The Adventures of the Black Hand"

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The adventures of the "black hand" is the title of a classic children's book by Hans Jürgen Press .

The four friends and master detectives Felix (with trumpet), Adele, Rollo (always with a striped sweater) and Kiki m call themselves “black hand”. E. (in my opinion means "with squirrels"). In the house at Kanalstrasse number 49, directly under the dovecote, in the “airport”, the “black hand” met regularly after school.

history

The adventures of the "black hand" appeared for the first time (with the collaboration of Fritz Raab ) in sequels in Sternchen , the children's supplement to the illustrated star , from No. 10 on March 5, 1960, with a chapter being printed every 14 days. Each chapter consists of two parts: a narrative text, at the end of which is a question for the reader, and a black and white hidden object drawn by Press , in which a detail is hidden that leads to the answer to the question. The readers were invited in the form of a competition to use this picture to solve the riddle in the text, and only found out in the sequel whether they had guessed correctly.

In 1965 all the stories were published as a Ravensburger paperback (volume 60), with one chapter spread over a double page - on the left the text, on the right the one or more pictures. There are 4 stories:

  • The mysterious house (11 chapters)
  • The treasure in the Bibersee (11 chapters)
  • The Smuggler's Tunnel (Chapter 18)
  • The robbery in the zoo (20 chapters)

This book version has been reprinted again and again since it was first published and is still available today. In 1986, for the 25th birthday, an anniversary edition was published in a larger hardcover format with revised text and two changes to the drawings. In 2008 the Ravensburger Verlag published a hardcover special edition in paperback format.

From May 13, 1974, the adventures of the "black hand" were broadcast on the ARD television series Plumpaquatsch . The text was read and a sequence of individual images was shown which represented the course of the story.

expenditure

Translations

into English
  • The Black Hand Gang and the Mysterious House. 1978, translated by Barbara Littlewood from the 1976 edition of Methuen Children's Book, London, and supplemented with vocabulary and phonetic transcription.
  • also in the same presentation etc. The Black Hand Gang and the Treasure in Breezy Lake. 1978, ISBN 3-473-39505-6 .
into Italian
  • Le avventure della Mano Nera , translated by Mario Sala Gallini, Piemme Junior Verlag, 1995, ISBN 8838435170 .
into Japanese
  • Kurotedan wa meitantei. ( く ろ て 団 は 名 探 偵 ) translated by Reiko Ōkoso. Yūgakusha, Tōkyō 1984, ISBN 4-8416-0469-3 .
into Catalan
  • Les aventures de la Mà Negra. 1986, translated by Lourdes Bigorra.
into Basque
  • Eskubeltz taldearen adventure tourism. translated by Pilar Iparragirre. Elkar, Donostia 1990, ISBN 84-7529-128-7 .
into Spanish
  • Aventuras de “la mano negra”. translated by José Sánchez López. Espasa-Calpe, Madrid 1981.
into French
  • The inquiries de la main noire. translated by Sylvia Gehlert. Actes Sud, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-7427-1790-0 .
into Portuguese
  • A Turma da Mao Preta: O Tesouro do Lago da Brosa (e) Um Roubo no Zoológico. translated (from the English edition) by Thereza M. Deutsch. tica, Sao Paulo 2000, ISBN 85-08-06160-9 .

Web links

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  1. ↑ ravensburger.de: The adventures of the "black hand"
  2. ↑ s. Holger Vallinga u. Eckart Sackmann, Hans Jürgen Press ; in: Eckart Sackmann (ed.), Deutsche Comicforschung 2013, Hildesheim 2012, p. 137f