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The Brothers Grimm: Poverty and Hunger Why is there so much hunger and poverty in the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales?
There was a lot of hunger and poverty in the world where these stories were told. The Brothers Grimm also experienced this themselves.
This video is one of the series of "10 Interesting Facts about the Brothers Grimm" by Storyteller Rudolf Roos from internationalstoryteller.com
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There is hunger in many of the Grimm's fairy tales
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Children being left in the forest like Hansel and Gretel to die because their parents couldn't care for them
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And did you know that the brothers Grimm understood this hunger? Their father died when they were still teenagers
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And they needed to take care of their brothers, their sister, their mother
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And some days, Wilhelm Grimm wrote in a letter. Some days they only had food for three people and for one meal a day
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