Die Brüder Grimm
The Brothers Grimm · ग्रिम भाई
Two brothers who loved old words were afraid that their country's stories would be lost. So they wrote them down: Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel and many more. Later, their courage cost them their jobs.
Timeline
| 1785 / 1786 | Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are born in Hanau |
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| 1798 | The brothers go to school in Kassel |
| Dec 1812 | First volume of the “Children's and Household Tales” |
| 1837 | As two of the “Göttingen Seven”, they lose their jobs for protesting |
| 1838 | They begin the great German dictionary |
| 1859 / 1863 | Wilhelm and Jacob die in Berlin |
| 1961 | The dictionary is finally finished |
| 2005 | Their own copies of the fairy tales join UNESCO's Memory of the World |
Kapitel 1: Zwei Brüder
Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm wurden 1785 und 1786 in Hanau in Hessen geboren.Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were born in 1785 and 1786 in Hanau in Hesse.
Sie waren nur ein Jahr auseinander und fast immer zusammen.They were only a year apart and almost always together.
Ihr ganzes Leben lang wohnten und arbeiteten sie zusammen.All their lives they lived and worked together.
Als Jacob elf Jahre alt war, starb ihr Vater.When Jacob was eleven years old, their father died.
Die Familie hatte plötzlich wenig Geld.Suddenly the family had little money.
Trotzdem gingen die Brüder in Kassel zur Schule und studierten später in Marburg.Even so, the brothers went to school in Kassel and later studied in Marburg.
In Kassel arbeiteten sie später als Bibliothekare.Later they worked as librarians in Kassel.
Sie liebten alte Bücher, alte Wörter und alte Geschichten.They loved old books, old words and old stories.
Sie hatten eine Idee: Wir sammeln die Märchen, die die Leute sich erzählen.They had an idea: we will collect the fairy tales that people tell each other.
Damals schrieb kaum jemand diese Geschichten auf.In those days hardly anyone wrote these stories down.
Die Brüder hatten Angst, dass sie bald verloren gehen.The brothers were afraid that they would soon be lost.
The rest of the history
- Kapitel 2: Märchen sammeln · Collecting fairy tales Premium
- Kapitel 3: Mutig und fleißig · Brave and hard-working Premium