Tintin in Tibet
Tintin in Tibet ( original French title: Tintin au Tibet) is a comic album of the series The Adventures of Tintin by the Belgian author Hergé, released in 1959.
Action
Tim and his two friends, Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus spend their holidays in the Alps when Tim receives a letter from his old friend Chang Chinese, in which he announces his visit. A short time later, Tim learns, however from the newspaper that the plane in which Chang did arrive, crashed in the Himalayas and there were no survivors. Chang appears in Tim's dreams and Tim decides to travel to the Himalayas to rescue Chang. After initial hesitation, Captain Haddock accompanied him.
Along with the mountain guide Tharkey they reach after a long walk the crash site of the DC-3, Chang can not find them there. When Tim wandered alone in the snow and an ice cave visits as protection against a snow storm, he finds there before the carved in stone called " Chang ". A short time later Tim found in a rock wall a scarf, which he believes he belongs Chang. Chang itself remains untraceable. Along with Captain Haddock and Tharkey Tim heads back on the way back. The three are caught by an avalanche and nursed back to health in connection of Tibetan monks. Also, one of the monks appear Chang, and he said Tim in a kind of trance that Chang is being held captive by the Yeti.
Near the monastery Captain Haddock and Tim can make the cave identify where the Yeti lives. When the Yeti leaves the cave, Tim sneaks into the cave and discovers the health ailing Chang. Upon exiting the cave, they are surprised by Yeti; latter, however, struck by Tim's camera flash into the flight, when he accidentally touched Tim's camera. Chang said that he was the only survivor after the crash of the plane and he was rescued and nurtured by the Yeti.
Tintin and Captain Haddock bear Chang into the valley where they are received by the Tibetan monks, they also maintain Chang healthy and a few days later break the friends with a caravan on to Nepal and thus back home.
Background
The story Tintin in Tibet is a special album from the series The Adventures of Tintin in many ways. The author Hergé was - before he started working on the story - Psycho badly bruised. He said later that he suffered massively in that time from nightmares in which repeatedly appeared large white areas. He went for treatment to a psychoanalyst who dissuaded him from further work on Tintin. Hergé decided against it and decided to work through his mental problems in the history of Tintin in Tibet. At the same time went to this time Hergé's marriage on the rocks; and he entered into a new relationship with a much younger employee.
Unlike most of the other stories from the Tintin series is available in Tintin in Tibet, no villain. Even the Yeti is characterized not as evil, but rather as pitiful. Also dive in the history of no regular companion Tims on, such as the characters Thomson and Thompson or Bianca Castafiore. Instead, the story focuses on the close friendship between the protagonists Tintin and Captain Haddock, between Tim and Chang and also between Chang and the Yeti. Another new passion was Hergé's influence in the story: the mysticism of Tibetan Buddhism as well as extrasensory perception - the latter are repeatedly represented in Tintin in Tibet.
Another special feature of Tintin in Tibet is the characterization of Tim. While Tim in all his other adventure has some hair-raising adventures, he meets this always with a motionless calm. In Tintin in Tibet is enjoying Tim several emotional outbursts. Already at the beginning of the story is crying Tim at the supposed death of his friend Chang.
Publications
The story was published from September 1958 to November 1959 in 63 sequels in Tintin magazine and subsequently as a colorized 64-page album. In German the story appeared in 1963 in the book series, Tim, the smart reporter Casterman -Verlag. Also published in 1963, the Hamburg evening paper on the children side effects of the story, followed in 1964 by the Berliner Morgenpost handgelettertem with two-color printing. The output of the albums Carlsen Verlag appeared in 1967.
As part of the 39 - part television series, Les Aventures de Tintin from the year 1991, "Tintin in Tibet " was released as the sixth episode, split into two episodes ( the consequences of The Shooting Star, The Red Rackham's Treasure and Tim in America are single-sequence, all other consequences were two-parter ). The film is included on the DVD " The Adventures of Tintin # 3 " movie universe 82876 65976 9
The Hergé Foundation, which administers the estate and the rights to the comics, prevented 2001 that the band Tintin in Tibet in China under the title Tintin in China's Tibet appears. From the International Campaign for Tibet (ITC ) of the Hergé Foundation was therefore awarded by the Dalai Lama in May 2006, the Light of Truth award.
In cooperation with the Hergé Foundation, the International Campaign for Tibet has issued a special edition calendar Tintin on the Roof of the World with motifs from the Tim -in- Tibet - comic for 2009.
Literature and sources
- Michael Farr: In the footsteps of Tintin, Carlsen, Hamburg 2005, pp. 160 ff, ISBN 978-3-551-77110-0
- Hergé: Tintin in Tibet, 19th edition, Carlsen, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-551-73239-2