THE BROTHERS GRIMM SOCIETY
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Coming Up Next - Panel Discussion:
Life and Legacy of the Grimms
Prof. Dorothee Ostmeier (Professor of German and Folklore at University of Oregon) has researched and taught extensively on the Brothers Grimm. She is currently finishing up a book on the role of portals in folklore and fantasy literature, and she has an entire chapter devoted to the Brothers Grimm, which she would love to present on for the Society in the coming months if there is availability/interest.
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Prof. Jakob Norberg (Professor of German Studies at Duke University) researches conceptions of community in German thought and literature. On his book, The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism (Cambridge UP, 2022), Dr. Norberg shows how Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm viewed philologists as arbiters of national identity, even adjudicators of national territory, and therefore as experts indispensable to the modern nation state.
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When: June 10, 10:30 am EST/EDT.
Zoom link: https://msu.zoom.us/j/92236419186
Our Mission
The BGSNA is a literary, nonprofit (501)(c)(3) public benefit corporation. It was organized under the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law for public purposes in the state of Florida on October 2, 2021. The purposes of the corporation are to encourage and promote the study and research of all aspects of the legacy and the spirit of the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, their works, their lives, their period, and the historic and contemporary dissemination of the Grimms' fairy tales as well as their other texts.
Latest News
“The Brothers Grimm: More than Fairy Tales”
by Gabriele Rose (2022)
Prof. Jack Zipes says about the film:
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“It is excellent! … Anyone who might want to teach a course about fairy tales should begin with this film, for it raises many questions and clarifies who the Grimms were and how important they are.”
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”