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16 April – Jakob Heine, German orthopaedist (died 1879) 30 May – Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, German geometer (died 1834) 31 July – Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist (died 1882) 20 August – Bernhard Heine, German physician, bone specialist and inventor (died 1846) 26 October – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German Field Marshal (died 1891)
Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen, pronounced [ˌkɪndɐ ʔʊnt ˈhaʊsmɛːɐ̯çən], commonly abbreviated as KHM), is a German collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812.
Title page of the first edition. Deutsche Sagen ("German Legends") is a publication by the Brothers Grimm, appearing in two volumes in 1816 and 1818.The collection includes 579 short summaries of German folk tales and legends (where "German" refers not just to German-speaking Europe generally but includes early Germanic history as well).
From the 1680s to 1789, Germany comprised many small territories which were parts of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.Prussia finally emerged as dominant. Meanwhile, the states developed a classical culture that found its greatest expression in the Enlightenment, with world class leaders such as philosophers Leibniz and Kant, writers such as Goethe and Schiller, and musicians Bach ...
His belief in the role of folklore in ethnic nationalism – a folklore of Germany as a nation rather than of disunited German-speaking peoples – inspired the Brothers Grimm, Goethe and others. For instance, folklore elements, such as the Rhine Maidens and the Grimms' The Story of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear , formed part of the source ...
They may not directly comment on the Grimms' approach to storytelling – there aren't straw-spinning damsels or demanding prince-frogs populating her pages. Instead, she invents her own otherworldly motifs, like a werewolf-hunting tradition shared by fathers and daughters, or a paleontologist exploring the surreal wonders of the West.
Maria Stuart (1800), by Friedrich Schiller; Mein Leopold (1873), by Adolphe L'Arronge; Minna von Barnhelm' (1767), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; Miß Sara Sampson (1755), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; Von morgens bis mitternachts (1912), by Georg Kaiser; Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (1938–39/1941), by Bertolt Brecht
German literature (German: Deutschsprachige Literatur) comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany , Austria , the German parts of Switzerland and Belgium , Liechtenstein , Luxembourg , South Tyrol in Italy and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora .