The black tulip (novel)
The black tulip ( French La Tulipe noire ), a story about the tulip grower Cornelius van Baerle and the beautiful Rosa, is one of the most successful novels by Alexandre Dumas . It was first published in three editions by Baudry ( Paris ) in 1850 .
content
Netherlands , 1672: at a time of political turmoil, the Haarlem Tulip Society has offered a price of 100,000 guilders to those who can grow a black tulip. A contest among the best gardeners in the country for money and fame begins.
The young Cornelius van Baerle is on the verge of the success of this task, which is regarded as unsolvable, when he is surprisingly accused of political rebellion and thrown into prison. Here he meets the jailer's beautiful daughter, Rosa, with whom he falls in love at first sight. She helps him wherever she can and ultimately becomes his savior.
The black tulip is not only an exciting novel from a dramatic period in Dutch history, but also a love story with a happy ending.
German text edition
- The black tulip . Translated from the French by August Zoller . Newly edited and modernized by Christian Reichenbach. Belle Époque Verlag, Dettenhausen 2015, ISBN 978-3-945796-20-7 .
Movie and TV
Movie
- 1921: A Dutch-British co-production by Maurits Binger and Frank Richardson .
- 1937: Patrick Waddington plays Cornelus Van Baerle in this British adaptation, directed by Alex Bryce .
- In 1963 a French film of the same name starring Alain Delon was released, the title of which was inspired by the novel. However, the content differs significantly from the novel.
watch TV
- 1956: Five-part BBC series with Douglas Wilmer .
- 1970: British miniseries.
- 1988: Production of the Australian Burbank as a fifty-minute children's film.
- Since this film became very popular in Japan , a Japanese anime series was produced for it: La Seine no Hoshi (ラ ・ セ ー ヌ の 星). In Germany , this series ran under the title Nadine - Stern der Seine on RTL II .
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Web links
- La Tulipe noire - French version of Wikisource
- The Black Tulip in Project Gutenberg ( currently not usually available for users from Germany )
- eLook Literature: The Black Tulip - English HTML version, divided by chapters.