meme answering II
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Krabat is a book by Otfried Preußler (the english title is "The satanic mill") it is based on an old wendish folk tale
1. it's a story about good & evil and black magic but it doesn't preach
2. in the end the antagonist isn't defeated by magic
3. Krabat reminds me a lot of Luke Skywalker and Harry Potter - no, the other way round since Krabat is a lot older character :-)
4. it's a well done story about growing up
5. one character appears that lives magic in a differnt way, a bit anarchic, independant and like the trickster Till Eulenspiegel
6. I like stories/folk tales that show that national borders in Europe don't equal borders of language and culture. The story takes place in German villages but the names of the wenish characters sound strange to a German.
7. the antagonist is very human (as we learn later in the story)
8. 30-year-war! a neglected period in films and novels
9. the language! the book is written in antiquated German but it doesn't sound strange/funny but very alive
10. I like how magic is described
I first wanted to link wendish directly to the english wiki entry. But after reading it I thought about adding a comment. The article is not very biased. I recommend to read also the discussion about the article. The subject is a lot more difficult than described in the article e.g. it sounds as if the Polish love the Sorbs. After WWII they were treated as Germans (the enemy) and either driven away or assimilated into Polnish culture&language.
They just recently made a film of it :-) and it also has a blog http://www.krabat-blog.de/ (I love the 'mood-storyboards') and finally a teaser-trailer (German)
lachan in this memeKrabat is a book by Otfried Preußler (the english title is "The satanic mill") it is based on an old wendish folk tale
1. it's a story about good & evil and black magic but it doesn't preach
2. in the end the antagonist isn't defeated by magic
3. Krabat reminds me a lot of Luke Skywalker and Harry Potter - no, the other way round since Krabat is a lot older character :-)
4. it's a well done story about growing up
5. one character appears that lives magic in a differnt way, a bit anarchic, independant and like the trickster Till Eulenspiegel
6. I like stories/folk tales that show that national borders in Europe don't equal borders of language and culture. The story takes place in German villages but the names of the wenish characters sound strange to a German.
7. the antagonist is very human (as we learn later in the story)
8. 30-year-war! a neglected period in films and novels
9. the language! the book is written in antiquated German but it doesn't sound strange/funny but very alive
10. I like how magic is described
I first wanted to link wendish directly to the english wiki entry. But after reading it I thought about adding a comment. The article is not very biased. I recommend to read also the discussion about the article. The subject is a lot more difficult than described in the article e.g. it sounds as if the Polish love the Sorbs. After WWII they were treated as Germans (the enemy) and either driven away or assimilated into Polnish culture&language.
They just recently made a film of it :-) and it also has a blog http://www.krabat-blog.de/ (I love the 'mood-storyboards') and finally a teaser-trailer (German)
