Artist's book, Kunstverein Heilbronn, edited by Matthia Löbke
Format 26 x 17 cm, linen with embossed title and spine, three coloured ribbon markers, loosely inserted
100 signed copies for the trade
29,80 €
The way in which the stories of a certain Mr Duck from Duckburg have spread around the world can certainly be considered an international phenomenon. Today it seems indisputable, and this is confirmed by Andreas Platthaus' informative blog on FAZnet on 8 April 2010, that the nephews of this ingenious character in the comic series owe their names to the German translator Erika Fuchs. It was she who in 1951 rejected the idea of adopting the Danish piggy bank names Rip, Rap and Rup - as is the case in Iceland, where our nephews are called Ripp, Rapp and Rupp - as names for the youngest members of the Duck family. According to Andreas Platthaus, Erika Fuchs stuck to the truth, to Tick, Trick and Track, because, Platthaus continues, "after all, the German magazines have leased the truth". Perhaps this is also a characteristic of internationalism: Germans are always right. But there is also another world, or rather many other worlds, and Sarah Ortmeyer makes this simple truth clear in a very humorous way in her ingenious book; a small selection: Knatte, Fnatte, Tjatte (Sweden), Kwik, Kwek, Kwak (Netherlands), Bulik, Dulik, Kulik (Czech Republic).
Exhibition:
Kunstverein Heilbronn, 27/3-30/5/2010
