Lola (book series)

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Lola is a children's book series by the German writer Isabel Abedi . The books are about a nine year old (in older books Lola is also 10, 11 or 12 years old) girl named Lola. Lola lives in Hamburg and always has new adventures in things like friendship and love, but also very serious matters such as criminal hunt and detective work. The first volume Here comes Lola was also made into a film . The series is aimed more at readers between 9 and 12 years of age.

main characters

Lola Veloso : Lola is the main character in the book series. At the beginning she is nine years old, later also ten or eleven. She lives with her parents in Hamburg and attends volumes 1 to 5 of the goat school there, which actually exists. She is half Brazilian and can also speak Portuguese, but you can't tell because the girl has blond curls and light skin. She has never been to Brazil until her parents celebrate their wedding there in Volume 6. Lola suffers from a frog phobia, but does not want to be treated. Because she has a strong will and flares up easily, and she is very imaginative. If she can't sleep at night, she thinks up who she would be if she weren't herself (e.g. pop star Jacky Jones )

Flora Sommer : Flora, Flo for short, lives with her single mother Penelope Sommer in Hamburg. She is small and thin, but is very athletic. At first Lola doesn't like them, but then they become best friends. She is always by Lola's side when she gets into trouble. Flo has messy black hair and goes to goat school with Lola.

Fabio Veloso : Fabio is Lola's Brazilian father. He has lived in Germany since he met Lola's mother. However, the two are not married to each other. He has dark skin and dark hair. Because of this, he was often looked at or treated badly in the previous place where he was the only person with dark skin. In Hamburg, he and his father-in-law founded a Brazilian restaurant, the pearl of the south .

Viktualia Jungherz : Viktualia, Vicky for short, is Lola's mother. She lives in an apartment with Fabio and Lola. Her grandparents and their two-year-old daughter also live in the neighborhood. Vicky is artistically very gifted and works as a nurse.

Alexandre Brücke : Alexandre, or Alex for short, is a little older than Lola and has been with her since volume 3. He lives with his little brother Pascal with his single mother in Paris . So he only sees his father, who lives in Hamburg, and Lola during the holidays. But he regularly writes letters to his girlfriend and often speaks to her on the phone. He has black hair that smells like apple shampoo, green eyes and is very interested in astrology .

Lisbeth Jungherz : Lisbeth is Lola's two year old aunt. This is because her parents were very young when Vicky was born and relatively old when she was born. Of course she lives with Lola's grandparents in Hamburg. She can hardly speak. Their preference is to throw food.

Felix and Aurelia Jungherz : Felix and Aurelia are Lola's grandparents and Vicky's parents. You live in Hamburg. Felix is ​​in his early fifties and color blind. Together with Fabio he founds a Brazilian restaurant at the port. Aurelia works in a bookstore, but only sells her customers what she thinks is good.

Penelope Sommer : Penelope is Flos mother and lives with her in Hamburg. She separated from her husband Eric a long time ago. She works in a fish shop at the harbor until she is offered a job as a waitress in the pearl of the south , which she naturally accepts. In contrast to Lola, she has been to Brazil many times and is a passionate singer.

Volumes

So far, the following Lola volumes have been published by Loewe Verlag:

  • Here Comes Lola (2004)
  • Lola Makes the Headlines (2005)
  • Lola on a Secret Mission (2005)
  • Applause for Lola (2006)
  • Lola the Lionheart (2007)
  • Lola on Honeymoon (2008)
  • Lola Sister Heart (2010)
  • 5 stars for Lola (2012)
  • Lola and the only witness (October 2014)

All volumes are also available as audio versions, read by Mira Linzenmeier.

filming

The first volume Here comes Lola! was shot in 2010 under the direction of Franziska Buch . The film was produced by Uschi Reich . Meira Durand as Lola and Felina Czycykowski as Flo can be seen in the main roles . In other roles: Axel Prahl , Nora Tschirner and Julia Jentsch .

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