Goldi (story)
Goldi , also Goldkind ( Swedish Gull-Pian ) is a story by Astrid Lindgren .
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Eva's mother is in the hospital and her father is a helmsman on a ship. Therefore Eva lives with her two aunts. Eva's cousin Berit also lives there. But while Berit is spoiled by her aunts, Eva does not hear a kind word. Instead, the aunts treat Eva like a servant. No matter how mean Berit is towards Eva, Eva is always the culprit. Eva misses her mother so much. She was always so kind to her and called Eva her gold child. Eva also received a doll from her, which Eva calls Fia-Lisa. In these loveless surroundings, Fia-Lisa is the only thing that Eva is still dear to and dear to. Berit annoys Eva by saying dirty doll to the doll. But if Eva defends herself, her aunts lock her in the shed. Berit, on the other hand, is allowed to step on Eva's doll undisturbed.
One day Eva's aunts want to make rhubarb groats. However, they have run out of potato flour and so they send Eva into town to get some. You don't care that a thunderstorm is looming and the way into the city is very long. Eva is not even allowed to take her doll, which would take away from Eva a little fear of the thunderstorm. Eva therefore puts it on the veranda so that it doesn't get wet.
When she arrives at the store, Eva is soaked. The saleswoman is appalled that Eva's aunts sent the child to town in the weather. But she does nothing to help Eva either. On her way back, Eva sees Fia-Lisa. Berit threw the doll on the way, in the wet. Goldi is angry. She does something that her aunts will remember long after Eva is back with her mother. She slams the potato flour onto the tray and says: "Get the devil - all three of you"
background
In Sweden, the story was first published in 1950 in the short story collection Kajsa Kavat (1952, German Sammelaugust and other children ). The story has been translated into several languages, including German and French. The title Goldi or Goldkind comes from the nickname Eva's mother gave her in the story.
filming
Staffan Götestam made the eponymous film adaptation of the story in 1989.
Published in Germany in
- Collective August and other children, 1952, Verlag Friedrich Oetinger, Hamburg
- Astrid Lindgren tells, 1971, Verlag Friedrich Oetinger, Hamburg
- Stories, 1990, Verlag Friedrich Oetinger, Hamburg
- The Mirabell Doll and Other Stories, 2006, Verlag Friedrich Oetinger, Hamburg
- Stories and fairy tales, 2007, Verlag Friedrich Oetinger, Hamburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Collective August .
- ↑ Anna Fredriksson: La maison de vacances , Editions Denoël, 2016, ISBN 9782207125250, limited preview in the Google book search
- ↑ Happy family No. 117: raffle in Herzhausen .
- ^ Nils Karlsson Däumling (Staffan Götestam, 1990) .