Beschreibung
Grimms Märchen - Complete Anniversary Edition - eBook
by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm
with 64 beautiful illustrations by Rie Cramer, eBook edition
462 pages, 26 color and 39 black-and-white illustrations, published in 2015, series: avox fantasia, ISBN: 978-3-936979-09-1
Target groups
Children and young readers aged 4 and up, young adults, classic all-age literature, lovers of refined artistic illustration, lovers of fairy tales, and lovers of historical children’s books
The Complete Illustrated Grimms’ Fairy Tales Anniversary Edition was created for the GRIMM 2013 jubilee year in honor of the Brothers Grimm and in appreciation of the life’s work of the gifted Dutch illustrator Rie Cramer. In 2013 we celebrated 200 years of Grimms’ Children’s and Household Tales. This edition contains all 200 fairy tales and 10 children’s legends from the seventh edition, the final “Great Edition” of 1857.
Rie Cramer’s beautiful illustrations for Grimms’ fairy tales were created in the 1920s and were painstakingly digitally restored by the editor because of their extremely poor state of preservation.
Rie Cramer (1887-1977) was a gifted Dutch illustrator and writer who left behind a rich body of work. Among other things, she illustrated fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen, and wrote novels and radio plays. Her artistic work was deeply shaped by her difficult childhood. Yet in her works, light always prevailed.
Why Fairy Tales: When Albert Einstein was once asked whether fairy tales were still important for children today, he answered spontaneously: “If you want your children to be intelligent, tell them fairy tales ...”
Like a lake, we human beings consist of an unsteady conscious surface that changes constantly with the weather, and of a still, unconscious depth that carries that shimmering surface. This endless depth is the home of humanity’s primal experiences and at the same time the source of our creativity, vitality, and sense of life. It speaks to us in the images, feelings, and longings of dreams, fairy tales, and myths. And since this knowing depth is part of ourselves, every child is already able to understand these tales intuitively, as an innate language, as the inner voice that therefore does not first have to be learned. Fairy tales form the deeper connection to our soul, to our wholeness and integrity.
In our own time, when it has become fashionable to live only on that limited and changing surface, orienting oneself endlessly toward empty externalities, life must, because it is cut off from the depths, become ignorant, conscienceless, and emptied of meaning.
People drift along like dead wood on the surface without deeper support. The beautiful fairy-tale collection of the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm has for many generations already proved itself a means of resuming the mysterious dialogue with the inner depth, lifting the quiet treasure, and giving children orientation. In Grimms’ fairy tales, the honest, openhearted, loving person still prevails, and the deceiver is punished ...
Wilhelm Grimm Jacob Grimm
Rie Cramer
