Jim Knopf (cartoon series)

Television series
Original title	Jim button
Country of production	Germany , ; France
year	1999
length	25 minutes
Episodes	52 in 2 seasons
genre	adventure
idea	Theo Kerp, Heribert Schulmeyer
music	Michel Dax
First broadcast	August 26, 1999 to September 30, 2000 on Cartoon Network
German-language ; first broadcast	November 12, 1999 on KI.KA
synchronization

Jim Knopf is a German-French animated series with 52 episodes that was created from 1999 to 2000 in cooperation with ARD and is based on the books Jim Knopf and Lukas the locomotive driver and Jim Knopf and the Wilde 13 by Michael Ende .

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King Alfonso the Quarter-to-Twelfth and his three fellow citizens live on the small and quiet island of Lummerland. One day a baby is delivered to them in the mail. They adopt it and name it Jim Button . When it gets bigger, the island is too small for five residents. So Jim sets off with his friend Lukas to Land of Sorrows to free the princess of Mandala, Li-Si. This is held there by the evil dragon Frau Mahlzahn. Jim Knopf also wants to find his real parents. On his adventures his friends encounter all kinds of strange characters; new friends, but also a whole host of people who (initially) don't just mean well with them. They actually manage to free the princess and other captured children and bring them back to Mandala.

In another adventure, in which the search for the missing locomotive Molly plays a role, the friends manage to turn the dangerous gang of pirates "The Wild 13" over to the good side. In the process, Jim finally finds out where he comes from.

Deviations from the novel

Pi Pa Pos's role is much more extensive: While he is thrown into the dungeon by the emperor himself after he tried to have Jim and Lukas thrown into dungeon in the literature, he plays almost the entire series about the villain, including about much of the second season. His plan is to become Emperor of Mandala himself.

Mrs. Mahlzahn, together with her half-dragon guards, pursues the freed children. In Mandala there is another fight in which she is finally defeated. In the novel, she is defeated in the dragon city and taken to Mandala, where she submits without resistance to her liberators.

In the novel, Li Si is kidnapped during the big vacation because she runs too far from the vacation castle. In the series, Pi Pa Po has her kidnapped because she knows his plans to overthrow the emperor, her father.

The crystal of eternity originally only serves to prove that Ushaurischuum is a suitable bridegroom for Sursulapitschi. In the series it has a much greater power that the pirates want to exploit for themselves. The roles of Ushaurischuum and Nepomuk have also been expanded through the necessary forces of a water and fire being. You can also see how Molly is transformed.

Production and publication

The series was produced from 1999 to 2000 as a German-French co-production under the direction of Bruno Bianchi . From November 12, 1999, she was the KI.KA sent. Later broadcasts followed in the first and in the regional programs. In 2014 the series ran on the Disney Channel .

The music for the series was composed by Michel Dax. The title song was written and sung by the band Die Prinzen .

synchronization

Sorted by the character list in the article Jim Button and Lukas the Engine Driver.

role	speaker
Jim button	Konrad Bösherz
Luke	Thomas Fritsch
King Alfonso the quarter to twelfth	Wolfgang Gruner
Mr. Sleeves
Mrs. Waas	Marie-Luise Marjan
Ping pong	Santiago Ziesmer
Oberbonze Pi Pa Po	Hans-Werner Bussinger
Mr. Schu Fu Lu Pi Plu	Engelbert von Nordhausen
Mr. Tur Tur	Hans Teuscher
Emperor of China (Mandala)	Horst lamp
Half dragon Nepomuk
Dragon woman molar	Gisela Fritsch
Princess Li Si	Magdalena Turba
King Lormoral	Klaus Sunshine
Ushaurischuum turtle	Lutz Mackensy
Sursulapichi	Nana Spier
Pirate Captain of the Wild 13	Wolfgang Hess
Yetipletikreti *	Wolfgang Völz
Kuddel Muddel *	Heinz-Theo branding
Fish Wutschel *	Tom Deininger
Bad Bad Ling *	Ilya Richter
Su Lin *	Angelika Milster
Captain Tao *	Jürgen Kluckert

The characters marked with * do not exist in the book version by Michael Ende and have been added for the cartoon series.

Episode list

Total number	Season	title
01	01.01	A surprise package
02	01.02	Princess Li Si
03	01.03	Mandala
04	04/01	Off to grief land
05	01.05	The white marble palace
06	01.06	The western gate
07	01.07	The Thousand Wonder Forest
08	08/01	The melancholy swamps
09	01.09	The crown of the world
10	01.10	The valley of dawn
11	01.11	The gold mine
12	01.12	Commitment to Emma
13	01.13	Mr. Tur Tur
14th	01.14	The gateway to the end of the world
15th	01.15	In the shadowland
16	01.16	The mouth of despair
17th	01.17	The trial by fire
18th	01.18	In the land of a thousand volcanoes
19th	01.19	The devil's throat
20th	01.20	In tow to Kummerland
21st	01.21	The dragon city
22nd	01.22	Escape from the dragon city
23	01.23	The underground river
24	01.24	The wrong emperor
25th	01.25	The fight with Mrs. Mahlzahn
26th	01.26	Back to Lummerland
27	02.01	Jim Knopf and the wild 13
28	02.02	Gurumusch's magnet
29	02.03	The perpetumobile
30th	04/02	Mr. Tur Tur is scared
31	02.05	Molly is gone!
32	02.06	The prophecy of the golden dragon
33	02.07	A stowaway
34	08/02	The wild 13 strikes back
35	02.09	Ushaurischuum and the blue shells
36	02.10	Pi Pa Po takes off
37	11/02	Muddle Muddle
38	02.12	Jim trapped
39	02.13	The flying island
40	02.14	The lonely prince
41	02.15	The book castle
42	02.16	In the tin forest
43	02.17	The weather machine
44	02.18	Over the thousand mountain peaks
45	02.19	Emma makes music
46	02.20	Ping Pong's rescue
47	02.21	Return to the Dragon City
48	02.22	King Lormoral
49	02.23	Pi Pa Pos revenge
50	02.24	The country that shouldn't be
51	02.25	The crystal of eternity
52	02.26	The Prince of Jimballa