34117 Kassel Phone: +49 (0)561-920 47 910 | [email protected] 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. www.grimm2013.de
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