Urmel from the ice

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Urmel aus dem Eis is a children's book by Max Kruse . It is the first volume in his twelve-volume series of Urmel books.

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At the time of the dinosaurs , mother Urmel lays an egg . A short time later, however, an ice age begins and the egg is covered in snow. It eventually freezes in the ice.

A long time later, the natural science professor Habakuk Tibatong developed a method of teaching animals to speak. Because of the envy and attacks of his professor colleagues, he has to leave his home to settle with Tim Inkblot , a little orphan boy, and the talking domestic pig Wutz on the small island of Titiwu .

There are also other animals on the island that Tibatong taught to speak at the beginning of the plot. Each of the animals is through a typical speech errors characterized: The Penguin Ping articulates the sibilant " sh" as "pf" the Waran Wawa lisp , the elephant seal soul-Fant constantly singing songs whose dismal effect through consistent diphthongization respectively affection of vowels is significantly increased, and the shoebill Schusch is the vowel "i" to "ä" [⁠ ɛ ⁠] to.

Pig, who can speak almost flawlessly, takes on the job of housekeeper, while the other animals on the island regularly take part in voluntary language lessons in Professor Tibatong's school. One day an iceberg is washed ashore with a large egg, from which, after a short incubation period, an Urmel hatches, which is then raised by Wutz and also learns to speak. According to Tibatong's theory, the Urmel are the evolutionary link between the dinosaurs and the mammals .

In the course of his childhood, Urmel has to endure various adventures, in particular the disempowered and therefore bored King Pumponell of Pumpolonien as a big game hunter after him. The deposed monarch is also called "King Futsch" because his homeland declared itself a republic , whereupon he had to abdicate, so his kingship is " gone ". King Futsch came to the island in a helicopter with his servant Samuel, known as Sami , to take the Urmel to Museum Director Zwengelmann in Pumpolonien .

On his escape from Futsch, Wawa hides the Urmel in a cave where a large crab lives on an island in the middle of an underground lake and where nitrous oxide escapes from a source. King Futsch and Sami follow the supposed traitor Wawa into the cave, where he actually wants to mislead them, but under the influence of the laughing gas, the king takes the crab for the Urmel and tries to kill it with his hunting rifle . Due to the noise of the gunfire, the entrance to the cave collapses, so that both Wawa and his hunters are trapped and are now in extreme danger.

The other islanders are alerted to the accident by an earthquake, whereupon a rescue operation can begin. All those buried are finally rescued in Wutz ' "slumber barrel", which has been converted into a submarine, through an underground connection channel to the sea. The Urmel becomes friends with King Futsch, who promises not to hunt it anymore. As a farewell, Tibatong gives the king a bucket that supposedly contains the "invisible fish". Futsch is happy to have at least something to show the vain dwarf man - even if it's just a hoax. The Urmel should be kept secret so that it can grow up undisturbed on Titiwu.

The figures

In addition to the two people Professor Habakuk Tibatong and Tim Inkblot, the red-haired adoptive son and a kind of assistant to the professor, there are various animals on the island of Titiwu (an acronym from Ti batong, Ti ntenklecks and Wu tz ), which are primarily characterized by their ability to speak bear anthropomorphic features:

  • Pig is the professor's female domestic pig and lives in a barrel next to the professor's house. She is the only one of the animals that has no actual speech defect. Only now and then does she use “öff” when she (often indignant) has to catch her breath.
  • The Urmel is the last representative of an extinct animal species in which Tibatong suspects the link between dinosaurs and mammals . It is characterized by its way of speaking ( children's language ) as often very irresponsible and playful.
  • The Waran Wawa lives in the empty shell of a giant clam , which is located on the beach of Titiwu and is very jealous of his friend Ping, the penguin is why several attempts to occupy Wawas habitation. The "Mupfel" as the Penguin calls is about the Urmel novels addition to a household word become. Although all islanders get along very well, Ping and Wawa are particularly close friends.
  • Shush, the shoebill is in the small community Titiwus the only flyable animal and therefore often acts as a scout or messenger. Since Ping can't fly, Schusch doesn't see him as a real bird.
  • Soul-Fant usually lies on the rock in front of the island. His repertoire of sad songs testifies here of musical education - this is his song refers to förnöm place onnahbar eurön Flossön ... parody on the Grail story in Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin .

Edits

  • The story was filmed in 1969 under the title Urmel aus dem Eis as a puppet show by the Augsburger Puppenkiste in four episodes by Hessischer Rundfunk and broadcast repeatedly by ARD . The follow-up series Urmel takes place in the castle , which is based on the actions of the band of the same name and the band Urmel's mad dream , followed in 1974.
  • A 26-part cartoon series about the Urmel was broadcast on ARD from 1995 to 1997 and repeated several times. Tim does not appear in this version and Prof. Tibatong has been replaced by the female scientist and inventor Ophelia Tibatong.
  • By Dirk Bach as a narrator and several volumes of Urmel series are available as audio books appeared.

Trivia

Volumes of the series

In addition, a number of Urmel volumes for beginners have been published.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the non-fictional evolutionary links between dinosaurs and mammals, see evolution of mammals .
  2. ↑ http://www.urmelaufdemeis.de/
  3. ^ "Urmel is a contribution to the Enlightenment", interview with Der Welt
  4. ↑ "Obituary for our supporter Max Kruse, who not only gave the world the Urmel" on http://evokids.de