In their worlds, full of mysteries and secrets awakening books to life. Now Germany’s international erfogreichste youth is a book author 60. We present her most famous novel: ink heart.
Michael was at the end, the power of mysterious imagination, mediated in 1979 to its readers travel through magic books. His “never-ending story” not only took the children on an adventure trip into the realm of the books that spurred your imagination. Also, many adults loved his story, and the children of once love you still.
Among the Fans of the “neverending story” again, there should be a few that read a book by Cornelia Funke, none of their plays heard, or at least a film adaptation of her worldwide successful books have seen. The author, who was in the nineties with “The wild chickens”, a book series about a girl gang, and with “the thief Lord” and “dragon rider”, has launched by the end of the opened door with your fantastic stories.
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DW-literature-expert Sabine Kieselbach on “ink heart” by Cornelia Funke
World-wide success with young readers
Her youth novel, “ink heart”, which was released in 2003, simultaneously in German and English, brought the final breakthrough. The book was so successful that the children’s book author, unlike initially planned, the story spun. In the interval of two years, heart of “the books” inkspell “and” Inkdeath was followed by “ink” from a single book to a trilogy was at the end.
“‘Maybe there is behind the printed story to a different, much bigger story, the changing as our world does it? And the letters tell us about it just as much as a view through a keyhole. Perhaps you are not more than the lid to a pot that contains a lot more than we can read?'”
For your books spark uses the basic constellation of Fantasy stories: the contrast between the fictive real and fantastic world, and a key-hole-like connection between the two worlds. The key-hole – like Michael ende: books.
“Ink heart” was also filmed and came out in 2008 in the cinemas
From books characters read
The bookbinder Mortimer, in the novel, in short, “Mo”, has the gift of books characters, but also things out of the reading. So also some of the most sinister figures that he has freed involuntarily from their stories change, in the ‘real’ world. “Ink heart” the book is in the book, and he has Capricorn freed.
Now the leader of a gang of brand’s founders and forth Racketeers behind him, to bring everyone in the world, are located copies of the book. In order to escape the gang leader and his emissaries dust finger, Mo go with his daughter Meggie the place. Finally, the father and twelve-year-old refuge with the books fool Elinor find.
Dust finger is looking for the way back in the “ink heart”of the world. He would therefore like to use Mos gift for his own purposes. It manages to entice Three in the Ligurian mountain village, in the Capricorn and his gang dwell. The Trio is locked up and an adventure story full of mystery and secrets.
Meggie discovered until now: she has inherited the ability of her father. Also you can read a terrifying Monster out of a book, and could even kill with words. However, Fenoglio, the author of the book, Meggie is to read, has rewritten the story for a long time. The villain and his criminal char free to come in, come in three.
The Power of reading
“Ink heart” is a book about the magic of reading. A Bücherfan has the gift to transfer characters from a novel, in reality, is a substance to the Dream. Books create fantasy worlds – worlds in which the homeless a place. A thought, the demanding literati and, above all, the authors had to live in exile, time and again have formulated. In the case of Cornelia Funke, it is the “ink heart”the world of the displaced arsonist dust, finger still hangs onto this idea, as he observed Elinor in front of the ruins of their library:
“Your world had passed the blackness of paper and printing, similar to the his. Probably you felt in the real world is as foreign as he is.”
Brendan Fraser (2. v. l.) as a “Mo” and Eliza Bennetta (3. v. l.) as Meggie Folchart in the movie “ink heart”
Pads-Superstar
“Ink heart” is bursting with imagination and ideas. But Cornelia Funke brings in your exciting youth novel, a fantasy rich literary life that beats in all the Fairy tales bridges to the reality of his young readers.
Meggie must find between everyday reality and the fantasy world your way, is on the threshold from girl to young woman, her first love. How to deal with its fear, maybe its hate, if something Bad met? All of the topics with which young people propose today.
Cornelia Funke’s novel “inkheart” as his two successors in the world many millions of Fans. The bestselling author has lived since 2005 in the state of California, many of US readers think that this is an American writer. Your soon to be fifty books have been translated into 37 languages and in more than 26 million copies sold. It is no longer a German, but a world author. From the Time magazine in 2005, she was inducted into the ranks of the 100 most influential people in the world.
The world of “ink heart”, illustrated by Cornelia Funke
The imagination celebration
Funke has often been with J. K. Rowling compared. What connects the two editions of Superstars, it is their social commitment. The Similarity of their works is equally unmistakable: they are a great Celebration of the adventurous imagination, and the enchanting Fairy-tale.
Cornelia Funke: “Inkheart” (2003), Dressler Verlag (Hardcover), Oetinger Verlag (Paperback)
Cornelia Funke was born 1958 in Dorsten, Westphalia. She studied in Hamburg, first pedagogy, then she was at the University of applied Sciences for design for Illustrator training. Your children – and youth books and illustrates them herself. In 2005, she moved with her husband and two children to Los Angeles.
Since 2017, the author lives in Santa Monica. She is committed to social and environmental policy and is 2018 Ambassador of the German-American of the year. To be able to be politically effective position, would like to let you in the US, naturalized. A continuation of the “ink heart”, under the working title: “The color of revenge” planned by Cornelia Funke already.
Click here to read an Interview with the author.