East wind (row)

Ostwind is a book and film series based on the idea of Lea Schmidbauer and Kristina Magdalena Henn . The stories revolve around the horse Ostwind , who lives on the fictional Kaltenbach estate . In addition to books and feature films, the Ostwind franchise also includes other book series, radio plays, computer games and magazines. The stories are marketed internationally under the name Windstorm .

Emergence

Henn and Schmidbauer worked together even before the Ostwind series. Their first successful project was the script for Groupies Don't Stay for Breakfast , which they developed for SamFilm . Schmidbauer says that she and Henn finished the script for Ostwind back in 2009 after SamFilm wanted to produce a film about horses. Originally it was also planned not to continue the film. After the success of the usual book version of Carola Wimmer's film material , Schmidbauer and Henn continued the series as a book with Ostwind - Return to Kaltenbach . After this too was unexpectedly successful, production for Ostwind 2 began . Schmidbauer and Henn wrote the script for this film, too, followed by the third book Ostwind - Aufbruch nach Ora . Schmidbauer wrote the other books and scripts alone.

overview

Books
publication	title	written by
11th March 2013	East wind - together we are free	Carola Wimmer
March 24, 2014	East wind - return to Kaltenbach	Henn and Schmidbauer
November 9, 2015	East wind - departure for Ora	Henn and Schmidbauer
October 24, 2016	East Wind - In Search of Tomorrow	Lea Schmidbauer
23 October 2017	East wind - Ari's arrival	Lea Schmidbauer
October 29, 2018	East wind - the great hurricane	Lea Schmidbauer

cinemamovies
Theatrical release	title	Involved
21st March 2013	east wind	Script: Henn and Schmidbauer Director: Katja von Garnier
May 14, 2015	East wind 2	Script: Henn and Schmidbauer Director: Katja von Garnier
July 27, 2017	East wind - departure for Ora	Script: Lea Schmidbauer Director: Katja von Garnier
February 28, 2019	East wind - Ari's arrival	Script: Lea Schmidbauer Director: Theresa von Eltz
planned May 2020	East wind - the great hurricane	Script and direction: Lea Schmidbauer

characters

Main human characters

Mika Schwarz

Mika has red hair. Elisabeth and Philipp are her parents, Maria Kaltenbach her grandmother. Mika often spends her vacations at her grandma's stud. She is with Milan.

Samuel Kaan

Samuel is only called Sam by everyone. Mr. Kaan is his grandpa. He is a stable boy at Gut Kaltenbach. He's with Fanny.

Fanny Schleicher

Fanny is actually called Fanella. She is Mika's best friend. In contrast to this, she has nothing to do with horses. She is with Sam.

Maria Kaltenbach

Maria is the owner of Gut Kaltenbach. Elisabeth is her daughter, Mika her granddaughter. Since an accident she has been unable to ride and hobbles. She is a riding instructor.

Mr. Kaan

Mr. Kaan is a riding instructor at Gut Kaltenbach. Sam is his grandson.

Elisabeth & Philipp Schwarz

Elisabeth and Philipp are Mika's parents. Maria is Elisabeth's mother.

Tinka

Tinka is the daughter of the farm veterinarian Dr. Different. Your horse Archibald is housed at Gut Kaltenbach.

Milan

Milan only appears from the second volume. He's with Mika.

Ari

Ari does not appear until the fourth volume. She is a foster child at Gut Kaltenbach.

Main animal characters

east wind

East wind is the main animal character. He is a black stallion . It belongs to Mika and Ari. He is the father of Ora.

34

34 was formerly called 33 and was saved from the knacker by Milan and Mika . She is a gray mare. It belongs to Milan. She is the mother of Ora.

Ora

Ora is the foal of Ostwind and 34. She is also gray .

Archibald

Archibald is a check . It belongs to Tinka.

action

East wind - together we are free

Mika spends her summer holidays at her grandmother's horse farm, Gut Kaltenbach. There she befriends the impetuous and dangerous stallion Ostwind , whom her grandmother Maria Kaltenbach actually wants to sell. With the help of the riding trainer Kaan, she learns to deal with the east wind and to ride on it. At a horse show, Mika would like to show her grandmother what Ostwind is capable of in order to save him from being sold. When the horse breaks out due to sabotage, Mika flees Kaltenbach on the east wind and rides to her friend's holiday camp. Once there, both collapse. Mika is reconciled with her family and Ostwind is able to escape the evacuation.

Return to Kaltenbach

Mika spends her summer holidays at her grandmother's Kaltenbach stud. The equestrian center is on the verge of ruin because of a competing company: the modern facility is in danger of poaching all riding students. Your participation in a tournament could save the stud. And so she begins to train with her horse Ostwind in order to be able to take part in a competition. Only with a victory can she avert the bankruptcy of the court. While preparing for the tournament, both Ostwind and Mika discover their interest in the opposite sex. For the stallion it is a runaway gray mare, for Mika the young Milan who helps Mika with the training after she helped him bring the gray mare back to him.

Mika fails to win the tournament because of a fainting spell. She helps Milan, who stole the gray mare to save her from death in an illegal concealing shop. The stud was saved from bankruptcy because the Hessian police charged it with the accommodation of the horses confiscated in the stoner.

Departure for Ora

Mika still doesn't know exactly what she's looking for in life and turns her back on Gut Kaltenbach without further ado. Together with her stallion Ostwind she makes her way to Andalusia, where she wants to find the legendary place "Ora", where Ostwind has its roots.

In southern Spain, Mika meets self-confident Samantha, who helps her father Pedro run the horse farm. However, Pedro has been in a bitter quarrel with his sister Tara for years, who prefers to live in freedom with her horses rather than lock them in boxes.

When a company threatens the untouched landscape, Mika has a brilliant idea: The legendary "Source of Ora" should be saved with a horse race.

Looking for tomorrow

Mika returned to Kaltenbach alone after she gave Ostwind freedom at the end of the third part in Andalusia. 34 Ostwind gives birth to a foal called Ora . But when Ora needs help, Ostwind also returns to Kaltenbach. This fourth part of the book series was not made into a film.

Ari's arrival

Since the fourth book was not made into a film, there are clearer differences between book and film to fill the narrative gap.

Grandmother Maria, Sam and the riding instructor Kaan try together to keep Gut Kaltenbach running, which is in financial difficulties. The ambitious Isabell supports her in this, although she secretly pursues her own goals.

The impulsive Ari comes to Kaltenbach for riding training, where she develops a special relationship with Ostwind , the eponymous horse of the film series, and she also befriends Mika. Mika and Ari try together to save the estate and to protect Ostwind from the ruthless horse trainer Thordur Thorvaldson.

The great hurricane

Cast the films

figure	east wind	East wind 2	East wind - departure for Ora	East wind - Ari's arrival	East wind - the great hurricane
Mika	Hanna Binke
Sam	Marvin Linke
Fanny	Amber Bongard
Maria Kaltenbach	Cornelia Froboess
Mr. Kaan	Tilo Prückner
Elisabeth Schwarz	Nina Kronjäger			Nina Kronjäger
Philipp Schwarz	Jürgen Vogel
Tinka	Henriette Morawe			Henriette Morawe
Michelle	Marla Menn
Dr. Different	Detlev Buck			Detlev Buck
Milan		Jannis Niewöhner
Leopold Sasse		Max Tidof
Hanns de Burgh		Walter Sittler
Samantha			Lea van Acken
Tare			Nicolette Krebitz
Pedro			Thomas Sarbacher
Government Commissioner			Martin Feifel
Ari				Luna Paiano
Isabell Herburg				Lili Epply
Thordur Thorvaldson				Sabin Tambrea
Britta				Meret Becker
Carlo					Matteo Miska
Yiri					Gedeon Burkhard
Nicolai					Nils Brunkhorst

more publishments

Computer games

In 2017, “Ostwind - Das Spiel” was the first implementation of Ostwind as a computer game . In it, the players explore the world around Kaltenbach as Mika and take care of Ostwind. In 2019, the second part of the game series, in which Ari is the main character, was released with "Ostwind - Ari's Arrival". Both games were developed by the German studio Aesir Interactive and are available for Windows PC , Playstation 4 and Nintendo Switch .

More book series

Since 2019, adaptations of the Ostwind stories by Thilo Petry-Lassak have been published as first-reading books in six volumes. Almut Schmidt wrote two non-fiction books that go with the series and explain how to handle horses.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ East Wind 3 - Departure to Ora. In: Keyword script. Association of German Scriptwriters eV (VDD), July 27, 2017, accessed on April 21, 2020 .
↑ Christina Hucklenbroich: "Ostwind - Aufbruch nach Ora": Stubborn girl, stubborn horse . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed April 21, 2020]).
↑ East wind. Random House Publishing Group , accessed April 21, 2020 .
↑ Ostwind - return to Kaltenbach. Random House Publishing Group, accessed April 21, 2020 .
↑ East wind - departure for Ora. In: Alias Entertainment GmbH. October 6, 2015, accessed on April 21, 2020 (German).
↑ East Wind - In Search of Tomorrow. In: Alias Entertainment GmbH. June 20, 2016, accessed on April 21, 2020 (German).
↑ East Wind - Ari's arrival. In: Alias Entertainment GmbH. July 11, 2017, accessed on April 21, 2020 (German).
↑ East Wind - The Great Hurricane. In: Alias Entertainment GmbH. October 8, 2018, accessed on April 21, 2020 (German).
↑ "Ostwind 5": Theatrical release of "The Great Storm" postponed. March 26, 2020, accessed April 21, 2020 .
↑ Film starts: New trailer for "Ostwind 5": The grand finale of the horse saga. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .
^ Windstorm - The Game. In: Aesir interactive. Retrieved April 14, 2020 (American English).
↑ Windstorm - Ari's Arrival. In: Aesir interactive. Retrieved April 14, 2020 (American English).
↑ Ostwind for first-time readers in the correct order. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .
↑ Understand horses with an easterly wind. Random House Publishing Group, accessed April 21, 2020 .
↑ Relaxed riding with an east wind. Random House Publishing Group, accessed April 21, 2020 .

[1] East Wind 3 - Departure to Ora. In: Keyword script. Association of German Scriptwriters eV (VDD), July 27, 2017, accessed on April 21, 2020 .

[2] Christina Hucklenbroich: "Ostwind - Aufbruch nach Ora": Stubborn girl, stubborn horse . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed April 21, 2020]).

[3] East wind. Random House Publishing Group , accessed April 21, 2020 .

[4] Ostwind - return to Kaltenbach. Random House Publishing Group, accessed April 21, 2020 .

[5] East wind - departure for Ora. In: Alias Entertainment GmbH. October 6, 2015, accessed on April 21, 2020 (German).

[6] East Wind - In Search of Tomorrow. In: Alias Entertainment GmbH. June 20, 2016, accessed on April 21, 2020 (German).

[7] East Wind - Ari's arrival. In: Alias Entertainment GmbH. July 11, 2017, accessed on April 21, 2020 (German).

[8] East Wind - The Great Hurricane. In: Alias Entertainment GmbH. October 8, 2018, accessed on April 21, 2020 (German).

[9] "Ostwind 5": Theatrical release of "The Great Storm" postponed. March 26, 2020, accessed April 21, 2020 .

[10] Film starts: New trailer for "Ostwind 5": The grand finale of the horse saga. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .

[11] Windstorm - The Game. In: Aesir interactive. Retrieved April 14, 2020 (American English).

[12] Windstorm - Ari's Arrival. In: Aesir interactive. Retrieved April 14, 2020 (American English).

[13] Ostwind for first-time readers in the correct order. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .

[14] Understand horses with an easterly wind. Random House Publishing Group, accessed April 21, 2020 .

[15] Relaxed riding with an east wind. Random House Publishing Group, accessed April 21, 2020 .