Hey, Pippi Longstocking

Facade painting in Freiburg with a line from the Pippi Longstocking song

Hey, Pippi Longstocking! is the name of the German version of the Pippi Longstocking song Här kommer Pippi Långstrump , which was created as the theme song of the Pippi Longstocking television series , was published in 1969 and became popular through film and television.

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The original text is by Astrid Lindgren ; Wolfgang Franke and Helmut Harun are named as translators of the German version. The melody of the song comes from the Swedish jazz musician Jan Johansson ; For the German version, in addition to Johansson, the German Konrad Elfers , the composer of several feature films and television productions, is registered.

The singer of the original Swedish version was Inger Nilsson . The theme song of the German Pippi Longstocking films, which emerged from the television series and first ran in Germany, was sung by Rosy Teen. Eva Mattes sang the theme song for the German television series, which started in 1971, under the title: Hei Pippi Longstocking .

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After a short intro the singing starts:

Two times three makes four

widewidewitt and three makes nine,

I make the world for myself

widewide as I like it.

In the following parts of the text, the protagonist is named Pippi Longstocking and associated with her guiding principle:

[...]

Hey, Pippi Longstocking,

she does what she likes.

Later parts of the song refer to the living and living situation of Pippi Longstocking and the keeping of animals:

I have a house

a motley house,

a monkey and a horse,

they look out of the window there.

[...]

The introductory calculation rule is varied in later parts of the text:

Three times three makes six

[...]

Variants and interpretations

The song is still popular today in the Scandinavian and German-speaking countries. In addition to new editions as part of an (original) soundtrack with the German television dubbing voice by Inger Nilsson , Eva Mattes (including "Generation TV cult: Pippi Longstocking", EAN: 4260044580081 ) there are also numerous reworkings, alleged remixes and variations.

In the 1990s, techno versions of the theme songs of well-known television series were often created. In this context, there were also revisions of the Pippi Longstocking song, for example: Where is Pippi? and now comes Pippi (Mr. Nielsson & Der Kleine Unkel), Hey, Pippi Longstocking (Mex United), Hey, Pippi Longstocking (Tekknoheimer & Foggy) and Pippi Langhouse (KK Travels, nl.).

The Cologne punk cabaret band Heiter bis Wolkig interpreted the piece under the title Hey Rote Zora . The German punk band WIZO also covered it. The LuderZ feat. In 2003 DJ Almklausi published a version under the title Hey little Luder . Till and Obel recorded a version in the style of Herbert Grönemeyer under the title Pippi lives . Annalena, Jan and Roland Kaiser published their version in 2006.

There is also a calm jazz version, which Johansson's colleague Georg Riedel recorded with other Swedish musicians in 1973, and a jazz version with many tempo changes by the Finnish Lenni-Kalle Taipale Trio entitled Peppi (Här kommer Pippi Långstrump) . With the Norrbotten Big Band , Riedel presented the big band album Emil, Pippi, Karlsson & Co in 2013 , which he presented in 2015 with the singer Sarah Riedel and the Bohuslän Big Band at JazzBaltica in Germany .

The song is also known to German football fans. Its singing, accompanied by synchronous rhythmic hopping, was already associated with the question of the stability of the Dortmund Westfalenstadion . In recent years, supporters of the professional football department of the Eintracht Frankfurt club have modified the original text to: "Hey Eintracht Frankfurt [...] Hey Eintracht Frankfurt [...]", but kept the melody and sing the newly developed text fragments accompanied by jumping movements.

The a cappella band Füenf mocked the resigned Federal President Christian Wulff with “Wulle Sparstrumpf”, sung to the same melody .

Trivia

In episodes 14 to 17 of the television series, the text part about Pippi's living situation is not used because the protagonists in these episodes are far away from home and the living situation does not play an important role; Pippi's house and her horse appear here only at the beginning and at the end.

The made-up word widewidewitt appears just as in the Eisenbart song in A man who calls himself Columbus .

Oddities

In the Bundestag debate on "the situation in Germany" on September 3, 2013, the last plenary session of the 17th German Bundestag before the Bundestag election on September 22, 2013 , Andrea Nahles , the general secretary of the opposition SPD at the time, felt that "contributions from colleagues from the government groups" reminiscent of a “bedtime song”, of which she then sang: “I make the world for myself, widd widde as I like it.” Her lecture, which was not entirely melody-proof, was clicked on hundreds of thousands of times on YouTube .

Web links

German lyrics on www.efraimst Jungs.de

References and footnotes

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Här kommer Pippi Långstrump (entry at swisscharts.com)
↑ GEMA entry: Hey, Pippi Longstocking ( Memento from December 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f to Hej, Pippi Longstocking! - The great Astrid Lindgren song book , Oetinger, 2007, pp. 6 and 7
↑ Rosy Teen - Hey, Pippi Longstocking (Original Soundtrack)
↑ Hei Pippi Longstocking (entry at swisscharts.com)
↑ In Astrid Lindgren's submission, Här kommer Pippi Långstrump , one does not find twisted arithmetic problems like two times three equals four, nor does it say that Pippi will make them up "as I like it."
↑ Selection u. a. based on Manuela Bialek and Karsten Weyershausen: The Astrid Lindgren Lexicon , Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2004, p. 438
↑ Hey little bitch (entry at swisscharts.com)
↑ (entry at swisscharts.com)
^ Documented on the album Jan Johansson With Georg Riedel In Hamburg 2011
↑ JazzBaltica ends with record results
↑ Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns, Henning Sussebach and Stefan Willeke: Großenwahn AG , Die Zeit, January 29, 2004, No. 6, “The statics of the Westfalenstadion are not designed for the rhythm of 83,000 concert-goers who hop, clap and stamp for hours. [...] An expert opinion makes it clear that the stadium cannot collapse, but hairline cracks are to be feared. Please keep the people seated, luckily they do that in football, since stadium announcer Norbert Dickel stopped playing the song Hey, Pippi Longstocking , to which the audience liked to jump up and down. ” , Online at http: //www.zeit .de / 2004/06 / Borussia? page = all , accessed on March 19, 2009