The most famous girl in the world might never have been, if not another girl had 1941 located with pneumonia in bed.
It is Karin, the daughter of the Swedish Astrid Lindgren. She is seven years old. “Tell me about Pippi Longstocking!” She asks her mother. And the telling. From a “small superman”, as she says herself, who easily hit policemen lifts like horses and do lack parental supervision and can do whatever he wants.
“is reminiscent of the imagination of a madman”
As a Lindgren tied after a fall even in bed, she writes on everything. In November 1945, the stories about Pippi Longstocking appear for the first time in book form. The dedication in the copy that Karin Nyman scored by her mother, is dated on November 26
Because of their boorish kind pushes the Rotzgöre with fiery red hair some after being published by Raben & amp. But Sjögren bitterly. Abnormal and morbid place the respected Professor John Landquist Pippi. “No normal child,” he commented in the newspaper “Aftonbladet”, “eating to a whole cream pie or walking barefoot on sugar. Both recalls the fantasy of a madman. “
million children joined Pippi in her heart
The Bonnier Publishing Lindgren has previously given similar concerns from a rejection. “I had even small children and imagined with horror what would happen if they took up this girl as a model”, was the publisher Gerhard Bonnier years after publication to. He is still often have the hair about scuffled that he rejected the manuscript.
For millions of children, first in Sweden and later in the whole world, Pippi joined straight into her heart. The anarchic orphan became the undisputed heroine of the children’s room – and still is today. “This is probably the fact that it is independent from adults,” Lindgren’s daughter Karin Nyman says the German press agency in an interview. “It’s nice for kids to read about someone like that.”
Your childhood is for Lindgren Inspiration
She lives with horse and monkey in a colorful villa, invents words like Spunk and Games such as non-the-ground-touching, bought the store 18 kilos of sweets and gives burglars gold pieces, while her choice of profession still varies between “fine lady” and “pirates”: With Pippi it is never boring. Against the Grand Will Swallow and her friends Tommy and Annika Krummelus pills, see the peas suspiciously similar.
Your literary mother Astrid Lindgren needed no magic pills, so as not to grow up. “She understood what it’s like to be a child,” says the Swedish actress Inger Nilsson, who played Pippi in the film adaptations, over Lindgren. “On the books, one can see that she was even happy as a child, and she loved children really.” Her childhood is for Lindgren inspiration for her stories. In the model for the tree from which Pippi children lemonade served, the author climbed even in old age still around: He stands in the garden of Lindgren’s childhood home in Vimmerby
Lönneberga Lindgren’s favorite character
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The fact that the Swedish woman, the little girl invented the authorities into question and a private head has, was probably a reaction to the horrors of World War II. “One can perhaps think that it was a kind of liberation, to write about someone who has not been possible to suppress, who had this sovereign attitude towards his fellow man and has not a whit sheared to conventions,” says Nyman. Pippi is interpreted as a feminist and anarchist, some see it as even the founder of the punk 40 years before the Sex Pistols.
During the first Pippi Longstocking band in 1945 appears at the end of World War II in Sweden, comes it four years later to the market, as Lindgren German publisher Friedrich Oetinger acquainted in Germany. Although Pippi with around 66 million books sold Lindgren’s most successful invention today, it was not their own favorite character: That was Lönneberga says Lindgren family. Even a lousy kid
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