Good night, Mr. Tramp!

Good night, Mr. Tramp! ( Swedish Godnatt, mr luffare! ) is a story by Astrid Lindgren .

action

On the Sunday before Christmas, Anna, Inga-Stina and Sven's parents have to go to a funeral. The children should stay at home alone. Therefore the mother admonishes her to keep the door closed and never to let a tramp inside. Then the parents leave the house. Sven has to go out again briefly and then forgets to move the bolt in front of the door again. When there was a knock at the door a little later, he said automatically Come in , but it wasn't his parents who came in, a tramp. Inga-Sina is scared and weeps. Then the tramp sees that the children have glossy paper on the table to cut cups for the Christmas tree. He takes one of the glossy papers and folds a beautiful star out of it. The children are thrilled. From then on, the tramp entertains the children with magic tricks, acting and singing for them. Then he says that he is hungry and has dinner with the children. After he has eaten, the tramp says goodbye to the children. He says that if there are two Thursdays in a week he will come back.

Then time goes by very quickly. It will soon be Christmas Eve. When Anna and Sven look out of the window into the snow, they wonder where the tramp is now. Sven thinks about it for a moment and then says that the tramp might be in the church game Locknevi.

background

In Sweden, the story was first published in 1950 in the short story collection Kajsa Kava (1952, German Sammelaugust and other children ).

In Germany the book was published both as a radio play and as an audio book. The audio book was read by Dietmar Mues in 1987 and appeared, together with Pelle pulls out , on a cassette with the title Pelle pulls out and other stories . The audio book was produced by Günter Adam Strößner .

In Sweden the story was turned into a play. In Germany she was seen as a shadow play.

radio play

In 2002 WDR published a 12-minute German radio play on the book. The director was Uwe Schareck , who also rewrote Astrid Lindgren's story for the radio play.

speaker

role	speaker
Tramp	Matthias Haase
mother	Claudia Matschulla
Anna	Hannah Schareck
Gretalotta	Greta Schareck
Sven	Phillip Wegmann
Moderator	Insa cheek

filming

→ Main article : Good night, Mr. Landstreicher (film)

Daniel Bergman made the film version of the story in 1988.

Published in Germany in

• Collective August and other children, 1952, Verlag Friedrich Oetinger, Hamburg
• In the Land of Twilight, 1949, Verlag Friedrich Oetinger, Hamburg
• Astrid Lindgren tells, 1971, Verlag Friedrich Oetinger, Hamburg
• When Christmas comes, 1982, Barbara Homberg (Ed.), Verlag Friedrich Oetinger, Hamburg
• Pelle moves out and other Christmas stories, 1985, Deutsches Lesewerk, Hamburg
• Stories, 1990, Verlag Friedrich Oetinger, Hamburg
• The Mirabell Doll and Other Stories, 2006, Verlag Friedrich Oetinger, Hamburg
• It was a dark and stormy night, 2001, Arnhild Kantelhardt (Ed.), Gerstenberg Verlag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Collective August and other children .
2. ^ Audiobook "Pelle pulls out" by Astrid Lindgren .
3. ↑ Astrid Lindgren - Pelle moves out and other stories .
4. ↑ Astrid Lindgren: Pelle Pulls Out And Other Stories - Tape (1987) .
5. ↑ Urpremiär för "Godnatt, mr luffare" .
6. ↑ Shadow theater .
7. ↑ Good night, Mr. Tramp .
8. ↑ ARD audio game database .