This edition of the "Suhrkamp Basic Library - Working Texts for School and Study" offers a selection of Grimms' fairy tales along with a concise commentary that reveals the historical and internal connections of these folk narratives. The 16 tales compiled here are among the most famous in the Grimms' collection and represent its broad and diverse spectrum—both in terms of stylistic and thematic peculiarities as well as in relation to defining worldviews. The commentary not only points out the origins and possible meanings of the individual tales but also highlights thematic and phrasing parallels, documents the various stages of adaptation, and provides numerous explanations of words and concepts, along with a condensed overview of the history of reception. The commentary is written in accordance with the new spelling rules.