GERMN 241 German Fairy Tales in Translation study questions for 1-6. CUNY Hunter College
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Study Questions for "There Once Were Two Brothers Named Grimm"
1. Who is Jack Zipes and what does he want?
-He is an American folklorist who has analyzed the Grimm Brothers and their work.
-He wants to answer who the brothers were, how they discovered the tales, why and how did
they change the...
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Study Questions for "There Once Were Two Brothers Named Grimm"
1. Who is Jack Zipes and what does he want?
-He is an American folklorist who has analyzed the Grimm Brothers and their work.
-He wants to answer who the brothers were, how they discovered the tales, why and how did
they change the tales, and the significance of magic of the tales.
2. Create a short timeline of the Grimms’ lives. What are the 5-10 most significant events in their
lives?
-1st: Their father, Philipp Grimm, died in 1796 which was traumatic for the whole family.
-2nd: Both had to get special dispensations to study law at University of Marburg since their
social status wasn’t high. They had to pay for their education unlike the rich students. Made
them extremely hard workers.
-3rd: Savigny’s stress on philological aspect of law led the brothers to dedicate themselves to
study ancient German lit and folklore.
-4th: The brothers helped Clemens Brentano collect tales for a volume to be published in the
future.
-5th: From 1809-1813, the brothers began publishing their results on old German lit.
-6th: Jacob joined Wilhelm in editing the first volume of German Legends in 1816
-7th: In 1840, they received offers to be professors at the University of Berlin and do research at
the Academy of Sciences.
3. What themes do their research interests and other published books share with their collection
of Children’s and Household Tales?
-The German princes were reestablishing their narrow interests in different German principalities
and get rid of German unification. Brothers wanted the princes to be the opposite in hopes of
uniting Germany.
4. How did politics and the rulers of the time affect their lives and work? How did friends and
Wilhelm’s wife affect them?
-When it was during the time of peace, the brothers were able to devote themselves to scholarly
research and publish what they found.
-During time of the peace treaty with the French, the German princes did not change and did not
want a united Germany.
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, -Jacob did not have the right connections nor the preferred conservative political view so he
could not receive a promotion (ebook, location 414). Due to this, both resigned their posts and
became professors and worked in the library.
-When Wilhelm married, his wife, Dortchen Wild, looked after the household for both brothers.
Even tho the two had children, he was dedicated to his work. The brothers liked a quiet
atmosphere and set up a strict schedule at home.
-They did receive money and support from friends and admirers for their stance on academic
freedom (and they were in a bad financial state) but the monarchs ruling at the time prevented
them from teaching.
5. What are the three major myths that Zipes dispels about the Grimms and their collection?
-One major myth is that the brothers did not collect their story from peasants in the countryside
but from storytellers they would invite who would repeat the tales aloud. Most storytellers were
educated young women from the middle or upper class.
-A second major myth is that the brothers did not agree on how they edited tales. Jacob set the
tone of the fairy tales and the brothers were both in agreement about how they wanted to change
and style the fairytales (location 489).
-A third major myth is that they were not the founders of fairytales, wasn’t even their project
originally to publish the tales and they did not intend to be literary historians
6. In what ways did they change the tales and why?
-Wilhelm paid more attention to the style and the content to appeal to children or for adults who
wanted censored tales for children after 1815. For children to learn.
-Originally, they created literary fairytales that were close to oral tradition while incorporating
stylistic, formal, and substantial thematic changes to appeal the growing middle class (when they
published in 1812 and 1815). It was to serve a reminder of the German culture. They got rid of
the erotic and sexual elements since it would offend middle class morality and added Christian
references.
-More direct dialogue
-After 1819, Wilhelm tried to keep what they had done before but made the tales more proper
and sensible for the bourgeois (location 510).
7. Who was the intended audience? Are there only magical tales in the collection? How and
when did their collection become popular?
-Originally for children, and then for middle class and then for the bourgeois.
-There are not only magical tales but unusual fables, legends, anecdotes, jokes, and religious
tales.
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