Misplaced Pages

Revision as of 04:55, 1 July 2014

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (June 2011) Click for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the German article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Misplaced Pages. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 2,226 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Misplaced Pages article at ]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Peterchens Mondfahrt}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Misplaced Pages:Translation.

Peter and Anneli's Journey to the Moon (Peterchens Mondfahrt) is a German-language fairy tale written by Gerdt von Bassewitz.

It was first performed as a play in Leipzig in 1912 and appeared in 1915 as narrative for children with illustrations by Hans Baluschek.

In 2007 it was translated into English by Marianne H. Luedeking and was published by Bell Pond Books, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, ISBN 978-0-88010-584-2.

Summary

Following the Night Fairy's curse-lifting instructions, Mr. Zoomzeman, a June bug, finds two virtuous children to accompany him on a fantastical journey to the moon to recover his missing leg.

Content

'Peter and Anneli's Journey to the Moon' is a German children's tale of imaginative fantasy and adventure tells the story of how Little Peter and Anneli help Mr. Zoomzeman, a June Bug, bring his leg back from the Moon. Long ago, a thief, stealing wood in the forest, has accidentally cut off Mr. Zoomzeman’s great-great grandfather’s leg and was banished to the Moon. Unfortunately, he took the leg with him and, since then, the family of the Zoomzeman in search of goodness finds Peter and Anneli.

The three then set off together on an astonishing journey, filled with marvelous encounters, fantastic beings, and exciting events. Finally, reaching the Moon, they must challenge the ferocious Moon Man and, with the help of the Nature Forces, they restore the missing leg to Mr. Zoomzeman.

Background

In the year 2010 in Germany was published a biography about Otto Klemperer by Eva Weissweiler. Here is written the information, that Peter and Anneli have been the children of Oskar Kohnstamm and the grandchildren of Johannes Gad. Peter Kohnstamm (1908–1995) was the father of Angus Konstam.

• Night, from Journey to the Moon, 1919
• An illustration from from Journey to the Moon, 1919
• Palace of the Night Fairy, from Journey to the Moon, 1919
• Starry Meadow, from Journey to the Moon, 1919

• Fairy tales
• German literature
• German children's literature
• 1912 plays