Racing pig Rudi Rüssel

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Rennschwein Rudi Rüssel is a children's novel by the German writer Uwe Timm , which was published by Nagel & Kimche in 1989 . The book was made into a film in 1995. In 1990 Uwe Timm received the German Youth Literature Prize for racing pig Rudi Rüssel . Many editions were illustrated by Gunnar Matysiak .

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“We have a pig at home. I don't mean my little sister, but a real pig that goes by the name Rudi Rüssel ... " (quote from the beginning of the book)

The first-person narrator of the novel is an unnamed boy who is fourteen years old at the end of the novel. He has two sisters: Betti, who is one year younger, and Zuppi, who has just turned six. On a hike in the Lüneburg Heath , the narrator's family passes a village called Hörpel. At the village festival there, Zuppi wins the main prize, a little piglet, in a tombola . The father doesn't want the piglet in the house right from the start. At the insistence of the rest of the family, Zuppi is allowed to keep the pig for three days. When they get home, the pig that the children christened Rudi Rüssel has to go into the bathroom. The mother raises Rudi house-trained. He now goes to his peat litter box regularly.

When Rudi is supposed to leave the house after the three days have elapsed, the children label him with hieroglyphics with mother's eyebrow pencil in order to get their father, an unemployed Egyptologist , to keep him, which ultimately succeeds. One night when the children are at home alone, Rudi becomes a hero - a newspaper article later bears the headline: “Pig bites burglar”. At the topping-out ceremony for Rudi's newly built stable, however, Rudi is discovered by the landlord, Mr. Buselmeier. He threatens to resign, especially when Betti reveals that Rudi is always showered warm.

The very next day the family goes to the country to look for a farmer with whom Rudi can be placed. Eventually they find an old-fashioned farm owned by a nice old farmer named Voss. The father pays the stable rent without complaining, and the family visits Rudi every Sunday. It goes on until summer, then the family goes to Italy. When Zuppi gets homesick, the family goes back home to visit Rudi with farmer Voss. But the farm is deserted. The family inquires about the reason and learns that farmer Voss has died. His son sold all the pigs to fattening farms . They search all of these species in the area and in one they discover Rudi, who is to be sold for slaughter with other pigs the next day. The fattener doesn't believe them that it's their pig. The father does not have enough money to buy Rudi out and therefore has to go home first. The next day they arrive in time - the pigs are just being picked up - to the fattening farm and can save Rudi. The mast has made him fat and sluggish. When they get home, Mr. Buselmeier discovers Rudi, despite clever disguise, and resigns the family without notice.

From now on they go looking for an apartment. Nobody wants to take in a family of five with a pig. Eventually, however, they find a free apartment on the edge of a soccer field, which they can move into, provided that their father has to be a groundskeeper. Rudi is only allowed into the house on the condition that he does an artistic job. He tries unsuccessfully as a "circus pig" and mascot for the football club, until you realize that he is well suited as a racing pig. Rudi successfully takes part in pig races and on this way meets a pig girl named Gullinborsti , who belongs to a farmer's son Zuppi's age named Moritz.

When the family comes home after a few races, Rudi falls ill. The veterinarian who was called found that Rudi was longing for Gullinborsti. Rudi is now placed with the brothers Malte and Moritz at Gullinborsti in the stable of the Hinrichsen Hof and Gullinborsti gets piglets from Rudi after a few months. The two lead a happy pig life together.

Other works by the author

In Rennschwein Rudi Rüssel , Uwe Timm refers to an earlier book of his youth, Der Schatz auf Pagensand . From the later life of one of the youthful heroes there, it is reported that he (like Uwe Timm himself) copied the Abitur, became an Egyptologist and kept a domestic pig.

Film adaptations

In 1995 the German director Peter Timm filmed the children's book under the same title for the big screen. Iris Berben and Ulrich Mühe played the main roles as the stressed couple Gützkow, as well as the young actors Cora Sabrina Grimm, Constantin von Jascheroff and Kristina Pauls as their film children Betty, Tobi and Zuppi. The film was successful at the German box office, was rated by Blickpunkt: Film as " fun cinema for the whole family " and won the Bavarian Film Prize in 1996 in the children's film category. The location was Duisburg.

Eleven years after the success of the racing pig Rudi Rüssel , Peter Timm took over the direction of the sequel Rudi Rüssel rennt again in 2006 , which was filmed in Cologne and Brandenburg . The film opened in German cinemas on March 8, 2007. Sebastian Koch , Sophie von Kessel , Dominique Horwitz and Andreas Schmidt were hired for the leading roles . The youth roles were taken over by Maurice Teichert as Nickel Bussmann and Sina Richardt as Feli.

From 2008 onwards, the ARD broadcast the series Rennschwein Rudi Rüssel on Saturdays . Three seasons with 39 episodes were shot.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Timm: Rennschwein Rudi Rüssel , dtv (1993), p. 9.