What is the German title of the Brothers Grimm collection commonly called Grimm’s Fairy Tales?

The German title of Grimm’s Fairy Tales is Kinder- und Hausmärchen.

The title translates into English as Children’s and Household Tales. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the collection in multiple volumes beginning in 1812. Their wording emphasized stories associated with family life, childhood, and household culture rather than using the narrower modern label “fairy tales.”

The collection became one of the best-known bodies of European folklore. It includes stories such as “Cinderella,” “Snow White,” “Rapunzel,” “Hansel and Gretel,” and “Rumpelstiltskin.” The brothers revised the tales across successive editions, often changing language, adding detail, or adjusting material for their intended readership.

The title is sometimes shortened in English to Grimm’s Fairy Tales, but that familiar name is not the original German title. The Grimms also published Deutsche Sagen, or German Legends, a separate work first issued in 1816 and 1818.