Heidi (Romance)

See also: Heidi

Heidi is the Romance character of created by the writer Suisse Johanna Spyri in 1880. It became a mythical character of Switzerland and fact part of the stories most famous for children.

Novels

1880, the first novel

Orphan Heidi will live in his/her grandfather on a mountain pasture in top of Maienfeld in Switzerland, where she should pass her life. Whereas it acclimatized and found new friends (the small chevrier Peter and its grandmother), his/her aunt who must legally raise it cost to seek it to live with Francfort-sur-le-Main, where it must hold company with her Clara cousin who is paralyzed. But Heidi is nostalgic of its mountain pasture and becomes sick. It will be able to finally turn over in her grandfather.

1881, the second novel

Clara returns visit in Heidi on its mountain pasture…

Heidi finds the mountains after a stay at the city. During this time the health of Clara périclite. What to make to help it? Heidi has an idea: Clara could perhaps join it on the mountain pasture.

Characters

  • Heidi : A charming young girl of approximately 8 years, Orphan E, but which will be rewarded by the destiny. Its true first name is Adélaïde.

  • Peter : The small chevrier, boy who keeps the goats of the village, it does not go readily to school since the training of the reading does not succeed to him. He is the best friend of Heidi and is jealous of Clara.

  • the grandfather : Misanthropist, it saw as a Ermite in his hut. Its grand-daughter, Heidi , again bring it closer to the men from which it had deviated.

  • Clara Sesemann : It is a little girl of approximately 12 years, Paralysé E, resulting from a rich person family and lives in a big city. His/her missing mother, her father when with him is constantly on a journey and has little time to devote to him. Thanks to Heidi it is released from its loneliness then of its suffering.

  • Fraulein Rottenmeier

Context

The industrial era, with its social upheavals, is at the origin of the success of these novels.

It resides in the confrontation of the Alpine, natural and healthy universe, with the town life in industrial change with which is associated the disease and the indifference

Recognition

The novels were very quickly translated in the whole world in addition to fifty languages. In French: Heidi (1882) and Heidi grows (1882) .

Charles Tritten (which was one of the French translators) wrote continuations with the history. There be many adaptations for the cinema, television, the radio and the scene. A cartoon carried out in Japan (1974) also knew an international diffusion.

In Switzerland, in 2001, at the time of the 100e birthday of died of Johanna Spyri, a commemorative coin is dedicated to him, just as a stamp posts Swiss in 1951.

Adaptations

Films

  • 1920: silent film, the United States, Governed: Frederick A. Thomson

  • 1937: Heidi , film of Allan Dwan with Shirley Temple (Heidi)
  • 1952: Heidi , Swiss production of Luigi Comencini with Elsbeth Sigmund (Heidi), Thomas Klameth (Peter) and Heinrich Gretler (the grandfather). Success in the United States (300 copies in 4300 rooms)
  • 1953, televised series, Heidi and his/her friends , the United Kingdom
  • 1955: Heidi and Peter , Franz Schnyder carries out a version with the same actors as Commenci, 1st Swiss film color
  • 1960: televised series
  • 1965: Heidi , Austrian production with Eva-Maria Singhammer in the role of Heidi
  • 1967 - 1968: productiom American with Jennifer Edwards
  • 1974: Japanese cartoon of Isao Takahata (52 episodes) (Arupusu No shôjo Haiji)
  • 1974: televised series, the United Kingdom
  • 1978: televised series Heidi
  • 1979: German televised series in 26 episodes with Katja Polletin (Heidi), Stefan Arpagaus (Peter), Katharina Böhm (Clara)
  • 1988: use of the characters of Heidi and Peter like a young couple in love one during the First World War
  • 1991: cartoon Heidi , Japan, alternate: " Sugar & Spice: Heidi" - the USA
  • 1992: small televised series of Walt Disney
  • 1993: Heidi
  • 1995 : cartoon Heidi , Japan, film of Toshiyuki Hiruma Takashi
  • 1998: cartoon film Heidi Germany, Switzerland, Governed: Alain Gsponer, 3 min
  • 2001: Heidi , Swiss film of Markus Imboden which presents a history of Heidi by locating the history in 2001
  • 2001: Remake of the Japanese cartoon of 1977
  • 2002: cartoon Heidi , Germany, film of Albert Hanan Kaminski
  • 2005: The United Kingdom, film of Paul Marcus, with Emma Bolger (Heidi), max Von Sydow
  • 2005: Heidi , the United Kingdom, Germany
  • 2007: " Heidi in 15 minutes" , Switzerland, France. Series of 26 episodes based on the life of Heidi to adolescence

Spectacles

Cartoon

  • 1976 -1977, Heidi , 21 books, editions Bastei

  • 1977 - 1981, Heidi , 179 books, editions Bastei
  • 1978, Heidi , 1 album, editions Bastei
  • 1978-1979, Heidi , 8 paperbacks, editions Bastei
  • 1978-1981, Heidi , 4 paperbacks, editions Condor
  • 1979, Heidi special book cartoon , 1 book, editions Condor
  • 1980 - 1984, Heidi , 9 books of pocket, editions Bastei
  • 1987 - 1988, Heidi , 28 books, editions Bastei

Anecdote

The area of Walenstadt was proclaimed in 1997 “Heidiland”.

External bonds

  • - a complete site on the myth of Heidi through the novel, the cinema, television and the theater

  • free Works of the project Gutenberg
  • On the myth of Heidi
  • the Heidi series of 1978 in French diffused free in VOD

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