Tiger and Bear Search the land of their dreams. When they find a delicious fragrant banana box, her desire goal is clear: Panama
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Cheerful break the friends to remember only at the end that …
… Happiness was always there, in their cottage by the river.
“Everyone has always lived in paradise, it has just not known,” the writer and painter Janosch commented times his famous children’s book “Oh, how beautiful Panama”.
he has created in a peaceful, happy world. This contrasts with his works for adults, which give an insight into a tough childhood.
One is all the books in common: the humor, the strong language and striking, beautiful images with which Janosch illustrated his works
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On March 11, 2016, the author and artist is now 85 years old. Janoschs own childhood in the Upper Silesian Bergarbeiterort Zabrze (formerly Hindenburg) in today’s Poland was marked …
… Of permanent alcohol excesses of the father and of a mother who were beating out of frustration mercilessly at her son. At the same time the father had the presumption in megalomania and raged when his offspring did not fulfill the hopes.
The mother wiped him out fine and made him at school a mockery.
“The first years of my life were the total destruction of my person,” Janosch, Horst Eckert is actually said, once the “Sueddeutsche Zeitung”.
As horrible he felt the strict Catholic upbringing. Then the “cruelty of the Hitler Youth,” as he describes it, the Second World War, in 1946 the relocation and the new start in Oldenburg.
Much flowed in his works, as in “Cholonek or the God of mud”. Times tough, but then again he wistfully tells the tale in the gray housing estate where he spent his childhood. Beautiful memories were precious – about two Christmases
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The father was back from the war, the family had lost everything. But there were gifts: corn with raisins and a year later a coat. “That was a real gift – I could still howling with delight,” Janosch once said of the “Frankfurter Rundschau”
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Perhaps it is these experiences that make Janoschs books so special. A counterpoint to his real life, he sought to oust later long time alcohol out of his head.
His self-created paradise on paper was colorful and naive, peopled with quirky creatures who defend themselves against magistrates, arrogance and injustice -. But not by force, but mischievous and bold, with mind and heart
“In Janosch are the heroes, no one else noticed the” writes journalist Tillmann examiner in the afterword to the book “Mr. Wondrak saves the world, hurray!”. It combines Janoschs weekly columns in the “Time” magazine, where his alter ego Wondrak Since 2013 commented on current events.
His private paradise has Janosch found more than 30 years ago: On the Spanish Canary Island of Tenerife, where he lives with his wife Ines (l.). His favorite place …
… “Always hammock,” he told his biographer Angela Bajorek. The title of her recently published book is a quote that could also be called Janoschs life philosophy: “Who needs almost nothing, has everything.”
Frugal, be loving and helpful and find happiness in the small – values that run through many of his works. Nevertheless, his characters are not virtuous model student. (Picture: ARD series “Antje”)
They are also moody, cheeky and anarchic wild.
Take and the world is not so serious and …
… Keep it as the little pigs and “dip our foot in the tomato sauce a”.
The best thing about them is their sense of humor, as in “The frog is a loudmouth.” All he wants to do better than schnuddel: Being beautiful, far jump and open the mouth. So far tear the frog on his throat until he finally swallowed itself. “Gone forever” writes Janosch, and schnuddel noted gleefully on: “. See, that’s what happens”
Again and again, there are also melancholy, as in “The Old Man and the Bear”. Move to the Christmas story pious churchgoers their charitable gifts to the poor tomorrow. “But when they came the next day, the bear and the bird was no longer there. An angel had brought them. Carried to the stars.”
It need not take much to make someone happy, Janosch is convinced. His characters indulge in simple pleasures: …
… Braised morel mushrooms in spicy Pfeffertunke, wild berry compote with honey, fabulous broth with potatoes and carrots from the garden or Springforelle with Mandelkernsoße, baby potatoes and breadcrumbs. (Picture from the movie “Oh, how beautiful Panama”)
In other respects, modesty has advantages, especially if …
… It comes to modern media, they can make life yet so much poorer. This takes at least Janosch in a drawing for the “Time” magazine: …
… “Mr. Janosch, which would have been really, Tiger and Bear smartphones have had? You have just googled Panama and would have remained sitting at the table for the rest.”
Janoschs Verlag celebrates its heroes with a big birthday book.
“Maybe even all nonsense, what I say!” is published by Beltz and Goldberg and costs 19.95 euros. (Ame / dpa)
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