die echten piraten

[lobelia321]

I'm a bit late but what hey: I found my old pirates icon! Die Wilde Dreizehn!! Hohoho, und eine Buddel Rum. Remember, those of you who've been with me for some years, how we once speculated upon Wilde 13 pairings? Xaviero/Ludovico and so forth?? Ah, those were the real pirating days... And it turns out people actually had Wilde 13 favourites? So some liked 'the one with the star' and others preferred Xaviero over Ludovico? And I can't for the life of me now remember any of the others' names, argh, although I do recall that somebody posted a list of all of them (and I have the book upstairs but somehow find myself unable to lift the posterior off the padded seat) and apparently, it's ungooglable.

Tur Tur/Herr Aermel was also among the pairings proposed, I dimly remember...!!

But those pirates: *rawr*.

ETA for non-Germanophones: Pirates taken from the childrens' book 'Jim Knopf und die Wilde 13' by Michael Ende. This is a mega-famous book in Germany and the author also happens to have been my father's best friend (sadly, the author is dead now). I love those pirates! They are the best!

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[junalele.livejournal.com]

Oh, Die Wilde Dreizehn und Jim... god, I read them as a kid but have to confess don't really remember much. Been selling them a lot though and maybe I should read them again? And the author was your father's best friend? Oh my god, all those celebrities around you...:)

P.S.: Love the icon. Obviously.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I know, how strange is this? I seem to be morphing into some form of Prominentenmieze.

[junalele.livejournal.com]

You sure do. Or rather you obviously always were but it was somehow surpressed for a while. :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

P.S. And re re-reading Jim Knopf? Oh, you absolutely must. Both volumes! I loved it as a child, and looking back on it, I loved the Wilde 13 because deep down, although I didn't know it yet, I was already a slasher in the making... *g* I re-read it several times to both t'sons and loved it all over again. It is brilliantly constructed, and morally true, and simply wonderful. It remains my favourite of all the Ende books. Sursulapitschi! Uschaurischuum! Tur Tur! These are mythical figures in my head. And did you ever hear the audio version in which Michael Ende's wife plays Frau Malzahn?

[junalele.livejournal.com]

Okay, you convinced me. So those books will my self-bought farewell present from Thalia when I have to quit at the end of this month because thew bloody uni still hasen't decided whether my Lehrauftrag will be a paid one or not... But yes, will buy those and read them again. Do you maybe also know 'Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen'? It's also a children's book, an illustrated one. Loved it and I still have one of the Kerle as stuffed animal - well, stuffed Kerl, I guess.
Also rereading those names - they sound kind of Mongolian so maybe I was already well on my way to study Mongolian Studies before I ever read Fritz Mühlenweg's 'Großer Tiger und Christian' which did the rest. :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak! (English in the original.) Yes, I read that to t'sons: one of the bestest books for little children in existence.

But Grosser Tiger und Christian...??? Is this like a Mongolian Karl May?

Btw, have you ever been to the Karl May Festspiele in Bad Segeberg? I really want to go next summer with t'family.

[junalele.livejournal.com]

But Grosser Tiger und Christian...??? Is this like a Mongolian Karl May?
No. For one thing Fritz Mühlenweg actually went to Mongolia on a few expeditions in the 1920s if I remember correctly. Grosser Tiger und Christian (or 'Geheime Mission in der Wüste Gobi) is an adventure book for teenagers which takes place in the war around 1910. It's starring two boys who have to travel through the Gobi for their own safety and to bring important papers to some general or something. It's beautifully written and gives you a real feeling for the mOngolian people. You can tell that Mühlenweg really cared for them and respected them and their way to live deeply. - And well, the book is responsible for me studying what I did. ;)

No, never been to the Karl May Festspiele and I'm not sure I want to. Since I did martial arts for about seven years, I'm you could say overly critical when it comes to fight scenes and stunts. Though maybe they're spectacular and I should really see them...

[junalele.livejournal.com]

P.S.: And no, I don't think I know the audio version. Is it like a Hörspiel or an audio cd?

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

We have it on cassette but as a child I listened to it on vinyl.

[junalele.livejournal.com]

Still love the icon btw. :)

So it is like a Hörspiel then with different people speaking the different roles and maybe a narrator? Damn, must ask a friend then if she has that one since I have only the ???...

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

the author also happens to have been my father's best friend

I continue to be incredibly impressed by that!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

But do you know Michael Ende, then?? I thought he was completely unknown in t'UK.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Remember when you came round my house the first time - did I show you my copy of The Neverending Story with all the pages falling out? I remember us talking about it, anyway.

Still one of my favourite books.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

God, my mind! A sieve, a hoop. I have no recollection of this Neverending story showing. Maybe a tiny, tiny bit...? Argh.

So have you read Jim Button then? I like it even better than Neverending Story. It is not much known in the Anglo world, though.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Was it you who recced 'Progeny'? In SGA? Because I love that hunk Niam! And the anal rape = canon thing!