The three ??? Kids
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| Radio play from Germany | |
| Year of production | Books: since 1999 Radio plays: since 2009 |
| genre | Children's series / crime thriller |
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85 books + specials 79 radio plays + specials |
| production | Ulf Blanck , Gunnar Blanck |
| Publisher / label | Books: Kosmos Radio plays: Europe |
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| author | Ulf Blanck, Boris Pfeiffer , Ben Nevis , Christoph Dittert |
| Machining | Ulf Blanck |
| Director | Ulf Blanck |
| music | Frank Ramond , Ulf Blanck, Hamburger Alsterspatzen |
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The three ??? Kids ( ) is a children's book - series of Kosmos publishing . It is an offshoot of the successful book series Die Drei ??? , but to be regarded as an independent series. The associated radio play series is published by the radio play label Europe .
Emergence
After the great success with the youth book series Die Drei ??? has the Kosmos 1999 decided to publish an offshoot of the series, targeted to a much younger audience, between six and ten years to appeal. The contents of the stories are told in a more age-appropriate and less complex manner, and at the age of ten, the young detectives are significantly younger than in the original series Die Drei ??? (16 years).
action
The figures are based on the original series of the three ??? and experience their adventures in and around Rocky Beach, but there are deviations in the design of the stories. The adventures of the three ??? Before the original series The three ??? instead and describe the childhood life of the three detectives.
The three ??? Justus Jonas, Peter Shaw and Bob Andrews are ten years old, live in Rocky Beach, a fictional California coastal town that lies between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara , and specialize in solving cases of all kinds. Your headquarters is the "coffee pot", a discarded water tank on a disused railway line. This is their meeting point so that they can investigate undisturbed by their parents and the police. The three ??? are under the police care of Commissioner Reynolds, whom they often meet while solving the cases. He repeatedly refers to them as his "special unit".
characters
Justus Jonas
Justus lives with his aunt Mathilda and his uncle Titus, because his parents were killed in an airplane accident when he was five years old (in some cases in a car accident). Justus' uncle is the owner of the Titus Jonas used goods center . Jupiter doesn't like it at all when he is called “chubby” because he loves food above all else and also has a few pounds too much on his ribs. He's fond of chocolate for life. As the leader of the detective trio, he is interested in questions and riddles of all kinds. His distinguishing feature is the white question mark. Later he would like to turn his hobby into a profession and become a criminologist.
Peter Shaw
Peter is the sportiest of the group. There is hardly a sport that he has not tried out. His father is a trick expert in film. His hobbies are swimming, athletics, and case solving with Jupiter and Bob. Despite his sportiness, Peter is sometimes a little scared, but shows courage when it is necessary. Its distinguishing feature is the blue question mark. Peter states that he would like to become a professional athlete, detective and at least 100 years old.
Bob Andrews
Bob wears glasses and is a real bookworm. He can remember almost everything that he has read once, which often helps the three detectives. His father works for a major newspaper publisher, the Los Angeles Post . Besides rummaging through books in libraries, Bob likes listening to music, going to the movies and his favorite drink, Cola. Its distinguishing feature is the red question mark. Professionally, like his father, Bob would like to become a reporter for a large newspaper and continue to pursue his detective skills.
Authors
The first novels of the kids series were written by Ulf Blanck . After Boris Pfeiffer joined the team of authors in 2005 , Die-Drei's first novel - ??? -Author Ben Nevis brought out. Christoph Dittert has also been the author of the series since 2012 and contributes his first novels to the pocket editions.
| author | Years |
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| Ulf Blanck | since 1999 |
| Boris Pfeiffer | since 2005 |
| Ben Nevis | since 2008 |
| Christoph Dittert | since 2012 |
Sequence index
A detailed overview of all books, radio plays with their authors and publication years can be found in the main article → List of Die-drei - ??? - Kids episodes .
Books
As a rule, four new novels have been published each year since 1999. In 2002 and 2003, a total of two guessing stories about the series by the author Ulf Blanck were published. Since 2006, two Mitrate thrillers have been published annually under the series title Die drei ??? You and Kids brought out in which the reader is actively involved in solving the case. Boris Pfeiffer is responsible as the author. In addition to various other individual publications, there was an Advent calendar in book form in 2010, suitable for the Christmas season , where the reader had to solve a case by Christmas Eve. In 2012, the Pocket series was revived after six novels in the Pocket format were published in 2006 . These are separate cases, but they do not have the same number of pages as the regular episodes and are shorter.
On September 30, 2014, the first issue of a magazine for the series was published. This appears six times a year and is distributed with a circulation of 70,000 copies by the publishing house Blue Ocean Entertainment . According to the publisher, it is aimed at boys between the ages of 6 and 11.
Radio plays
Parallel to the books, audio books for the first nine episodes, read by the author Ulf Blanck, were published by Kosmos-Verlag. In 2006, the Munich publishing house USM began producing radio plays on the series. Asad Schwarz-Msesilamba as Justus Jonas , Valentin Stilu as Peter Shaw and Nicolás Artajo as Bob Andrews were the main speakers .
With the end of the legal dispute between Kosmos and Europe ( → Further information on the legal dispute ), Europe took over the production of the radio plays, with the result that new main speakers were hired and the radio plays that had already been released were remixed. On March 13, 2009, both the first six episodes appeared in a new version, as well as new unvoiced episodes.
The radio plays are produced by Ulf and his brother Gunnar Blanck. Ulf Blanck is also responsible for the dialogue script and the direction. Recordings are made in the Funk studio in Hamburg and the Johannes Steck studio in Munich. The title melody comes from the Hamburg composer and producer Frank Ramond . The music was recorded by Jens Lueck, who also co-composed the atmospheric music for the radio plays, in the Art of Music Studio together with the Hamburger Alsterspatzen children's choir from Hamburg under the direction of Jürgen Luhn.
speaker
| figure | speaker |
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| teller | Johannes Steck |
| Justus Jonas | Jannik Schümann |
| Peter Shaw | Yoshij Grimm |
| Bob Andrews | David Wittmann |
| Aunt Mathilda | Ingrid Capelle |
| Uncle titus | Achim Schülke |
| Chief Superintendent Samuel Reynolds |
Klaus Dittmann (episodes 1–57) Bert Franzke (since episode 58) |
| Skinny Norris | Tim Kreuer |
Guest speaker
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Games
- The three ??? Kids - Hunt for the Phantom for PC and Nintendo 3DS
- The three ??? Kids - the mysterious box as an iOS and Android app
- The three ??? Kids - code word Phantom as iOS and Android app
- The three ??? Kids - battle for the trophy for PC and as an iOS and Android app
Live events
Between November 2011 and May 2012, the Darmstadt children's and youth theater ensemble Theater performed the play Die drei ??? Kids - the singing spirit in different cities in Germany. The play was written by the authors Ulf Blanck and Boris Pfeiffer. A matching book adaptation has been available since August 2011. In contrast to the radio play version published in November 2011, the book was included as episode 49 in the regular episode count. The radio play was released as a special episode.
The Ensemble Theater is on tour in various cities again with the play The Christmas Thief. The piece was performed between November and December 2013. It is based on the book by the authors Ulf Blanck and Boris Pfeiffer. A radio play adaptation has also appeared.
Awards
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Kids Award
- 1 × in gold for the three ??? Kids - 01 box of 3 - episodes 1–3
Illustrations
Unlike the original series Die Drei ??? , in which an illustration can only be seen on the cover and in which it is strictly avoided to show the faces of the protagonists, the Kids series increasingly relies on visual background images of scenes and people. Stefanie Wegner, Timo Müller, Imke Staats, Jens R. Nielsen, Kim Schmidt , Harald Juch, Gabriel Nemeth , Jan Saße and Ingo Stein work as illustrators .
foreign countries
After the series had established itself in German-speaking countries, it was also exported to other countries.
- Hungary: Since 2007 the three ??? Kids in Hungary too , as the CTP trió kids . There they operate under the names Charlie, Tom and Peter.
- Slovakia: Even in Slovakia is since 2010 with the three ??? Kids puzzled. Here they are called Jupiterovi, Petrovi and Bobovi and act as Traja pátrači Junior .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Profiles of the three ??? ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Blue Ocean Entertainment magazine: The three ??? Kids ( Memento from December 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Golden Kids Award for The Three ??? Kids on brandora.de, accessed on April 19, 2017
