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Schindelschwinger (also Schindel-Schwinger) is the title character of a five-volume anarchic German comic series by author Peter-Torsten Schulz and illustrator Michael Ryba , published between 1975 and 1977 .
history
The comic was published in five volumes by Illu Press Edition.
- Schindelschwinger pulls the stopper
- Schindelschwinger kicks offside
- Schindelschwinger pinches the witches
- Schindelschwinger stops the oil express
- Schindelschwinger blows up the casino
The fifth volume was produced by Illu Press without the knowledge of the two authors Schulz and Ryba; The Italian studio Mondadori was commissioned to do this. As a result, there was a legal dispute between the authors and the publisher. A sixth volume, Schindelschwinger snaps the agents , was planned by the publisher, but never appeared as a result of the legal dispute.
In addition to the comics, merchandising items such as coloring books and plastic figures with Schindelschwinger motifs were sold.
action
The starting scenario is the creation of the world. After the creator has rested from his work with a whiskey, he falls asleep in a clay hollow. Various discarded creature prototypes , called samples , are stored there, which unfortunately now come to life through the breath of the sleeper, including shingle wrestlers, a kind of dragon with blond hair and boxing gloves. The rehearsals run away and establish a town called Flohheim on the Tullamore River. Concerned about his reputation, God instructs Lucifer and Peter to bring back those who ran away. Whoever succeeds in this, should later rule the earth. After some time, Lucifer and Peter encounter Fleaheim and each build fortresses above the town in a valley. The “Battle for Flohheim”, the connecting subtitle of all five volumes, begins. In addition to Schindelschwinger, the rescuer of Flohheim with a large ego, Bimmel-Beule is a central figure in the comic: The mayor of Flohheim, a cross between walrus and elk .
Volume 1: Schindelschwinger pulls the stopper
Lucifer manages to use a trick to lure all female samples to the gates of Flohheim and to take them prisoner there. Peter's angels have followed the action and are chasing the samples from Lucifer's henchmen. The male samples learn of the kidnapping, and Mayor Bimmel-Beule appoints Schindelschwinger to save the city's women. He and four friends set off to ask Lucifer of all people for help against the angels. This immediately catches the group. The remaining samples move to Petrus' castle to free their wives, which they succeed at first, as Lucifer's henchmen attack the castle at this moment in order to get back the captured sample women. The onset of rain puts the valley between the two castles in which Fleaheim is located under water. The angels manage to capture the samples using an ark. By digging in the depths of Lucifer's castle, Schindelschwinger and his followers manage to drain the water in the basin into the purgatory cauldron below the castle. The ark with the captured samples runs aground in Flohheim, where the samples are freed from Schindelschwinger.
Volume 2: Schindelschwinger kicks offside
Schindelschwinger and some friends play football outside of town early in the morning and are discovered by Peter and Lucifer. In the hope of being able to arrest the rehearsals, they both agree to play a football game against a selection from Flohheim. While Peter and Lucifer have difficulties in agreeing on a common selection, both are busy working on Trojan goats , with the help of which they want to get hold of the samples. In addition, they produce lemonade (Lucifer) or popsicles (Petrus) mixed with sleeping pills in large quantities to numb the samples and the respective opposite side. As samples, angels and devils try plenty of the free sweets before the game starts, everyone falls into a deep sleep and only Peter and Lucifer stay awake. The two decide to play a penalty shootout for the rehearsals, but cannot determine a winner due to their unsportsmanlike nature. Finally rehearsals, devils and angels awaken again, the game begins, and Schindelschwinger practically single-handedly shoots rehearsals to victory. Neither Peter nor Lucifer can capture samples.
Volume 3: Schindelschwinger tweaks the witches
On the occasion of Peter's birthday, the angels invite the rehearsals to their castle to celebrate the same. Schoolmaster Brems-Pläte suspects a trap, but under the leadership of Mayor Bimmel-Beule, the rehearsals make their way to the castle. There they are indeed imprisoned by Peter in a huge glass container. The beekeeper Wiesen-Sole can send his bees on the way to Lucifer's castle, where they form a cry for help with their bodies. Lucifer's grandmother sets off with her witches to Petrus' castle and frees the samples from their prison there. The witches now imprison the rehearsals in Lucifer's castle, where preparations are just being completed for the celebration of Walpurgis Night , which is allowed to attend the rehearsals before Peter wants to present them to his father. After an epic battle, the samples can finally flee from hell back to their village with the help of a ruse by the former devil Saul, who is now a resident of a flea home.
Volume 4: Schindelschwinger stops the oil express
In the Flohheimer Tal the oil is running out, which puts Petrus in particular into trouble, because he wants to take control of the samples by kidnapping Schindelschwinger and send them to the creator by means of an oil-powered rocket. He relies on Schindelschwinger's vanity and calls a competition that promises enormous fame for the first finder of oil. Schindelschwinger falls for the ruse and leaves his village to look for oil. Peter and Lucifer set their henchmen on him, who kidnap the sample from one another, whereby the angels ultimately prevail. In the absence of oil, Petrus wants to deliver the sample in a balloon. The devils shoot it down, and Schindelschwinger ends up in an abandoned settlement where oil used to be extracted. He finds a new source there. Soon he is discovered by his captors, whereupon angels and devils fight over the oil. With a train (the eponymous oil express ) the angels want to transport the oil to Peter's castle. With the help of the other samples that Schindelschwinger secretly followed, he can stop the oil express and take it to Flohheim.
Volume 5: Schindelschwinger blows up the casino
Peter has again hatched a plan to capture the samples. He has Schindelschwinger kidnapped and blackmailed the rest of the samples to gamble in the Casino Santa Moneta downstream for his freedom. There he had the roulette table manipulated. Lucifer learns of Peter's plans and arranges a competition with him; in case of victory, Peter would allow Lucifer and his henchmen to enter the casino. Lucifer's team wins, and angels, devils and rehearsals meet at the roulette table in the casino; The Schindelschwinger who fled his prison in Castel Sant'Angelo also arrives. The samples discover the manipulation of the roulette table and manipulate the processes on their part, so that angels and devils lose all their money. The rehearsals start to flee, which they also manage because angels and devils fight each other instead of concentrating on taking the rehearsals.
Web links
- Flohheim.de (fansite)
- Website of Peter-Torsten Schulz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Comics.org: Schindel-Schwinger # 5. Retrieved November 16, 2018 .
- ↑ ComicsValue.com: Schindelschwinger. Retrieved June 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Geier Home (blog): shingle chair. Retrieved April 6, 2019 .