Travel around the earth in 80 days

Title page of Journey around the world in 80 days , drawing by Léon Benett , 1875

Paper theater with the theme: Journey around the world in 80 days in the Museum of European Cultures in Berlin (around 1890–1900)

Around the World in 80 Days (also in 80 days around the world , in eighty days around the earth , The salvation of Maharani , the bet of Phileas Fogg or the race of Phileas Fogg ) is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne . The novel was first published on January 30, 1873 under the French title Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours by the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel . The first German-language edition was published in the same year by the Légrády brothers' publishing house in Pestunder the title Journey around the world in 80 days .

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Binding of the original French edition from 1873

Edition from 1891

The rich English gentleman Phileas Fogg is downright eccentric when it comes to punctuality and daily habits, as well as a passionate whist player. He bets with other members of the Reform Club in London to 20,000 pounds that he would succeed to travel in 80 days around the world. That same evening he leaves with his newly hired French servant Jean Passepartout . They take the train via Paris to Brindisi , where they board the steamboat to Bombay through the Suez Canal . He has £ 20,000 in a travel bag, the other half of his fortune.

Around the same time, a robbery is committed in the Bank of England , and the somewhat overzealous detective Mister Fix believes that in Suez he can recognize him as a robber based on the telegraphic description of his person and the external circumstances of Fogg, who is urgent to get ahead. Fix requests an arrest warrant for Fogg from London , which is to be sent to him in Bombay. He made friends with Passepartout and got on the ship to Bombay. From Bombay it should go by train to Calcutta , but the journey has to be interrupted due to an unfinished railway line and continued with an elephant. The English general Sir Francis Cromarty accompanies them. In the jungle they save the young Parsian widow Aouda, who, living as a sati , was to be burned at the stake with her dead husband by a Brahmin religious sect. Passepartout, who does not carry his name (French: passer “through” and partout “everywhere”) due to his disguises and acrobatic tricks, disguises himself and plays the role of the resurrected spouse . He succeeds in saving the drugged Aouda from the pyre of the Brahmins. The traveling companions manage to escape before the vertigo is discovered. They decide to take Aouda, who had a European upbringing, away from India because she is no longer safe there.

In Calcutta, Fogg and Passepartout are sued by three priests from Bombay for trespassing on a pagoda . Fix instigated the priests to sue in order to gain time before an arrest warrant arrives. The two were sentenced to longer terms, but Fogg obtained their release on bail and traveled on, to Fix's annoyance.

The journey goes from Calcutta to Hong Kong . However, the relative whom the traveling companions wanted to bring Aouda to no longer lives there. Phileas Fogg is a gentleman enough to take her to Europe. Fix, who knew about the planned route, has now also arrived in Hong Kong. He is waiting for a telegraphic arrest warrant to arrest Fogg on the soil of the British colony. For this reason he anesthetizes Passepartout with opium so that he can no longer inform his master of the early departure of the steamboat to Yokohama . In the end of the intoxication, however, the servant can still remember that the steamboat is leaving prematurely and, still half dazed, goes on board - but without informing his traveling companions. The ship leaves for Yokohama without Fogg and Aouda.

Fogg then rents a ship to Shanghai to catch the post boat to Yokohama and unsuspectingly takes the detective Fix, whom he does not know, with him. With luck, you will reach the post boat to Yokohama. Passepartout had meanwhile taken a job in a circus there . Aouda and Fogg know that Passepartout has arrived on the steamboat from Hong Kong and find him in this circus. The servant joins them again and together they travel across the Pacific to San Francisco . From there they travel by rail across the North American continent to New York City . The protagonists not only have problems with a Colonel Proctor who insults Phileas Fogg, they also have to grapple with a herd of bison blocking the track, a ramshackle bridge and Mormons who want to marry Passepartout. Finally, their train is ambushed by Sioux in the middle of the Nebraska prairie . During the journey, Passepartout uncouples the wagons from the steam locomotive and the tender so that the passenger cars of the train can come to a stop on the route near the Fort Kearney military base. He is kidnapped by the Sioux, but freed by Fogg with the help of Fort Kearney troops. You will miss the train ride. Instead, the tour company uses a sleigh powered by sails to get to the nearest train station in Omaha and via Chicago to New York. However, the ship to Liverpool left shortly before. Fogg rents a paddle steamer that is supposed to go to Bordeaux . On the way he leads a mutiny against the unloved captain in order to be able to change the destination. When the fuel for the boiler of the steam engine ran out, Fogg bought the entire ship and had all the wooden components burned. The company makes a detour via Queenstown and Dublin to catch a faster ship to England in Ireland . On arrival in Liverpool, Fix, who had been grudgingly traveling with him the entire time, arrested Fogg. His innocence quickly becomes apparent, as the real bank robber has recently been arrested. There is a special train from Liverpool to London, but upon arrival in London the agreed time of 80 days was exceeded by 5 minutes. The bet is lost. Fogg, Aouda and Passepartout drive straight to Fogg's house on Saville Row .

The fortune of £ 20,000 that Fogg took with him has been used up except for an insignificant remainder of around £ 1,000. He owes the other half of his £ 20,000 fortune to his betting partners in the Reform Club. Fogg faces ruin . On the evening of the following day, Aouda, who fell in love with Fogg during the trip, confesses her love and asks Fogg if he wants to marry her. Fogg recognizes his love for Aouda and agrees. Passepartout is immediately sent to the priest Reverend Wilson to arrange a marriage for the next day. There he learns that it is not Sunday evening, but Saturday evening. Crossing the date line to the east won a whole day. Fogg rushes to the Reform Club and arrives in the club hall three seconds before the time runs out and wins the bet. Aouda and Fogg get married the day after next. Fogg made a relatively small financial gain from the bet, but found great love. He generously divides the £ 1,000 profit between Passepartout and Mister Fix.

background

The novel is based on the trip around the world by the American George Francis Train , who made that trip in 1870 and two more trips around the world in 1890 and 1892, in 1892 even in just 60 days. He was angry about the change of his name to Phileas Fogg. In 1869 the Suez Canal and railroad across the United States had opened. Before that, traveling around the world in 80 days was nearly impossible.

An allegedly logical mistake by Jules Verne, according to which Phileas Fogg should have noticed his mistake with regard to the date in America, cannot be proven beyond doubt, since, although it would be very unlikely, it cannot be entirely ruled out that he would during the trip through America and across the Atlantic back to London was not confronted with the current date.

The route

Adaptations

novel

The American science fiction - writer Philip José Farmer published in 1973 - exactly 100 years after Jules Verne - the novel The real log of Phileas Fogg . According to this novel, the journey around the world must be seen against the background of a proxy war between two warring alien civilizations on earth. Fogg and Passepartout fight for the Eridans, for the Capellans Fix and the captain Nemo and Sebastian Moran, not mentioned in Verne's novel . Furthermore, in the afterword by H. W. Starr, it is claimed that Nemo and Professor Moriarty are one and the same person.

Stage processing

The stage adaptation, written jointly by Adolphe d'Ennery and Jules Verne, had its premiere in 1874 . Charles Alexander Raida and Franz von Suppè contributed stage music for the “spectacle piece” . The play was titled The Journey Around the Earth in Eighty Days, along with a prelude to Die Wette um eine Million. Equipment with song, dance, evolutions and elevators in 5 departments and 15 pictures also performed in Germany.

On May 10, 2006, the piece Le Tour du monde en 80 jours , an adaptation of the novel by Sébastien Azzopardi and Sacha Danino , had its world premiere. It won the Charles Oulmont Prize in 2006 , received a nomination for the Raimu de la Comédie Award in 2006 and the Audience Award at the Festival d'Angers 2007 .

In 2006 the musical around the world in 80 days was performed at the Bautzen Theater Summer in the courtyard of the Ortenburg.

On November 28, 2009, the children's and family musical Around the World In 80 Days (director: Michael Schilhan) premiered at the Graz Opera. Markus-Peter Gössler (text) and Maurizio Nobili (music) developed this musical adaptation based on Jules Verne's template for the Graz children's and youth theater Next Liberty.

On May 27, 2012 another family musical with the title Around the World in 80 Days (Director: Meike Niemeyer, Choreography: Hakan T. Aslan) premiered at the Freilichtspiele Tecklenburg . The music comes from Klaus Hillebrecht (music), the lyrics were written by Radulf Beuleke .

On November 14, 2015, the family musical around the world in 80 days (book and production: Beppo Binder, music: Pavel Singer, choreography: Bohdana Svivacz) celebrated its world premiere on the Baden stage.

On September 25, 2016, a modern adaptation with current time references had its premiere, initially in a theater tent of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . Due to the great demand, the circus spectacle was continued in 2017 on the big stage of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus (title: Around the world in 80 days , director: Leonhard Koppelmann and Peter Jordan , stage and costume: Michael Sieberock-Serafimowitsch, music: Klaus Mages, Video: Stefan Bischoff, choreography: Bridget Petzold, dramaturgy: Stefan Fischer-Fels, theater pedagogy: Matin Soofipour).

On October 1st, 2016, the musical Around the World in 80 Days (book: Øystein Wiik, music: Gisle Kverndokk, staging: Matthias Davids, choreography: Simon Eichenberger) premiered at the Linz Music Theater.

Film adaptations

The book was filmed several times:

Feature films

The Hunt for the Hundred Pound Note or The Journey Around the World (1913), silent film with Fred Goebel and Senta Eichstaedt
The Journey Around the Earth in 80 Days (1919), silent film with Conrad Veidt
Around the World in 80 Days (1956) with David Niven as well as numerous cameo appearances , five Oscars (including Best Film )
Around the World in 80 Days (1989) with Pierce Brosnan and Peter Ustinov
Around the World in 80 Days (2004) with Jackie Chan and Steve Coogan

Animated films / series

Around the World in 80 Days (1972) , Australian animated series
Around the world with Willy Fog (1981), adaptation as an animated series
Around the World in 80 Days (1988) , American film
The Journey Around The World in 80 Days (2000) , French film

There is also a series of puppet animated films , Around the World in 80 Days , which was shown in the western edition of the Sandman in 1972 .

Michael Palin , a former member of the Monty Python group, presented Jules Verne's novel adventures in seven episodes under the title Around the World in 80 Days with modern travel means as part of one of his travel documentaries for the BBC in 1989 to.

In 1998, in cooperation between the MDR and the Shanghai animation studio, an animated film was released with a script that was only slightly modified from the novel.

Radio plays

NDR 1958:
- Editing: Ruth Hermann
- Music: Erich Bender .
- Director: Kurt Reiss .
- Actors: Heinz Klingenberg (narrator) , Hermann Lenschau (Fogg) , Rolf Nagel (Passepartout) , Horst Beck (Fix) .
BR 1960:
- Editing: Paul Alverdes .
- Music: Kurt Brüggemann .
- Director: August Everding .
- Actors: Benno Sterzenbach (narrator) , Wolfgang Büttner (Fogg) , Hans Clarin (Passepartout) , Margot Trooger (Aouda) .
SRF 1967:
- Editing: Amido Hoffmann , Pavel Kohout .
- Music: Klaus Cornell .
- Director: Amido Hoffmann.
- Actors: Franz Dehler (Fogg) , Franz Matter (Passepartout) , Paul-Felix Binz (Detective Fix) , Miriam Spoerri (Aouda) .
Maritime 1975:
- Editing and direction: Kurt Vethake .
- Actors: Klaus Jepsen (narrator) , Joachim Kerzel (Fogg) , Peter Schiff (Passepartout) , Heinz Rabe (Fix) , Sibylle Gilles (Aouda) .
Europe 1976:
- Editing: HG Francis .
- Director: Heikedine Körting .
- Actors: Lutz Mackensy (narrator) , Hans Daniel (Fogg) , Joachim Wolff (Passepartout) , Werner Cartano (Fix) , Karin Lieneweg (Aouda) .
MDR 2005:
- Editing and direction: Helmut Peschina .
- Music: Rudolf Schmücker .
- Director: Stefan Dutt .
- Actors: Peter Fricke (narrator) , Axel Milberg (Fogg) , Boris Aljinovic (Passepartout) , Peter Groeger (Fix) , Effi Rabsilber (Aouda) .

such as

1956, publisher: Leipzig Blindenhörbuch (audio book)
1958, director: Kurt Reiss, publisher: NDR (radio play)
1966, director: Benno Schurr , publisher: Fontana (radio play)
WDR 1968:
- Processing: Dieter Rohkohl .
- Music: Harald Banter .
- Director: Otto Düben .
1968, Publisher: Zürich Blindenhörbuch (audio book)
1972, director: Peter M. Majewski, publisher: Zebra (radio play)
1978, director: Klaus Gmeiner, publisher: ORF (radio play)
1986, director: Hans Jedlitschka , publisher: DRS (radio play)
2000, Publisher: Disky (radio play)
2000, director: Christoph Zwiener, publisher: Soundhaus (Musical)
2001, director: Rosemarie Altenhofer, publisher: HörbuchHamburg (audio book)
2002, director: Sonja Hartl, publisher: ROOF (audio book)
2003, director: Cornelia Bitsch, publisher: Bella Musica (radio play)
2005, Publisher: Ueberreuter (audio book)
2005, Publisher: Universal (audio book)
2006, Publisher: Voltmedia (audio book)

Games

Board games

Reise um die Erde ( Ravensburger Verlag ) (1884) is the first game published by Ravensburger

Around the World in 80 Days (Abel-Klinger) (1967)

Around the world in 80 days by Michael Rieneck ( Kosmos-Verlag ) was nominated for the game of the year 2005.

Around the world in 80 days by Wolfgang Kramer ( Ravensburger Verlag ) (1986) (The game was reissued by Clementoni in a revised version under the name "The Alchemist" in 2000.)

Phileas Fogg was published in 2013 in the book & game compendium Weltnetzwerke - Weltspiele published by Konstanz University Press

Computer games

In 1987 Fantastic Software converted the story into a game for Rainbow Arts for Commodore 64 , Amiga and Atari ST .

2005 - Implementation of the material, but only in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg, under the title “Around the World in 80 Days” by Frogwares (developer) and dtp entertainment (publisher).
80 days (2014) - interactive text adventure, steampunk version of the novel with various elements from other Jules Verne novels.
2009 Around the world in 80 days for the Nintendo DS (3-in-a-row game principle with the story as a game plot)
2014 Around the World in 80 Days / Fishdom for the Nintendo DS (same game in a pack with the game Fishdom)

Sports

The Jules Verne Trophy is an award for the fastest circumnavigation of the world by sailing boat held bythe Frenchman Loïck Peyron , who in January 2012needed 45 days and 13 hourson his trimaran “Banque Populaire V” for the lap.

Trivia

Although the novel is based on the world tour of the American George Francis Train, Jules Verne was inspired for his fictional character Phileas Fogg by the American William Perry Fogg , who traveled around the world in 1868.

Wolfgang Kehl let Phileas Fogg undertake a second trip around the world in the magazine novel series The Witcher .

For a woman's first trip around the world in 72 days, see the entry on Nellie Bly .

In 2017, a Brit cycled around the world in 78 days.

Current issues (selection)

Jules Verne: Journey around the world in eighty days . Diogenes, Zurich 1973, ISBN 978-3-257-20126-0 .
Jules Verne: Around the World in 80 Days . With all illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Léon Benett . An afterword, notes and a time table by Volker Dehs as well as texts by Edgar Allan Poe , Jules Verne and François Oswald on the creation of the novel, translated by Sabine Hübner. dtv 13545, Munich ISBN 978-3-423-13545-0 .
Jules Verne: Journey around the world in 80 days - Complete revision of the first translation, annotated and illustrated . Null Papier Verlag, Neuss / Düsseldorf 2013, ISBN 978-3-95418-281-7 (Kindle), ISBN 978-3-95418-282-4 (Epub), ISBN 978-3-95418-283-1 (PDF) .
Jules Verne: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours . Gallimard, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-07-035775-8 (= Collection Folio: Classique , Volume 4934).

Audio books

Jules Verne: Journey around the earth in 80 days , speaker: Götz Alsmann , Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-933686-94-6 .
Around the world in 80 days , speaker: Max Urlacher , Hörmedia Audioverlag, 2004.
Jules Verne: Journey around the earth in 80 days , speaker: Rufus Beck , Audiobook Hamburg, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-89903-031-1 .
Jules Verne: Around the World in 80 Days , Speaker: Reinhard Kuhnert ( Audible exclusive, 2008).
Jules Verne: Around the World in 80 Days , Speaker: Philipp Moog , Oetinger Media, 2012 ( Audible ), ISBN 978-3837309447

literature

Heinrich Pleticha (ed.): Jules Verne manual . Deutscher Bücherbund / Bertelsmann, Stuttgart / Munich 1992, ISBN 3-568-79245-1 .
Volker Dehs , Ralf Junkerjürgen: Jules Verne . Voices and interpretations of his work. Fantastic Library Wetzlar, Wetzlar 2005.
Volker Dehs : Jules Verne. A critical biography . Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-538-07208-6 .