Alois Nebel (Graphic Novel)

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Alois Nebel is the title of a graphic novel trilogy by Jaroslav Rudiš and Jaromír Švejdík . The individual volumes Bílý potok ( Weißbach , 2003) , Hlavní nádraží ( Central Station , 2004) and Zlaté Hory ( Zuckmantel , 2005) were published in Czech from 2003, and in 2006 as a complete edition. In 2012 Voland & Quist published the German translation by Eva Profousová. The graphic novel was also translated into Polish and French.

From 2005 to 2007, short stories were published in the Czech magazine Reflex , which appeared in book form in 2008 and in German translation in 2013 ( Alois Nebel - Leben nach Timetable ).

content

Alois Nebel is a dispatcher at a small train station in Bílý Potok, a remote place on the Czechoslovakian-Polish border, the former Sudetenland (the train station in Horní Lipová was used as a template ). The loner’s only hobby is collecting old timetables. But when the fog settles over the train station, Alois sees trains with ghosts and shadows from Central Europe's dark past: the Second World War, the expulsion of the Germans, the Soviet occupation. Alois Nebel cannot get rid of these nightmares and ends up in a mental hospital. There he met "the dumb man" who was arrested while trying to cross the border. This becomes the involuntary trigger for Alois' decision to take up the fight against the demons that haunt him at night.

filming

In 2011 the Czech director Tomáš Luňák took on the material and filmed it using the rotoscopic technique . The film received the European Film Award in the category Best Animated Film in 2012 .

reception

The German-language feature section has so far received the graphic novel largely positively. Focus Online describes it as "a humorous comic journey into the German-Czech trepidation". The translation by Eva Profousova is congenial, the only criticism is the “loss of a certain witticism”, which is “inevitable”. Gesa Müller from EinsLive calls the characters described in the book "quirky and lovable at the same time".

Since the timetable change in December 2013, the pair of trains R 1412/1413 with the name Alois Nebel has been running on the Jeseník - Zábřeh na Moravě route via the Silesian Semmering . In Zábřeh there is a handover of the through coaches, which means that Alois Nebel's wagons via Olomouc hl.n. - Brno hl.n. to Praha hl.n. reach.

Exhibitions

Text output

  • Jaroslav Rudiš, Jaromir 99: Alois Nebel. Translated from the Czech by Eva Profousová. Voland & Quist, Dresden / Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-86391-012-9 .

literature

  • Stefanie Flamm: The world of Alois Nebel . In: Die Zeit , number 36, of August 29, 2013, pp. 57–58. [1]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The world of Alois Nebel . In: Zeit , August 29, 2013. 
  2. ↑ Alois Nebel at Focus Online
  3. ↑ Alois Nebel at einslive
  4. ↑ R 1412 on zelpage.cz
  5. ^ Announcement on the exhibition ( Memento of August 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 5, 2014