Fairy Tales and Forests: The Grimms and Caspar David Friedrich
Publisher |
BBC
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
Germany
History
Society & Culture
Categories Via RSS |
History
Publication Date |
Oct 07, 2014
Episode Duration |
00:14:04

Continuing a week of programmes with a focus on the things which bind Germans together, Neil MacGregor reveals how the fairy tales collected by the Grimms and the landscape art of Caspar David Friedrich played a vital role in re-establishing an identity for German-speaking people who had been defeated by Napoleon.

While the Grimms were studying the German language and the inner German-ness present in the folk-tales they collected, Friedrich used landscape as the external vision of being German.

Producer Paul Kobrak.

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