Krabat

Krabat is a youth book by Otfried Preußler. It is based on a Sorbian folk tale tells the story of the eponymous boy apprentice to a master's spell is and has to compete with this.

Content

The novel is set in the Lausitz during the Great Northern War. The 14 -year-old orphan boy Sorbian Krabat enters an apprenticeship in a mill in Koselbruch at Schwarzkollm. However, the mill turns out after a short time as a "black school" out in the millers taught twelve Mühlknappen in the black art.

Krabat initially like the apprenticeship in the mill and the black school. He is fascinated by the power that you can practice using magic on other people. He befriends with the journeymen, in particular with Tonda, the Altgesellen, who is to be his role model. But Tonda dies mysteriously at the end of the first of the three years, spends Krabat in the mill, and a new apprentice named Witko takes at the beginning of his place. Even after the expiry of the second year dies, another fellow named Michal in a mysterious accident and is replaced by Krabats friend Lobosch. Krabat by looking after and after the terrible game whose part he has become: The master who has turned bad, must sacrifice one of his pupils at the end of each year. Otherwise, he would die himself. To this end, he seeks out the best in each student before he has learned enough to be dangerous to him in a duel can.

In order to offer the Master forehead, Krabat trains himself in the black arts and eventually becomes the best student. Power gives him the love of a girl from the next village, the " Kantorka " ( as the Sorbian name for the cantor chants the Easter ), whose names he did not know. With her he meets in secret after he is often encountered in her dreams.

One of the fellows, Juro, though regarded as a fool, but only hides behind his feigned stupidity. He trusts Krabat one of his discoveries: the love of a girl to one of the miller's apprentice can defeat the Master. To this end, the girl must appear in the New Year's Eve in the mill and free to ask her lover before but there are a sample of life and death. Long Krabat wrestles with whether he wants the Kantorka expect that, but she finally decides himself for it to go this way.

The master, who knows nothing of these events, provides Krabat at the end of the third academic year before the election, if he wants to succeed the master. However, Krabat rejects this offer with decisiveness from: He does not want to be guilty or complicit in the death of a Mitgesellen. Then decide the champion that Krabat is sacrificed this year. New Year's Eve, however, appears Kantorka and calls from the master Krabats freedom. As a sample, it must Krabat among his eleven Mitgesellen that were previously transformed by the master in all ravens to find out. Krabat is scared for her life and does great allegations. She senses this and recognizes him from - Krabat and his Mitgesellen are free. The Master dies in New Year's Eve, and the mill goes up in flames, so that they are all free.

Formation

Otfried Preußler wrote - with interruptions - Ten years at Krabat. He gets his inspiration was the Sorbian folk tale of Krabat, the end of the 17th century near the location Schwarzkollm in Upper Lusatia between Hoyerswerda ( Wojerecy ) and Kamenz ( Kamjenc ) plays. The story of the apprentice, needs to assert himself against his master and challenged him to a fight, is also found in many other legends, as well as the subject of redemption through love.

Preußler said of his book:

" My Krabat is [ ... ] my story, the story of my generation and that of all young people who come with the power and temptations in touch and get caught up in it."

The first edition appeared in 1971 at the Arena -Verlag, 1981, the book appears in Thienemann -Verlag. The illustrations of both the standard output ( s / w ) and the sepia - colored, published 2005 Deluxe Edition by Herbert Holzing. The book has since been translated into 31 languages ​​.

Awards

Krabat was, inter alia, in 1972 awarded the German Youth Book Prize and the Polish Youth Book Prize; In 1973, the work of the Dutch Youth Book Prize Silver pen of Rotterdam, the European Youth Book Prize of the University of Padua and the American Library Association Award for Notable Book of 1973; 1977 Youth Book Prize of the Polish Publishers' Association.

Artistic adaptation

Films

According to the book of Czech animator Karel Zeman created in 1977 under the title Čarodějův Ucen a highly acclaimed film. In the German version Schütter Friedrich said the miller.

A live-action adaptation Krabat directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner originated from 2006 to 2008. Was first performed in the Lichtenburg Food on 23 September 2008. The film was released in Germany on October 9, 2008 to the cinema.

Radioplay

• The radio play label carousel has produced a three-part audio book series in 1983, in the Otfried Preußler reads his book.
• Along with the live-action adaptation also a radio play in the jumbo -Verlag 2008 emerged, the book tells of the Preußler while keeping the original voices from the movie with slipstreams. Dietmar Mues acted here as a narrator.
• The West German radio in 2010 produced a four-part children's storyteller ( 44:04 min, 46 min, 46 min, 45:49 min)

Dramatizations and musical settings

• The opera Krabat ( 1982) by Cesar Bresgen was premiered in 1983 after a stage version of Preußler.
• In 1994, the play Krabat by Nina Achminow in the Prince Regent Theatre in Munich was first performed. (Directed by Alexander Schulin Music: Estampie Cast: Konstantin Moreth, Joseph Hannesschläger, Juliane Kosarev )
• In May 2007, experienced Fredrik Zellers Krabat opera at the National Theater in Mannheim under the program Young Opera premiered.
• 2008 Preußler Krabat in an arrangement by Horst Hawemann, Annette Trümper and Christopher Gottwald was premiered at the Nuremberg theater puddle.
• Krabat was published by ASP in the 2008 album " Zaubererbruder - The Krabat - song cycle" musically.
• The Swiss theater staged Pack Preußler youth novel Krabat as light and shadow play with people shadows and masks.
• 2012 Krabat was premiered at the Staatstheater Oldenburg in Lower German language by the ensemble of the August Hinrichs stage. The translation is by Cornelia Ehlers, editing and production of Michael Uhl.
• 2013 was Krabat - A ballet in three acts by Otfried Preußler premiered at the Stuttgart Ballet. The choreography is by Demis Volpi, libretto and dramaturgy by Vivien Arnold.