Rico, Oskar and Vomhimmelhoch

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Rico, Oskar und das Vomhimmelhoch is a novel by Andreas Steinhöfel from 2017. It is the fourth volume in the series about Rico and Oskar after Rico, Oskar and the deep shadows (2008), Rico, Oskar and the heartache (2009) and Rico , Oskar and the theft stone (2011). The series is published by Carlsen Verlag and is recommended for ages 10 and up.

Plot and narrative

The action begins a few months after the end of the previous volume. The “ gifted ” Rico and his highly gifted friend Oskar are preparing for Christmas Eve while a snow storm is brewing over Berlin. In three retrospectives, Rico tells what happened in the meantime: While Oskar was on vacation in Denmark, Rico had made friends with a group of children who met in an abandoned backyard in the neighborhood. After Oscar's return they spent a happy late summer together, until the group split up over a thoughtless remark and the theft of a memento and broke up. On Christmas Eve, the children are reconciled while they are snowed in in Rico and Oskar's house. During the storm, Rico's mother gives birth to her second child at home. At the same time the child is born to a homeless woman who has given Oskar shelter in the house. Late in the evening Rico decides to write down the events on the day of her birth for his little sister.

As in the previous volumes, Rico, Oskar and Vomhimmelhoch is written from Rico's point of view and shaped by his erratic trains of thought as well as his typical word creations and explanatory insertions.

History of origin and continuation

Steinhöfel originally planned the series as a trilogy . For a series of short animated films for the show with the mouse , he invented the six other children who form a gang with Rico and Oskar. In order to tell the background story of these children and to be able to develop their characters better than was possible in the film sequences, Steinhöfel decided to write a fourth book. He is planning a fifth and final volume that will conclude the story of the playground gang.

expenditure

The hardback edition with illustrations by Peter Schössow was published by Carlsen Verlag ( ISBN 978-3-551-55665-3 ). In the same year an audio book , read by the author, was published by Silberfisch Verlag ( ISBN 978-3867423625 ).

Theater adaptation

A theater adaptation by Felicitas Loewe premiered on November 25, 2017 under the direction of Jan Gehler in the Theater Junge Generation in Dresden .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karin Großmann: It's okay not to be perfect. In: Saxon newspaper . November 24, 2017, accessed June 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Rico, Oskar und das Vomhimmelhoch on the pages of Theater Junge Generation , accessed on June 3, 2018.