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Swiss novel by Johanna Spyri

Heidi

Author	Johanna Spyri
Original title	Originally published in two parts- Part 1: Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning, Part 2 Heidi: How She Used What She Learned
Translator	Nathan Haskell Dole
Country	Switzerland
Language	German
Genre	Children's fiction
Publication date	1881
Text	Heidi at Wikisource

Heidi (; German: [ˈhaɪdi]) is a work of children'due south fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in ii parts as Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning ^[1] (German language: Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre) and Heidi: How She Used What She Learned ^[2] (German: Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat).^[3] It is a novel about the events in the life of a 5-year-erstwhile girl in her paternal gramps's care in the Swiss Alps. It was written as a book "for children and those who love children" (equally quoted from its subtitle).

Heidi is one of the best-selling books ever written and is amongst the best-known works of Swiss literature.^{[4] [5]}

Plot [edit]

Aunt Dete hurrying away subsequently leaving Heidi with her grandfather

Heidi^[6] is an orphaned girl initially raised by her maternal grandmother and aunt Dete in Maienfeld, in the Grisons, after the early deaths of her parents, Tobias and Adelheid (Dete's brother-in-law and sister). Shortly after the grandmother'southward death, Dete is offered a proficient job equally a maid in the large city, and takes five-yr-onetime Heidi to her paternal granddaddy's house, up the mountain from the Dörfli ('small village' in Swiss German). He has been at odds with the villagers and embittered against God for years and lives in seclusion on the alm, which has earned him the nickname 'The Alm-Uncle'. He briefly resents Heidi's arrival, but the girl's evident intelligence and cheerful all the same unaffected demeanour soon earn his 18-carat, if reserved, love. Heidi enthusiastically befriends her new neighbours, young Peter the goatherd, his mother Brigitte, and his blind maternal grandmother. With each season that passes, the mountaintop inhabitants, especially Peter and the grandmother, abound more than fastened to Heidi, and she to them. Even so, the grandfather refuses to permit Heidi to nourish school, and quarrels with the local pastor and schoolmaster, who endeavor to encourage him to practice so, and Heidi is illiterate as a upshot.

Iii years later on, Dete returns to accept Heidi to Frankfurt to be a hired lady's companion to a wealthy girl named Klara Sesemann, who is unable to walk and regarded equally an invalid. Klara is charmed by Heidi's unproblematic friendliness and her descriptions of life on the Alm, and delights in all the funny mishaps brought near by Heidi'due south naïvety and lack of experience with city life. Still, the Sesemanns' strict housekeeper, Fräulein Rottenmeier, views the household disruptions as wanton misbehaviour, and places the costless-spirited Heidi under more and more than restraint. Soon, Heidi becomes terribly homesick for the Alm, and grows alarmingly pale and thin. Her ane diversion is learning to read and write, motivated by Klara's grandmother, who shows her trust and amore, and encourages her to believe in God and to pray.

Heidi'due south intractable homesickness leads to episodes of sleepwalking where she goes downstairs and opens the forepart door, which the household initially takes every bit the work of ghosts, and the family medico recommends she be sent dwelling as a matter of urgency before she becomes seriously ill. She returns to the mountains laden with presents for her friends, simply finds ane of her greatest pleasures is reading hymns to Peter's blind grandmother, who can no longer do so for herself. Her religion in God speaks to something in the Alm-Uncle, and he returns to the Christian organized religion. He accompanies Heidi to church, and that wintertime takes accommodation in the village so that she tin attend school.

Heidi and Klara continue to keep in touch and commutation letters. A visit by the doctor to Heidi leads him to eagerly recommend that Klara visit Heidi, feeling assured that the mountain environment and the wholesome companionship will do her practiced. Klara makes the journey the next flavor and spends a wonderful summertime with Heidi, becoming stronger on caprine animal'south milk and fresh mountain air. But Peter, who grows jealous of Heidi'southward and Klara's friendship, pushes her empty wheelchair downwards the mountain to its destruction, although he is soon wracked with guilt almost what he did and ultimately confesses to it. Without her wheelchair, Klara has no option but to larn to walk; she attempts to do so and is gradually successful. She is not very strong, often relying on Heidi or the grandad to stay standing and not collapse, only it marks an end to her fourth dimension equally a lonely, shut-in invalid. Her grandmother and father are amazed and overcome with joy to see Klara walking again. The Sesemann family promises to provide permanent intendance for Heidi, if at that place ever comes a time when her grandpa is no longer able to do so.

Characters [edit]

• Heidi: A joyful and complimentary-spirited immature girl who is orphaned as a toddler. She loves the beauty and fresh air of the mountains.
• Granddaddy: Heidi's grandfather, a cross loner who lives in a hut high in the mountains.
• Clara Sesemann: A lonely, delicate girl who cannot walk. Spelled "Clara" in some translations.
• Peter: A caprine animal herder who lives with his mother and grandmother.
• Herr Sesemann: Klara's father, a successful businessman who travels often.
• Adelheid: Heidi's mother died from fever soon after her husband Tobias passed abroad. Spelled "Adelaide" in some translations.
• Tobias: Heidi'due south father who was killed when a beam fell on his caput when Heidi was a baby.
• Date: Heidi's selfish and insensitive aunt. Spelled "Deta" in some translations.
• Brigitte: Peter's female parent who takes intendance of Peter and her mother. Spelled "Brigitta" in some translations.
• Fräulein Rottenmeier: The strict and arrogant housekeeper at Herr Sesemann's home who antagonizes Heidi.

Translations [edit]

English language: Thirteen English translations were done between 1882 and 1959, by British and American translators: Louise Brooks, Helen B. Dole, H.A. Melcon, Helene Southward. White, Marian Edwardes, Elisabeth P. Stork, Mabel Abbott, Philip Schuyler Allen, Shirley Watkins, M. Rosenbaum, Eileen Hall, and Joy Law.^[7] As of 2010, just the Brooks, Edwardes and Hall translations are yet in print.^[8]

Adaptations [edit]

Picture and television receiver [edit]

Virtually 25 film or tv productions of the original story accept been fabricated. The Heidi films were popular far and wide, becoming a huge hit, and the Japanese animated serial became iconic in several countries around the world. The but incarnation of the Japanese-produced blithe TV serial to reach the English language was a dubbed feature-length compilation picture show using the most pivotal episodes of the tv set serial, released on video in the United States in 1985. Although the original book describes Heidi as having dark, curly hair, she is ordinarily portrayed as blonde.

Versions of the story include:

• Heidi , a 1937 movement picture which starred Shirley Temple in the championship role.
• Heidi , a 1952 movie in Swiss High german and German, directed past Luigi Comencini, starring Elsbeth Sigmund (filmed on location in Switzerland), and followed by a sequel, Heidi and Peter, in 1955, directed by Franz Schnyder, also starring Ms. Sigmund.
• Heidemarie S'Waisechind vo Engelberg , 1956 motion picture of Austria directed by Hermann Kugelstadt
• A Gift for Heidi (1958), by George Templeton.
• Practice Phool , a 1958 Indian Hindi-language family drama film adaptation past A. R. Kardar - starring Babe Naaz in the role of Poornima (Heidi).
• Heidi (1959), music by Clay Warnick, adapted by William Friedberg with Neil Simon.
• Heidi a six-function 1959 BBC Tv set series starring Sara O'Connor in the title office, with Marker Dignam as her grandpa and Lesley Judd equally Klara.^[9]
• Heidi , a 1965 Austrian film, directed by Werner Jacobs.
• Heidi , a 1968 television film which starred Jennifer Edwards with Maximilian Schell and Michael Redgrave. This was the version that became infamous for interrupting an American football game that was broadcast the same mean solar day (November 17) on NBC. The game between the Oakland Raiders and the New York Jets was cut off a few minutes before the end of the game when information technology looked like the Jets were going to win. However, after the cutting off, the Raiders made a comeback and beat the Jets with TV viewers on the e coast missing the decision. TV channels displayed the final score (Oakland winning 43-32) during the movie, further enraging football fans. This incident led to a policy of not ending coverage of football games until after their conclusion. The game has gone down in pro football lore as "The Heidi Game" or "Heidi Bowl."
• Heidi (Disneyland Storyteller Record) a 1968 onetime time radio–style adaptation of the story past Disneyland Records, with music by Camarata, recorded in London and starring Brenda Dunnich, John Witty and introducing (to American audiences) Ysanne Churchman as Heidi.
• Heidi, Girl of the Alps , a 1974 Japanese anime series directed by Isao Takahata for Zuiyo Eizo (later, Nihon Animation), dubbed into various languages. Compiled into an English-dubbed movie entitled The Story of Heidi.
• Heidi , a 1974 BBC adaptation starring Emma Blake.
• Heidi , a 1978 26-episode Swiss/German television series, starring Katia Polletin equally the protagonist, which was dubbed into diverse languages, including English.^[10]
• The New Adventures of Heidi (1978), directed past Ralph Senensky.
• Heidi: La marveilleuse histoire d'une fille de la montagne(2 record ready). Story read by actress Irène Vidy, Heidi theme song sung by Tony Schmitt. Milan Entertainment, a production of Activ-Records, Altendorf, Schwyz Switzerland, 1980. (SLP 77)
• Heidi's Song , a 1982 American blithe moving-picture show produced by Hanna-Barbera.
• Climb a Tall Mount , a Christian film from 1987 that uses the story's characters to illustrate a message about the importance of dearest and forgiveness,
• Backbone Mount , a 1990 American take chances drama film and serves as a sequel to Johanna Spyri's novel Heidi, directed by Christopher Leitch.
• Heidi , a two-function American television miniseries from 1993, starring Noley Thornton as Heidi. Co-stars included Jane Seymour as Miss Rottenmeier, Jason Robards every bit Gramps and Lexi Randall as Klara.
• Heidi , a 1995 blithe movie.
• Heidi , a 2005 blithe film.
• Heidi , a 2005 British live-action film directed by Paul Marcus.
• Heidi iv Paws , a comedic 2008 adaptation featuring talking dogs with the voice of Angela Lansbury.
• Heidi , a CGI remake of the 1974 anime series developed in 2015, made past Studio 100 Animation, the same makers of Maya the Bee.^[11]
• Heidi , a 2015 Swiss live-activity film directed by Alain Gsponer.
• Heidi, bienvenida a casa , a 2017 telenovela from Argentine republic.

Theatre [edit]

A phase musical adaptation of Heidi with volume and lyrics by Francois Toerien, music by Mynie Grové and boosted lyrics by Esther von Waltsleben, premiered in Due south Africa at the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival in 2016. Directed by Toerien with musical direction past Dawid Boverhoff, the product starred Tobie Cronjé (Rottenmeier), Dawid Minnaar (Sesemann), Albert Maritz (Grandfather), Ilse Klink (Aunt Dete), Karli Heine (Heidi), Lynelle Kenned (Klara), Dean Balie (Peter), Jill Middlekop and Marlo Minnaar. Puppets for the product were created by Hansie Visagie.^[12]

A stage musical adaptation of Heidi of the Mount (music and lyrics by Claude Watt, book by Claude and Margaret Watt) was performed in Sidney, BC, Canada by Mountain Dream Productions, premiering in 2007 at the Charlie White Theatre, and has been performed again several times since then.^[xiii] The 2007 production starred Claude Watt (Grandfather), Margaret Watt (Rottenmeier), Rianne Craig (Heidi) and Katrina Brindle (Klara).

Calculator games [edit]

There have been ii Heidi reckoner games released for mobile devices, with the most recent being Heidi: Mountain Adventures. Both games are based on the Studio 100 TV series of 2015 and are aimed at young children, with educational elements and a series of mini-games.^{[14] [fifteen]}

Heidiland [edit]

Maienfeld, the main town in Heidiland

Heidiland, named after the Heidi books, is an important tourist expanse in Switzerland, pop especially with Japanese and Korean tourists.^[sixteen] Maienfeld is the heart of what is called Heidiland; one of the villages, formerly called Oberrofels,^[17] is actually renamed "Heididorf".^[18] Heidiland is located in an area called Bündner Herrschaft; it is criticized as being a "laughable, infantile cliché"^[16] and "a more vivid case of hyperreality."^[19]

Sequels [edit]

The v sequel books, Heidi and Her Friends, Heidi Grows Up, Heidi's Children, Heidi grand-mère 1941 (Heidi every bit grandmother) and Au Pays de Heidi 1952 (In Heidi's land), were neither written nor endorsed past Spyri, but were adapted from her other works past her French translator, Charles Tritten in the 1930s, many years afterward she died.^{[20] [21] [22] [23]}

There are some major differences betwixt the original Heidi and the Tritten sequels. These include;

• Heidi, the original story by Spyri, shows the simple life of Heidi imbued with a deep honey of children and childhood. Spyri mentioned that the work was "for children and those who love children". The sequels portray Heidi in a unlike manner, as she grows upwards and gets married.
• Heidi in the start book, Heidi, is described equally having "short, black curly pilus", when she is around five to 8 years of age. In Heidi Grows Upwardly, when she is 14, her hair is long, directly and off-white.
• In some English editions of Heidi the names of the goats are translated into English (Little Swan and Niggling Behave), while other editions use their original Swiss-High german names, Schwanli and Baerli. In Heidi Grows Upwards only the names Schwanli and Baerli are used.

In 1990, screenwriters Weaver Webb and Fred & Mark Brogger, and manager Christopher Leitch, produced Backbone Mount, starring Charlie Sheen and Juliette Caton as Heidi. Billed as a sequel to Spyri'south story, the motion picture is anachronistic in that it depicts Heidi as a teenager during World War I, despite the fact that the original novel (where Heidi is only five years onetime) was published in 1881.

Basis for Heidi [edit]

In April 2010, a Swiss professorial candidate, Peter Buettner, uncovered a book written in 1830 by the German language writer Hermann Adam von Kamp. The 1830 story is titled "Adelaide: The Girl from the Alps" (High german: Adelaide, das Mädchen vom Alpengebirge).^[24] The two stories share many similarities in plot line and imagery.^[25] Spyri biographer Regine Schindler said it was entirely possible that Spyri may have been familiar with the story every bit she grew up in a literate household with many books.

Reception [edit]

The book has been criticised, even in its 24-hour interval, for its religiously conservative positions,^[26] and later for black-and-white grapheme portrayals and an idealization of pastoral life.^{[27] [ page needed ]}

In Japan, since its commencement Japanese translation in 1906, the book has been influential upon the general, stereotypical image of Switzerland for the Japanese, especially its tourists, many visiting the Heidi'due south Village park.

See also [edit]

• 2521 Heidi (an asteroid named later Heidi)
• Tall people and culture
• Tall transhumance (the traditional exercise of moving grazing herds in the Alps betwixt winter valleys and summertime mountain pastures)
• History of the Alps
• Swiss folklore

References [edit]

1. ^ Title view of the public library of SIKJM
2. ^ Page view of the electronic SIKJM library
3. ^ Nathan Haskell Dole, translator of the 1899 edition
4. ^ "Swiss Literature (old link)". revue.ch. Archived from the original on August viii, 2007. Retrieved March 4, 2008.
5. ^ "Swiss Literature". admin.ch. Archived from the original on Feb 6, 2008. Retrieved March iv, 2008.
6. ^ Pregnant of "Heidi" (in German)
7. ^ Stan, Susan (2010). "Heidi in English: A Bibliographic Written report", New Review of Children'south Literature and Librarianship, sixteen:1, ane–23, DOI: ten.1080/13614541.2010.495568
8. ^ Stan, Susan (2010). "Heidiin English: A Bibliographic Study". New Review of Children'south Literature and Librarianship. sixteen: 1–23. doi:ten.1080/13614541.2010.495568. S2CID 143733709.
9. ^ "Children'south Boob tube: Heidi: one: Upwards the Mountain". Radio Times (1853): fourteen. May 15, 1959.
10. ^ "Th Boob tube BBC1 - Heidi". Radio Times via twitter.com. September 8, 1983. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
11. ^ "Animation". Studio100.tv. Studio 100 is producing a new CGI format animated serial of Heidi, which will be delivered for broadcast in 2015. Information technology has been sold to more than than 100 countries and coincides with the 40th anniversary of the classic 2nd serial. Johanna Spyri wrote the starting time Heidi books back in 1880; since then more than 50 meg books have been translated into 50 languages worldwide.
12. ^ "'The story behind the legend of Sweeney Todd ". Kosie House of Theatre. Retrieved on October 22, 2016.
13. ^ Reeuwyck, Christine (January 25, 2012). "Kids bring Heidi to Charlie White". Peninsula News Review . Retrieved December 13, 2019.
14. ^ "Mobile : Explore the Swiss Alps in Heidi: Mount Adventures". bunnygaming.com . Retrieved June ane, 2019.
15. ^ "Explore the Swiss Alps in Heidi: Mount Adventures!". Gamasutra . Retrieved June 1, 2019.
16. ^ ^{a b} Abend, Bernhard; Anja Schliebitz (2006). Schweiz. Baedeker. pp. 145–46. ISBN978-3-8297-1071-8.
17. ^ Beattie, Andrew (2006). The Alps: a cultural history. Oxford: Oxford UP. p. 142. ISBN978-0-19-530955-3.
18. ^ Simonis, Damien; Sarah Johnstone; Nicole Williams (2006). Switzerland. Lonely Planet. p. 274. ISBN978-1-74059-762-3.
19. ^ Solomon, Michael R. (2006). Conquering consumerspace: marketing strategies for a branded world. Broadway: Amacom. p. 30. ISBN978-0-8144-0741-7.
20. ^ Heidi au pays des Romands; swissinfo.ch
21. ^ Dans le palais des glaces de la littérature romande; edited by Vittorio Frigerio and Corine Renevey. Amsterdam, 2002. ISBN 90-420-0923-3
22. ^ Bibliographie französischer Übersetzungen aus dem Deutschen; Bibliographie de traductions françaises d'auteurs de langue allemande; by L. Bihl, K. Epting. Walter de Gruyter, 1987
23. ^ abebooks.fr
24. ^ "Heidi-Zeichner ist tot: Woher das Zeichentrick-Mädchen kommt und was aus ihm geworden ist". April 6, 2018.
25. ^ Squires, by Nick (April 29, 2010). "Swiss Heidi may in fact exist High german".
26. ^ Neue Deutsche Biographie, Ring 24. 2010.
27. ^ Kari Sønsthagen og Torben Weinreich. Leksikon for børnelitteratur. Branner og Korch, 2003. ISBN 87-411-5970-five

External links [edit]

• Heidi at Project Gutenberg

• Heidi at Projection Gutenberg (illustrated)

• Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre at Projection Gutenberg (in German)
• Heidi public domain audiobook at LibriVox
• Heidi (in English) free downloads in multiple ebook formats
• Heidi's Land, The official Web site (in French) for the 1980s television prove with Katia Polletin (Heidi) and Stefan Arpagaus (Peter)
• Remembering Heidi: Swiss Pride at its best, by Dr. Anton Anderssen
• Swiss Heidi may in fact be German
• Johanna Spyri'due south stolen Alps story?(in High german)

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