Crusade in Jeans

Crusade in Jeans ( orig. Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek ) is a children's book published in 1973 by the Dutch author Thea Beckman. The book, which deals with the Children's Crusade of 1212, appeared in Germany under the title first crusade into the unknown.

Action

Led by false monks and a self-appointed leaders draw eight thousand children from Cologne to Genoa, with the aim to liberate Jerusalem from the Saracens. Rudolf Vega, a 15 - year-old boy from Amsterdam, the Middle Ages witnessed first hand when he is put through a time machine right into the year 1212. He moves with the children, shares her life and forced to watch as the inclemency of the weather revealed, hunger and thirst, suffer, be afflicted by diseases, fights with wild animals and marauding knights exist. He learns the valor, fidelity, trust in God, but also know the cruelty of children of the Middle Ages. And he witnesses as they drag themselves further and further, despite all the difficulties, driven only by a dream: the image of the White City, in which the sun never sets and eternal peace prevails.

Filming

The book was made ​​into a film in 2006 under the title Crusade in Jeans, among others, Emily Watson, Benno Fürmann and Udo Kier.

Expenditure

  • Thea Beckman: crusade into the unknown. Ueberreuter, Vienna / Heidelberg 1978, ISBN 3-8000-2177-3.
  • Thea Beckman: crusade into the unknown. Arena, Würzburg 1989 ( new edition 2003), ISBN 3-401-02878-2.
  • Thea Beckman: Crusade in Jeans. Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1996 ( new edition 2006), ISBN 3-8251-7544-8.
  • Thea Beckman: Crusade in Jeans. dtv, München 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-71311-5.
  • Literary work
  • Children 's and Youth Literature
  • Literature ( Dutch)
  • Literature ( 20th century)
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