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Daniel Düsentrieb (original name Gyro Gearloose ) is a cartoon character from the Walt Disney Company , who was invented by Carl Barks and first appeared in a comic in 1952. He has the shape of an anthropomorphic chicken , is a qualified engineer and an inventor by profession , whereby he repeatedly proves his ingenuity and ingenuity.

The alliteration "Daniel Düsentrieb" comes from the German translator Erika Fuchs . The original name Gyro Gearloose is ambiguous - Gyro means gyroscope Gearloose can be translated as an open circuit or loose belt, but it can also act as "loose gear" and thus as an allusion to the idiom to have a screw loose (dt "a screw loose have. “) Can be understood.

Daniel Düsentrieb's motto in the German editions, “Nothing is too swear for the engineer ”, originally comes from the engineer song by Heinrich Seidel (“Nothing is too difficult for the engineer ”).

Emergence

Daniel Düsentrieb first appeared in a comic book in May 1952, but a similar figure appeared in a 1937 cartoon draft by Interior Decorators . Barks contributed two drafts for the film. One figure became Franz Gans , the other was not used at the time, but later formed the basis for Daniel Düsentrieb. When Barks needed a character for the story An Embarrassing Revelation ( Gladstone's Terrible Secret ) in issue 140 of the Walt Disney's Comics and Stories series , he let Daniel Düsentrieb jump past five pictures. Düsentrieb tried to turn cream into butter with the help of a hilt and a buckled butter churn .

In 1956, Daniel Düsentrieb first became the main character in a four-page story for the Uncle Scrooge books. In 1962 he received his own series of issues, which was quickly discontinued.

Barks later said: “ If I had known that I would have made my own magazine with jet engine stories, I would have made it only about the size of Donald or Dagobert. Then it would have been easier to draw. He was a tall, lanky chicken that didn't fit easily into the pictures with the ducks. "

biography

Daniel Düsentrieb's father was called Dübel Düsentrieb ( Fulton Gearloose ) and ran a small repair shop in Duckburg . His grandfather Dankwart Düsentrieb ( Ratchet Gearloose ) was an inventor like him and was already working for Dagobert Duck back then.

According to Don Rosa's stories , Daniel Düsentrieb was born in Duckburg in 1914.

characterization

Daniel Düsentrieb's little helper

Daniel Düsentrieb makes his inventions for the joy of work instead of financial interest and fits into the cliché of the garage inventor. He often sells his inventions well below their value. He invented "useful" things like the bread lubricator, the dark light , the portable hole or the telephone with a built-in iron, but can also easily construct a faster-than- light spaceship within a week and in this context also proves the existence of tachyons . For Dagobert and Donald Duck - especially for his alter ego Phantomias  - he always has the right invention ready, and if something goes wrong, his small, self-made robot helper with artificial intelligence ( Little Helper or just Helper ) helps him .

In contrast to Donald Duck or Dagobert Duck, Daniel Düsentrieb's personality was clear from the start - a somewhat unworldly and absent-minded , but ingenious inventor whose machines and inventions often work differently than planned - he “ always wants the 'good', mostly only creates 'bad' ”. Another saying of his is: " better copied well than badly built yourself ".

The figure Daniel Düsentrieb mirrors a little Carl Barks, who would have liked to become an inventor himself. Initially, all of the jet engine inventions came from Barks.

Series appearances

Daniel Düsentrieb is a minor character in the series DuckTales - News from Duckburg and DuckTales .

media

Today, the name Daniel Düsentrieb is a synonym for the ingenious, somewhat clumsy inventor in German-speaking countries. For example, the Technical University of Hamburg, together with the Association of German Engineers (VDI), announced a Daniel jet engine competition, which awards a prize to schools every year.

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 140-02
  2. ↑ a b A brilliant inventor celebrates his birthday 50 years of Daniel Düsentrieb ( Memento from November 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 660 kB)
  3. ↑ Poet and understanding man in: VDI nachrichten , June 23, 2017, No. 25, p. 3
  4. ^ Heinrich Seidel: Engineer song in: The German poetry library
  5. ↑ Daniel Düsentrieb turns 60 focus.de, accessed on May 6, 2012
  6. ↑ Michael Barrier, Carl Barks. The biography
  7. ↑ Duckburg - Fiction or Reality? (PDF; 1.8 MB)
  8. ↑ Donald Duck - A "person" like you and me! (PDF; 364 kB)
  9. ↑ Engineering and technology heroes from film and television ( Memento from July 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ^ Daniel Düsentrieb in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 19, 2010, accessed on August 10, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Institute of the German Economy: Waiting for Daniela Düsentrieb  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.iwkoeln.de
  12. ↑ Irvin Robbin, Roland Weis, Anne-Lies Ihme, Hauke ​​Kock, Leonard Vosburgh, Otto Ehlert, Paul E. Blackwood, Gerd Werner: Inventions that changed our world , p. 37
  13. ↑ Daniel Jet Drive Prize