Andersen HouseĪndersen loved traveling and he traveled a lot, above all to Germany to visit his friends and patrons Friederike and Friedrich Anton Serre. The writer's birthplace in Odense Image: H.C. Very few people know that Andersen also wrote poems, plays, novels and travelogues and was a very talented silhouette artist. But the storyteller, who was born into a very poor household in 1805, did not only write fairy tales. In a masterful way, he wove different materials and influences to create the fairytales that we know today. Fables, real incidents and natural phenomena also triggered his imagination. Hans Christian Andersen in 1860 Image: picture-alliance/Glasshouse ImagesĪndersen was inspired by traditional Scandinavian, German and Greek stories, from ancient times to the Middle Ages. Many of his stories were converted into plays, filmed or made into musicals, and even inspired popular animated pictures like Ariel. Andersen's fairy tales are part of world literature today. Altogether, he wrote around a 160 tales, which were published in eight volumes from 1835 to 1848 and have been translated into over 120 languages. The Little Match Girl, The Princess and the Pea, The Tin Soldier and The Little Mermaid: these are just some of the most famous fairy-tales by Hans Christian Andersen.
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