Zara - everything new

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Zara - Alles neu is the first volume in a three-book series of children's books about a girl named Zara, written by the German author Ulrike Schrimpf and published by Aladin Verlag from 2013 to 2015 ( Zara - Alles neu , 2013, Zara - Alles Sommer , 2014 and Zara - Alles Liebe , 2015).

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Zara is a fun-loving and idiosyncratic eleven-year-old girl who says of herself: "Sometimes I think the sky is the limit". She lives together with her parents and her extraordinary brother Jonathan, called Jonnie-Poponnie, in Berlin. Zara's great wish is to become a musician, to be more precise: a rapper. Your great role models are u. A. Peter Fox , whose song Alles neu also alludes to the book title, Seeed and Pyranja as well as the courageous book heroine Zora, who plays the leading role in The Red Zora by Kurt Held , one of Zara's favorite books. In order to achieve her goal, the imaginative girl, who retreats again and again to dream worlds, gives almost everything: She goes out to meet her archenemy, the "ice witch" Greta von Ganten and her "gang of crazy people" A cool guitar teacher on her own initiative, whom she finds in the street musician AnnaLi, and even opens up to the nerd Elias, a new classmate who recently moved to Berlin from Munich, and who initially annoys Zara because he is so precocious and seems strange. When Mr. Jakob, Zara's beloved class teacher, tells the students that they are going to take part in a competition, School Makes Music , Zara is on fire: She starts her own band and is determined to take on the competition with a self-composed one Rap, the Zora-Zara song, to win. But the way there is more rocky than Zara imagines: The ice-cold Greta is involved in Zara's band and intrigues against her until she manages to disgust Zara from the group just a few days before the competition. Suddenly the girl is all alone, and her big dream seems to be shattered.

In addition to the big theme of "music" that runs through the entire book, Zara's family plays an important role. Zara has a special, deep bond with her father, who at the beginning of the book moves to Paris for a year to teach at the Sorbonne . Zara suffers from the separation, writes her father longing sms and finally visits him for a few days in Paris, where they spend exciting and colorful days together. Zara's relationship with her mother, who works as a yoga teacher , is also loving, but more conflicting than that with her father, which may have to do with Zara's approaching puberty, but also because Zara's mother is often busy looking after Zara's younger ones Taking care of brother Jonathan who has trisomy 21 . Jonathan annoys Zara as the younger brother, who likes to nonsense and can be unpredictable, but you can also feel in many places how closely the two are connected. The scenes between the siblings, in which they comfort and support each other, or in which they clown around and make funny crap, are among the most beautiful and touching in the novel.

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Zara Schumann , “dreamer and rapper”, as she calls herself, is the ten-year-old heroine of the novel.

Elisa Schumann , Zara's mother, works as a yoga teacher , has beautiful long red hair, eats a healthy diet and spends a lot of time with her son Jonathan.

Wolfgang Schumann , Zara's father, is also affectionately called “Paposchka” by his daughter. He is a professor of German studies and at the beginning of the novel moves to Paris for a year to teach at the Sorbonne what is troubling Zara.

Jonathan Schumann , Zara's younger brother, whom she also calls “Jonnie-Poponnie”, is a “cool laughing sun,” says Zara. He has trisomy 21 .

Benno is Zara's uncle and the brother of Elisa. He works as a carpenter and plays the saxophone in his spare time. Zara likes to visit him in his crumbling bachelorette and listen to music with him.

Perihan , a self-confident, young woman from Turkey, works as a gardener in the botanical garden . She comforts Zara when she is unhappy that Greta should play in her band, and the two become friends.

Greta von Ganten , also called "the ice-cold Greta" or simply "ice witch", is Zara's archenemy. She comes from a filthy rich family, can't resist showing off and makes life difficult for Zara, among other things by setting her "gang of the crazy" on Jonnie-Poponnie.

Elias Waldau is a strange new classmate of Zara, who likes to wear knitted sweaters, plays the organ and is interested in Zara, which annoys Zara at first. In the course of the novel, however, she realizes that Elias is not as nerdy as she initially thought, and the two get to know each other better.

The model student Mathilde likes to wear skirts and blouses, voluntarily reads the business section in the newspaper and learns Chinese in her free time. She doesn't care what the other kids think of her, and Zara likes that.

Manou Majong is a freaky yoga guru who Zara's mother thinks is great, and who causes a lot of confusion in the Schumann family while Zara's father lives in Paris. Zara can't stand him and tries by all means to drive him out of her life.

Angélique Farinelli works as a lecturer in French philology at the Sorbonne and helps Zara's father to settle in in Paris . She is a single mother.

Fabrice Farinelli is Angélique's 14-year-old son. Zara meets him when she visits her father in Paris.

Genre / style

Zara - Alles Neu is praised as an original, entertaining empowerment novel not only for girls who speak with their idiosyncratic heroine for the courage to be different and to dream, and who without the moral index finger, but in a humorous, emotional, expressive way and Wise deals with such important topics as outsiders, (approaching) puberty, rivalry and competition among children, friendship and first infatuation, and asks the central question of how one can discover and live a passion.

The book is written in a cheeky, sometimes deliberately colloquial, sometimes poetic, always creative language, which is peppered with numerous new words by the poet / songwriter Zara. The lively, smart dialogues are particularly successful. Ulrike Schrimpf succeeds amazingly authentically in capturing the (conscious) being of growing children.

Zara's Rap: the "Zora Zara Song"

Today I got up and thought straight away

now plain text is spoken, now a song is made

for girls who dare to look up,

who spit at the feet of the nerdy at school.

I don't care, really, totally!

What the others think of us is banal!

Hey, you have a choice to express your opinion

and you don't care

what the others are saying.

I want the big bang, the color explosion

a sea of ​​feelings and the great vision.

Our life is stark, we are free to choose

and that's our ace!

For Zora with the red fire hair

and Zara, who has always been faster.

For Lora, with whom you float on dream clouds,

and Lara, with whom you survive dark hours.

A song for all the girls who know Zoraniums

who don't run to Mommy every time they have aches,

but are free to travel to the magical land.

Ey, unpack your wings and give me your hand!

On the way to school everything is gray on gray

the sun behind clouds, and a lonely woman

staring at me from her window.

I ask myself quietly: Are all of these just ghosts?

or are they still alive? Come out of your hole

stick your nose in the wind, you can do it!

Many people are so blind, they see life

just as a tangled labyrinth and sticking

on the stool. Hey, take it easy!

Start moving and groove!

Our life is flow, we are free to move

and this is our show!

For Zora with the red fire hair

and Zara, who has always been faster ... (refrain)

At home in the afternoon I'm tired and want to chill

but no chance: Ma starts yelling.

She has stress as always and she takes it out on me.

So I go to my room

and kick out the bad mood.

I don't let myself be dissed

does not want to miss respect

from Ma and not from Pa and from none in the world.

I make my life the way I like it!

I text and I rhyme till sunset

grow as big as a giant with my flame song!

Our life is beat, we are free to express ourselves

and this is our song!

For Zora with the red fire hair

and Zara, who has always been faster ... (refrain)

Audio book

An audio book accompanying the novel was published by Hörbuch Hamburg in 2013 , read by the actress Jodie Ahlborn , which was recognized by the hr2 audio book best list and as Junior Audio Book of the Month by the Sankt Michaelsbund : “An exciting story about an idiosyncratic heroine who has a big heart and dares to make her dream come true. "

Ulrike Schrimpf: Zara - Alles neu , read by Jodie Ahlborn, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86742-531-5 .

Press reviews

“With Zara, Ulrike Schrimpf has created a new children's book heroine that you absolutely want to read more about!” Himbeer Berlin.

“A wonderful children's novel with a sympathetic heroine. For all girls who are as brave as eleven-year-old Zara and red Zara, their favorite heroine. Especially for everyone else. ” Book market .

“A story about how a big botch can become something good.” Time LEO.

“Creative words (...) and a very lively language characterize this turbulent family and friendship story. (...) Refreshing, authentic and personable, 11-year-old Zara is an asset to me in girls' literature! Highly recommended. “Judith Richter, Evangelical book advisor.

“Her (Zara's) personality is described in a differentiated and multi-layered manner - linguistically expressive and sometimes a bit crude. Zara is lively, refreshing, cheeky, sensitive and vulnerable, full of fantasy and big thoughts. And: Zara is not a superman who is not affected by the difficulties of normal kids. (...) So the book ends with a brilliant song for strong girls, which everybody gets carried away at the school performance. - One wishes a lot of readers for a book like this. ”Ute Sand, Borromäusverein .

“(...) the independent and sociable young rapper rocks the German capital, which looks like her reflection. Both appear varied and lively thanks to the creative use of language by the Berlin-born author: a staccato of stubbed sentences conveys the refreshingly unfinished Zara, which is often simply overwhelmed by the mass of impressions (...). And Zara's brother Jonnie-Poponnie is the perfect partner in finding words that describe all the impressions much better than the established vocabulary. ”, Christina Rademacher, 1000 and 1 book. Magazine for children's and youth literature .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike Schrimpf: Zara - Everything new . Aladin Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8489-2000-6 , pp. Preliminary quotation .
  2. ↑ Ulrike Schrimpf: Zara - Everything new . Aladin Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8489-2000-6 , pp. 232-235 .
  3. ↑ Sankt Michaelsbund: Zara, Volume 1: Alles neu. Retrieved February 15, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Raspberry Berlin. City magazine for people with children: Children's book: Zara - everything new by Ulrike Schrimpf. ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. August 11, 2013, accessed February 20, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / himbeer-magazin.de
  5. ^ Judith Richter: Music / Courage / Down's Syndrome / Friendship . Evangelical book advisor, Düsseldorf 2013.
  6. ↑ Ute Sand: Finally a girl's book with wit and understanding . Borromeo Association, Bonn October 2013.
  7. ↑ Christina Rademacher: Musical Brat . Institute for Youth Literature, Vienna September 2014.

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