A wooden gate, resembling the entrance to a fairy-tale palace, currently greets visitors to the Frankfurt Goethe-House. For several weeks now, a dark blue, shadowy forest has been growing up behind it—secretly and mysteriously. There are faint sounds of water, the cry of an owl.
We now find ourselves within the current exhibition, which marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of the Grimms’ “Children’s and Household Tales” by displaying illustrations of various Romantic fairy tales.

Petra Eichler and Susanne Kessler of Sounds of Silence took on the task of designing the exhibition. Thus, it is hardly surprising that visitors begin to imagine that they are in the midst of an all-encompassing scenery, more a walkable stage set than an ordinary exhibition.

The exhibition is appropriate for both adults and children, but be careful: Don’t get lost in the dark woods! 

Frankfurter Goethe-Haus

Freies Deutsches Hochstift

Großer Hirschgraben 23-25

60311 Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

25 April – 15 July 2012
Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.; Sun. and holidays 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.