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Russian seminar on Hans Christian Andersen

15 April 2003 , Other events
Russia - Moscow

On 15 April 2003, the Danish embassy in Moscow will host a seminar on Hans Christian Andersen and his inspiration from the Brothers Grimm.

On 15 April 2003, the Danish embassy in Moscow will host a seminar on Hans Christian Andersen and his inspiration from the Brothers Grimm.

The two German brothers played a part in creating Hans Christian Andersen's particular form of the genre, the original fairy tale. This is the topic for the seminar at the Danish embassy in Moscow in which Cay Dollerup of the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Copenhagen will talk about how the stories of the Brothers Grimm inspired Hans Christian Andersen to write fairy tales.

Denmark was the first country in the world to translate the tales of the Brothers Grimm, and Danish readers received the Brothers' folktales such as Cinderella, Snow White and Hansel and Gretel with open arms, when the first Danish volume of their fairy stories was published in 1821. 

Thus, the two German brothers, who collected folktales and adapted them into book form helped pave the way for Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales in Denmark. Their stories inspired Hans Christian Andersen to write the original fairy tales that would secure his fame. Hans Christian Andersen's first collection of fairy tales, Tales, Told for Children was published in 1835. 

At the seminar in Moscow, Cay Dollerup will talk, among other things, about the close connection between the Brothers Grimm and Denmark and the differences and interplay between the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm.

In addition, the way their fairy tales have supplemented each other on the international stage for the past 170 years will be discussed.



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