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In Search of the Folktale Tellers. A literature review shows that the narrator's role is largely neglected in international folktale research due to the dominant historical perspective of the discipline. The Grimm brother's Kinder- und Hausmarchen ([Children's Stories and Fairy Tales] Berlin, 1812) regarded folktales as holdovers of pre-Christian mythology, useful as a source for obtaining insights into the previous stages of a culture. In this context, the narrators functioned only as anonymous bearers of tradition. In this century, the historical orientation gave way to approaches focusing more on the narrators, context, function, and meaning of folktales. Special attention is given to the role of the 1934 creation of the Folklore Commission by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, which later became the Folklore Division of the P.J. Meertens Instit. Since the 1970s, the Instit. has sponsored studies on the role of the narrator. 1 Figure, 42 References.