In the realm of the wizard Oz

In the Realm of the Wizard Oz is a children's book by the American writer Lyman Frank Baum . The story was published in 1904 under the original title The Marvelous Land of Oz (later also under the title The Land of Oz ) with illustrations by John R. Neill . This is the second volume of the Oz cycle, which is one of the most popular children's books in the USA and has also been partly published in German.

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Tip, who is actually called Tippetarius, is a little boy in Oz who lives in the land of the Gillikins. He lives in the house of Mombi, an old woman who likes to see herself as a witch, but is not one. Nevertheless, she is engaged in black sorcery, even though it is forbidden by law. Tip doesn't like Mombi and one day thinks about how to scare her. For this reason, he makes a pumpkin man, whom he calls Jack Pumpkin Head, and sets it up by the roadside. Contrary to his expectations, Mombi is not frightened. Nevertheless, the pumpkin man comes at just the right time to try out a life powder on him that she has traded shortly before. The pumpkin man actually comes to life. Because he built the pumpkin head to scare her, Mombi decides to punish Tip. With another magic potion, she wants to transform him into a marble statue. But Tip, together with Jack Kürbiskopf, escapes in time. He takes the powder of life with him. The destination of the two outliers is the Emerald City. But since the pumpkin man cannot walk well, Tip decides on the way to bring a sawhorse that looks like a horse to life too,

At the same time, a group of women conspirators got together. Your goal is to end the rule of men in the Emerald City under the command of General Jinjur. Furthermore, they want to overthrow the ruling scarecrow there and win the city's jewels for themselves. In a quick coup, the girls manage to take the defenders by surprise and occupy the emerald city. Together with Tip, Jakob Kürbiskopf and the wooden horse, the scarecrow manages to escape to his friend, the sheet metal lumberjack. He immediately joins his former companion and friend in order to recapture the Emerald City. On the way back to the emerald city they meet the strange Mr. SV Quassel-Käfer, GK This means: greatly enlarged Qassel-Beetle, educated and cultivated. It is a giant beetle that joins the friends. Meanwhile, Jinjur has been crowned queen and appointed the witch Mombi as an advisor. Mombi is supposed to prevent the scarecrow, accompanied by the woodcutter, from returning to the emerald city. With numerous illusion spells, she also succeeds in unsettling her friends. Fortunately, however, they meet the queen of the field mice on the way, who leads them back on the right path and provides the scarecrow with twelve of their subjects, who are hidden in the straw.

Back in the emerald city, the friends get to Jinjur without much resistance. They realize too late that they have fallen into a trap. But when the scarecrow suddenly releases the mice hidden inside it, the friends can first get some air. However, the palace is besieged by Jinjur's soldiers. The friends decide to make an aircraft and wake up with the rest of Tips life powder. The aircraft is supposed to bring them to Glinda, from whom they hope to get help. After an adventurous flight they reach their destination. Instead of helping them, the fairy reveals to them that the throne of the Emerald City actually belongs to Princess Ozma of Oz. But since the fall of her father, this has disappeared from the earth. Glinda could only find out so much that the witch Mombi had a hand in it. The scarecrow, long tired of ruling, is immediately ready to relinquish the throne for Ozma.

When Glinda learns from her friends that Mombi is near Jinjur, she moves her army against the emerald city. There Mombi falls into their hands. The witch is given the choice of either dying or revealing where Princess Ozma is. When there is no way out, Mombi confesses that she has turned the princess into a boy who is none other than Tip. At first, Tip is not very enthusiastic about becoming a girl, but then complies with the necessity.

Meanwhile, Jinjur makes one last attempt to keep himself on the throne. But in vain. Ozma becomes queen and rules the Emerald City, full of wisdom and goodness despite her youth. The scarecrow accompanies her friend, the sheet metal woodcutter, to his country, where she is now treasurer.

Continuity error to "The Wizard of Oz"

When L. Frank Baum wrote “ The Wizard of Oz ”, he hadn't thought of possibly writing a sequel. In order to expand Oz according to his ideas, Baum accepted some continuity errors that contradict the plot of the first volume: This particularly concerns the person of the Wizard of Oz himself, who does not appear in the second volume. It begins with the fact that all the residents of the Wizarding Land seem to know that he was a fraud, although he only revealed this to Dorothy and her friends. If the first volume also mentioned that he had no magical abilities, the witch told Mombi that she learned some of her magic tricks from him. In addition, Oz said in the first volume that he had ordered the construction of the Emerald City. The second volume says that King Pastoria, the father of Princess Ozma, previously ruled over the Emerald City, which Oz illegally brought into his possession.

Film adaptations

In the realm of the magician Oz , together with Ozma von Oz, formed the template for the real-life Disney film " Oz - A Fantastic World " from 1985. Relatively true to the original, the book was implemented in the Japanese cartoon series " In the Land of the Wizard of Oz " in 1986 .

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First edition

The Marvelous Land of Oz (also The Land of Oz ). Chicago: Reilly and Britton Company 1904

German translations

L. Frank Baum: In the realm of the magician Oz. A fairy tale adventure . Translated by Christine Hettinger, Heyne-Verlag, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-453-54228-2

The Oz Books
Previous volume: The Wizard of Oz	Lyman Frank Baum	Following volume: Ozma from Oz

Web links

Commons : The Marvelous Land of Oz - Collection of images, videos and audio files