Krabat (novel)

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Krabat is a book for young people by Otfried Preußler . It is based on the Sorbian Krabat legend and tells the story of the boy of the same name who becomes an apprentice to a magician and has to assert himself against him.

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The novel is set in Lusatia during the Great Northern War . The fourteen-year-old Sorbian orphan boy Krabat starts an apprenticeship in a mill in Koselbruch near Schwarzkollm . After a short time, however, the mill turned out to be a “black school”, in which the master miller taught black art to twelve miners .

At first Krabat likes the apprenticeship in the mill and the black school. He is fascinated by the power that one can exercise over other people through magic. He also befriends the journeymen, especially Tonda, the old journeyman who is his role model. But Tonda mysteriously dies at the end of the first of the three years Krabat spends in the mill, and a new apprentice named Witko takes his place at the beginning of the year. After the second year, another journeyman dies in a mysterious accident and is replaced by Krabat's friend Lobosch. Krabat only gradually sees through the terrible game of which he has become a part: the master who has devoted himself to evil has to sacrifice one of his students at the end of each year. Otherwise he would have to die himself. To do this, he picks out the best student in each case before he or she has learned enough to be dangerous in a duel.

In order to be able to stand up to the master, Krabat practices the black art. His love for a girl from the next village, the "Kantorka" (the Sorbian name for the singer of the Easter chants) gives him strength . He secretly meets with her a few times.

One of the journeymen, Juro, who hides behind his pretended stupidity, finally confides one of his discoveries to Krabat: A girl's love for one of the miller's boys can defeat the master. To do this, the girl has to appear at the mill on New Year's Eve, free her lover and pass a test of life and death. Krabat struggles for a long time whether he would like to expect this from Kantorka, but when he tells her about this dilemma, she decides for herself.

At the end of the third year of apprenticeship, the master gives Krabat the choice of whether he would like to succeed him as master. When Krabat resolutely refuses, the master decides to sacrifice Krabat. On New Year's Eve, however, the Kantorka appears and demands freedom from Master Krabat. After she has passed the test, Krabat and his companions are free, but no longer have magical abilities. The master dies on New Year's Eve, the mill goes up in flames.

Emergence

Otfried Preußler wrote to Krabat for ten years, with several interruptions . He used the Sorbian folk tale of Krabat as a model , which is set near the town of Schwarzkollm in Upper Lusatia between Hoyerswerda ( Wojerecy ) and Kamenz ( Kamjenc ) at the end of the 17th century . The story of the apprentice who has to assert himself against his master and challenges him to battle can also be found in many other legends , as well as the motif of redemption through love.

Preussler said about his book:

"My Krabat is [...] my story, the story of my generation and that of all young people who come into contact with power and its temptations and get entangled in it."

The first edition was published by Arena Verlag in 1971 , and the book has been published by Thienemann Verlag since 1981 . The illustrations for both the standard edition (b / w) and the sepia-colored luxury edition published in 2005 come from Herbert Holzing . The book has now been translated into 31 languages.

Awards

Krabat was u. a. Awarded the German Youth Book Prize and the Polish Youth Book Prize in 1972; In 1973 the work received the Dutch youth book award Zilveren Griffel von Rotterdam, the European youth book award of the University of Padua and the American Library Association Award as Notable Book of 1973 ; 1977 the youth book award of the Polish Publishers' Association.

Artistic adaptation

Film adaptations

Based on the book, the Czech animator Karel Zeman made a highly acclaimed film in 1977 under the title Čarodějův učeň . In the Stuttgart version, Friedrich Schütter spoke the master miller, in the DEFA version Horst Kempe.

A live adaptation of Krabat , directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner , was made from 2006 to 2008. The world premiere took place on September 23, 2008 in the Lichtburg in Essen. The film was released in Germany on October 9, 2008. The film can be seen regularly in the Krabat mill in Schwarzkollm .

radio play

  • In 1983, the radio play label Karussell produced a three-part audio book series in which Otfried Preußler reads his book.
  • From October 20, 1998 to November 17, 1998, Deutschlandradio Berlin produced a five-part radio play with a total of approx. 120 minutes in its children's program Kakadu. Length broadcast.
  • Together with the real-life film, a radio play was also created by Jumbo-Verlag in 2008 , which tells the Preussler book and includes the original voices from the film. Dietmar Mues acted as the narrator.
  • In 2010, Westdeutsche Rundfunk produced a four-part children's radio play (44:04 min, 46 min, 46 min, 45:49 min)

Dramatizations and settings

  • The opera Krabat (1982) by Cesar Bresgen was premiered in 1983 based on a stage version by Preußler.
  • In 1994 the play Krabat by Nina Achminow was premiered in the Prinzregententheater in Munich. (Director: Alexander Schulin, music: Estampie, actors: Konstantin Moreth, Joseph Hannesschläger , Juliane Kosarev)
  • In May 2007, Fredrik Zeller's opera Krabat was premiered at the Nationaltheater Mannheim as part of the Young Opera program .
  • in autumn 2007 Markus Bothe staged Krabat as a Christmas play at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg . It was played there 87 times in five years.
  • In 2008 Preussler's Krabat was premiered in an arrangement by Horst Hawemann, Annette Trümper and Christopher Gottwald in the Nuremberg Theater Pfütze .
  • Krabat was musically implemented by ASP in the 2008 album " Zaubererbruder - Der Krabat-Lied Cycle ".
  • The Schweizer Theater-Pack ( Fabrikpalast ) staged Preussler's youth novel Krabat as a light and shadow theater with human shadows and masks.
  • The puppet theater Wilde & Vogel staged Krabat as a theater adventure with puppets, masks and music , together with the Grupa Coincidentia (Białystok, PL), in coproduction with the FITZ! Center for Puppet Theater Stuttgart and the Lindenfels West Wing in Leipzig.
  • In 2012 Krabat was premiered in Low German at the Oldenburg State Theater by the ensemble of the August-Hinrichs-Bühne . The translation is by Cornelia Ehlers, the adaptation and staging by Michael Uhl. Pascal Oetjegerdes made his acting debut as Krabat .
  • In 2013 Krabat - A Ballet in Three Acts based on Otfried Preußler was premiered at the Stuttgart Ballet . The choreography is by Demis Volpi, the libretto and dramaturgy by Vivien Arnold.
  • In 2016 director Jörg Hinkel directed Krabat as part of the Bad Hersfeld Festival.
  • In 2019, Krabat was staged by Markolf Naujoks at the Mainz State Theater , whereby the Sorbian language was also given broad space in the form of spells and singing.

literature

  • Otfried Preussler: Krabat. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-423-02540-9 .
  • Otfried Preussler: Krabat. School edition with materials. Thienemann, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-522-14410-4 .
  • Otfried Preußler, Heinrich Pleticha: Krabat - teacher booklet. Thienemann, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-522-14450-3 .
  • Kristin Luban (Ed.): Krabat: Analyzes and Interpretations , Cottbus 2008, ISBN 978-3-940471-08-6
  • Johannes Diekhans (ed.), Timotheus Schwake: Otfried Preußler, Krabat. Lesson model in the series EinFach Deutsch. Schöningh, Paderborn 2007, ISBN 978-3-14-022331-7 .
  • Heiko Fritz: The mystery of the mill. With an interpretation of the events in Otfried Preussler's novel “Krabat”. 1st edition. Igel, Oldenburg 2002, ISBN 3-89621-147-1 .
  • Jürgen Daiber: Otfried Preußler's "Krabat". Towards a “child-friendly” aesthetic of evil. 2012. In: Anita Schlicher; Claudia Maria Pescher (Hrsg.): Classics of international youth literature. 1st part: Cultural and epoch-specific discourses from the perspective of the disciplines. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Hohengehren, pp. 161-185.
  • Constanze Drumm: Power, violence and escapism: Otfried Preußler's “Krabat” between a political children's book and an all-age title. 2011. In: Christine Haug (Ed.): Quo vadis children's book? Present and future of literature for young readers. Wiesbaden Harrassowitz, pp. 175-191.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Information about Krabat on Otfried Preußler's website
  2. ↑ Information on preussler.de
  3. ↑ Krabat (1977) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  4. ↑ Krabat (2008) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  5. ↑ Krabat: The 1st year. Universal Music Group , accessed August 5, 2018 .
  6. ^ Website of the radio play from Jumbo-Verlag
  7. ↑ Report on the radio play production of the WDR on fantasy-news.com
  8. ^ Re-broadcast on Deutschlandradio Kultur on October 2, 2011, 2:05 p.m.
  9. ^ Re-broadcast on Deutschlandradio Kultur on October 3, 2011, 2:05 p.m.
  10. ^ Re-broadcast on Deutschlandradio Kultur on October 9, 2011, 2:05 p.m.
  11. ↑ Re-broadcast on Deutschlandradio Kultur on October 16, 2011, 2:05 p.m. Retrieved on October 9, 2011
  12. ↑ Susanna Andrick and Klaus Witzeling: Slideshow: Behind the scenes of "Krabat" . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on March 26, 2018]).
  13. ^ Krabat - by Otfried Preussler , Das Theater-Pack
  14. ↑ piece Krabat the Figurentheater Wilde & Vogel
  15. ^ Eva-Maria Magel: Krabat is staged in Mainz. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 8, 2019, accessed on December 5, 2019.