As a peace fresh air in the big boots stomped a redheaded girl right into the 40th century Sweden. She does not want to be Stur, but this year the Pippi Longstocking 70 years. The game continues anyway.
Here comes Pippi Longstocking. It is in May 1945, and World War II has just ended. Peace of celebration confetti has settled on the streets and Astrid Lindgren’s daughter Karin’s birthday. The year before she had even unpublished manuscript as a birthday present. Soon to be the same story end up in many other children’s hands, turned into both film and television and become a phenomenon, incorporated in the Swedish kulturavet.
– I got her a present, but she was never mine, says Astrid Lindgren’s daughter Karin Nyman.
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The story of how Pippi was born is known. She received the contours of the tales of Astrid Lindgren told Karin, was rejected by Bonnier and was eventually given out by Raben & amp; Sjogren in November 1945 to the readers as well as most critics’ delight. It was as if children’s literature had longed for a Pippilotta Viktualia Rullgardina Krusmynta Ephraim Daughter Longstocking. The war was over, parts of Europe, certainly in ruins but everything might, nonetheless, possible – also a girl who lives alone in an overgrown house.
Astrid valve
Astrid Lindgren herself was very touched by the war – experiences that are treated in her recently published war diaries. Karin Nyman remembers a Weight atmosphere, even the children knew of. Pippi was liberating, in the midst of all that heavy.
– There was a terrible yearning to be free, for nothing would oppress one, and Pippi stepped forward as the one who said “it fixes itself, it should do not be so long. ” She was like a valve, even for Astrid, she says.
Children’s researcher Lena Kåreland believe that the rebellious girl marked a shift in both the education and literature.
– New trends were developed after the war , a less authoritarian approach to child-rearing. Pippi broke much of the former children’s literature, which was more välborstad.
insubordinate girls, often orphaned, had indeed occurred in children’s books even earlier. “Both boldness and anti-authoritarian,” says Eva Wahlström, who has written a dissertation on the right Pippi’s predecessor.
– But Astrid Lindgren’s greatness is not compromising. Birdie came at an extremely appropriate time. There is even the Mighty Adolf, who has a mustache, breaking in German and will be nerbrottad of Pippi. It is an anti-Nazi spirit, she continues.
Modern Edition
This year, Pippi 70 years. Is she still contemporary?
– You can not make her a 2000s child, then you have to rewrite the whole thing, says Karin Nyman, who says that “book-Pippi” is rooted in the 40th century.
Book Pippi, however, have a lot of company since then. The first books are now a small part of a larger, still active cultural machinery that over the years has resulted in everything from board books and cuddly toys to plays and movies. Children who discover Pippi today meet her might in other contexts than the postwar young bookworms: On television, theme parks or in picture books. In the ’90s came a cartoon Pippi, curiously dubbed, but still freedom thirsty. Though Karin Nyman does not like the cartoon. Sometimes she gets tired of how Pippi interpreted wrong.
– It is easy to pervert her, and certainly there are many examples of it. The important thing is that the origins are not corrupted, she says.
This year’s edition of collection of the book “The book about Pippi Longstocking” from 1952 with the classic illustrations by Ingrid Vang Nyman, has certainly been modernized. Pippi’s father is no longer negro king without a south sea king. “Absolutely necessary,” according to Karin Nyman. Astrid Lindgren herself wanted to see a rewrite.
Strong girl
The child gets to go to bed when she wants to eat candy instead of fish liver oil attracts of course, but Pippi has meant more than a love of adventure, says Lena Kåreland.
– Pure feminist, she has become an icon of the strong girl, and for the good man, as though she is strong and the rich do not use its power for personal gain. She is a child with healthy eyes see the limiting and silly rules that apply to the adult behavior.
Karin Nyman has a similar image:
– Pippi is disrespectful to what she perceives you do not need to have respect for, but only that. Otherwise, she’s the one godsinnad person. And funny too.
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The figure of Pippi Longstocking born when Astrid told tales of his daughter. This year, the first book about Pippi 70 years.
The book was rejected by Bonniers but was published by Raben & amp; Sjogren in a revised version in November 1945 after Lindgren won a children’s book competition. It was followed by “Pippi Longstocking boarding” in 1946, “Pippi in the South Seas” in 1948, and collection of the book “The book about Pippi Longstocking” in 1952, illustrated by Ingrid Vang Nyman.
Since then, the stories about Pippi Longstocking resulted in total seven picture books, nine comic books, four board books, eight films, two television series and two TV movies.
Nyutgåvan of “The book about Pippi Longstocking” was given on 22 April 2015. The N-word has, in according to the author’s will, been replaced with the prefix “South Sea”.
During the year celebrated Pippi’s 70th birthday, including a celebration at Skansen in Stockholm on 23 May and several celebrations around the country, including the Astrid Lindgren’s World in Vimmerby.
In April also published “Astrid Lindgren’s war diaries 1939-1945″.
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