Buchpremiere Tilman Spreckelsen in Kassel

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Tilman Spreckelsen presents his novel "Fast wie im Märchen", which will be published by Propyläen Verlag on 15.10.26.

Bestselling author Tilman Spreckelsen on a unique pair of brothers and their spectacular times

The whole world knows the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. But what do we know about Jacob and Wilhelm themselves? The lives of the two scholars coincided with a turbulent period: the French Revolution, Napoleon's wars, the Restoration and the Revolution of 1848 ... In addition, a wave of technical innovations swept across Europe, the aristocracy lost influence, new entrepreneurs claimed political power. The brothers become stars of science and share their curiosity about the world with the most important writers, politicians and academics of their time, including Goethe, Heine, Arnim, Brentano, Humboldt and Savigny. They laid the foundations for German linguistics and literary studies: like few of their contemporaries, they studied the roots of German culture, but also broadened their view of their European neighbors. And while they tracked down ancient poems in the libraries, the Grimms also fought for the freedom of the Germans and for their own: in 1848, Jacob was elected to the parliament of the Paulskirche in Frankfurt. In his comprehensive biography, Tilman Spreckelsen provides a virtuoso narrative about two outstanding protagonists of German cultural history.

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