Cheburashka
Cheburashka ( Russian Чебурашка ) is a film and novel figure that the Russian children's author Eduard Uspensky the time of the Soviet Union was invented. Uspenski was known for his humorous and politically unencumbered writing style.
It is a fantasy animal with oversized ears, a friendly face and shaggy brown fur. The name is borrowed from the colloquial Russian verb чебурахнуться ( Tscheburachnutsja , German to fall ): When the animal is discovered for the first time, it keeps falling over when it is put down. In the German edition of the children's book, Tscheburaschka is translated as Kullerchen (1974) and Plumps (1988).
The four animated films by director Roman Katschanow made between 1969 and 1983 were also enormously popular in the Soviet Union .
To the figure
Cheburashka is from a fruiterer in a oranges found crate, he probably comes from the tropics . He is an animal “unknown to science” up to now. He probably fell asleep in the crate after eating oranges and was transported to his new home. He has brown fur and very large ears. The fruit dealer first takes Cheburashka to the zoo , but the zoo does not want to take the animal in. Cheburashka now comes across a shopkeeper , for whom he is supposed to work in the shop window, and lives in a telephone booth . When the lonely crocodile Gena was looking for friends and hung up notes in town for this purpose, Cheburashka and Gena got to know each other and from then on lived together.
Although the book includes people and things that are typical of the Soviet Union, it does not specify exactly which country or city on earth it is. Crocodile Gena lived in a very large city and was employed as a crocodile in the zoo. A gleeful grandmother named Chapeau-Claque repeatedly plays nasty pranks on the two of them.
Cheburashka gained new prominence when he was declared the official mascot for the Russian Olympic team for the 2004 Summer Olympics in 2004 . He was also the mascot of the Russian participants at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin - albeit with a white fur. In 2008, with red fur, he was the mascot of the Russian national team at the Olympic Summer Games in Beijing in 2008 and with blue fur at the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010 . At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , Russia , Cheburashka was the mascot in all three national colors.
Cheburashka can still be found today as a plush toy in the successor states of the Soviet Union . Cheburashka has also existed in Japan since 2001 .
Books
- Crocodile Gena and his friends ( Крокодил Гена и его друзья ) (1966) - book ( E. Uspenski )
- Cheburashka and his friends ( Чебурашка и его друзья ) (1970) - play (E. Uspensky and R. Katschanow )
- Crocodile Gena on vacation ( Отпуск крокодила Гены ) (1974) - play (E. Uspenski and R. Katschanow )
- The Crocodile's Business Gena ( Бизнес крокодила Гены ) (1992) - book (E. Uspensky)
German editions
- Cheburashka and the crocodile. Vienna: Betz, 1978. ISBN 978-3-7641-0141-1
- Crocodile Gena and his friends. Berlin: Kinderbuchverlag, 1988. ISBN 978-3-358-00496-8 . Leipzig: Leiv, 2005. ISBN 978-3-89603-214-0
English editions
- Topple and the Crocodile. London: Hutchinson, 1980. ISBN 978-0-09-141670-6
Audio books
The story of the crocodile Gena and Cheburashka was published on records , cassettes and CD as an audio book or as a song collection of the same (including a well-known version of "skaska sa skaskoj").
Cartoons
Cartoons with Cheburashka are puppet cartoons in classic animation technique. There are four Cheburashka films:
- 1969: Crocodile Gena ( Крокодил Гена )
- 1971: Cheburashka ( Чебурашка )
- 1974: Cheburashka and Chapeau-Claque ( Шапокляк )
- 1983: Cheburashka goes to school ( Чебурашка идёт в школу )
The films have now been released on DVD in Germany . Russian-language versions are available in Germany from some Russian book distributors. For October 2009, TV Tokyo is planning to start an anime series about Cheburashka.
music
The second film from 1971 contains the song of crocodile Gena , even birthday song called (Unfortunately birthday is only once a year) , the one of the most popular Russian children's songs was and in many places today in the Russian-speaking about birthdays is sung. A German interpretation of the song was recorded by Gerhard Schöne . The third film contains the also very famous song Goluboi Wagon (Blue Wagon) . These songs were composed by Vladimir Schajinsky . Two other songs from the films, Ja - Chapeau-Claque (I am Chapeau-Claque) and Teper ja Tscheburaschka (Now I am Tscheburaschka) , are less well known.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ чебурахнуться in the dictionary dict.leo.org (Russian-German)
- ↑ E. Uspenski; R. Katschanow: Kullerchen and his friends . In: Puppet theater meeting point . Central House for Cultural Work of the GDR , Leipzig 1974, DNB 207953856 .
- ↑ Eduard Uspensky: Krokokil Gena and his friends, the children's book publisher Berlin, 1988; from the Russian by Irina Abelmann and Jeanette Poche, 1988, ISBN 3-358-00496-1
- ↑ animator.ru - crocodile Gena
- ↑ animator.ru - Cheburashka
- ↑ animator.ru - Chapeau Klak
- ↑ animator.ru - Cheburashka idet v shkolu
- ↑ Anime News Network on the Anime series
- ↑ Notes and text from the birthday song with translation (PDF file; 1.6 MB)