The red Zora and her gang (novel)

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The red Zora and her gang is a youth novel by Kurt Kläber (1897-1959), who published it for the first time in 1941 under the pseudonym Kurt Held .

Emergence

Kurt Kläber, who lived in the Swiss emigration, went on a trip to Yugoslavia around 1940 , during which he met the girl Zora and her gang. He processed the intense experiences with the young people in his first book for young people. It is recommended by Verlag Sauerländer for children aged ten and over.

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The story is told of orphans from the Croatian coastal town of Senj . Branko, the twelve-year-old son of a traveling violinist and a tobacco worker, loses his mother and no longer has a home. He is suspected of theft and locked up. But thirteen-year-old Zora, a girl with red hair, frees him. Branko is accepted into the gang of Uskoks , who have come together under the leadership of Zora. The townspeople treat the destitute children like outcasts; Theft and damage to property are the reactions of the gang of children.

In order to survive, the children become criminals, but within their community they adhere to fixed rules. Your top priority is solidarity . Initially, this does not apply to Branko, who is categorically rejected by a member of the gang, Duro. But Branko manages to fight for a permanent place in the group and in the end also win Duro's friendship when he saves him from an octopus.

One of the townspeople who feels connected to the children is the old fisherman Gorian. The children help him to assert himself against the big fishing companies. They find another ally in Curcin, the town's baker.

After events escalate, Zora and Branko are threatened with arrest, from which they can free themselves again. Soon after, however, Gorian receives an invitation before the twelve-person magistrate plus the mayor of the city, where Gorian gives a fiery defense speech for the children. There is a vote on whether the children should be tried or they should be integrated into the society of the city. Thanks to the intervention of the mayor's daughter Zlata, it ends just positive for the gang, whereupon they are accepted as apprentices by various residents of the city, including Gorian himself. Zora and Branko stay with him, Duro becomes a farmer, Pavle baker at Curcin and Nicola Fischer .

Book editions

Historical editions:

Current issues:

Adaptations

Film & television

In 1979, the German-Swiss-Yugoslavian coproduction resulted in the television series Die Rote Zora und seine Gang .

Filming of the film version Die Rote Zora began in August 2006, directed by Peter Kahane . The film premiered on January 13, 2008 in Hamburg. From January 24th it ran regularly in cinemas. The film was shot in Montenegro . In the SHIP (Studio Hamburg International Productions) production, the young actress Linn Reusse (Zora) took on the title role and Jakob Knoblauch (Branko) the second leading role. In addition, Mario Adorf to see (Fischer Gorian). The remaining roles of the children's gang around Zora were cast with some well-known child actors from film and television.

Family opera

At the beginning of May 2008 "Die Rote Zora" was premiered in the Lucerne Theater as an opera for children and adults. Under the direction of the Austrian composer Elisabeth Naske and the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, amateur actors from various Lucerne children's choirs and professional singers performed a stage version of the classic children's book in three acts. This opera was performed again in 2009 at the Komische Oper Berlin .

Radio play versions

In 1965 a mono radio play was produced by Hessischer Rundfunk (duration approx. 106 min.). Speakers included Sabine Gewiner (Zora), Rudolf Krieg , Dietmar Bengisch .

In 1979 Intercord released a three-part radio play version on record, which was based on the soundtrack of the television series. It was a production by Tele-Norm-Film GmbH and INMUS . The texts came from Fritz Umgelter and Matthias Deyle . The music came from Rolf Unkel , the theme music from Christian Bruhn . Contributing speakers were Inez Günther , Klaus Höhne , Imo Heite , Suzanne Doucet , Uwe Falkenbach , Thomas Braut , Holger Unger , Erich Schleyer , Edgar Mandel , Sabina Trooger (Branco), Matthias Deyle, Hannes Kaetner , Christina Hoeltel and Benno Sterzenbach (Gorian) . The individual parts of the radio play Die Rote Zora were:

  • LP 1: Branko joins the gang; The fisherman Gorian
  • LP 2: Escape to the mountains; Of witches, fish and ghosts
  • LP 3: The fish that becomes a dog; The Uskoks are dead - long live the Uskoks.

A radio play version on an audio CD (around 75 min.) Was released in 1998 by the Patmos publishing house . With music by Jürgen Treyz and with the artistic assistance of Carmen-Maja Antoni , this classic children's world literature was created in an exciting production. The speakers are: Jenny Antoni (Zora), Bijan Bahluli Zamani (Branko), Max Ruhbaum (Pavle), Michael Schrodt (Nicola), Sebastian Nakajew (Duro), Yvonne Johna (Zlata), Jacob Antoni (Stjepan), Volkmar Kleinert ( Gorian), Udo Kroschwald (mayor), Max Giermann (narrator) a. v. a. Director: Karin Lorenz , sound: Nikolaus Esche .

In 2007 the last version of the radio play was released, u. a. with Mario Adorf , Ben Becker , Dominique Horwitz , Jakob Knoblauch and Linn Reusse .

Others

The band Heiter bis Wolkig celebrates the feminist political group Rote Zora of the same name in their song "Hey Rote Zora", which is based on the melody of the Pippi Longstocking television series ; it was a success as a single.

The title of the queer feminist festival Rdeče Zore ( Red Zoras or Red Twilight in Slovenian ), which takes place annually in March in Ljubljana , refers to the name of both the book “The Red Zora and Her Gang” and the political group Rote Zora .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rote Zora - class struggle in the children's room in: Der Tagesspiegel from January 20, 2008
  2. ↑ According to advertising on the publisher's website
  3. ↑ Information from the Network Statement
  4. ↑ The Castle of the Red Zora ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 349 kB)
  5. ↑ Information ( Memento from April 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Elisabeth Naske  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.elisabethnaske.at  
  7. ^ Children's opera from the wind tunnel , article in the BZ on November 3, 2009, accessed on February 20, 2013
  8. ^ "Hey red Zora" text on golyr.de
  9. ↑ O imenu [about the name (Rdeče zore)], on the website of the Rdeče Zore festival , accessed on August 13, 2013
  10. ↑ Tea Hvala: The Red Dawns Festival as a Feminist-Queer Counterpublic / Festival Rdeče zore kot feministično-kvirovska kontrajavnost. In: Monitor ISH. Revija za humanistične in družbene vede / Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences. XII / 1 2010 ( Memento of November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1 MB), accessed on August 13, 2013