The fairy 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 writer Joanne K. Rowling . It belongs to the world of the Harry Potter series and was released worldwide on December 4th, 2008. The German translation is by Klaus Fritz .
content
The book contains a collection of fictional fairy tales that come from the Harry Potter world. Each fairy tale is followed by a comment from Albus Dumbledore , the former headmaster of Hogwarts, in which he analyzes it, makes reflections on it and provides fictional background information. The five tales bear the title The Wizard and the Hopping Pot (Engl. The Wizard and the Hopping Pot ) The fountain of true happiness (The Fountain of Fair Fortune), The Sorcerer hairy heart (The Warlock's Hairy Heart) Babbitty Rabbitty and the cackling tree stump (Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump) and The Tale of the Three Brothers .
The book also contains a foreword written by the author. In it she compares Beedle's fairy tales with “our” fairy tales; There are indeed many parallels, such as the fundamental victory of the good, but also differences, such as a less negative portrayal of sorcery and a greater independence of the female characters.
Significance in the Harry Potter world
The Fairy Tales of Beedle the Bard is a well-known collection of fairy tales in the world of Harry Potter books. In the last volume in the series ( Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ), the late Professor Dumbledore leaves Hermione a copy of the fairy tale collection. Only after some time do Hermione, Harry and Ron find out that the fairy tale of the three brothers has a real core and provides clues to three powerful magical objects, the Deathly Hallows. The fairy tale is thus a key to the resolution of the plot.
Four of the fairy tales were mentioned in the book, the fairy tale Des Witcher's Hairy Heart was also invented by Rowling.
Original destination
After completing the final Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , Rowling wrote seven hand-crafted editions of Beedle the Bard's fairy tales in 2007. She gave six of them as a thank you to people who have stood by her side over the years as part of the Harry Potter publications. The seventh edition was auctioned for charity. The highest bidder was amazon.com and the proceeds of 1.95 million pounds (2.5 million euros) went to Rowling's Children's High Level Group . Amazon made the book available to the public and posted scans and summaries of the texts on its own homepage.
Reviews
Carola Siedentop judged that followers of the Harry Potter series should recognize a lot, even if the book is not a sequel. People who have not read Harry Potter would find the fairy tales appealing at best. However, Albus Dumbledore's comments are amusing.
According to Monika Burghard, these are short and charming fairy tales that begin conventionally and at which all magicians are always good at the end. At its core, fairy tales, like traditional fairy tales, are not about problems for children and young people, but for adults.
Wieland Freund saw the book as a postmodern game with various fictions in which only the author is real. It is not a real Potter, but can be seen as part of the Potter paratexts since 2001. The book shows Rowling's pleasure in quoting; there are references to Goethe's The Sorcerer's Apprentice , Edgar Allan Poe's The Treasonous Heart , Lewis Carroll and The Pardoner's Tale from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales . Overall, the fairy tales of Beedle the Bard are a justification and an encouragement in matters of emancipation.
filming
The tale of the three brothers can be seen in the film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 . Hermione reads the story out loud (as in the novel) and the characters are shown in animated black and white.
expenditure
- Joanne K. Rowling: The Fairy Tales of Beedle the Bard. Carlsen , Hamburg 2008, ISBN 3-551-59999-8 (hardcover). (For 4 weeks in 2008 and 2009 at number 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list )
- Joanne K. Rowling: The Fairy Tales of Beedle the Bard. Carlsen, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-551-35926-1 (paperback edition with cover by Sabine Wilharm )
- Joanne K. Rowling: The Fairy Tales of Beedle the Bard. Carlsen, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-551-35940-7 (paperback edition with cover by Joanne K. Rowling )
- In addition, a collector's edition of the book is available exclusively from online retailer Amazon, which contains additional illustrations and a print of Joanne K. Rowling's handwritten introduction. The book comes with a velvet bag with Rowling's embroidered signature. Just four weeks after its release in Germany, it was at the top of the lists of bestsellers .
Individual evidence
- ↑ JK Rowling Official Site ( Memento from December 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ JK Rowling Official Site ( Memento from December 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.radioberlin.de/service/buchtipps/dokumente/die_maerchen_von_beedle.html phis-dead link | date = 2018-04 | archivebot = 2018-04-06 14:58:53 InternetArchiveBot | url = http: / /www.radioberlin.de/service/buchtipps/dokumente/die_maerchen_von_beedle.html}} - Book tips at RadioBerlin (page no longer available)
- ↑ In JK Rowling's Beedle fairy tale the blood splatters, Welt Online from December 4, 2008
- ↑ The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Exclusive collector's edition) on Amazon
- ↑ What Rowling tells in the Harry Potter sequel , rp-Online from December 11, 2008 ( Memento from February 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive )