Sams (book series)
The Sams is the main character in a ten-volume series of children's books by Paul Maar , the first volume of which was published in 1973.
Characteristic
Sams is a child-like creature with a trunk nose, a face with blue dots, red bristle hair, frog feet and a bulging drum belly. The Sams usually wears a diving suit because this is just right for the Sams due to its elasticity, because it initially grows as much in one day as children in a year, but when it is as big as an eight-year-old child, it stops. The wish points that it has on its face are characteristic of Sams. Each of these points can be used for one of Mr. Taschenbier's requests; difficult requests require two or even three points. However, the wishes must be formulated very precisely. For example, the desire for “lots of money in the room” meant that all possible currencies in the world were scattered throughout the room. Only a few wishes cannot be fulfilled.
The Sam's diet is very diverse. It eats everything from chair legs to window handles to fabric, but it prefers to eat sausages with a lot of mustard and without bread. Sams loves to rhyme. He also likes to write songs, which, however, rarely meet with great approval from Mr. Taschenbier.
It's cheeky and takes a lot literally. It can understand children well.
In addition, in contrast to the pocket beer, it is quite sporty.
Book series
A Week of Saturdays (1973)
In the first volume, Mr. Taschenbier, who had previously led a rather inconspicuous and monotonous life, is puzzled when a big thunderstorm suddenly approaches on Thursday . After all, on the previous Sunday the sun was shining, on Monday Mr Mon visited him (with poppies) and on Tuesday he was on duty as usual. That would be nothing special so far, nor would the middle of the week on Wednesday. But on Thursday there is thunder. And when Mr. Taschenbier is still free on Friday, he goes into town on Saturday, curious about what to expect. In fact, he meets a being that none of the other passers-by can figure out. Only he consequently suspects that this must be a "Sams".
The Sams then says "Papa" to Mr. Taschenbier, stays with him and causes some confusion for a week, especially with Mr. Taschenbier's landlady, Mrs. Rotkohl, his boss Mr. Oberstein, in the department store and at school. Mr. Taschenbier is initially embarrassed by the visitor, and he tries to get rid of him by all means, but over time he becomes fond of him and doesn't really want to lose him anymore. In the course of time, this man's life will be completely turned inside out. At the end of the first volume, Mr. Taschenbier asked for a machine from Sams, which, however, does not work due to the lack of an operating handle. Mr. Taschenbier's greatest wish, namely that the Sams always stays with him, can no longer be fulfilled, and the Sams must go again on Saturday.
On Saturday the Sams came back (1980)
At the beginning of the second book, Mr. Taschenbier missed the Sams that had to leave him on Saturday. So he tries to repeat the course of the previous week so that the sams come back to him. For this purpose, he invites Mr. Mon, among others, to come and hit three large metal sheets with a rolling pin and a wooden spoon on Thursday to simulate the thunder .
His efforts eventually succeed and the Sams will return to him on Saturday with new Wish Points. He wasted the first few points. With one of these wishes, Mr. Taschenbier wants an operating handle for the machine of his choice, with which he can fulfill a number of wishes - including money and a car with a driver's license, which, however, shortly afterwards, due to a lack of driving skills, he steers into fat Mr. Lürcher's living room. The fatal thing was that the dream machine needed a longer break every time after three wishes. During this time, the consequences of previously imprecisely formulated wishes emerged unhindered, until the chaos could finally be contained again through the saving fourth wish . Mr Kules, Mr Mon's parrot, had learned to speak the day before thanks to a request from Mr Mon and flies to Mr Lürcher's apartment, who wants to use him as a witness for the police to confirm that Mr Taschenbier is and that Sams once ended up in his attic due to a misguided wish - but in the meantime Mr. Kules has already been asked back with the help of the wish machine.
In addition, Mr. Taschenbier goes to a fine restaurant with Sams once, in which Sams eats the menu, among other things - so the two of them are thrown out of the restaurant again, but later, when the two ordered charred sausages at a sausage stall, they want them in the fine restaurant and get the delicacies from the snack bar. Towards the end of the book, Mr. Taschenbier wishes the two of them to go to a utopian South Sea island (Mr. Taschenbier was only very shocked when they landed on the island because he actually only wanted that in his mind, but luckily Sams had one point left to wishing them back, although Mr. Taschenbier wanted to take a few days' vacation), during which they were surprised by a tour company after a while. Shortly afterwards, Mr. Taschenbier wishes the two of them back to their room with the supposedly last Sams point. At that time, however, Mr. Mon had the same idea and wanted the two of them on the doorstep. He does this so that Ms. Rotkohl, Mr. Taschenbier's landlady, won't be surprised - after all, she had seen the empty room before. As a result of the two conflicting desires, a struggle arises between the points of Samses and the machine, through which the machine finally gives up the ghost. Herr Taschenbier and Sams try to repair the machine, but then it no longer fulfills the right wishes; first she brings z. B. instead of a piece of pith a piece of quark, after a further repair, the fulfillments are even more absurd. B. Mr. Taschenbier's test request that his chair would fly, that a man outside would drive the car away. So the dream machine is put back in the attic for safety. Fortunately, the Sams left one point. With this last point, Mr. Taschenbier wishes that Sams will stay with him forever.
New Points for Sams (1992)
At the beginning of the third volume, however, Mr. Taschenbier's joy quickly faded, because spending all the time with Sams is not as great as he imagined. Since the Sams no longer has any wish points, it is difficult for Mr. Taschenbier to defend himself from the sometimes rowdy behavior of the Sams - for example, he eats the same during a game of cards. Meanwhile, Mr. Taschenbier meets a nice and pretty woman, Margarete März. She is his work colleague and he soon falls madly in love with her.
Since the Sams no longer has any wish points, Mr. Taschenbier cannot wish that Ms. March also reciprocated his love. To remedy this, Sams reveals a great Sams secret to Mr. Taschenbier: If Sams has no more points, you can get him new ones by climbing onto a house roof on a full moon night from Friday to Saturday and saying "Gatsmas" ("Saturday" read backwards) calls. (In fact, the stated Friday, August 3rd in 1973, the year of publication of the first volume, was a Friday, but not a full moon night). But because Mr. Taschenbier is too impatient, he calls “Gatsmas” himself and then has the wishful points on his face, with which only Sams can now wish. But Sams, like Mr. Taschenbier, also has unusual requests - for example, it wants french fries with ketchup for breakfast - but it also has to deal with the consequences of imprecise requests. During the story, Mr. Mon and Mrs. Rotkohl fall in love.
Meanwhile, Sams is jealous of Ms. March, who claims all of Mr. Taschenbier's attention to herself, and without further ado wishes that the two of them are no longer allowed to meet. Nevertheless, Mr. Taschenbier leaves for a meeting with Mrs. March. However, on the way there, he collapses because of the desire of Samses. Sams then cancels the wish and lets Mr. Taschenbier and Mr. Mon know that the wish was just a test of Mr. Taschenbier's love for Ms. March, and that Mr. Taschenbier passed it sensationally. Thereupon it gives the two green light for a relationship and leaves the two, but not without them the S. R. Tr. (Sam's return drop).
A Sams for Martin Taschenbier (1996)
In the fourth volume there is a new protagonist , namely ten-year-old Martin Taschenbier. He is the son of Mr. Taschenbier and Mrs. March, who is now also called Mrs. Taschenbier. Mr. Mon and Mrs. Rotkohl got married and Martin called Mrs. Rotkohl "Aunt Annemarie". They have an eight-year-old daughter named Helga who loves to eat marzipan pigs and play hide and seek.
At the beginning of the book you can find out more about Martin Taschenbier. He is just as fearful as his father used to be and has a best friend named Roland Steffenhagen who is passionate about playing on the computer. Roland, on the other hand, has a mother who loves writing apologies. Martin is quite unsportsmanlike, which does not give him a very good reputation with his sports teacher, Mr. Daume. When Martin's class 4a, together with the parallel class 4b and Mr. Fitzgerald Daume, are supposed to go on a class trip to the Rhön , Martin is not exactly enthusiastic about the prospect, with z. B. to ski his archenemy Leander “Flatfoot” Plattner for a week. In addition, his friend Roland cannot come along because his mother thinks he is too sick for that because he coughed twice. So Martin drives off unhappy and anxious with the rest of the class on the bus and ends up in the school camp , as was to be foreseen beforehand, in a single room (actually a two-bed room, but nobody wanted to move in with him). But in his suitcase he finds the SRTr., Which he takes immediately, and Sams appears immediately. Martin has a lot of fun and he also wishes some interesting things, for example that he is stronger than the fat and strong Leander Plattner, whereupon he throws him a few meters into a snowman in front of the whole class. With this he also impresses his secret love Tina Holler from 4b.
Later he wishes that Sams should look like him and go skiing for him. This makes Martin the best skier in the whole class. In an attempt to overcome his fear of dogs, he lets the Sams transform into a dog. However, Herr Daume discovers him and wants to take him away. Martin wants him back to his room. During a ski hike, the students discover huge footprints made from cardboard feet made by Sam. The children, however, think that they come from a large yeti and curiously follow the prints until they come to a mountain. Martin runs away from the others and sees the Sams. Just in time, he can wish that Sams is back in the room. When it comes to skiing on the following days, Martin is always by far the best runner. But on Thursday, Sams ran out of points and so Martin had to compete himself in a competition between 4a and 4b - but he fell off his skis and the competition was a draw. After all, he wants to take the Sams home with him - he does that too, and when he arrives at school he is picked up by his father, who in the meantime had secretly obtained his driver's license . Later on, the Sams arrives at home and surprises the Taschenbiers and the visiting family Mon. Martin and the Sams tell everyone about their adventures. When Martin wakes up the next morning, the Sams has suddenly disappeared again. Why is no longer mentioned in this volume, but only in the next book.
Sams in Danger (2002)
At the beginning of the next book we learn that Mr. Fitzgerald Daume at the end of the school hostel stay secretly S AMS R ückhol- Tr opfen had stolen from Martin. At first he wonders what they are doing and resolves to take them to a fellow teacher for analysis. But at night he wakes up thirsty and drinks the drops dissolved in water - Sams appears, but Herr Daume does not see it. Instead, it is located e.g. B. in the oven or in a cupboard and sings unfriendly things about Herr Daume. He gets really angry and tries to find it. But it disappears again and leaves a very angry Mr Daume alone.
Thereupon Mr. Daume forges a plan - he sits down in his room the next day and writes a sign saying his name is Fitzgerald Taschenbier. His plan is to cough after taking the drops, so that his secretary, Mrs. Blümlein, comes in and calls him "Mr. Taschenbier". The Sams does not believe this, but Mr. Daume can still wish with the Sams points. But the SRTr. were frozen in Mr. Daume's refrigerator, and so all wishes have side effects; For example, a flowering meadow grows in his living room, or later a forest. In addition, this forest later goes up in flames when Mr. Daume wishes that his wishes no longer have any side effects. Then Mr. Daume uses the dots for fairly common wishes. B. the school director Mr. Schelling in his office after he has held a rather strange lesson. Sams was present in this, in the form of a trainee lawyer . Mr. Daume wanted Mr. Schelling to do everything that Sams alias "Frau Scheinbar" would like when it calls him "Mr. Schilling", and so Mr. Schelling does "calisthenics" and runs like a lawnmower humming across the whole school grounds. As a result, the sport-crazy Mr. Daume becomes the new director and leads u. a. new, sport-oriented subjects - of course that doesn't make Martin happy. Martin has also noticed that the drops have disappeared and received a message from "Frau Scheinbar" that she is Sams and is being held prisoner.
Mr Daume now wants to become president of the roller skating club with the help of Sam - for this he wants to transform Sam into Mr Lürcher. He does this too and Mr. Lürcher proposes Mr. Daume as the new president at a meeting of the roller skating club. In addition, Mr. Lürcher and the current President, Mr. Dorrmann, are proposed. Meanwhile, Martin, Roland and Tina try to break into Mr. Daume's house - but this fails because Mr. Mon also wants to break into the house - the two of them consider themselves to be the daughter or brother of Mr. Daume and flee. Later, Mr. Daume and Sams go to the roller skating club to vote, where Mr. Daume wishes that he win the election. But this does not work because the Sams no longer has enough wish points. So he ran out of all points, Mr. Daume can no longer wish anything and the real Mr. Lürcher is surprisingly elected as the new president of the roller skating club. That is why Mr. Daume takes Sams to the school gym and kidnaps Martin Taschenbier, who comes from his friend Roland, on the way. He lets him do difficult gymnastics in the sports hall because he hopes that Sams will tell him the secret of how new points come about. Martin finally tells him the secret, but he claims that Mr. Daume has to say "Gatsmas". He does that and has the spots on his face himself. Sams immediately wishes it was free again, and wishes to Martin so that the two of them are back in the gym. Shortly afterwards, the two of Martin's parents, who are already desperately searching, are found and they all return home, where they hold a big party the next day. Mr. Daume is arrested by the police for child abduction and later admitted to a mental hospital.
Uncle Alwin and the Sams (2009)
At the beginning of the sixth volume, the Sams is in a gathering of many other Samses. The Übersams has to tell the Sams that it no longer belongs to them because it has become too human due to the many stays at the pocket beers. The sams are supposed to go back to the people to stay there forever. So it decides to go to Martin Taschenbier.
A few days after Sams has settled in again with Martin's friends, a man comes to the Taschenbiers, who introduces himself as Uncle Alwin, the brother of Mr. Taschenbier's father, and is accompanied by his kangaroo Wallaby. Uncle Alwin emigrated to Australia 40 years ago, now he's standing in the pocket beer house without notice and suddenly settles in Martin's room. Uncle Alwin is always outrageous and demanding towards his relatives, so that he does not make Martin and Sams friends. Days later, Uncle Alwin is still a guest at the Taschenbiers and makes no move to go home. Instead, he now tells the story of his life: He went to Australia and after several unsuccessful attempts in other professions, he finally became a kangaroo farmer. When he got homesick at some point, he released all the kangaroos, fired his only employee, Maxi, and returned to Germany. Since Uncle Alwin only thinks of himself the whole day, Ms. Taschenbier doesn't believe the touching story. The Taschenbiers want Uncle Alwin to leave again.
Since the house blessing with the pocket beers now always hangs crooked, Martin and the Sams consult with their friends Tina, Roland and Samantha how they can get rid of Uncle Alwin quickly. The Sams got the idea to wish him back to the farm in Australia, but the Sams just ran out of wish points. They are still in Mr. Fitzgerald Daume's face. So the friends go looking for Mr. Daume and finally find him as a seller of spotted porcelain at a May market. After a first escape of the frightened Mr. Daume, Martin and the Sams finally manage to transfer the desired points back to the Sams. While Martin and Sams were out and about, Mr. and Mrs. Taschenbier were at a reception from Mr. Oberstein's company. But when everyone comes back home, they experience a really nasty surprise for everyone: Uncle Alwin is gone and robbed the pocket beers in the process. He took jewelry, money and the car with him. With the new wish points you can now wish Uncle Alwin to come back. Together with Mr. Mon, who has been called to help, they wish Uncle Alwin back again. But the person who is now standing in the living room with the Taschenbiers is someone completely different, namely the real Uncle Alwin, who was just standing and working on his sheep farm in Australia.
After seeing Uncle Alwin again, it turns out that the fake Uncle Alwin is none other than Maxi, Uncle Alwin's former worker, who recently left Uncle Alwin and who also stole from him on this occasion. Therefore, further wish points are now used: First, the money and jewelry are wanted back. Then the car, which is back in the garage with a shocked Maxi in the driver's seat, which is next requested directly to a police cell in Australia.
Then plans are made that the family should meet together in Australia. Due to a careless request from Uncle Alwin, all pocket beers end up directly in Australia on the sheep farm, but without the Sams, without whose points they can no longer wish each other back. The next day the Sam is wished away. In the next moment it is again with all the other sams, where the Übersams announces that the sams are samsig enough to remain one of them. However, the Sams declines with thanks and wishes the Samse present there to go to Australia with a wish point, where the whole family can wish for Taschenbier with the Sams back to Germany. In the end, the Sams stays with the pocket beers and has left a single wish point for emergencies.
Sams in Luck (2011)
The seventh part of the series takes place a good 15 years later. Martin and Tina have now married and live with their daughter Betty on Uncle Alwin's farm in Australia and raise sheep there. The Sams itself stayed with the pocket beers. The book begins with Mr. Taschenbier's birthday party, which is also the 15th anniversary of Sams. Actually 30 years have passed since the Sams entered the life of Mr. Taschenbier, but in the meantime it had to go again and again at times. In the course of the story, Übersams explains that this same 15-year uninterrupted presence of Sams has the consequence that Samspapa - that is, Mr. Taschenbier - will increasingly become Sams. This development to Sams initially takes place in phases, which leads to entanglements. For example, Mr. Taschenbier as Samspapa (as Sams always affectionately calls him during these phases, but Mr. Taschenbier himself can never remember afterwards) steals a bus several times, completely empties the refrigerator, breaks into a chocolate factory, finds himself in prison again and persuades his boss, Mr. Oberstein, to invest in his new universal conversion machine. Ms. Taschenbier thinks it's only because Betty has traveled back to Australia and he's very attached to her. Since she's gone, he's been acting like a Sam. That is why, with Martin's permission, he also brings her from Australia to Germany. But even with her there are still these problems from time to time. After a while she says that she misses her sheep. Mr. Taschenbier therefore wishes her all of her parents' sheep in his garden immediately. But since Mr. and Mrs. Mon are already complaining and Betty actually only wanted her favorite sheep Flecki, Mr. Taschenbier says: "I wish that all sheep except Flecki are back in Australia!", But once again he wished too imprecisely. Now really all sheep worldwide in Australia and all of Australia are inundated with sheep, while in the rest of the world all farmers are desperately looking for their beloved sheep, luckily Mr. Taschenbier can quickly undo his wish. But then the machine also explodes during the first rehearsal and destroys the entire roof of the house when Mr. Taschenbier turns the regulator too high in one of his sampling phases. Thereupon he is dismissed by Mr. Oberstein (as "Samspapa" he tried to offer the machine after all, with the help of Mr. and Mrs. Mon, from whom he had previously asked that they should behave and dress like Arab business people, but at an inopportune time it became a real Mr. Taschenbier again and Mr. Oberstein saw through the dizziness). Even before that, the Sams had left the human world again. There, meanwhile, it stole the Book of Oversame, in which all Sam's rules are written, and thus returns to the human world. But Übersams wants to see it immediately afterwards (although the other Samse know that it can't go back either). In the meantime, Ms. Taschenbier is also in the process of becoming a Sams. The Übersams meets the Sams in the house, this tells the Übersams that they can have the book back if they just tell Sams, Mr. Taschenbier, Mrs. Taschenbier and Betty how Mr. and Mrs. Taschenbier would no longer become Samse. The Übersams says they all have to go up on the roof of the house together, there is a saying that means that Mr. and Mrs. Taschenbier will no longer become Samses. You then climb onto the roof of the house, there the Übersams then also says the saying, but this has the consequence that the Übersams (including the book) returns from the human world to the Sam world, but this does not change anything about Mr and Mrs Taschenbier. When Betty is becoming more and more of a Sams, the Sams decides to return to the Sam world. Only in this way can "people remain human" (Sam's rule 777). On return, the Sams cries bitterly, which, however, violates the Sams rule 4, so that the Übersams now decides with a heavy heart that the Taschenbier-Sams is an exception and can now stay with the people of their choice. Equipped with three wishful points, the Sams is returning to the Taschenbier family. The house is repaired again with the three wish points, Mr. Mon is now founding a zoo of curiosities together with Mr. Taschenbier and the sheep breeding of Martin and Tina Taschenbier is desired in the Swabian Alb (actually he wanted them to be near his house, but once again he wished too imprecisely and said: “I wish that Martin and Tina have a farm in Germany”).
One sams too many (2015)
This book takes place between On Saturday That Sams Came Back and New Points For The Sams . With a previously hidden wish point, Mr. Taschenbier inadvertently wishes a Sams for his landlady, Mrs. Rotkohl, during a dispute. This looks exactly like his own Sams, but differs significantly in its character. Unlike Mr Taschenbier's Sams, for example, it likes salad instead of sausages and is very shy in terms of behavior; Since it came on a Sunday, the Taschenbier-Sams believes that the other will stay forever. Both Samse can't stand each other at first, and the Taschenbier-Sams also advises the Red Cabbage-Sams not to tell his "mom" about the desired items for fear of being wished away.
However, this also has consequencesː Ms. Rotkohl thinks the desired dots are simply ink stains and wishes that her Sam goes to the bathroom, washes himself "and comes back without dots on his face". There are still two points behind the ears, but they also get on it during a conversation with Mr. Mon, when she first wishes that her Sam goes for a walk and then she says she doesn't want any animals in the house when Mr. Mon opens her addresses a cockatoo he wanted to give to Mr. Taschenbier. As a result, the birds are gone. Mr. Mon and Mr. Taschenbier accuse the Taschenbier-Sams, who denies his guilt, but nobody believes him. Angry, it goes for a walk and meets the red cabbage sams.
After all, the Taschenbier-Sams has a plan - he goes to the department store and tells the Red Cabbage-Sams that they can take whatever they want, but it doesn't say that you have to pay for the things. Thus, the red cabbage Sams is caught and gets into trouble with a shop detective. Frau Rotkohl sends her Sams to the attic as a punishment.
In the meantime, after the birds returned, Mr. Taschenbier realized that his Sams is innocent, and he and Mr. Mon apologize to him. Then the Taschenbier-Sams, which has meanwhile got a guilty conscience, gets into trouble because the Red Cabbage Sams wants to vent his anger on him and wants to tell Frau Rotkohl about him. Afraid that she might give Mr. Taschenbier the apartment, the other Sams is locked in the cellar. Then it pretends to be the other Sams in front of Ms. Rotkohl, but the dizziness is exposed when Sams has freed himself from the cellar. Now Mr. Taschenbier is fired. His Sams is ashamed and apologizes to the other Sams. This tells him that it has to go again, since a Sunday Saturday can only stay three days (Saturday rule 237). After Mr. Mon and Ms. Rotkohl decided to get married, Ms. Rotkohl decided to forget about the termination, which meant that Mr. Taschenbier and the Sams were allowed to stay.
Sams celebrates Christmas (2017)
Paul Maar says in the preface that it is not entirely clear when the story takes place. He would see her at the beginning of New Points for Sams . The Sams is having its first Christmas party at Mr. Taschenbier's. Sams had not yet known the Christmas story, and Mr Taschenbier has to explain it to him. The Sams drives a sledge on a baking sheet, creates chaos in the department store again, and gets more Samse from the Samswelt as a Christmas present for Mr. Taschenbier.
The Sam and the Blue Dragon (2020)
When Sams is bored, it uses the wish machine to wish a Chinese lucky dragon .
translation
Due to the many word games (the figure giving the title is based on a word game), the Sams books are very difficult to translate into other languages. The answer from foreign publishers to the book they have received from the publisher is therefore usually that it is untranslatable. Instead, they want to look for other books by Maar to translate (then they switch to other books by Paul Maar and instead translate, for example, Lippel's dream , In a deep, dark forest ... or Mr. Bello ).
Except for the Dutch (the Sams is called "Zater" by Zaterdag) and the Swedes (here the Sams is called "Lör" by Lördag) no Central European publisher dared to translate this book. In Japan in 1990 the first book was published under the title Itsumo Doyōbi Doyon no Hi ( ISBN 4-566-01243-3 ), whereby the Sams here is called Doyon . In Japanese, the days of the week have meaningful names: Tuesday is called 火曜日 ( kayōbi = fire day of the week) and Wednesday 水 曜 日 ( suiyōbi = water day of the week). This makes it easy to find correspondences: On the water day there is a burst water pipe in the Rotkohl house, on the fire day Bruno Taschenbier accidentally sets his tablecloth on fire.
The Russian translation has also managed to rewrite puns in a similar way. The Sams itself became "Subástik" (from Russian subbóta ), strangely enough, Mrs. Rotkohl became Mrs. Brückmann and Mr. Taschenbier became Mr. Peppermint (probably to make the family name more euphonious for Russian ears). Mr. Mon became "Ponedélkus" (from ponedélnik ), on Tuesday ( wtórnik ) a "wtorogódnik" (a student who stayed sitting) came - Mrs. Rotkohl's nephew to get help with her homework, on Wednesday (russ. Sredá ) came the middle of the week (Russian seredína nedéli ) etc. Only Mr. Kules has lost the allusion to Hercules in the Russian text and is simply called "gospodín Kules" , so the play on words is not recognizable for the Russian reader at this point.
Puppet theater
In 1977 and 1980 the first two volumes of the story with marionettes were performed and recorded in the theater of the Augsburger Puppenkiste ; A week full of Saturdays as well as on Saturday the Saturday came back .
Radio play version
The older books were published as a radio play. With a small cast (for example Peter Schiff as Mr. Taschenbier and initially also as a narrator as well as in many supporting roles) and a comparatively elaborate set of music arrangements and sound effects, these retell the book stories, with the stories being revised and shortened accordingly for the medium.
Film adaptations
The story of Sams has been filmed several times; The film adaptation in Das Sams from 2001, in which the Sams was portrayed by Christine Urspruch , became particularly well known . In 2003, the second part about Sams with the title Sams in Danger followed with the same cast. The last film, again with Christine Urspruch in the title role, was released in 2012; it is a film adaptation of the book Sams im Glück .
literature
Primary literature:
- A week full of Saturdays (first edition 1973). Hamburg: Oetinger-Verlag. ISBN 978-3789119521
- The Sams came back on Saturday (first edition 1980). Hamburg: Oetinger Verlag. ISBN 978-3789119545
- New points for the Sams (first edition 1992). Hamburg: Oetinger Verlag. ISBN 978-3789142048
- A Sams for Martin Taschenbier (first edition 1996). Hamburg: Oetinger Verlag. ISBN 978-3789142109
- Das Sams becomes a film star (first edition 2001, a kind of making-of book for the film, with fictional interludes)
- Sams in danger (first edition 2002). Hamburg: Oetinger Verlag. ISBN 978-3789142338
- Uncle Alwin and the Sams (first edition 2009). Hamburg: Oetinger Verlag. ISBN 978-3789142840
- Sams im Glück (first edition 2011). Hamburg: Oetinger Verlag. ISBN 978-3789142901
- One sams too many (first edition 2015). Hamburg: Oetinger Verlag. ISBN 978-3789142987
- The Sams celebrates Christmas (first edition 2017). Hamburg: Oetinger Verlag. ISBN 978-3789108167
- The Sams and the Blue Dragon (first edition 2020). Hamburg: Oetinger Verlag. ISBN 9783789114762
- The story of Sams , short story for the school book "Reading Magic" Verlag Volk und Wissen .
Secondary literature
- Jahnke, Manfred (1996): How the Sams is made superfluous. Notes on books by Paul Maar . In: Fundevogel 120. pp. 37-46.
- Lange, Günter (2007): Paul Maars books for children and young people in primary and secondary school . Baltmannsweiler: Tailor.
- Lange, Günter (2000): Sams and the strange child . In: Volkacher Bote 71, pp. 12-17.
- Neuhaus, Stefan (2007): From anti-authoritarian children's fairy tales to postmodern film? The metamorphoses of sams . In: Revista de Filología Alemana, 15. pp. 111-125.
- Sina, Kai (2013): Paul Maar, Das Sams (1973). In: Christoph Bräuer / Wolfgang Wangerin (ed.): Under the red umbrella. Readings of classic children's and youth literature . Göttingen: Wallstein. Pp. 181-198.
- Weinkauff, Gina (2014): Das Sams. Consideration of a prominent children's literary media association and its reception in the specialist public . In: Weinkauff, Gina / Dettmar, Ute / Möbius, Thomas / Tomkowiak, Ingrid (eds.): Children's and youth literature in media contexts. Adaptation - hybridization - intermediality - convergence . Frankfurt / Main: Peter Lang. Pp. 127-146.
- Wicke, Andreas (2016): Between RAF and Romanticism. Paul Maars “A week full of Saturdays” . In: Emde, Oliver / Möller, Lukas / Wicke, Andreas (eds.): From “Bibi Blocksberg” to “TKKG”. Children's radio plays from a social and cultural studies perspective . Opladen, Berlin, Toronto: Budrich. Pp. 161-174.
Radio plays
- Maar, Paul (2010): The Sams. The large radio play box (the first four radio plays on 6 CDs). Hamburg: Oetinger Verlag. ISBN 978-3837305074
Web links
- www.sams-wunschbuch.de (Paul Maars Homepage)
Individual evidence
- ^ Verlag Friedrich Oetinger GmbH: History of Sams ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed: January 21, 2013
