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Märchenmond is the first novel by the German author couple Wolfgang and Heike Hohlbein from 1982 . The fantasy work , aimed primarily at younger readers, has resulted in several sequels to this day and is still one of Hohlbein's bestsellers .

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When young Kim learns that his little sister Rebekka has fallen into a coma after an appendix operation , he is desperate. Doctors can't explain why she won't wake up. Kim learns the reason from Themistocles, the dream magician: Rebekah is stuck in the distant fairytale moon, the land to which all people go when they dream . She is held prisoner there by the dark ruler Boraas.

With a Viper , a spaceship from his favorite book series, Kim flies to Fairytale Moon to save his sister. Unfortunately, it crashes over the dark nightmare realm of Morgon and Kim is captured by Baron Kart. After his escape, he overcomes the impassable shadow mountains, which separates Morgon and the fairytale moon by mingling with Boraas' army in disguise. This gathers to begin an invasion of the fairytale moon ruled peacefully by Themistocles. After Boraas' army has conquered the mountains with the help of the legendary black lord, Kim can withdraw. On the way to the glass fortress Gorywynn, the capital of Fairytale Moon, he encounters all kinds of strange beings and witnesses how the nightmares' campaign of conquest begins.

After the black army has devastated Fairytale Moon's fields and mercilessly approaches Gorywynn, Kim and a small group of his new friends decide to walk the arduous path across the Gorge of Souls and the vanished river to Castle Weltende, from there to the king of the rainbow to travel and ask for help. He finally agrees to help Kim after he has passed an exam.

With the hero army liberated along the way, Kim returns to Gorywynn, where the final battle between Boraa's army and the defenders of Gorywynn takes place. After a long struggle, the enemies finally face each other, and Kim realizes that Boraas is nothing more than an evil reflection of Themistocles. The black lord, on the other hand, turns out to be a dark image of himself, the malevolent side of his soul. Themistocles and Kim are defeated in the fight, but when Boraas kills the two, Kim wakes up in an unknown room. He is greeted by numerous friends who were believed dead. Themistocles explains to him that Boraas destroyed himself, since evil cannot exist without good, everything must rather be in constant change and eternal equilibrium. Nothing can be all good or bad, and so by violating this law, Märchenmond was recreated from its own ashes, the evil reflection of Märchenmond and its inhabitants is once again one with good. He sees his sister for the first time since he fled Morgon. They live happily in Fairytale Moon for a while, but then they feel it is time to return.

Kim eventually wakes up in the real world and takes his parents to the hospital, where Rebekah woke up from a coma.

background

In 1982 Wolfgang Hohlbein found out about a competition from Ueberreuter-Verlag for fantasy and science fiction . He sent the 395-page manuscript to Märchenmond , which had sprung from his and his wife's imagination. They wrote it together and won first prize.

Märchenmond has received several audience prizes, such as the Fantastik Prize of the City of Wetzlar and the “Prize of Bookworms”. In 1984 the youth magazine “Der Bunte Hund” added it to their list of recommendations. The book was a great national and international success and helped Wolfgang Hohlbein to break through as a writer.

In 2006, Märchenmond was the first ever Hohlbein book to be translated into English and published in the USA under the title "Magic Moon" . The novel and its two sequels are also published in Great Britain and Australia.

musical

The theater for Lower Saxony (TfN) premiered the literary material of the first volume in a musical by Christian Gundlach directed by Dirk Schmeding on November 20, 2010 in the Great House of Hildesheim.

The series

In the early 1990s , Hohlbeins wrote two sequels to their bestseller. In 1999 the illustrated retelling of the fairy tale of Märchenmond followed . In 2005, the series of novels was continued, but now new protagonists are used.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hohlbein, Wolfgang. (No longer available online.) Wissen.de , archived from the original on December 15, 2011 ; Retrieved November 15, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wissen.de
  2. ↑ Fairytale Moon. (No longer available online.) Theater for Lower Saxony , formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 15, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.tfn-online.de