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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 .
Once upon a time there was a stubborn child who never did what his mother told him to do. The dear Lord, therefore, did not look kindly upon him, and let him become sick. No doctor could cure him ...
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.
Fig 1 (above) Portrait of Dorothea Viehmann 1819 by Ludwig Emil Grimm Born Katharina Dorothea Pierson (1755- 1815), Dorothea Viehmann, was the daughter of Johann Friedrich Isaac Pierson a tavern owner and as she grew up she was exposed to and learned lots of stories, folk tales, legends and myths from her fathers guests. But she had also ...
The Grimms learned this tale (and its variants) from a number of sources, including the Wild family, the Hassenpflug family, and Dorothea Viehmann (1755-1815). This tale was included in the first edition of the Kinder- und Hausmärchen (1812). It was somewhat rewritten for the second edition (1819).
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.
Jun 27, 2010 · This roadhouse restaurant and Hütt brewery was once run by Dorothea Viehmann, who also fed fairy tales to the Brothers Grimm. An earnest, if hokey, story-telling reenactment takes place every ...
