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Germany: Memories of a Nation

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Neil MacGregor explores 600 years of Germany's complex and often challenging history.

Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, explores 600 years of Germany's complex and often challenging history using objects, art, landmarks and literature.

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Germany: Memories of a Nation: Fairy Tales and Forests: The Grimms and Caspar David Friedrich

Fairy Tales and Forests: The Grimms and Caspar David Friedrich

07/10/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Germany: Memories of a Nation, Fairy Tales and Forests: The Grimms and Caspar David Friedrich

Neil MacGregor on how the Grimms and painter Caspar David Friedrich shaped German identity

Neil MacGregor examines how the tales of the Grimms and the art of Caspar David Friedrich re-established an identity for the German-speaking people after their defeat by Napoleon.

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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