Tarzan

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Front cover of the 1912 US magazine and 1914 Canadian book
Tarzan figure in an amusement park in Ankara

Tarzan is one of Edgar Rice Burroughs invented figure, for the first time in the history of Tarzan of the Apes (Engl. Tarzan of the Apes ) occurred in the October issue of the pulp magazine All-Story Magazine on 27. August 1912 appeared. The first book edition appeared in 1914. 23 sequels followed.

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Tarzan is the son of a British lord and his wife, who is still pregnant at the beginning. The two become victims of a mutiny , are abandoned on the African coast and settle down there. They build a small hut where they feel safer than in the wild jungle. Her son is named John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke. The mother dies when he is one year old; his father gives his life fighting a gang of monkeys. From then on, the orphan is called "Tarzan" and is raised by this group of monkeys, among whom the monkey woman Kala takes special care of him. Instead, she places her own baby, previously killed by the monkey chief, in the cradle of the little hut. Tar-zan means "white skin" in the Mangani language, the monkey language created by Burroughs. The monkey species is not mentioned in the novels; they are neither gorillas nor chimpanzees , but so-called "large anthropoids". In the next few years, Tarzan grew up slowly compared to the monkey children, but as a child he already achieved the physical strength of a competitive athlete by around 30 years.

At the age of about 10, Tarzan saw his face for the first time consciously in a pond he was drinking from and was startled at the strange sight. He is surprised that, although he is so different, he is accepted, especially since he has long been aware of his otherness. While he is nowhere near as strong as his monkey brothers, he is a lot quicker than his comrades. While strolling alone in the forest, Tarzan finds the hut in which he lived with his human parents for a year. The skeletal remains of his parents leave him indifferent, as he knows nothing about his origins and, on top of that, has already seen too many dead in his life to feel sorry for them. In the hut he discovers a hunting knife, which he finally takes after injuring himself and realizing the purpose of the object. He also finds various books on the history of mankind and learning primers for children with the help of which he teaches himself to read for years without being able to speak a word of English. He translates the words into monkey language, which means that he can read the word 'human', for example, but cannot speak it because the word does not exist among the monkeys. In the books he also learns a lot about the civilized world. With the help of the knife he first gained the respect of competing monkeys of his tribe and finally, after several power struggles among each other, the rank of tribal chief. His more complex awareness is of great use in this. As a young adult, Tarzan first met black natives from whom he stole poison arrows. He wants to sew clothes out of the skin of a lioness that he has killed in order to dress like a human being, but it turns out to be too tough. Through the victorious fight with a warlike native, Tarzan finally got his loincloth, which became his only item of clothing; before that he was naked except for a leather belt on which his hunting knife hangs. In the jungle he runs into Jane, the daughter of a scientist (who is brunette in many films, but blonde in the novel), and falls in love with her. When she finally returns to England , he decides to leave the jungle too. They get married in England and have a son (Jack).

In the novel Tarzan's Son - the fourth book in the Tarzan series - Jack secretly leaves England with a captured monkey that he wants to bring back to his native Africa. Due to adverse circumstances he has to stay longer in Africa and gets to know the life his father led before his marriage to Jane. The monkey, with whom Jack learns to talk in the language of the great apes, gives him the name Korak , which means something like "killer" in the monkey language.

Tarzan despises the hypocritical life in England and longs for his homeland. He returns to Africa with Jane, where they stay.

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Tarzan is a modern take on the literary tradition of the "hero raised by animals" ( wolf child ). Another example is Mowgli from the Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling .

Film adaptations

The Internet Movie Database lists over 100 films with the word "Tarzan" in their title. The first film starring Elmo Lincoln as Tarzan was shown on January 27, 1918 in the USA. This film could only be shown in Germany in fragments of approx. 45 minutes in length. On April 13, 1970, ZDF broadcast the film under the title Tarzan bei den Affen . The most famous actors who played the role of Tarzan several times were, among others, Johnny Weissmüller , Lex Barker and Gordon Scott , who became the first "color film Tarzan". The son-in-law of Edgar Rice Burroughs, James Pierce , portrayed the jungle hero in Tarzan and the Golden Lion in 1927. Ron Ely played the jungle hero in a popular TV series. In 1963, American pop artist Andy Warhol shot a satirical parody of the classic Hollywood films, Tarzan And Jane Regained… Sort Of .

The monkey Cheeta , who starred alongside Tarzan star Johnny Weissmüller in twelve films, has been the oldest monkey in the world since 2003. In 2008 this was exposed as a hoax. In fact, various monkeys played the role of Cheeta in the films. None of them are still alive today.

The British film Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes from 1984 with Christopher Lambert as Tarzan follows the first novel more closely than previous film adaptations.

Between 1976 and 1984 Filmation published his animated adaptation of the Tarzan Lord of the Jungle for the broadcaster CBS . The series ran in Germany in 1978 under Tarzan - Lord of the Jungle on ZDF . The series had four seasons and a total of 36 episodes. Six other episodes ran as The Batman / Tarzan Hour in 1977/78. The last 14 episodes followed under the title Tarzan and the Super Seven 1979.

In 1999 Disney made a cartoon adaptation of the story, Tarzan . The sequel Tarzan & Jane followed in 2002 and Tarzan 2 in 2005 . The soundtrack came entirely from Phil Collins .

In 2016, Legend of Tarzan, another elaborately produced real-life film, was released in cinemas.

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musical

The German premiere of the musical Tarzan , for which Phil Collins wrote the music and the lyrics, took place on October 19, 2008 in the Neue Flora in Hamburg.

comics

In addition to the films, there are comics and various television series.

The first daily strips that were drawn were printed, beginning on January 7, 1929, in initially thirteen American and two Canadian newspapers. They were drawn by Hal (Harold) Foster . The first Sunday page, drawn by Rex Maxon , appeared in the North American newspapers on March 15, 1931. On October 4, 1931, Hal Foster also took over the design of the Sunday pages, which were published in Germany from 1986 to 1997 in 49 anthologies of the Hethke-Verlag .

In Germany, a Tarzan comic in 1954 was the first object to be negotiated by the newly established Federal Testing Office for writings harmful to young people ; indexing did not take place. The most famous artists of Tarzan comics were Hal Foster (also known from Prince Valiant , German Prince Eisenherz ) and Burne Hogarth .

In Germany and Austria the comics appeared from September 1952 to September 1958 by Mondial Verlag (later taken over by Pabel Verlag ) and from November 1959 to September 1961 by Lehning Verlag as a small volume or large volume. Lehning Verlag also published books in piccolo format from December 1960 to July 1961. There are also reprints of these comics, but these are marked as “collector's edition” and thus differ from the originals.

Tarzan also appeared in 209 issues from July 1965 to July 1976 - first with BSV (Bildschriftenverlag), then with Williams and finally with Recht Verlag (there are no reprints of the 209 issues, only No. 1 and No. 2 have been split into two Printed editions - the first edition of No. 1 and No. 2 had a price of 75 pfennigs and can thus be distinguished from the reprints).

Tarzan was also published monthly by Ehapa Verlag in Germany and Austria from March 1979 to October 1984 . There are no reprints of this.

Bocola Verlag has been publishing the early comics from 1928 to 1950 since November 2012 .

The son of Tarzan and Jane is the hero of their own comic series with the title Korak, Tarzan's son (English Korak Son of Tarzan ).

List of comic titles at Mondial

Tarzan series : The most daring adventures of the jungle man. Drawings by Burne Hogarth. Mondial Verlag, Hamburg.

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Novels

  • 1 Tarzan of the Apes (in: The All-Story, October 1912 )
    • German:
      • Tarzan with the monkeys. Experiences of someone stolen by great apes. Translated by Tony Kellen. Dieck & Co., Stuttgart 1924, DNB 573907366 .
      • Tarzan with the monkeys. Translated by Tony Kellen. Pegasus Verlag, Wetzlar 1950, DNB 450717577 .
      • Tarzan with the monkeys. Translated by Fritz Moeglich . Heyne General Series # 344, 1965.
      • Tarzan 1 - The Raid. Translated by Heinrich F. Gottwald. Engelbert-Verlag, Balve (Westf.) 1970, DNB 456242430 .
      • Tarzan 1 - Lord of the Jungle. Translated by Berthold Schmitt. Williams Tarzan # 1, Alsdorf 1972, ISBN 3-8071-0000-8 .
      • Tarzan: The Original Novel. Deutsche Taschenbuch-Verlag (dtv # 20312), Munich 1999, ISBN 3-423-20312-9 .
      • Tarzan with the monkeys. Translated by Ruprecht Willnow. Kranichborn Verlag, Leipzig 1994, ISBN 3-930040-09-3 .
      • Tarzan with the monkeys. Translated by Ruprecht Willnow. Verlag Walde + Graf, Zurich 2012, DNB 1045767174 .
  • 2 The Return of Tarzan (in: New Story Magazine, June - December 1913 )
    • German:
      • Tarzan's return to the jungle. Translated by Tony Kellen. Dieck & Co., Stuttgart 1924, DNB 573907323 .
      • Tarzan's return. Translated by Tony Kellen. Pegasus Verlag, Wetzlar 1950, DNB 450716562 .
      • Tarzan - return to the jungle. Translated by Fritz Moeglich . Heyne General Series # 355, 1965.
      • Tarzan 2 - The wilderness is stronger. Translated by Heinrich F. Gottwald. Engelbert-Verlag, Balve (Westf.) 1970, ISBN 3-536-00891-7 .
      • Tarzan 2 - Tarzan's return to the jungle. Translated by Leni Sobez. Williams Tarzan # 2, Alsdorf 1972, ISBN 3-8071-0010-5 .
      • Tarzan's return. Translated by Ruprecht Willnow & Franziska Willnow. Kranichborn Verlag, Leipzig 1994, ISBN 3-930040-10-7 .
  • 3 The Beasts of Tarzan (in: All-Story Cavalier Weekly, May 16, 1914 - June 6, 1914 )
    • German:
      • Tarzan's animals. Translated by Tony Saxe. Dieck & Co., Stuttgart 1924, DNB 573907293 .
      • Tarzan's animals. Translated by Toni Kellen. Pegasus Verlag, Wetzlar 1951, DNB 450716635 .
      • Tarzan and his animals. Translated by Fritz Moeglich. Heyne General Series # 376, 1965.
      • Tarzan 3 - Tarzan's beasts. Translated by Leni Sobez. Williams Tarzan # 3, Alsdorf 1972, ISBN 3-8071-0005-9 .
      • Tarzan's animals. Translated by Ruprecht Willnow. Kranichborn Verlag, Leipzig 1994, ISBN 3-930040-11-5 .
  • 4 The Son of Tarzan (in: All-Story Weekly, December 4, 1915 - January 8, 1916 )
    • German:
      • Tarzan's son. Translated by Walther Saxe. Dieck & Co., Stuttgart 1924, DNB 57390734X .
      • Tarzan's son. Translated by Tony Kellen. Pegasus Verlag, Wetzlar 1951, DNB 450716589 .
      • Tarzan and his son. Translated by Fritz Moeglich. Heyne General Series # 386, 1965.
      • Tarzan 4 - Tarzan's son. Translated by Leni Sobez. Williams Tarzan # 4, Alsdorf 1972, ISBN 3-8071-0006-7 .
  • 5 Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (in: All-Story Weekly, November 18, 1916 - December 16, 1916 )
    • German:
      • Tarzan's treasure from Opar. Translated by Eduard Pfeiffer. Dieck & Co., Stuttgart 1926, DNB 573907331 .
      • Tarzan's treasure from Opar. Translated by Tony Kellen. Pegasus Verlag, Wetzlar 1952, DNB 450717615 .
      • Tarzan - The treasure of Opar. Translated by Fritz Moeglich. Heyne books # 402, Munich 1965, DNB 450717623 .
      • Tarzan 5 - Tarzan and the jewels of Opar. Translated by Leni Sobez. Williams Tarzan # 5, Alsdorf 1972, ISBN 3-8071-0018-0 .
      • Tarzans and the treasure of Opar. Translated by Franziska Willnow. Kranichborn Verlag, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930040-13-1 .
  • 6 Jungle Tales of Tarzan (in: Blue Book Magazine, September 1916 - August 1917 ; also: Tarzan's Jungle Tales )
    • German:
      • Tarzan's jungle stories. Translated by Eduard Pfeiffer. Dieck & Co., Stuttgart 1925, DNB 573907315 .
      • Tarzan's jungle stories. Translated by Tony Kellen. Pegasus Verlag, Wetzlar 1952, DNB 450716546 .
      • Tarzan's jungle stories. Translated by Ruprecht Willnow. Kranichborn Verlag, Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-930040-25-5 .
  • 7 Tarzan the Untamed (Part 1 in: The Red Book Magazine, March - August 1919 ; Part 2 ( Tarzan and the Valley of Luna ) in: All-Story Weekly, March 20, - April 17, 1920 )
    • German:
      • Tarzan's revenge. Translated by Helmut H. Lundberg. Pegasus Verlag, Wetzlar 1954, DNB 450717704 .
      • Tarzan the Untamed. Translated by Ruprecht Willnow. Kranichborn Verlag, Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-930040-26-3 .
  • 8 Tarzan the Terrible (in: Argosy All-Story Weekly, February 12, - March 26, 1921 )
    • German:
      • Tarzan in danger. Translated by Anne Steul. Pegasus Verlag, Wetzlar 1954, DNB 450717690 .
      • Tarzan the Terrible. Translated by Ruprecht Willnow. Kranichborn Verlag, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930040-21-2 .
  • 9 Tarzan and the Golden Lion (in: Argosy All-Story Weekly, December 9, 1922 - January 20, 1923 )
    • German:
      • Tarzan and the golden lion. Translated by Eduard Pfeiffer. Dieck & Co., Stuttgart 1926, DNB 573907374 .
      • Tarzan and the golden lion. Translated by Eduard Pfeiffer. Pegasus Verlag, Wetzlar 1952, DNB 450717666 .
      • Tarzan 6 - Tarzan and the golden lion. Translated by Leni Sobez. Williams, Alsdorf 1972, ISBN 3-8071-0027-X .
      • Tarzan and the golden lion. Translated by Ruprecht Willnow. Kranichborn Verlag, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930040-20-4 .
  • 10 Tarzan and the Ant Men (in: Argosy All-Story Weekly, February 2, - March 15, 1924 )
    • German:
      • Tarzan and the ant people. Translated by Eduard Pfeiffer. Dieck & Co., Stuttgart 1928, DNB 573907358 .
      • Tarzan and the ant people. Translated by Eduard Pfeiffer. Pegasus Verlag, Wetzlar 1952, DNB 450717569 .
      • Tarzan and the ant people. Translated by Franziska Willnow. Kranichborn Verlag, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930040-19-0 .
  • 11 Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (in: The Blue Book Magazine, December 1927 - January 1928 )
    • German:
      • Tarzan, lord of the jungle. Translated by Ruprecht Willnow. Kranichborn Verlag, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930040-22-0 .
  • 12 Tarzan and the Lost Empire (in: The Blue Book Magazine, October 1928 - February 1929 )
    • German:
      • Tarzan and the Lost Empire. Translated by Ruprecht Willnow. Kranichborn Verlag, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930040-23-9 .
  • 13 Tarzan at the Earth's Core (in: The Blue Book Magazine, September 1929 - March 1930 )
    • German:
      • Tarzan at the center of the earth. Translated by Ruprecht Willnow. Kranichborn Verlag, Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-930040-27-1 .
  • 14 Tarzan, Guard of the Jungle (in: The Blue Book Magazine, October 1930 - April 1931 ; book edition as: Tarzan the Invincible )
    • German:
      • Tarzan the Invincible. Translated by Helmut H. Lundberg. Pegasus Verlag, Wetzlar 1955, DNB 450717631 .
      • Tarzan the Invincible. Translated by Ruprecht Willnow. Kranichborn Verlag, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930040-24-7 .
  • 15 The Triumph of Tarzan (in: The Blue Book Magazine, October 1931 - March 1932 ; book edition as: Tarzan Triumphant )
    • German:
      • Tarzan triumphs. Translated by Ruprecht Willnow. Kranichborn Verlag, Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-930040-28-X .
  • 16 Tarzan and the City of Gold (in: Argosy Magazine, March 12, - April 16, 1932 )
    • German:
      • Tarzan in the golden city. Translated by Helmut H. Lundberg. Pegasus Verlag, Wetzlar 1955, DNB 450717607 .
      • Tarzan and the city of gold. Translated by Carola Lee-Altrichter. Kranichborn Mayrhofer, 2014, ISBN 3-930040-29-8 .
  • 17 Tarzan and the Lion Man (in: Liberty, November 11, 1933 - January 6, 1934 )
    • German:
      • Tarzan and the Lion Man. Translated by Helmut H. Lundberg. Pegasus Verlag, Wetzlar 1955, DNB 450717674 .
      • Tarzan and the Lion Man. Translated by Carola Lee-Altrichter. Kranichborn Mayrhofer, 2014, ISBN 3-930040-30-1 .
  • 18 Tarzan and the Leopard Men (in: The Blue Book Magazine, August 1932 - January 1933 )
    • German:
      • Tarzan and the Leopard People. Translated by Helmut H. Lundberg. Pegasus Verlag, Wetzlar 1955, DNB 450717658 .
      • Tarzan and the Leopard People. Translated by Carola Lee-Altrichter. Kranichborn Mayrhofer, 2014, ISBN 3-930040-31-X .
  • 19 Tarzan's Quest (in: The Blue Book Magazine, October 1935 - March 1936 )
    • German:
      • Tarzan in the world of wonder. Translated by Helmut H. Lundberg. Pegasus Verlag, Wetzlar 1954, DNB 450716554 .
      • Tarzan's search. Translated by Carola Lee-Altrichter. Kranichborn Mayrhofer, 2015, ISBN 3-930040-32-8 .
  • 20 The Red Star of Tarzan (in: Argosy Weekly, March 19, - April 23, 1938 ; book edition as: Tarzan and the Forbidden City )
    • German:
      • Tarzan and the Forbidden City. Translated by Bernhard Schaffer. Kranichborn Mayrhofer, 2011, ISBN 3-930040-33-6 .
  • 21 Tarzan the Magnificent (Part 1 Tarzan and the Magic Men in: Argosy Weekly, September 19, - October 3, 1936 ; Part 2 Tarzan and the Elephant Men in: Blue Book Magazine, November 1937 - January 1938 )
    • German:
      • Tarzan in the land of horrors. Translated by Helmut H. Lundberg. Pegasus Verlag, Wetzlar 1954, DNB 450717682 .
      • Tarzan the Magnificent. Translated by Carola Lee-Altrichter. Kranichborn Mayrhofer, 2015, ISBN 3-930040-34-4 .
  • 22 Tarzan and "The Foreign Legion" (1947; also: Tarzan and the Foreign Legion )
    • German:
      • Tarzan and the Foreign Legion. Translated by Bernhard Schaffer. Kranichborn Mayrhofer, 2012, ISBN 3-930040-35-2 .
  • 23 Tarzan and the Madman (1964)
    • German:
      • Tarzan and the madman . Translated by Stephan Pörtner. Publishing house Walde + Graf, Zurich 2012, DNB 1017661456 .
      • Tarzan and the madman. Translated by Stephan Pörtner. Kranichborn Mayrhofer, 2014, ISBN 3-930040-36-0 .
  • 24 The Quest of Tarzan (in: Argosy Weekly, August 23, - September 6, 1941 ; book edition as: Tarzan and the Castaways )
    • German:
      • Tarzan and the castaways. Translated by Marion Hertle. Verlag Walde + Graf, Zurich 2012, DNB 1045766968 .
      • Tarzan and the castaways. Translated by Martin W. Melnik. Kranichborn Mayrhofer 2014, ISBN 3-930040-37-9 .
  • Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins (Part 1 ( The Tarzan Twins ) at Volland 1927 ; Part 2 ( Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins with Jad-bal-ja, the Golden Lion ) at Whitman Publishing 1936 )
    • German:
      • Tarzan: The Tarzan twins. Translated by Carola Lee-Altrichter. Kranichborn Mayrhofer, 2016.
  • Tarzan: The Lost Adventure (1995; with Joe R. Lansdale )
    • German:
      • Tarzan: The Final Adventure. Translated by Bernhard Schaffer. Kranichborn Mayrhofer, 2013.

Short stories

  • The Tarzan Twins ( Volland, October 1927 )
    • German:
      • Lost in the jungle. (in: Tarzan: The Tarzan Twins ) Translated by Carola Lee-Altrichter. Kranichborn Mayrhofer 2016.
  • Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins with Jad-bal-ja, the Golden Lion ( Whitman Publishing, March 1936 )
    • German:
      • Tarzan 4 - The kidnapping. Translated by Heinrich F. Gottwald. Engelbert-Verlag, Balve (Westf.) 1971, ISBN 3-536-00955-7 .
      • In the hands of the sun worshipers. (in: Tarzan: The Tarzan Twins ) Translated by Carola Lee-Altrichter. Kranichborn Mayrhofer 2016.
  • Tarzan and the Champion (in: Blue Book, April 1940 )
    • German:
      • Tarzan and the champion. (in: Tarzan and the shipwrecked ) Translated by Bernhard Schaffer. Kranichborn Mayrhofer 2014, ISBN 3-930040-37-9 .
  • Tarzan and the Jungle Murders. (in: Thrilling Adventures, June 1940 )
    • German:
      • Tarzan on a murder hunt. (in: Tarzan and the shipwrecked ) Translated by Bernhard Schaffer. Kranichborn Mayrhofer 2014, ISBN 3-930040-37-9 .
  • Young Tarzan and the Mysterious She (in: Cirsova: Magazine of Thrilling Adventure and Daring Suspense, # 1 Spring 2019 ; with Michael Tierney)

The New Stories of Tarzan (short story series. Book edition 1919 as Jungle Tales of Tarzan ):

  • 1 Tarzan's First Love (in: The Blue Book Magazine, September 1916 )
  • 2 The Capture of Tarzan (in: The Blue Book Magazine, October 1916 )
  • 3 The Fight for the Balu (in: The Blue Book Magazine, November 1916 )
  • 4 The God of Tarzan (in: The Blue Book Magazine, December 1916 )
  • 5 Tarzan and the Black Boy (in: The Blue Book Magazine, January 1917 )
  • 6 The Witch-Doctor Seeks Vengeance (in: The Blue Book Magazine, February 1917 )
  • 7 The End of Bukawai (in: The Blue Book Magazine, March 1917 )
  • 8 The Lion (in: The Blue Book Magazine, April 1917 )
  • 9 The Nightmare (in: The Blue Book Magazine, May 1917 )
  • 10 The Battle for Teeka (in: The Blue Book Magazine, June 1917 )
  • 11 A Jungle Joke (in: The Blue Book Magazine, July 1917 )
  • 12 Tarzan Rescues the Moon (in: The Blue Book Magazine, August 1917 )

Tarzan books by other authors

  • Tarzan and the Lost Safari, 1957, (by Frank Castle)
    • German:
      • Tarzan 3 - emergency landing in the jungle. Translated by Heinrich F. Gottwald. Engelbert-Verlag, Balve (Westf.) 1971, ISBN 3-536-00928-X .
  • Tarzan and the Valley of Gold, 1966, (by Fritz Leiber )
  • Tarzan Alive. A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke, 1972, (by Philip José Farmer )
  • Tarzan: The Epic Adventures, 1996, (by Robert A. Salvatore )
    • German:
      • Tarzan - The return. Translated by Peter Schwertner. Heyne Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-453-12462-6 .
  • The Dark Heart of Time, 1999, (by Philip José Farmer )
    • German:
      • The dark heart of time. Translated by Michael Koseler. Heyne Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-453-17226-4 .

Others

  • On October 19, 2008, the musical Tarzan premiered in the Neue Flora Theater in Hamburg . The auditions were for the TV casting show Ich Tarzan, du Jane! been marketed. The musical is based on the Disney cartoon with songs by Phil Collins .
  • "Tarzan" was also the nickname of Peter Carsten , a character in the very successful youth book series Ein Fall für TKKG by Stefan Wolf in Germany . The author stated that the name Tarzan was protected by international trademark law, which is why he had to rename his hero Tim .
  • "Tarzan" was also the nickname of Charles T. Cooper , one of the best basketball players on the center position in the 1930s.
  • In California , a city founded in 1922 in honor of Tarzan was renamed Tarzana in 1927 .
  • The Tarzan books and Tarzan films were heavily criticized - especially by African authors - for their crude racism . Africans do not appear as independent characters in these films.
  • Tarzan's stories caught on in the Middle East . Israeli and Arab authors took up the material and published their own adventures - without taking into account the copyright of the Burroughs family.
  • A chameleon from Madagascar was named after "Tarzan". The Tarzankhameleon was described in 2010, the familiar name is intended to draw attention to protection efforts. The species was discovered near the village that was once called Tarzanville but is now called Ambodimeloka .

literature

  • Detlef Lorenz: Everything about Tarzan . Edition Corsar, Braunschweig 1979.
  • Norbert Bernhard: Tarzan and the master race: Racism in literature. Lenos, Basel 1986, ISBN 3-85787-143-1 .
  • Erling B. Holtsmark: Tarzan and Tradition: Classical Myth in Popular Literature . Greenwood Press, Westport, 1981.
  • Joachim Schiele: Tarzan: the barefoot hero. Sober, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-922674-19-4 .
  • Eric Cheyfitz: The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization from The Tempest to Tarzan . Oxford University Press, 1991.
  • Richard J. Utz (Ed.): Investigating the Unliterary: Six Readings of 'Tarzan of the Apes' . Martzinek, Regensburg 1995.
  • Reiner Boller, Julian Lesser: Tarzan and Hollywood: From Johnny Weismuller to Gordon Scott - the classic Tarzan films by producer Sol Lesser. Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-499-X .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The literary world , January 21, 2012, p. 5
  2. ^ Lie of the Jungle
  3. ↑ A Pictorial History of Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, picturized by Harold Foster
  4. ↑ Tarzan Sunday pages on comicexpress.de. Retrieved September 10, 2017.
  5. ↑ Review of the BPjM on the year 2009 ( Memento from November 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), (PDF; 115 kB)
  6. ↑ Gehring, P.-S., M. Pabijan, F. Ratsoavina, J. Köhler, M. Vences & F. Glaw (2010): A Tarzan yell for conservation: a new chameleon, Calumma tarzan sp. n., proposed as flagship species for the creation of new nature reserves in Madagascar.- Salamandra 46 (3): 151-163