Heligolandic ( Halunder ) is the dialect of the North Frisian language spoken on the German island of Heligoland in the North Sea . It is spoken today by some 500 of the island's 1,650 inhabitants and is also taught in schools. Heligolandic is closely related to the insular North Frisian dialects of Fering and Öömrang because medieval fishery around Heligoland attracted Frisians from Föhr and Amrum , and close contacts have been maintained ever since. In fact Fering and Öömrang are closer in linguistic aspects to the dialect of Heligoland than to that of their neighbouring island Sylt, Söl'ring . Heligolandic also contains a variety of loanwords from 19th-century Modern English due to the 83-year British control of the island .
19-650: James Krüss is probably the most notable author of poems and narrations in Heligolandic while Maria Leitgeber (1906–1979) wrote the most substantial prose. On 24 December 2004, a state law became effective in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein that recognises the North Frisian language for official use in the Nordfriesland district and on Heligoland. This article about Germanic languages
38-686: A teacher , first in Lunden until 1943, Schleswig-Holstein , then in Ratzeburg until 1944, then finally in Brunswick . In 1944, he volunteered to serve in the air force and was stationed in Ústí nad Labem , now in the Czech Republic , at the end of World War II. From 1945 on he lived with his parents in Cuxhaven . In 1946, he published his first book, Der goldene Faden and then visited
57-412: A bet to get his laugh back. The most prominent story change is the journey of Timm, which in the novel takes four years but was reduced to several weeks in the screenplay so that a single actor could play the role of Timm. The screenplay also differed in that one of the themes in the novel, the criticism of social mores and capitalism is no longer a prominent element of the story. By portraying several of
76-556: A children's writer he received the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1968. Krüss was born as the son of the electrician Ludwig Krüss and his wife Margaretha Krüss (born Friedrichs) in Heligoland . In 1941, during World War II , the inhabitants of the island were evacuated to Arnstadt , Thuringia , later to Hertigswalde, near Sebnitz , Saxony . After finishing high school in 1943, he studied to become
95-646: A reading of My Great Grandfather and I (which won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1960) in the Tagesschau in 1960, he suddenly became very famous. In the same year he bought a house with a garden in Gilching , Bavaria . In 1962, his arguably most famous book Timm Thaler was published. It would later be adapted into a TV miniseries in 1979 directed by Sigi Rothemund , which was also known as The Boy Who Lost His Laugh in
114-405: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Germany -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . James Kr%C3%BCss James Krüss (31 May 1926 – 2 August 1997) was a German writer of children's and picture books , illustrator, poet, dramatist, scriptwriter, translator, and collector of children's poems and folk songs. For his contribution as
133-625: Is a 1979 children's television miniseries based on the 1962 children's novel by German writer James Krüss . The series originally aired in Germany as the first Christmas series on German national broadcaster ZDF . In 1983, the series was acquired for transmission in the United Kingdom by the BBC. The English version was produced by Angela Beeching, with script by Nel Romano, and retitled The Legend of Tim Tyler . It aired during Children's BBC in
152-548: Is thus very popular. The mysterious Baron (in the novel his last name Lefuet is a German ananym for devil, like "lived" is in English), a grumpy and very wealthy businessman always wearing a black carnation in his buttonhole, tries unsuccessfully to buy Timm's laugh. Timm's father is a flight instructor and dies during a flight for the Baron. It is indicated that this is caused by the Baron. Timm, after having lost his beloved father,
171-469: Is vulnerable to the Baron. To financially support his stepmother, Timm no longer resists the Baron and swaps his laugh for the ability to win any bet he makes, no matter how absurd it is. If one of them tells about this pact, he loses his rights from the contract. The Baron and his servant Anatol use this new gift for business success. Timm however grows increasingly unhappy. He decides to get his laugh back. He tries several tricks only to realize that it takes
190-625: The United Kingdom . In 1965, he bought a house in Gran Canaria and settled there a year later. At the end of his life, Krüss had heart problems and spent a lot of time in clinics. In 1968 Krüss received the Hans Christian Andersen Award conferred by the International Board on Books for Young People , the highest recognition available to a writer or illustrator of children's books. He died in 1997 in Gran Canaria and
209-646: The Heroes, and I (1967), and The Lighthouse on the Lobster Cliffs (1956). Krüss was the best known and most prolific children's author in what was for nearly all his writing life the Federal Republic of Germany . Inheriting a post-war literary desert, created by the Nazi Party 's discouragement of creative writing for children in favour of a hoped-for return to true Germanic folk poetry, Krüss
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#1732772485624228-401: The children's book The Lighthouse on Lobster Cliffs with the publishing house Friedrich Oetinger . He also travelled to Italy and Yugoslavia . The subsequently well-known picture book Henriette , whose eponymous protagonist is an anthropomorphized steam locomotive -hauled train , and which started a small series of similar, related picture books, was first published in 1958. After
247-615: The college of education in Lüneburg , Lower Saxony . In 1948, he received his teaching license, but never worked as a teacher. In the same year, he moved to Reinbek , near Hamburg , and founded the magazine Helgoland , which was meant for inhabitants of the island, who had been expelled from it; it existed until 1956. In 1949, he moved to Lochham , near Munich , where he got to know the author Erich Kästner , among others. From 1956, he wrote audio dramas for children and children's poems together with Peter Hacks . In 1956, Krüss published
266-563: The helmsman, Jonny. Also, Several new characters were introduced both on the protagonist's and the antagonist's sides. One of the central filming locations was the Mirador del Río , as well as the artificial pool of the Jameos del Agua, in Lanzarote , both designed by Cesar Manrique . These were used as the setting for the Baron's futuristic mountain lair. Additional Lanzarote locations were
285-419: The protagonists as Catholic clerics, the narrative was instead imbued with a pseudo-religious tint. Timm's bullying stepbrother is missing in the series, and his stepmother is depicted in a positive way, which is a stark contrast to her character in the novel. In the book, Timm's father is not a sports airplane pilot, thus, Timm originally meets the Baron, not at a family celebration at the local airport, but at
304-401: The racetrack, a place he associates with his father who died in a building site accident when Timm was eleven. The demonic but polite and urbane Signor Grandizzi from Genoa was replaced in the series by the dark servant Anatol. Several other characters are also changed or "exchanged" in the series, including the nun, Sister Agatha instead of Kreschimir and the ship's cook, Heinrich instead of
323-453: The weekday afternoons. The screenplay was written by Justus Pfaue and Peter M. Thouet and differs somewhat from the original novel. Directed by Sigi Rothemund , the series became a hit in Germany and made then 14-year-old Thomas Ohrner , in the lead role of Timm Thaler (Tim Tyler), a popular teen idol of the era. The role of the Baron was played by Horst Frank . Thirteen-year-old Timm Thaler (aka: Tim Tyler) has an irresistible laugh and
342-577: Was buried at sea on 27 September near Helgoland . Krüss was first and foremost a storyteller, whose fantastic and whimsical tales are deeply rooted in folktale and oral storytelling tradition. Many of his books are actually collections of tales held together by a frame story. Such is the case with My Great Grandfather and I (1959), for which he received the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Prize for Children's and Youth Literature), with its sequel My Great Grandfather,
361-665: Was a hugely important figure in the re-establishment of the freedom of imaginative story-telling. His first children's book, The Lighthouse on Lobster Island (1956), was based on his own experience of growing up in Heligoland, and was followed by My Great-Grandfather and I (1959), a continuation in the same genre. The James Krüss Award for International Children's and Youth Literature was established in his memory. The following people have received awards: Timm Thaler (1979 TV miniseries) Timm Thaler (also known as The Legend of Tim Tyler: The Boy Who Lost His Laugh )
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