The Brothers Grimm Poetics Professorship is a visiting professorship established within the University of Kassel since the summer semester of 1985. [1] [2] The honor is given to writers and filmmakers as well as to cultural workers from the fields of theater, art and culture. [3] The award is traditionally associated with a public poetry lecture, a public reading and a poetry seminar for Kassel students. [4] Namesakes are the Brothers Grimm, who lived in Kassel. [3]