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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 . Most of Dorothea Viehmann's tales were published in the second volume of Grimms' Fairy Tales .
Dorothea Viehmann (geborene Katharina Dorothea Pierson, * 8. November 1755 in Rengershausen, heute ein Stadtteil von Baunatal; † 17. November 1815) war eine der wichtigsten Quellen für Grimms Märchen. Die Brüder Grimm veröffentlichten Dorothea Viehmanns Erzählungen vor allem im zweiten Band ihrer Kinder- und Hausmärchen (KHM).
Sep 24, 2019 · The person who contributed the most to the Grimms’ collection was Dorothea Pierson Viehmann, whose father owned a popular inn near Kassel. She shared the many tales that travelers had told to her.
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.
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.
Ludwig Emil had already provided frontispieces for the two volumes of the 1819 edition, of which the portrait of Dorothea Viehmann, the Grimms’ chief informant from the Kassel area, has been much reproduced and imitated in many later editions.
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Dec 20, 2012 · Dorothea Viehmann, a tailor’s wife, provided many tales, and in some instances, the Grimms took tales from books or received tales in letters. The literacy of the informants, however, did not diminish the folk essence of the tales that, as the Grimms and other folklorists were to discover, were widespread throughout Europe and told more often ...
