Moomin

The Moomins are invented by the Finland-Swedish author Tove Jansson, hippopotamus -like troll creature. The Moomins live in the idyllic Moominland somewhere in Finland. Under trolls refers to both tiny and huge mythical creatures. The Moomins and the Snorks have an estimated height of 50 cm, they have a short fur, a bushy tail, and are good swimmers and divers as well as boat handlebars.

The original Moomin stories - books, picture books and comics - experienced numerous adaptations, such as cartoons and puppet shows and radio plays. The Moomin books are popular due to the endearing and humorous characters great popularity worldwide, have been translated into more than 30 languages ​​and secure Tove Jansson a place among the most famous Scandinavian writers.

• 2.1 films
• 2.2 Marketing
• 2.3 Music

Muminwerke

Tove Jansson wrote and illustrated 1945-1970 nine Moomin books:

The first five thereof may be regarded as children's books; merry adventure motifs determine the actions. A common motif is the survivability of external threats. The tolerant interaction of the characters with each other is of relevance in adults. The sixth volume of the series turns into a psychological drama observed, the plot becomes more and more moved into the interior of the figures. Topics are now internal constraints, loneliness and aging. The seventh book falls out of the formal framework as it offers no consistent action, but consists of short, self-contained stories - a form that should be crucial for the subsequent adult books by Tove Jansson.

Parallel to this literature runs the illustrational development: the Drawings are identified for the first volumes even by watercolor surfaces, a black and white style prevails in the middle books, which is characterized by both closed lines, on the other hand, is reminiscent of Edward Gorey Schraffurtechnik. In the last three books of the character stroke is on its unity and is always fleeting and sketchy.

In German-speaking countries the Muminbücher were known from the 1950s. The order of appearance failed to cover it with the originals. In addition, the titles were not translated, but completely changed; This gave the series an external seriality, which it has not in the original actually.

Currently all Muminbücher are available at the Arena Verlag.

Picture books

In addition to the novel-like Muminbüchern Tove Jansson also published four picture books:

The first three books focus on the graphical design (the first integrated even different shaped recesses in the design of the pages), while the fourth is a photo book that takes place in a large Moominhouse model.

Comics

Between 1954 and 1957, Tove Jansson drew one appearing in daily three -picture strip Moomin comic strip for the British newspaper Evening News. The motifs she took part changed their Muminbüchern - with several motifs also occur only in later books - for part of the current real world. In addition, the entertaining element is clearly in the foreground. This means that the comics are not in complete harmony with the cosmos of Muminbücher.

The increasing load by drawing comics on futures prompted Tove Jansson, leave the show after 21 episodes to her brother Lars, who led still further to 73 result (1975).

Mumincomics appeared in the 1950s and 1960s in many newspapers of the German-speaking countries, and later in youth magazines ( Rascals, Flohkiste ) and magazines. Beginning of the 1980s brought the bastion -Verlag publishes a book series in which the comics were partially shortened and changed the lyrics.

A new complete edition in English was started by Drawn and Quarterly, 2006. A German edition of this edition was published in five volumes from 2008 to 2012 Reprodukt.

In Finland, new Mumincomics were created by other artists since the 1990s, but most go back to motifs from the Muminbüchern.

Figures

The following creatures populate the Moomin universe:

• Moomin: childlike longing and imaginatively
• Muminpapa: with cylinder, both bourgeois- set as well lausbübisch - adventurous
• Muminmama: with apron and handbag, unwavering loving and tolerant
• Schnüferl / Sniff: naive and clumsy, timid but curious, a rodent -like troll.
• Snork Maiden: Moomin friend and admirer. Their relationship is not always clear: Sometimes you fall in love with others, but Mumin turns to again and again before it is too serious; Her jealousy is not strange.
• Snork, the brother of Snorkfräuleins: He is the inventor, such as airships, takes this reason often important is impatient and organized with passion. Only in the early books.
• My Small / Small Mü: smallest and youngest daughter of the Mymla whose birth is mentioned in the book " Muminvaters tempestuous youth." Autonomous and disrespectful, she sees through her ​​counterpart usually faster than it is this right. She wears a red dress and sturdy shoes.
• Mymla: The Big Sister of the Little My, and "Daughter of the Mymla " called. The mother of two dipped only in " Muminvaters tempestuous youth " on.
• Snufkin / Snufkin / Mumrik / sniffer: admired, freedom -loving and authorities dismissive friend of believers. From " Comet in Moominvalley " here. Another human-like troll, the wide brown clothes and a hat with yellow spring bears.
• Filifjonka: an anxious woman who lives alone in a perfectly kept house, but actually society and chaos studied.
• Hemule: A whole species of mostly correctly - compulsive individuals: Stamp collectors, botanists, park rangers, police inspectors. Whatever they do, they do with a devotion and a conscience that border on fanaticism. See the Moomin similar, but they are much slimmer.
• Hatifnatten: small, ghost -like, asparagus -like creatures that appear in large quantities, where disaster threatens, such as a large thunderstorm. You are looking for the electric charge of lightning and are then loaded itself, so that you can get at them once. They are dumb and communicate with each other with unexplained means.
• Muskrat: a philosopher who proceeds from the futility of things and Oswald Spengler reads. He appeared in " Comet in Moominvalley " and in " A droll society " and lives with the Moomins in the house until it happens to him there disrespectful.
• Morra: a cold and lonely creature that appears in the Moomin Valley now and then. You can freeze what it touches and speaks rarely (eg in " The Moomins. A droll Company"). The Moomin Valley residents are afraid of her. It is black, the body consists of only head which merges seamlessly into a lake -like body and two arms with claws. Only in "Winter in Moominvalley " where Moomin and small My experience the midwinter feast, some sympathy for Morra is awakened.
• The ant lion, lives buried in the sand, lured into a funnel in the sand on the ants to eat them, but unfortunately almost Moominmamma.

Further processing of the Moomin fabric

Films

The stories of the Moomins were filmed several times. In addition to the records of the Augsburg Puppet Polish- Austrian puppet animation series is very well known in the Se -ma -for Studios (1978 - 1982); in the German version all characters of Hans Clarin were synchronized. The full text appeared in the 2000s on 7 DVDs.

In the years 1969-1972 two anime series were filmed with 65 and 52 episodes, the Tove Jansson, however, did not particularly like because they did not implement the statement of the original series faithfully. In the years 1990 to 1992 two more anime series (78 and 26 episodes) including the short cinema film comet were produced in Muminland, which was shown with two other films together. This version also was not the benevolence of Tove Jansson.

Marketing

Since 1987 there is a Moomin Museum in Tampere. A Moomin Theme Park ( Moomin ) is located in Naantali. Many Finnish children already grow up in a Moomin: The Creatures of Jansson's stories decorate substantial portions of Finnish children's products. The Finnish design company Arabia has made the set of dishes with Muminmotiven an export hit. The Finnish Post Office issues every few years Moomin stamps.

Music

The Swedish folk rock prog band ritual process the material freely on their album The Hemulic Voluntary band. The " hemulische voluntary chapel " from the Moomin World theme is the title song as well as in the songs A Dangerous Journey and Seasong For The Moominpappa.

The Israeli composer Chaya Czernowin engages in her work pilgrimages for narrator, children's choir and instrumental ensemble on the Moomin fabric and connects him with texts by the poet Stefan George. The work was premiered by the Dresden Kreuz Choir 2007.

In Russia, the rock band Mumi troll named after the most famous figure of Tove Jansson.