Ronja the robber's daughter

The title of this article is ambiguous. For other meanings, see Ronja the Robber's Daughter (disambiguation) .

Cast of Ronja and Mattis in Astrid Lindgren's World , 2014

Model of the Mattisburg in Astrid Lindgren's World, 2015

Ronja Räubertochter (original title: Ronja Rövardotter ) is a children's book by the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren , which appeared in 1981. The original illustrations are by Ilon Wikland . The book was translated into numerous languages ​​and became a worldwide success.

plot

Ronja is the daughter of the robber chief Mattis and his wife Lovis. She grew up on the Mattisburg in the Mattiswald together with her parents and their gang of robbers. One day she meets Birk Borkason, the son of the rival robber captain Borka and his wife Undis. Borka's gang, the Borka robbers, have settled in a part of the Mattisburg that was separated from the main building by a lightning strike on the day Ronja and Birk were born. Since the arrival of the Borka robbers, this part has been known as the Borka fortress.

By helping each other in sticky situations, Ronja and Birk, who are now eleven, quickly become close friends ("brother and sister"). When Mattis captures Birk and Ronja voluntarily surrenders to Borka, the conflict between the two clans escalates. The friendship between Birk and Ronja, which has been kept secret until now, is revealed, but this only arouses displeasure on the part of the fathers of the two. The two children then move together to an abandoned bear den in the forest.

Mattis' longing for his daughter eventually moves him to seek her out and ask her to return to the Mattisburg. After being assured that they can continue to meet undisturbed, Ronja and Birk return to their parents, having already worried about how they might survive the winter in the cave. Since numerous lansquenets of the Vogt ambushed the robbers in the Mattiswald, Mattis and Borka decide to join forces with their gangs in order to be able to counter this danger better together. Mattis wins the duel that is to decide who will lead the united gang of robbers. He wants Ronja to become a robber too, but Ronja, like Birk, thinks very little of the robber's trade and decides against this path of life. The story ends with Ronja and Birk leaving the castle in spring - now with the consent of their parents - to spend the summer months in the bear's cave again.

interpretation

In her last major work Ronja Räubertochter Astrid Lindgren parodies a classic robber novel . She uses many set pieces of a robber's story (fights, brutality, uninhibited feelings and original joie de vivre), but ironizes the boastful robbers with their easy vulnerability and sentimentality. The male powerhouse, from which only the old bald Per and the youthful Birk stand out, is contrasted with a female, sensible view of the title character and her mother. Lindgren doesn't design the novel primarily historically, so that she can also convey contemporary themes and problems in the plot. Topics covered include freedom, emancipation, fidelity, respect, friendship and love, but also prejudice, competition, violence and death. In addition, fantastic motifs, such as the menacing Wild Druden , are woven into the plot.

The love between Ronja and Birk, the two children of hostile robber tribes, is reminiscent of Romeo and Juliet . But unlike Shakespeare's tragedy, there is a happy ending for the (platonic) lovers in Lindgren's children's book . Children's determination overcomes adults' differences and opens up new opportunities for adults as well. The children dare to jump over the "Hell's Chasm" and thus also symbolically overcome the gap between the warring clans. At the same time, the novel also shows Ronja's emancipation from her father. She, who has been chosen by her father since birth to one day rule over his kingdom, wants to go her own way. The process of emancipation is shown as a very painful one, both for the father, who is reminiscent of King Lear and almost breaks when his daughter rejects him, and for the daughter, who has to rebel against her father in Freudian fashion. to survive yourself. In the end, only the children have the power to save the world and end the conflict of arch-enemies who are in fact so similar (and which can be understood as an allegory for many real-life political conflicts).

Other literary models and myths are also worked on in Ronja Räubertochter . The living together of Ronja and Birk is reminiscent of Tristan and Isolde in the Minnegrotte (in a form of the legend of Gottfried von Straßburg ). As is typical of Astrid Lindgren's books, the children live in an ideal state in harmony with nature like Adam and Eve in paradise. With the onset of cold winter, her Garden of Eden is threatened, but despite all seemingly unsolvable problems, Lindgren's depictions of nature always show how wonderful life is and that it is worth pursuing your goals. The novel reflects her own optimistic and positive attitude towards life and also ends life-affirmingly with the arrival of the new spring. Taking a stand for peace and against violence, Lindgren demonstrates peaceful and non-violent ways to change the world. Therefore, Ronja the robber's daughter was also classified as a peace and science fiction novel. The theologian Ina Praetorius interprets the novel as a feminist utopia because Ronja goes out into the forest (= the world) alone without becoming unhappy.

adaptations

filming

→ Main article : Ronja the Robber's Daughter (film)

The book was made into a very successful film by Tage Danielsson in 1984 . The film was also broadcast on television as a mini -series.

Ronja with the rumble guys in the musical

musical

In 1994 the musical Ronja Räubertochter composed by Axel Bergstedt celebrated its premiere.

family opera

On February 26, 2015, the family opera of the same name by Jörn Arnecke (libretto: Holger Potocki) celebrated its world premiere in the production by Johannes Schmid in the Theater Duisburg as part of the cooperation "Junge Opern Rhein-Ruhr". In addition to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf Duisburg, the opera was also shown in the Bonn Theater and the Dortmund Theater.

anime

→ Main article : Ronja the Robber's Daughter (animated series)

In January 2014, it was announced that the Japanese television network NHK commissioned an anime adaptation of the story from the computer animation studio Polygon Pictures, assisted by Studio Ghibli , which was broadcast in autumn 2014. Directed the project Gorō Miyazaki .

expenditure

novel

• Astrid Lindgren: Ronja, Robber's Daughter. (German by Anna-Liese Kornitzky .) Oetinger, Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-7891-2940-2 . (Illustrated by Ilon Wikland )
• Astrid Lindgren: Ronja, Robber's Daughter. (German by Anna-Liese Kornitzky.) Oetinger, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7891-0811-2 . (Illustrated by Katsuya Kondo )
• Astrid Lindgren: Ronja, Robber's Daughter. (German by Anna-Liese Kornitzky.) ATB Alex paperbacks, Berlin (DDR) 1988, ISBN 978-3-358-01380-9 . (Illustrated by Karl-Heinz Appelmann )

comics

• Ronja Räubertochter: The Thunderstorm Child ( Ronja Rövardotter - Åskvädersbarn , 2016, German 2017) Oetinger, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7891-0820-4
• Ronja Räubertochter: The Wild Druden ( Ronja Rövardotter - Vildvittrorna , 2016, German 2017) Oetinger, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7891-0821-1
• Ronja Rövardotter - Björngrotan , 2017, Comic, not yet published in German
• Ronja Rövardotter - Glupafallet , 2017, Comic, not yet published in German

audio books and audio plays

• Astrid Lindgren: Ronja, Robber's Daughter. (Read by Ulrich Noethen .) Oetinger, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8373-0757-3
• Astrid Lindgren: Ronja, Robber's Daughter. The audio play for the film. Ufa (Sony Music) 2015
• Astrid Lindgren: Ronja, Robber's Daughter. [Read by Trudi Gerster (narrator), Sumitra Keshava (Ronja), Ananda Keshava (Birk)], Tudor (Tudor Recording), 2012´
• Astrid Lindgren: Ronja the Robber's Daughter. Episode 1. In the Mattisburg. [Read by Rolf Becker (narrator), Katharina von Bock (Ronja), Marcus von Bock (Birk), Norbert Schwientek (Mattis), Margret Homeyer (Lovis), Paul-Albert Krumm (Bald Pet), Manfred Böll (small Klipp), Ulrich von Bock (Borka)] Universal Family/Oetinger, 1984
• Astrid Lindgren: Ronja the Robber's Daughter. Episode 2. In the Bear's Den. [Read by Rolf Becker (narrator), Katharina von Block (Ronja), Marcus von Bock (Birk), Norbert Schwientek (Mattis), Margret Homeyer (Lovis), Paul-Albert Krumm (Bald Pet), Manfred Böll (small Klipp), Ulrich von Bock (Borka)] Universal Family/Oetinger, 1984

PC game

• Astrid Lindgren: Ronja the Robber's Daughter , Windows 95/98, Oetinger, 2001

trivia

• The subterraneans that Ronja wants to follow in the story are described in more detail in another short story by Astrid Lindgren. In The Sheep on Kapela (original: Tu tu tu!, published in the short story collection Klingt meine Linde ), little Stina Maria encounters the creatures. They take them to their underground caves and halls, where Stina Maria loses all her memories of home.

literature

• Sanna Pohlmann: The fantastic and the fantastic in literature. On fantastic children's novels by Astrid Lindgren . J&J-Verlag, Wettenberg 2004, ISBN 3-937983-00-7 , pp. 209-256.
• Barbara Schubert-Felmy & Kristina Schubert: EinFach Deutsch teaching models: Astrid Lindgren: Ronja Räubertochter: Classes 5 - 7 Schöningh Verlag in the Westermann school book, 2014, ISBN 978-3-14-022590-8
• Astrid Hoffart: Astrid Lindgren and Ronja Räubertochter: Refreshing new ideas and materials about Astrid and Ronja Brigg, 2018, ISBN 978-3-95660-125-5
• Prof. Dr. Michaela Greisbach: just read it! - Reading promotion: For advanced reading: Level 1 - Ronja Räubertochter: A reading project based on the novel of the same name by Astrid Lindgren. Workbook with solutions Cornelsen Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-464-60171-6
• Days Danielsson: Ronja Räubertochter: photo book/film book Oetinger, 1997, ISBN 978-3-7891-2233-0

web links

Commons : Ronja Räubertochter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ronja the Robber's Daughter on Astrid Lindgren's official website.
• Ronja Räubertochter on KinderundJugendmedien.de .

itemizations

1. ↑ Sanna Pohlmann: Fantastic and fantastic in literature. On fantastic children's novels by Astrid Lindgren . J&J-Verlag, Wettenberg 2004, ISBN 3-937983-00-7 , pp. 209, 213.
2. ↑ Ronja Räubertochter on KinderundJugendmedien.de .
3. ↑ Sanna Pohlmann: Fantastic and fantastic in literature. On fantastic children's novels by Astrid Lindgren . J&J-Verlag, Wettenberg 2004, ISBN 3-937983-00-7 , pp. 236, 241-242.
4. ↑ Arnold Weinstein: Northern Arts. The Breakthrough of Scandinavian Literature and Art, from Ibsen to Bergman . Princeton University Press, Princeton 2008, ISBN 978-0-691-12544-2 , pp. 224–227.
5. ↑ Birgit Dankert: Astrid Lindgren. A lifelong childhood. Darmstadt: Lambert Schneider by WBG, 2013, p. 223.
6. ↑ Sanna Pohlmann: Fantastic and fantastic in literature. On fantastic children's novels by Astrid Lindgren . J&J-Verlag, Wettenberg 2004, ISBN 3-937983-00-7 , pp. 242, 247-249.
7. ↑ Ina Praetorius: Loss of utopia and expectation of the kingdom of God , in: Neue Wege 85 (1995), pp. 39-45, here p. 42 ( digital copy ).
8. ↑ IMDb entry
9. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of February 27, 2015 at the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ [1]
11. ↑ Goro Miyazaki to Direct Ronia the Robber's Daughter TV Anime. In: Anime News Network. January 30, 2014, retrieved July 17, 2014 (English).