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"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" redirects here. For the first full-length
feature film, see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film).
This article is about the traditional fairy tale. For the Disney character, see
Snow White (Disney). For other uses, see Snow White (disambiguation).

Schneewittchen (Snow White)

Schneewittchen by Alexander Zick

Folk tale
Name
Schneewittchen (Snow White)
Data
Aarne-Thompson grouping
709
Country
Germany

"Snow White" is a German fairy tale known across much of Europe and is
today one of the most famous fairy tales worldwide. The Brothers Grimm
published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection Grimms' Fairy Tales. It
was titled in German: Sneewittchen (in modern orthography Schneewittchen)
and numbered as Tale 53. The Grimms completed their final revision of the
story in 1854.[1]
The fairy tale features such elements as the magic mirror, the poisoned
apple, the glass coffin, and the characters of the evil queen and the seven
dwarfs, who were first given individual names in the Broadway play Snow

White and the Seven Dwarfs (1912) and then given different names in Walt
Disney's 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The Grimm story,
which is commonly referred to as "Snow White", should not be confused with
the story of "Snow White and Rose Red" (in German "Schneeweichen und
Rosenrot"), another fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm.[2]
In the AarneThompson folklore classification, tales of this kind are grouped
together as type 709, Snow White. Others of this kind include "Bella Venezia",
"Myrsina", "Nourie Hadig" and "Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree".[3]