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Contents. hide. (Top) Life. Fairy tales. Locations and memorials. See also. References. Dorothea Viehmann (November 8, 1755 – November 17, 1816) was a German storyteller. Her stories were an important source for the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm.
Dec 18, 2014 · Dorothea married the tailor Nikolaus Viehmann in 1777, when she was twenty two and had at least seven children before he died in 1787. She was then left to provide for her 5 surviving children, which she did by selling produce from her garden at the market. But for over two years after 1812 she also supplemented her income by sharing her ...
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For a silver spoon and a taste of wine, Dorothea Viehmann arrives at the Grimm brothers' house in Kassel. Over months, the old woman will sit in their living room and tell more than forty stories, her delivery so exact the Grimms often copy it word for word. Her characters will go down in history: The devil's grandmother. The peasant's wise ...
Another famed female behind the scenes of the original tales is Dorothea Viehmann. She was known to tell her stories over and over without changing a single word. She was responsible for more than forty tales that the Grimms eventually published, including Elsa and the Wild Swans and The Goose-Girl.
Dorothea Viehmann contributed over 40 stories to the most famous collection of fairytales in existence. The idea that she was a poor woman with a humble background has since been debunked as a marketing strategy by the Brothers Grimm. The educated, cosmopolitan inn keeper’s daughter had Huguenot roots and was able to write and speak French.
In a magazine illustration based on a painting by Louis Katzenstein, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm sit and listen to the folk tales told by Dorothea Viehmann, an inn-keeper’s daughter who knew a wealth of stories, many of which appeared in the Grimms’ famous collection Children’s and Household Tales.
May 20, 2014 · She might be Dorothea Viehmann, the storyteller who provided the Grimms with a valuable cache of fairy tales, or one of the many nameless women who for centuries circulated tales in spinning...
