Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Original title: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ) is a 1964 children's book by the British writer Roald Dahl . The original edition was illustrated by Quentin Blake . The first German edition with illustrations by Horst Lemke was published by C. Bertelsmann Verlag in 1969 . The translation was done by Inge M. Artl , the verses were transferred by Hans Georg Lenzen .
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The book tells the story of little Charlie Bucket who lives with his parents and four grandparents in a small house. The family lives in poor conditions and hardly has enough to eat. From his grandparents, Charlie hears the fantastic stories about Wonka's chocolate factory , which is located near Charlie's home and which is no ordinary factory. For example, people are told about workers who are not human.
Then Willy Wonka, the mysterious owner of the chocolate factory, announces in the newspaper that he has hidden golden tickets in five bars of the Wonka chocolate. Anyone who finds it has the unique chance to visit the factory from the inside. Soon after, all the kids, and even the adults, are storming stores around the world to find at least one ticket.
It's Charlie's birthday and his family gives him a bar of chocolate. He opens it and finds nothing. Others are more successful. After a short time, the newspaper announced that four of the five tickets had already been found. These four children are: the voracious Augustus Glupsch, the spoiled Veruschka Salz, the chewing gum Violetta Beauregarde and the TV addicted Micky Schießer. But Charlie gets the last golden card when he buys a bar of chocolate with the money he finds. Together with grandfather Josef, Charlie meets the other four children and their parents in front of the factory, where they are received personally by Willy Wonka. You will learn about the various products and inventions at Wonka's chocolate factory and the dwarfish Oompa Loompas who work there.
During the tour of the factory, the four other children, one after the other, get themselves into dangerous situations through careless and impudent behavior: Augustus falls into a chocolate river out of greed for chocolate; Despite Willy Wonka's warnings, Violetta eats a piece of chewing gum that turns her into a blueberry; Veruschka wants to catch one of Willy Wonka's trained squirrels and keep it as a pet and is thrown into the garbage disposal by the other squirrels; Micky illegally operates a machine invented by Willy Wonka, which drastically reduces his size. All four children disappear with their parents. In the end, only Charlie is left. Willy Wonka explains to him that the purpose of the tour was to choose the most likeable out of five children and make it the heir to his chocolate factory. While the other children, who were all rescued from the factory, are being sent home, Charlie and his grandfather take Willy Wonka's flying elevator to see Charlie's family. The whole family decides to move to the chocolate factory.
Additional chapters
Roald Dahl's draft of the book contained several other children who were not included in the final version. One of the deleted chapters, which is about the know-it-all girl Miranda Piker, was published in an anthology in 2010 along with other texts by Roald Dahl.
characters
Charlie Bucket
The character of Charlie Bucket represents the children for whom their family is more important than wealth and prosperity.
Augustus Gloop
Augustus is an overweight and voracious boy. It stands for children who are greedy and eat unhealthily.
Veruschka Salt (originally Verrucka Salt, English Veruca Salt)
Veruschka is the daughter of a rich industrial owner and lives in luxury. It stands for children who are spoiled too much by their parents and thus become greedy and imagine that they can get everything.
Violetta Beauregarde (originally Violetta Wiederkäu, English Violet Beauregarde)
Violetta is ambitious and does everything she can to win prizes, even in senseless disciplines such as long-term chewing gum. It stands for stubborn children who always want to achieve their goals, no matter how unreasonable they are.
Micky Schießer (originally Micky Mattschei, English Mike Teavee)
Mickey is a boy who prefers to sit in front of the TV all day and always carries plastic guns with him because he likes to watch cowboy films. It stands for children who are addicted to television and fascinated by violence and who refuse to spend the day outdoors or play with other children.
Willy Wonka
The owner of Wonka's chocolate factory has come up with brilliant ideas in chocolate and sweets. His factory is an exotic dream world. An essential part of the book's plot is its guiding the children and their parents through this factory.
Umpa-Lumpas (English Oompa Loompas )
They are dwarf-sized beings that Willy Wonka met on a jungle expedition in Lumpaland (English Loompaland). Since her favorite dish is cocoa beans, which are very rare in Lumpaland, Willy Wonka invited her to live and work in his chocolate factory. He pays them their wages in the form of cocoa beans.
Reception and controversy
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is considered a classic in English-language children's literature, but it also provoked criticism from the start. Some critics viewed the descriptions of the accidents as sadistic violence against children. As a result, the book is on the American Library Association 's list of books complained against in U.S. libraries.
The representation of the Umpa Lumpas sparked a public debate shortly after the book was published. In the original version, the Umpa Lumpas who work for Willy Wonka and serve as subjects in his experiments are a pygmy people from Africa. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People criticized this as a racist portrayal that reinforces prejudice against blacks and reproduces outdated arguments to justify slavery . Roald Dahl assured that he did not intend any such statements and changed the appearance of the Umpa Lumpas for further editions of the book and left their exact place of origin open. Even the revised version continues to be criticized because it leaves the colonialist elements untouched, regardless of the skin color of the Umpa Lumpas : Lumpaland is still a tropical country whose raw materials Willy Wonka exploits, and it still offers these raw materials to the local Umpa -Lumpas as payment for leaving their country and serving it.
Adaptations
Movie
The children's book was filmed twice: in 1971 the musical film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was released , directed by Mel Stuart with music by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse . In 2005, the remake Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was released , directed by Tim Burton .
Video games
In 1985, a video game based on the 1971 film was released under the name Charlie and the Chocolate Factory . A video game with the same name was also created for the 2005 film.
music
The opera The Golden Ticket by Peter Ash and Donald Sturrock premiered in 2010.
Based on the book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory premiered as a musical with music and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman in London's West End on June 25, 2013. Directed by Sam Mendes .
Aftermath
Marilyn Manson leaned his music video Dope Hat on Mel Stuart's 1971 film and took the song Family Trip / Choklit Factory from it .
Bela B. portrays Willy Wonka in the music video for his single Tag with dust jacket . The Oompa-Loompas and the children, each with an adult, appear in it, although the text of the song has no relation to the book. The design of the video is closely based on Tim Burton's film adaptation from 2005 and Johnny Depp's portrayal of Willy Wonka.
After the original version of the name of Veruschka Salt, the American alternative rock band Veruca Salt was named in the early 1990s .
In the episode Scorpions Like Us ( The Scorpion's Tale ) of the cartoon series The Simpsons , the pharmaceutical entrepreneur Walter Hotenhoffer, spoken by Werner Herzog , identifies himself as Augustus Glupsch / Augustus Gloop, who was traumatized by being sucked into the pipe in the chocolate lake has been.
The band Primus released a new interpretation of the film's soundtrack in 2014 with the album Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble .
Tony's Chocolonely has been making chocolate in Amsterdam since 2005 . In April 2020, the plan will be presented to build a new, visitable factory in Zaandam in the north of Amsterdam. This should contain a roller coaster.
Awards
- 1972: New England Round Table of Children's Librarians Award (USA)
- 1973: Surrey School Award (Great Britain)
- 2000: Millennium Children's Book Award (Great Britain)
- 2000: Blue Peter Book Award (Great Britain)
continuation
In 1972 Roald Dahl published the book Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator . The story is continued directly: From Charlie's house, a journey around the world begins in the glass elevator, together with Charlie's entire family. By accident, the passengers do not end up in the factory again as planned, but in orbit of the earth.
expenditure
Book editions
The novel was published in various bindings by several publishers. Selection:
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Original title: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ). German by Inge M. Artl and Hans Georg Lenzen (verse). With illustrations by Quentin Blake . Special edition. Rowohlt Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-499-21336-2 (paperback).
- Charlie and the big glass elevator . Rowohlt Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek 2003, ISBN 3-499-21212-9 .
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory / Charlie and the Big Glass Elevator , Wunderlich 1987, ISBN 3805204523 (double volume ).
Audio book
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , 3 CDs, read by Ulrich Noethen , Der Hörverlag 2005, ISBN 3899406222 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Sally Lodge: New Dahl Book Contains Missing Chapter of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'. (No longer available online.) In: Publishers Weekly . August 5, 2010, archived from the original on December 29, 2011 ; Retrieved November 11, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Roald Dahl, The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets. Puffin 2010, ISBN 978-0142417423 .
- ↑ a b c German translation by Inge M. Artl and Hans Georg Lenzen (Verse), Bertelsmann Verlag Gütersloh 1969
- ↑ Ian Ousby (ed.): The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge University Press 1993, ISBN 0521440866 , p. 269.
- ↑ Don D'Ammassa: Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction. New York, Checkmark Books 2006, ISBN 0816061920 , p. 52.
- ^ Jonathon Green: The Encyclopedia of Censorship. New York 1990, ISBN 0816015945 , p. 139.
- ^ Donald Sturrock: Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl. London, HarperPress 2010, ISBN 978-0007254767 , pp. 492-497.
- ↑ Layla AbdelRahim: Order and the Literary rendering of Chaos. Children's Literature as Knowledge, Culture, and Social Foundation. Dissertation at the University of Montreal , 2011, 178–179.
- ↑ Rachel Lee Harris: A 'Golden Ticket' for St. Louis Opera Fans. In: New York Times . May 23, 2010, accessed November 10, 2011 .
- ^ Tim Masters: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory musical opens in West End. In: BBC News. June 25, 2013, accessed February 4, 2014 .
- ↑ Bela B. - Tag with dust jacket (music video) . youtube.com. September 25, 2008. Accessed July 26, 2020.
