Germany’s Fairy Tale Road is a Grimm adventure

"Germany celebrates the contributions of the Brothers Grimm with the Fairy Tale Road, which makes a serpentine route for nearly 400 miles through the back roads and countryside of Hesse and Lower Saxony. It was here that the brothers were born and collected their stories.

... For lovers of quaint villages and towns nestled amid pastoral landscapes, this is an ideal tour for parents and grandparents seeking to relive their childhood and for children to explore the sights where the stories took place."

Read the full article by Bob Taylor about this tour dedicated to the Brothers Grimm, whose collection of fairy tales marks its bicentennial this December, at the Washington Times.

Frau Holle: In the Marchen and Beyond

"Known internationally  through the  Aarne-Thompson  Tale Type  Index as AT-480, and also known in the  fairy tale world of the  Grimm Brothers  as Frau Holle, the fairy tale Frau Holle is arguably  one of the most well  known tales  in all  of Germany.  How is the figure Frau Holle in the  Grimm  Brothers'  fairy tale the same  as the  figure  Frau Holle in Germanic mythology and  what is the relationship between the two?"

The full PDF of this Master's thesis by Kerby Lynne Boschee, originally submitted at California State University, Sacramento, in 2009, may be viewed here.

Frau Holle movie on YouTube

This is a West German 1961 film adaptation of the German fairy tale, directed by Peter Podehl and starring Lucie Englisch in the title role. Sorry, there are no subtitles, although an English dubbed version was released in the US in 1968 under the title, "Mother Holly," and may be available on DVD. Another version was filmed in East Germany in 1963. The Brothers Grimm version of this fairy tale, in English, can be found here and may help non-German speakers follow the film. The film's IMDB page provides some additional information.

'Once Upon a Time' and 'Grimm' bring fairy-tale characters to prime time

"There are enough stories and characters in the German folk tales compiled by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the early 19th Century to fill at least 10 seasons of a TV series." And remember, many of these German folk tales had their earliest origins in the pre-Christian Germanic myths. Full article on the new television series may be found at the Times-Picayune.