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Peter Stamm • Hannes Binder, ill.
Heidi
Nagel & Kimche, 2008 • ISBN 978-3-312-00982-4
Johanna Spyri’s Heidi was published in 1879 and
has since sold over 50 million copies. Heidi has
become a film star, a comic figure, and a musical
performer.
In a straightforward language author Peter
Stamm narrates Spyri’s story about the fiveyear-old
orphan girl who lives on an alp with
her granddad until she is sent away to Frankfurt.
Stamm’s Heidi is not a nature girl who suffers
from living in a big city but a child that gets
homesick far away from her alp and subsequently
lapses into silence. With their documental
approach, Hannes Binder’s illustrations deny
any idyll. In his pictures, Binder chooses wide,
broad frames for the mountains, vertical ones for
Frankfurt, and subdivided spaces to reflect the
hectic city life as well as Heidi’s inner world. Thus,
he constantly dissects the well-known, popular
image of Heidi.
Johanna Spyris Heidi erschien 1879 und hat sich
seither über fünfzig Millionen Mal verkauft. Heidi
ist ein Filmstar, eine Comic- und Musical-Figur
geworden. Der Autor Peter Stamm erzählt Spyris
Geschichte um das fünfjährige Waisenmädchen, das
bei seinem Grossvater Öhi auf der Alp lebt, bis es ins
Frankfurter Exil verschickt wird, in schnörkelloser
Sprache nach. Sein Heidi ist kein Naturmädchen, das
an der Grossstadt leidet, sondern ein Kind, das in der
Fremde an Heimweh erkrankt und darum verstummt.
Auch Hannes Binders Illustrationen verweigern sich in
ihrem dokumentarischen Ansatz jeder Idylle. Er wählt
für die Bergwelt weite, breite Ansichten, für Frankfurt
vertikal, in Panels unterteilte Bildräume, die die das
hektische Stadtleben draussen und Heidis Innenwelt
spiegeln und schafft so mal um mal Gegenbilder zum
gängigen, medial kolportierten Heidibild.
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Selina Chönz • Alois Carigiet, ill.
Uorsin (in Puter Rhaeto-Romanic) / Ursin (in Sursilvan Rhaeto-Romanic)
[A Bell for Ursli]
Lia Rumantscha, 1983
The internationally most renowned Swiss
storybook tells the story of ‘Bell-Ursli’ and his
search for the biggest cow bell so he can march
at the front of the parade and banish winter
with the ring of his bell at the spring celebration
“Chalandamarz”. To obtain the biggest cow bell,
he secretly mounts to his parents’ chalet through
deep snow and spends a lonely night up there.
When Ursli returns the next day with his big bell,
his parents, who were worrying all night, are
relieved. In 1945, the story of “Uorsin”, written by
Selina Chönz from Engadine, was published. The
book that is illustrated by Alois Carigiet has come
to world fame. Ursli is the hero of this story about
departure and homecoming, about autonomous
actions and the proving of oneself. Due to Alois
Carigiet’s expressive images the story of Ursli and
his bell is a monument of Swiss artwork in the
twentieth century. In 1996, the artist received the
Hans Christian Andersen Award for his storybook
artwork.
Il cudesch illustrà svizzer il pli enconuschent sin plaun
internaziunal raquinta l’istorgia dad Ursin che va a
la tschertga da la pli gronda plumpa. Quella dovra
el per pudair star a la testa dal cortegi da primavaira
«Chalandamarz» che duai cun ses sclingiez stgatschar
l’enviern. Senza infurmar ses geniturs decida el dad ir
ad acla. El va tras naiv e glatsch e passenta ina notg
solitaria en la tegia da culm. Cura che Ursin returna
l’auter di cun la plumpa, s’allegran ils geniturs che
n’han da spir quitads betg savì durmir.
Il 1945 è cumparida l’istorgia dad « Ursin » da la
scriventa engiadinaisa Selina Chönz ch’è daventada
grazia a las illustraziuns da l’artist Aluis Carigiet
enconuschenta en tut il mund. Ursin è l’erox da
questa istorgia davart il scappar e turnar a chasa,
l’agir autonom ed il sa cumprovar. Entras ils maletgs
expressivs dad Aluis Carigiet è l’istorgia dad Ursin in
monument da la grafica svizra dal 20avel tschientaner.
Per sias illustraziuns da cudeschs d’uffants è
l’artist vegnì undrà il 1996 cun il Hans Christian
Andersen Award.
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