The Little Match Girl
The little girl with the matches (Danish: Den lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne ) is one of the most famous fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. He wrote it in 1845 during a nine -day stay at the castle Gravenstein on the Flensburg Fjord. It is the tragic story of a little girl who sold shivering on the street Schwefelhölzchen and process slides to his death.
Action
A little girl sits on New Year's Eve on the road to sell his Schwefelhölzchen. It is poorly clothed and freezes; which dealt with their holiday errands citizens see the child and his begging goods. Without having to deserve something, the girl but nothing ventured home and endure freezing out between two townhouses.
Desperately against the cold lights the girls of the coating sticks, though her this is strictly prohibited. In the glow of the piece of wood she feels as if she were sitting in a warm oven, but that only lasts until the sulfur match goes out. Gradually, the girl lights the matches and other slides so in increasingly rich dreams. Finally, it meets his grandmother and asks them to take it to the sky. The grandmother takes the girl to him. In the story it is clear that the initially living and suffering in this world girl has not been turned wonderful. The fairy-tale resolution consists only of a gentle death from freezing.
Films
The tale has been filmed several times, including a short film The little girl with the matches of Jean Renoir ( 1928), The Girl with the wonder woods with Keshia Knight Pulliam (1987) and The Little Match Girl ( 2006). 2013 was followed by the German television film The Girl with the matches as part of the fairy tale film series Six in one fell swoop. The Little Match Seller (1902, 3.5 minutes ) by James Williamson is considered the first film adaptation of a story by Hans Christian Andersen ever, the short animated film The Little Match Girl has been nominated for an Oscar in 1938.
Musical settings
An opera under the title The Girl with the matches authored 1897 August Enna in the style of the music drama of Richard Wagner. 100 years later, in 1997, Helmut Lachenmann's music theater of the same name premiered at the Hamburg State Opera.
The end of 2009 was premiered a modernized new version of the tale by Charles M. Sibelius in the theater iron hand Linz (Upper Austria ) under the title Match Girl Opera, has been used in, among others, music of The Tiger Lillies.
The composer Christian Bruhn setting of a text by Georg Buschor about the fairy tale. The song was sung in 1968 by Manuela and released on a single. This song was also later recorded by other artists, and published, among other things, Duo from Gitti & Erica and Claudia Jung.
Edits
The motive of the starving child, not even pennies are unnecessary for the consumer in the fever of the wealthy, Tomi Ungerer grabbed Allumette in his 1974 Zurich, Diogenes Verlag published a picture book: on (French allumette = match). Ungerer's title character is saved, however, from freezing to death by a cornucopia, which showered it with food and goods. In the Michael Neugebauer Edition 2005 appeared an issue with images of Czech illustrator Kveta Pacovská, published in 2009 the vision Sam publishing a small edition with illustrations by Henrike Robert.