The Tales of Beedle the Bard
The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Original Title: The Tales of Beedle the Bard ) is a book by the British author JK Rowling. It belongs to the world of the Harry Potter series and was released on 4 December 2008 worldwide. The German translation is by Klaus Fritz.
Content
The book contains a collection of fictional tales that come from the Harry Potter world. In each tale is followed by a commentary by Albus Dumbledore, former headmaster of Hogwarts, in which he analyzes it, considerations hires him and fictional background information. The five fairy tales bear the title The Wizard and the Hopping Pot ( engl. The Wizard and the Hopping Pot), The well of true happiness ( The Fountain of Fair Fortune ), The Sorcerer haired Heart ( The Warlock 's Hairy Heart ) Babbitty Rabbitty and the cackling stump ( Babbitty and her Cackling stump Rabbitty ) and the Tale of the Three Brothers (The tale of the three Brothers ).
Furthermore, the book includes a foreword penned by the author. In it she compares, among other Beedles tale with "our" fairy tale; Although there are many parallels, such as the fundamental victory of good, but also differences, such as a less negative portrayal of sorcery and greater autonomy of the female characters.
Importance in the Harry Potter world
The Tales of Beedle the Bard is in the world of Harry Potter books a famous collection of fairy tales. In the last volume of the series ( Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ) leaves the late Professor Dumbledore Hermione a copy of the collection of fairy tales. Only after some time find Hermione, Harry and Ron, that the tale of three brothers has a kernel of truth and evidence of three powerful magical objects, the Deathly Hallows, is. The tale is thus a key to the resolution of the plot.
Four of the tales were mentioned in the book, the tale Of Sorcerer hairy heart was also invented by Rowling.
Original determination
After finishing the last Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Rowling wrote in 2007 seven handmade editions of The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Six of them she gave thanks from those you stood to the side over the years as part of the Harry Potter releases. The seventh edition was auctioned off for charity. The highest bidder was the company amazon.com, the proceeds of 1.95 million pounds ( 2.5 million euros ) benefited Rowling Children's High Level Group. Amazon put the book for the public, and are presented scans as well as summaries of the texts on your website.
Reviews
Carola Siedentop ruled that followers of the series to Harry Potter much likely to know again, even if the book is not a sequel. Persons who have not read Harry Potter, would find the fairy tale at best appealing. However amusing are the comments of Albus Dumbledore. Furthermore, it draws parallels to the "classics " of the Brothers Grimm.
After Monika Burghard is short and charming tales that start conventionally, and which at the end always all mages are good. In the core issue in these tales, as well as with traditional tales, not to problems of children and adolescents but from adults.
Wieland friend saw the book as a postmodern game with various fictions, in which only the author is real. If it were not true Potter, but should be seen as part of the Potter Paratexts since 2001. The book show Rowling's pleasure in citing; so there is evidence of Goethe's The Sorcerer's Apprentice, The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll, and The Pardoner 's Tale from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Overall, the Tales of Beedle the Bard had a vindication and an encouragement in terms of emancipation.
Filming
The Tale of the Three Brothers is in the film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 to see. It Hermione reads (as in the novel ) before the story and the characters are shown in animated black and white.
Expenditure
- JK Rowling: The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Carlsen, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 3-551-59999-8 (Hardcover).
- JK Rowling: The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Carlsen, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-551-35926-1 ( paperback edition with cover by Sabine Wilharm )
- JK Rowling: The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Carlsen, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-551-35940-7 ( paperback edition with cover by JK Rowling )
- In addition, a collector's edition of the book is exclusively available at online retailer Amazon, which contains additional illustrations and a pressure of Joanne K. Rowling's handwritten introduction. The book is accompanied with a velvet bag embroidered signature of Rowling. Just four weeks after the publication in Germany, it was at the top of the lists of bestsellers.