The Snow Queen
The Snow Queen ( Danish title is: Sneedronningen ) is a literary fairy tale by the Danish poet Hans Christian Andersen, one of his longest and most elaborate, but also the most complicated and complex. It's about a little girl who is looking for his abducted by the Snow Queen playmates. Like many other fairy tales Andersen also addresses this little lucky the simple, good people and is humorous and ironic. The search of the girl takes place in dream-like scenes.
Action
A long, long time ago, a devil created a mirror which distorted everything beautiful and good and made her look ugly. " The most beautiful landscapes looked like boiled spinach. " Evil came out well in it. But one day the mirror was the devil from her hands and shattered into thousands of pieces, large and small, which donated depending on the use by the people, a lot of anger and confusion. They met one in the heart, so it was as cold as ice and met them one in the eye, he saw everything just ugly and evil around him. Thus, the sliver of magic mirror spread all over the world.
For the neighborhood children Kay and Gerda are in the summer nothing better than to play under the rose bush a planting box, which is on the very large communal roof gutter of two urban houses, and to dream. Since the orphan Kay of splintering of the magic mirror is made: A splitter meets his heart, which turns into a lump of ice. Another splinter gets into his eyes and he finds beauty only ugly. Not only that, he immediately breaks off the roses that he finds wormy, he mocked Gerda, is rude to those who mean well with him, and joins bad boys.
In winter it is the most fun of the boys to hang their sleds to passing carriages. As the splendid carriage drives past with the white furred beautiful Snow Queen, Kay hangs on and is kidnapped. The Queen pulls him into the carriage. The coldness of her kiss kills him almost, but he does not feel it. He forfeited their cold beauty and babbles proud " that he even mental arithmetic with fractions " could. Now he lives in a cold dream in her palace.
When he is still not back in the spring, Gerda decides to look for him. In a boat drives them for hours a great river down until it lands at a good magic fairy, an old woman who lives in a cottage in lush summer flowers. She is lonely and makes Gerda forget their projects so that these many months spent happily in the garden. When she remembers again and flees from the eternal summer garden, it is already late autumn.
During her search, she comes in a royal castle. Prince and princess who are touched by her story, she provided with winter clothes, including a muff, and make her for the journey a golden carriage with servants available.
In a forest, the coach is attacked by robbers, and all staff are murdered. The robbers mother has, however, a rather wild daughter who is fascinated by Gerda's clothes and also their natural grace and Gerda takes under her wing, not to tickle without them with their long knives. Also, it can be softened by Gerda's history. She gives Gerda her favorite reindeer, which is quite happy to have escaped the Messerspielchen, and allows them to move on.
With the help of Wise Women, a Lappin, after a Finnish woman, Gerda finally finds the castle of the Snow Queen, a collection of hundreds of empty cold Eissäle, all lit by cold northern light. In the largest, which is several miles long, is the throne of the Queen. Here drags Kay, almost black frozen with cold, he does not feel for his Eisklumpens in the heart and the kiss of the queen, ice sheets around and tried in vain to put the word "eternity". The Queen has promised that this word makes his freedom. But He does not know how to do it, because the splinter in the eye prevents it. So he sets for ever like a bad dream puzzling pattern.
So it takes Gerda ago. Kay did not even recognize. Gerda wept for him, and the tears melt his ice heart and the splinters disappear. By itself, the word " eternity " appears and the two can pull away. When they finally arrive home, they have grown up.
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Also a musical, children's operas and radio plays CD and theater productions appeared - For this fairy tale are in addition to numerous film adaptations - among other things, The Snow Queen (USSR, 1967). On April 28, 2006, in the Freiburg Konzerthaus also the romantic setting of Wolfgang Roese for large choir, symphony orchestra and speaker with over 200 contributors world premiere. In addition, a dramatization of the actor and director Wolfram Mehring, he has repeatedly staged even exists. The Estonian director Marko Raat 2010 has a new film adaptation, Lumekuninganna, brought out in the Snow Queen appears as a terminally ill woman.
Joan D. Vinge published in 1980, her science fiction novel, Snow Queen, loose whose content is based on the fairy tale.
The Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom used the story as part of his novel In the Dutch Mountains (1984 ) In heavily modified form. It is told from the perspective of a Spanish road inspector who writes books in his spare time and brings a revised version of the fairy tale to paper. This takes place in modern times and in a utopian variant of the Netherlands, extending far into the south. Similar to the literary fairy tale reflects underlying Nooteboom's novel happiness and beauty, but it was also the process of writing and the differences of literary genres. The book is prefixed as a motto a quote Andersen and it contains a scene in which the narrator discusses with Andersen about the end of his work.
The first children's opera " The Snow Queen " wrote the German composer Esther MoP in the year 2002/2003, it was premiered on September 6, 2003 at the festival " Hohenlohe Cultural Summer". As a result, these children experienced more than 30 opera performances at the theater Halberstadt and over 50 performances at the Cologne Opera chamber. In January 2012 it was performed at the Festspielhaus Baden -Baden
In collaboration with the Dutch author Sophie Kassies the composer Daan Manneke formed the substance of a 2003 children 's opera about whose German premiere took place in Hannover 2010.
Pierangelo Valtinoni created another children's opera, which premiered in Berlin in 2010.
The song Snow Queen (2005) Subway to Sally explores the fairytale on the verge. Inspired by this tale is the song Queen of Ice (2008) by Alexander Veljanov.
The Erfurt composer and producer Leo Sandner (aka Jens Stümpfl ), pupil of Wolf -Günter Leidel ( Weimar), wrote music and libretto for a musical " The Snow Queen ".
2009 The Snow Queen was listed as a winter musical in Berlin Friedrichstadt Palace. Premiere was on November 15.
In the season 2010/2011 the musical stage resulted in Nuremberg on its own musical version, the premiere was on November 3, 2010.
In November / December 2010 a theater production at the Wiesbaden State Theatre ran; with their own compositions, the piece was specially brought to the stage for children.
In December 2011, the production of " The Snow Queen " in the children's book Theatre of the Bavarian State Theatre in Munich Marstalltheater Premiere
The Musical at the Tivoli Freiberg place - 5 February 2012 was the world premiere of The Snow Queen. The production, a musical for the whole family with a specially composed song by Laura Niepold and Sebastian Dierkes, touring since then by Germany and enthusiastic until March 2013 already about 25,000 spectators.
Since 1957 is " The Snow Queen " in every decade once on the board of the theater at the Parkaue in Berlin. In October 2013, the premiere directed by Susanne Sachsse took place.
2013 appeared Frozen (Eng. The Ice Queen - Fully unabashedly ), a computer-animated of Disney animated film, loosely based on Andersen's tale.