Grand piano for Ikaros
Wing for Ikaros is a youth novel by Hans Baumann published in 1978 . It deals with the Greek legend of Icarus .
content
The Deutsche Taschenbuchverlag (dtv - junior) describes the book as follows:
“Using the ancient material of the Ikaros saga, the author describes a time of upheaval and describes the generation conflict between father and son that is evoked - a problem that also applies to the present. Daedalos, the father, inventor and technocrat, makes the mighty of the world dependent on himself with his inventions. Ikaros, the son, draws his life force from myth. For opposing motives, however, both are in the same danger. "
Wing for Ikaros is divided into an introduction ( in the forecourt to the labyrinth ), a first and second part, each with several chapters, and a final chapter ( the labyrinth in hand ).
The first part describes life in Athens and the flight to Crete . Here Daedalus and his son Icarus are welcomed by King Minos , and the father enters the king's service. Various conflicts increase in the plot. So the conflict between Minos and his people, which culminates in the general admiration of the Athenian king's son Theseus . Furthermore, the giant Talos suspects that Daedalos is trying to make him superfluous. Finally, the father-son conflict between Daedalus and Ikaros. This culminates with the information that Daedalos has not only left his nephew Kalos (in Greek mythology Perdix or Talos ) behind in Athens, but is also accused of murdering him.
In the second part, Ikaros confronts his father with this information and some conflicts take a turn or resolve. Talos says goodbye to Crete when he realizes that the people no longer need him. Daedalus teams up with his son to help Theseus fight the Minotaur . For this reason he weaves a thread that Theseus should use to find his way out of the labyrinth after the fight. This thread reaches Theseus via Icarus and the king's daughter Ariadne. He defeats the Minotaur and, together with Ariadne and the other Athenians, manages to escape. Daedalos and Ikaros are convicted of the conspiracy and held in a free-hanging cage. From this they manage to escape with wings made of eagle feathers. But Ikaros rises too high in madness and drowns in the waters of the Mediterranean.
rating
Winfred Kaminski sees the novel in the tradition of other historical and political books for young people by the author.
"Both for his" Dimitri and the false tsars "(1970) and for his" Flügel für Ikaros "(1978) it is true that he is a historical event from the distant past, early Tsarist Russia and ancient (mystical) Greece, picks up to discuss a timely problem. He also remained true to himself in the way he approached the subject. All of his texts turn out to be a variation of the one question about the possibility of the "good ruler". "
expenditure
Wing for Ikaros was first published by Thienemann Verlag , later (from 1982) in the program dtv-Junior of the German paperback publishing house . The book made the shortlist for the German Youth Book Prize. It was also published in Swedish and French.
literature
- Winfred Kaminski: Heroic inwardness. Studies on youth literature before and after 1945. Dipa, Frankfurt am Main 1987. (= Youth and Media; Volume 14).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Winfred Kaminski: Heroic inwardness. Studies on youth literature before and after 1945. Dipa, Frankfurt am Main 1987, p. 281