Simsala Grimm

***Simsala Grimm*** is a German-Austrian-French-Irish animated children's television series, created by André Sikojev, Stefan Beiten and Claus Clausen. The series was produced by the German production companies Greenlight Media AG, Norddeutscher Rundfunk and Hahn Film AG, and was later co-produced with the French animation studio Millimages, and the Irish company Magma Films Ltd; the rights of the series were passed to Fabula Media Group in 2019 for a production of a third season and movie. The series aired on KiKA and NDR in Germany, and on ORF 1 in Austria.

In each episode of this series, one of the famous classical fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm is told in the magical land of Simsala. The local characters Yoyo and Doc Croc move between the storyteller and the episode cast, which they tend to help or at least inspire.

## Simsala Grimm

### Year(s)

2001-*unknown*

Alongside the German version, an English version was produced at the same time. The series was dubbed to English from German for its first season, and became the original language of the series in its second season.

Accordingly, the first season premiered on ABC Kids in Australia in 2001, and later on RTÉ2 in Ireland.(specify?) In addition, DVDs with the English version, along with the Latin American Spanish dub, were sold in the United States in 2004, under the title "***The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm***"; the DVDs were later repackaged to a single box set in 2005, this time with the English version only; five episodes were later repackaged again in 2009, this time without any mention of the "Simsala Grimm" title. In the United Kingdom, only the second season was only distributed to DVDs.

The dub only started to resurface in 2010, when user mickykitty2009 uploaded the episode "King Thrushbeard" from the first season to YouTube on December 4. The episode "Brother & Sister" from the first season was also uploaded on January 16, 2014. Eventually, 13 episodes from the first season were surfaced on December 9, 2014; another 7 episodes from the first season (with "King Thrushbeard" being one of them), and 18 episodes from the second season, were surfaced on September 21, 2015.

The remaining episodes were uploaded on September 5, 2016 to Os Arquivos da Meiga, similarly to the Galician dub, as the series used to air in both English and Galician in Galicia. Despite the episodes being found, they contain a lot of audio glitches; those were later corrected, and uploaded to MEGA in 2021.

Despite the version being fully found, no episodes in any quality further than 480p have surfaced; it should be noted that remastered revisions of the series, titled "SimsalaGrimm: Re-Version", became available on Amazon Prime Video in Germany and the United Kingdom in March 2021. So far, only the first season was released to the service in the United Kingdom. The revisions also feature different opening and ending theme, which weren't retrieved in English.

## Die mooiste kinderstories ooit

### Year(s)

2001

An Afrikaans dub, titled ***Die mooiste kinderstories ooit*** (in English: *The most beautiful children's stories ever*) was released on DVDs in 2001. Two full episodes were uploaded on April 1, 2018. Multiple clips were uploaded by YouTube user Vampfire on April 2, 2021, but they were removed since then. In 2022, YouTube user KeyFocus Afrikaans began uploading episodes of the dub; so far, 23 episodes were uploaded.

## Simsala Grim

### Year(s)

2010's

An Albanian dub, titled ***Simsala Grim***, aired on Bang Bang and Sofia in Albania, and currently airs on Tao Tao. The first season of the series was dubbed in Albania Production (which was later renamed "Studio Unison"), while the second season was dubbed in N.G.S. Recording.

For a while, no footage from the first season was surfaced online, and it was unknown in which channels it aired. The only proof for its existence was a post from Greenlight Media, which suggests that both seasons were dubbed. Multiple voice actors from the dub were confirmed by Albanian Dubs as well. In June 2021, the episodes "King Thrushbeard", "The Devil's Three Golden Hairs" and "The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids" were uploaded to YouTube, making Unison's part of the dub partially found, and revealing that the dub aired on Tao Tao. More episodes were uploaded by the same user later.

On September 3, 2020, one half of the episodes "Little Mook" and "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" from the second season of the series were uploaded to YouTube. On March 6, 2021, Bang Bang started to re-airing the season on weekends. The timing was unfortunate, as the Tibo method most were using to uncover Albanian dubs stopped working days later, letting the rest of the episodes from this season to remain lost. At the time, the first four episodes were retrieved by AniShalev, and he uploaded the episodes to YouTube in their entirety on April 27, 2021. Around July 2021, additional eight episodes were uploaded to YouTube, which were also recordings from Tao Tao.

## Grimm anaien ipuinak

### Year(s)

*unknown*

A Basque dub, titled ***Grimm anaien ipuinak*** (in English: *Stories of the Brothers Grimm*; alternatively titled ***Simsala Grimm***), aired on ETB 1. The episodes of the series were previously available on Euskal Encodings. In 2021, most of the MEGA links were removed, except for episodes 1, 14-21 and 23-26. Despite that, episodes 2-8 were also retrieved; AniShalev would later start uploading them to YouTube on June 2021.

## 新格林童話

### Year(s)

*unknown*

A Cantonese dub, titled ***新格林童話***, was released on VCDs in an unknown date. Six episodes were uploaded to Bilibili.

## Simsala Grimm

### Year(s)

*unknown*

A Catalan dub, titled ***Simsala Grimm***, aired on K3 (later renamed to Super3). No footage from it was resurfaced online, and the only proof for its existence is a page on CCMA's website.

## SimsalaGrimm

### Year(s)

*unknown*

A Czech dub of the same name aired on ČT1 and Minimax.

All the episodes of the second season were uploaded in June 2020 to YouTube, but no episodes from the first season were available before. Full episodes from the first season were uploaded to YouTube by Pohádky Seriály starting July 21, 2021, confirming that the season was dubbed for ČT1; however, none of the rips have the opening of the series, and except for one episode, the video footage is synced to Romanian and Italian TV rips of the series, while the audio is in Czech. The episodes were unlisted, then deleted, on a later date, however mirrors were also uploaded to Ulož.to.

## Simsala Grimm

### Year(s)

*unknown*

A Danish dub, titled ***Simsala Grimm***, was released to DVDs in Denmark. Other than the cast, no footage of the dub was resurfaced online. However, there are listings of DVDs with a Danish audio track.

## Simsala Grim

### Year(s)

2000-2017

A Galician dub, titled ***Simsala Grim***, aired on TVG and tvG2. The opening of the second season, as well as the ending theme of the first season, were found on eMule and uploaded to YouTube on March 2021. It was later discovered that all the episodes of the series were uploaded to Os Arquivos da Meiga.

## Simsala Grimm: Ταξιδι στις Αξιες

### Year(s)

*unknown*

A Greek dub, titled ***Simsala Grimm: Ταξιδι στις Αξιες*** (in English: *Simsala Grimm: Journey to the Values*), aired on Alfa TV. A few episodes were uploaded to YouTube.

## סימסאלה גרים

### Year(s)

2002-2021

A Hebrew dub, titled ***סימסאלה גרים***, is aired on Hop! in Israel. Most of the episodes of the first season were uploaded to YouTube and Sdarot. In addition, most of the episodes of the second season were uploaded to YouTube on 2019 and 2020, and to Sdarot in a later date. Although the dub aired on Hop! Channel for a long time, the episode "The meaning of Fear" from the first season, and 9 episodes from the second season, weren't retrieved.

## *unknown*

### Year(s)

*unknown*

Blickpunkt:Film, a German news site, implies that *SimsalaGrimm* aired on television in Japan. However, no other evidence or a proof of a dub airing in Japan has surfaced yet.

## 심살라 그림

### Year(s)

2002-2007

A Korean dub, titled ***심살라 그림*** (in English: *Simsala Grimm*), aired on MBC TV in 2002. In addition, a DVD with four episodes of the dub was released in 2007; as of March 12, 2021, only one person bought the DVD, despite it being listed in several places, however no episodes were provided by them. Another screencap of the menu was provided by the same person on September of the same year.

## *unknown*

### Year(s)

*unknown*

The episode "The Six Swans" from the first season recieved a Malay dub, that was released on VCDs in an unknown date. It is unknown if more episodes were dubbed, and the VCD listing is the only proof for the existence of the dub.

## Simsala Grimm

### Year(s)

*unknown*

A Norwegian dub, titled ***Simsala Grimm***, aired in Norway. So far, only the opening was uploaded to YouTube on November 1, 2020 by NorskTegnefilmSang.

## Era uma vez os Irmãos Grimm

### Year(s)

2015

In addition to an European Portuguese dub made for RTP, a second dub, titled ***Era uma vez os Irmãos Grimm***, aired on Canal Panda. The first season of the series was redubbed, with the second season being dubbed. No episodes from the dub became available, other than promos that were uploaded to YouTube, which include dubbing samples.

## Simsala Grimm

### Year(s)

*unknown*

It is unknown when and how was the Slovak dub of *Simsala Grimm* distributed. For a while, only the cast was provided on Dabingforum in 2012, and no episodes were available online.

Eventually, two episodes were uploaded to YouTube by Pohádky Seriály on September 22 and September 23, 2021, making the dub partially found. The episodes were unlisted, then deleted, on a later date, however a 2 hours video containing full episodes of the dub was uploaded to Ulož.to.

## Simsala Grimm

### Year(s)

*unknown*

A Slovene dub, titled ***Simsala Grimm***, became available on DVDs in an unknown date; it later started airing on Minimax in 2015, before being removed from the channel's schedule in an unknown date.

All the episodes of the first season were uploaded to BiliBili. The same episodes were later reuploaded to YouTube in July 2021, along with nine episodes from the second season that weren't available before; however, the channel was later terminated, making those episodes lost. The rest of the episodes were found on Sloflix; they were also uploaded to YouTube by user Svet Risank; however, at a certain point, the channel was rebranded, and while the uploads on YouTube still exist, they were renamed, blurred and they now include different music.

## Las historias de los hermanos Grimm

### Year(s)

*unknown*

A Latin American Spanish dub, titled ***Las historias de los hermanos Grimm*** (in English: *The stories of the Brothers Grimm*), aired on RCN Televisión in Colombia. It was released on DVDs when the series became available in the United States. A clip from the episode "The Crystal Ball" was posted to Facebook in 2017, in addition to a short clip from the episode "The Valiant Little Tailor" that was posted to YouTube in 2019.

Eventually, on April 14, 2021, the ending theme was emailed to AniShalev by Andy Jalapeño, and was uploaded to YouTube in the next day. A scene from the episode "Hansel and Gretel" was also emailed to AniShalev in July of the same year by Aker Pawn; when contacted, the person said that they had the episode from a DVD, which they uploaded to YouTube on January 2022. In addition, a few episodes from the dub became available to buy since November 2021.

## *unknown*

### Year(s)

2018

*SimsalaGrimm* has previously aired on Cinemachi Kids.

## Simsala Grimm

### Year(s)

*unknown*

An Estonian voice-over, titled ***Simsala Grimm***, aired on ETV2. No footage from it was resurfaced online.

## Simsala Grimm

### Year(s)

*unknown*

A Polish voice-over, titled ***Simsala Grimm***, became available in Poland. Only one episode was uploaded in two parts in January 2012.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.ebay.com/p/48521502
2. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Brothers-Little-Riding-Goosemaiden/dp/B000BI5MC2
3. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/-/he/Brothers-Grimm-Double-Feature/dp/B000BI5MCM/ref=pd\_sbs\_2/144-3393240-7222044?pd\_rd\_w=2Tf9b&pf\_rd\_p=43345e03-9e2a-47c0-9b70-a50aa5ecbd5c&pf\_rd\_r=GGW9529GS3VQ53YHTY7T&pd\_rd\_r=74c2d8be-96f1-4e57-9430-e8e9339937d4&pd\_rd\_wg=pPi1U&pd\_rd\_i=B000BI5MCM&psc=1
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12. ↑ https://mega.nz/folder/0BtERCLA#CNdGZeSxX53eeYJBWETF6w
13. ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/SimsalaGrimm-Re-Version-Season-1/dp/B08VW5NK54
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29. ↑ https://uloz.to/file/Qj36wubqJ9zg/2x04-simsala-grimm-verny-jan-cz-benutzen-mp4#!ZGIxZQR2ZGp0ZmuzL2VlMGH0AwZ5Zzq6BHcXMzWMHxyjpmxjZj==
30. ↑ https://uloz.to/file/zKc1dUIdzUK1/2x06-simsala-grimm-modre-svetlo-cz-benutzen-mp4#!ZGDkAmR2AzL4MwuvAwR4MGDjZwOxAGSYIKcLpUShHJLjL2WyLD==
31. ↑ https://uloz.to/file/08fmT9oPEWkQ/2x09-simsala-grimm-spici-nadhera-cz-benutzen-mp4#!ZGH5LGR1MQtlZGH0Zmp5AwH0AwZkHJgKEHuUnaqgETg4ZQAw
32. ↑ https://uloz.to/file/MrR6Yj3wCS3S/2x08-simsala-grimm-snehurka-cz-benutzen-mp4#!ZJH2ZGR2AmN5MzAvZwOxBGqxAQZ1Z1ZmH0AYMRkyGaWULzEwAD==
33. ↑ http://danskefilmstemmer.dk/Film.php?fid=953
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41. ↑ 41.0 41.1 https://www.sdarot.tv/watch/1775-סימסאלה-גרים-מדובב-simsala-grimm
42. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXjid-F9hYs&list=PL-\_v7EyatcsBa5LgSjlY3IqoonI96zzQi
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53. ↑ https://uloz.to/file/GEZHtws0XrcX/simsala-grimm-sk-dabing-mpg#!ZGD0AQR2AQHmMzL2ZJMvMJHjLJD4ZIuwpytmHRIAMJACZGWxMN==
54. ↑ https://www.sloflix.com/media/1714/simsala-grimm
55. ↑ https://doblaje.fandom.com/es/wiki/Las\_historias\_de\_los\_hermanos\_Grimm
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60. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0LXc-fAKG8
61. ↑ https://unilatinos.blogspot.com/2021/11/simsala-grimm-1999-latinoespanol.html
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63. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBxG-ot\_jnU
64. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgHl6JLPWOk

## External links

* *Simsala Grimm* on the Dubbing Database