Multicultural Harry Potter

[meckelburg at foni.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 17192

Hi,
I am German, so I won't participate in your "what is it"? 
I only noticed the HP- series, when I heard everything about the 
hysteria in Britain when GoF came out there. Then there was a report 
on TV saying many adults read the books and I read bokks 1-3 in only 
ONE WEEK !! That was 3 weeks before "der Feuerkelch"(GoF) came out in 
German, so I bought the Eglish version, because I didn't want to wait 
that long.
I had enjoyed the german books, but they really are more children's 
books than I had expected. With GoF in English I realised why adults 
really get obsessed with them.
JKR's books can be read in about 30 languages I think, but 
translations are always a compromise, and should be awoided if 
possible! 
(The german books have, as I posted before, some mistakes, that may 
turn out to be really important )

Mecki
(glad the English-version of OoP will come out months before the 
translation :-) )
--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Starling" <starling823 at y...> wrote:
> I was in Austria last semester, and read all the books in German 
while I was there.  The german translation of GoF (Harry Potter und 
der Feuerkelch) came out in October to almost as much hoopla as over 
here -- every bookstore (esp. Libro, which has posters *everywhere*) 
was decked out  with stuff and the kids all showed up in cute little 
costumes and fake scars and got their pictures in the paper.  It was a 
funny feeling, seeing everything a second time around, with all the 
same trappings, just a different language.  I enjoyed it.
> What I found especially interesting was how many personal names were 
left alone.  The only name that was changed was Hermione, for which 
"Hermine" is used -- oddly enough, the French form of the name.  So 
how come the French edition I saw had "Hermione?" <g>.  Just 
wondering.
> 
> Just for fun, let's see who figures out what bit (from der Stein der 
Weisen <g>) this is:
> "Dann mach Feuer!"  ächzte Harry.
> "Ja -- natürlich -- aber hier gibt es kein Holz!" schrie Hermine 
händeringend.
> "BIST DU VERRÜCKT GEWORDEN?" brüllt Ron.  "BIST DU NUN EINE HEXE 
ODER NICHT?"
> 10 points for your house if you get it.  
> 
> Abbie, who loves anything in German, even if the translation isn't 
the best.  
> starling823 at y...
> 69% obsessed with HP and loving it
> "Ah, music," Dumbledore said, wiping his eyes.  "A magic beyond all 
we do here!"
>           -HP and the Sorcerer's Stone
> 
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: rinoa_gmm at h... 
>   To: HPforGrownups at y... 
>   Sent: Friday, 20 April, 2001 12:51 AM
>   Subject: [HPforGrownups] Multicultural Harry Potter
> 
> 
>   The Harry Potter phenomena has reached an all time high; and not 
just 
>   in the english speaking world. The HP books heve also been 
translated 
>   in French and Spanish (as far as I know). I live in Puerto Rico 
and 
>   over here, all four books can be found in english and at least the 
>   first two in Spanish and French. Personally I prefer to read the 
>   books in english; even though spanish is my main language. It's 
>   amazing how JK Rowling has managed to reach so many people with 
her 
>   books even through the language barrier.
>   Karumi 
> 
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