GRIMM BROTHERS FAIRY TALES // Gerd Ludwig
In the early 1800s brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published a book of fairy tales that remains unrivaled to this day. It contains such indelible tales as Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, and Cinderella. They are read today in more than 160 languages. The two brothers, however, did not make up the tales themselves, but gathered them from a variety of storytellers across central Germany, mostly in their home state of Hesse.
Having grown up in the very region where the Grimm Brothers lived and worked, and having been enthralled since childhood by the setting of the tales, I returned to Germany in search of the reflections of my early fairy-tale dreams. To my delight I found traces of the Grimm Brothers' stories in a series of timeless images along the German Fairy Tale Road. Here echoes of the world famous tales still resound from brooding castles to deep dark forests, from fire lit cottages to crooked village streets.
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