Pianke
Pianke is the title of a children's book by the German writer Peter Abraham , which first appeared in 1981 in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) by Kinderbuchverlag Berlin and was reprinted several times in the 1980s. It was filmed in 1982 under the direction of Gunter Friedrich from DEFA for the television of the GDR .
action
The plot, which is told based on the end of the story, takes place in the last years of the Second World War . The main character is the nine-year-old boy Andreas Groß, whose nickname is Pianke . He lives in Berlin with his father, who is active as a communist in the resistance against National Socialism . After a bombing raid, they fled because of a warning that their home had been searched by police and from then on they live under different names in a leaf colony . The Jew Elias Schmuckstein, who owns the arbor in which they live, asks them to hide the Jewish girl Rachel with them shortly before they are deported . In the following years she lives under the name Irma and disguised as Pianke's cousin with him and his father.
They also hide a French woman who later has a child in the house of Pianke and his father. At the end of the book they sail on a boat that Pianke's father took over from Elias Schmuckstein on the Havel between the German and the Soviet troop positions. After they are first shot at by the German soldiers, they sing the well-known folk song "May has come", whereupon the German commander stops the fire. The Soviet officer also refrains from firing because, following the shots from the German side, he is of the opinion that the people on the boat could not be fascists .
literature
- Peter Abraham: Pianke. The children's book publisher Berlin, Berlin 1981