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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). Inhaltsverzeichnis.
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.
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.
- Hazel Terry
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.
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.
Feb 3, 2024 · Dorothea Viehmann was the daughter of an innkeeper at a country crossroads. She married a tailor at age twenty-two, bearing him seven children; three died young. When she met the Grimms, at almost sixty years old, Viehmann had five living daughters and hungry grandchildren.
