Wild Chicks

The Wild Chicks is a youth book series by Cornelia Funke. The first volume appeared in 1993.

Genesis

On its website describes author Cornelia Funke that she got from her editor after the success of her first fantasy books for children the impetus to say a children's book, "in the vorkämen neither fairies, ghosts, pirates, or whatever else ." Although spark suspected that such a book would be " terribly boring ", they made ​​this request and invented " Wild Chicks ". She was inspired by her own experiences with chicken farming, formed various figures by people they had met from their own lives. Stories about their own feisty grandmother formed the basis for Grandma Slättberg, a character like Melanie had spark even met and the Pygmies arose the name of a boy band who had once bullied her husband; the rest of the characters but was fictitious.

The extra part of the DVD for the film The Wild Chicks and the spark of love commented on the development. She adds that she deliberately avoided stories in which the savages were chasing chickens criminal or passed other action-heavy things; Spark wanted only to bring events that could happen to any girl. The reaching authenticity is often praised by critics.

Survey

The girlfriends sprat and Frieda set up together with their classmates Trude and Melanie own girl gang. Sprat is that you can together make real band stuff like invent secret codes, put a ribbon book - and stand up to the boy band of the class, the " pygmies ". The only place where the girls can meet undisturbed, is the chicken coop on the farm of Sprotte grandma Slättberg. This creates the band's name " Wild Chicks " and their common distinctive mark, a spring chicken around the neck. The fifth band member, Wilma, appeared only at the beginning of the second book for the first time and has to fight for its inclusion in the hard band.

While initially it all came down to defend themselves against the tricks of the " pygmy " or concocting their own against the boys, so make " chicken " and " pygmies " in the course of time increasingly common cause, so that from the former rivals and friends be.

Main characters

The Wild Chicks

  • Charlotte Slättberg (born 9 December), called sprat, is the leader and founder of the Wild chickens. She has red curly hair and is wearing mostly her leopard pants. You must help her grandma often, mostly working in the garden. However, it has not much influence on the remaining members. Sprat has no siblings and lives alone with her mother. She does not think much of boys. But at some point also undergoes sprat, which can mean " Heartbeat."
  • Frieda Goldman (born 23 May) is Sprotte best friend. She has black hair, brown eyes. She is also very sensitive and sensitive, and volunteers his time for the children's charity Terre des Hommes.
  • Before the foundation of the band Trudhild Bogolowski (* October 22 ), better known as Trude was the greatest admirer of the beautiful Melanie. Trude has brown hair and gray eyes, and constantly fighting with obesity. Her father showered Trude probably from remorse with new gifts, of which one turns out to be very useful for the bonds of chickens.
  • Melanie Klupsch ( born April 3 ) is called by all, only the 'beautiful Melanie '. She is very vain and is tons of money on expensive beauty products. With her ​​blond hair and blue eyes Melanie has had much success in boys. She is the first who already has a boyfriend - Willi, one of the pygmies.
  • Wilma Irrling ( born June 18 ) is a member of the Wild Chicks until the second adventure. You can the boys even less outstanding than sprat, but she shares Frieda's penchant for drama. Wilma's mother constantly monitors the academic performance of their daughter and sends them already because of a three for tutoring. Wilma is a passionate and talented spy, and loves to use her water gun. In the fifth volume a long -kept secret of Wilma is released when the chickens are threatening to break.

The Pygmies

  • Friedrich Baldewein ( born June 2 ), which is always called Fred, is the head of the Pygmies. Fred has bright red hair and gives himself like macho and casual, but it really is quite a sensitive guy who his grandfather has an intimate relationship. Fred keeps himself happy in the tree house, the headquarters of the Pygmies. He knows a lot about gardening.
  • Wilhelm Blödorn (December 6 ), nicknamed Willi, but Wilma also referred to him as like Fred's bodyguard. Willi is a slightly more aggressive, often morose and taciturn boy; his behavior is a result of the strict upbringing of his father. Willi has a good-hearted soul, and puts a lot of time and energy in the expansion of the treehouse. Willi has long been friends with Melanie.
  • Stefan (Steve ) Domaschke ( born January 9 ) is quite obese. He trains diligently magic tricks and works a lot with his tarot cards, with which he wants to predict the future. He is also a master at cooking. Steve likes to play theater, what Wilma impressed.
  • Thorsten Stubbe (born 9 August), called Cake, is the smallest of the Pygmies. He exaggerates it pretty happy with his jokes and is in love with Frieda. He wants to be a chef once.

Minor characters

  • Alma Slättberg called Grandma Slättberg, Sprotte grandmother 's mother's side. She's pretty snappy, arrogant and patronizing, among which have to suffer sprat and Melanie. Since Sprotte mother works a lot as a taxi driver, sprat must often stay at Grandma Slättberg.
  • Sybille Slättberg is Sprotte single mother and the daughter of Alma Slättberg. You and sprat have a good relationship, despite Sprotte undisguised criticism of the love life of her mother. When Sybille in a " smartass " in love, the relationship deteriorated to her daughter. In part The Wild Chicks and Life Sybille gets pregnant by Sprotte father.
  • Thorben Mossmann is the " smartass " and of professional driving instructor. He enters into the lives of sprat and her mother in the fourth volume. Sprat can not stand him.
  • Sarah Rose is the class teacher of Wild Chicks and pygmies. It has an amazing number of lipsticks and is considered a strict and prudish.
  • Mr. John Green Tree is the biology teacher of the Wild chickens and pygmy. He is in love with Mrs. Rose.
  • Mr. dust man is the teacher of German Wild Chicks and pygmies. It occurs when the class trip in the second volume.
  • Mona is a school friend of Sprotte mother and the head of the Horse Farm, to visit the Wild Chicks in the fourth volume for a week. She is divorced and has two children, Bess and Maik. She has black hair and assertive.
  • Bess and Maik are Mona's children. In the fourth volume of the savages chickens get to know them. In Maiks sight sprat gets the first time a strange feeling in my stomach. This sets but then again when emerge even the pygmies at the stables. Also Frieda falls in love with Maik. Between Maik and Frieda actually developed something. At the end, they come together and make a weekend relationship.
  • The Wild chicks appear in the 4th band. This holiday band was formed after came out at the stables that the Wild Chickens are a gang. The Wild Chicks consist of three girls who are slightly younger than the Wild Chicks: Lilli, Bob and Verena.
  • Sprotte Christian father left Sybille, as sprat was six months old. He works as a photographer and travels around the world. His appearance after many years ensures severe turbulence in Sprotte life.
  • Sabrina first appears in " The Wild Chicks and Life " on. She is quite attractive and can sing very well and dance. Fred falls on the class trip with her and her cheating with his girlfriend sprat.

The series

So far there are six books and an additional band of the wild chickens, all of which are published in the Cecilie Dressler Verlag.

  • As an audio book: The Wild Chicks. Jumbo Neue Medien, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-8337-1470-0 (1 CD)
  • Here, the chickens get to know only correct and found in grandma Slättbergs henhouse their gang. At first, she 's only four. Wilma Irrling comes only in the second band to band. The chickens antagonize with the pygmies and play each other pranks. But soon the chickens will realize that they need another band quarters, because Grandma Slättberg the ongoing visits are contrary, and the girls clamps again for field work.
  • As an audio book: The Wild Chicks on a school trip. Jumbo Neue Medien, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-8337-1716-5 (2 CDs)
  • A class trip leads chickens and pygmy on a North Sea island where a mysterious spirit - Jap Lornsen, the evil beach Voigt - to propel the loose. Each band will first solve for itself the mystery of the strange hauntings, and also Wilma Irrling constantly spying behind the chickens and pygmy ago. After a hard fight Wilma can win the girl for himself, and is now even the Wilder chicken. But first, unite as chickens and pygmy their powers, they discover the secret.
  • As an audio book: The Wild Chicks - Fox Alert! Jumbo Neue Medien, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-89592-890-9 (3 CDs)
  • High Alert - the chickens are in danger! Sprotte grandma wants to slaughter and process soup to the flags Animals of the gang. This should prevent the gang at all costs! For this, they even include peace with the pygmies. By Trude the chickens get a solid band quarters, including enclosures for their feathered sisters. After all, they still need help Willi, who has placed himself in trouble because of his temper again.
  • As an audio book: The Wild Chicks and the happiness of the earth. Jumbo Neue Medien, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-89592-631-0 (3 CDs)
  • The five go on holiday on a horse farm. Sprat, Melanie and Trude ride for the first time and enjoy it. Wilma and Frieda can already ride and go horse riding. During three little guests of the holiday farm, the " The Wild Chicks " call themselves, take care with their strike for eddy at the stables, added even matters of the heart in the form of pretty riding instructor Maik for Frieda and sprat. Properly turbulent it, as even the Pygmies show up at the stables is.
  • As an audio book: The Wild Chicks in Love. Jumbo Neue Medien, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 3-89592-845-3 (3 CDs)
  • Sprotte mother Sybille wants to marry. For sprat, that would be a disaster - And then also this smartass! It must hurry forth a plan that crosses the wedding plans of Sprotte mother! Also Maik and Frieda are continuing their relationship and Trude Weekend takes place on a Party of the Pygmies in Steve's cousin Ramon a worshiper. Melanie, however, is devastated because Willi left her for another. The chickens thrown into crisis when they find out that Wilma has fallen in love with a girl. Since Melanie wants nothing to do with such " otherness", the gang faces a tough ordeal.

The Wild Chicks: The ribbon book to join Cecilie Dressler Verlag, Hamburg The girl band performing a " band book" in which they hold their secret codes and signs, their adventures and everything else you need to know. This book gives some background information about the two gangs. In addition, puzzles, jokes and many pages are included for self filling.

Films

The series was filmed and directed by Vivian Naefe 2005. Theatrical release of The Wild Chicks was on 9 February 2006. Unlike the title suggests it corresponds to the content of this film largely to the third book.

On 5 April 2007 the second film The Wild Chicks in Love came to the cinema. Playing it again with the same actors: Michelle from Treuberg as sprat, Paula Riemann as Melanie and Veronica Ferres as Sybille. New to Thomas Kretschmann comes as Sprotte father. And Wilma ( Jette Hering ) girlfriend Leonie ( Svea leg ) and Frieda friend Maik ( Jannis Niewoehner ). The content corresponds to the fifth book, but takes in some flashbacks also refers to the holiday with horses from the fourth band.

On 29 January 2009 launched a third film entitled The Wild Chicks and Life in the German cinemas. This film takes up the motif of a class trip from the second book, but this is chronologically after the fifth band to give the films a chronological action series. Moreover act " The Wild Chicks " from the fourth band.

As a result, there will be an independent, only the basic features and individual elements of the book following action templates, which rotate substantially about the problems of growing up. The book has been written by the author Thomas Schmid and is based on motifs by Cornelia Funke. Also, this result was achieved with the team from the first two parts. Only the actress who plays Melanie, Paula Riemann, has been replaced by Sonja Gerhardt.

Theatre editing

In 2006, the band was The Wild Chicks - Fox alarm brought as processing of director Jan Betge in an authorized for the open-air theater by the publisher version of the stage. The premiere took place on the forest stage Melle on 4 June 2007.

In 2007, authorized by Cornelia Funke and the publisher version was first performed for the theater. Editing: Rainer Hertwig, premiere of Stagecoach Theatre Arts Erlangen, a theater school for children and young people. The play was conceived as a musical, the music was composed by David Rodríguez Garcés and Ariel Rodríguez Garcés. It is suitable for school theater groups.

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