If you do not understand why the fairy tale is called "The Bremen Town Musicians", then read our article and you will find useful information.
Why is the fairy tale called "The Bremen Town Musicians"? The main characters were heading to the city of Bremen, which was the city of dreams that everyone was so eager to get into.
This is a fairy tale about four musicians who embodied the common image of the German people. "The Bremen Town Musicians" - music that never made it to such a coveted city and did not become famous city performers.
Bremen is the cultural center of the region, where all the dreams of a better life come true, so the animal musicians tried to get to the city. The image of animals is symbolic, which depicts the dream and desire of the people for a better bright life.
There is a legend that European musicians, who were called "klezmer", became the basis of the fairy tale. Krazmer - European folk street musicians; performed at weddings, festivities, fairs. The leading instruments were violin, cymbals, double bass, trumpet, clarinet, drum, etc.
The main characters of the fairy tale "The Bremen town musicians": a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster, there were four of them, and the classical klezmer chapel consisted of 4 musicians playing the violin, clarinet, fifioli and drum with cymbals.
"The Bremen Town Musicians" - a fairy tale story of the writers of the Brothers Grimm. The Soviet musical cartoon of 1969, created in the technique of drawing, also has the same name, the composer of which was Gennady Gladkov. The main characters of the fairy tale "The Bremen Town Musicians" - Donkey, Cat, Dog, Rooster - are domestic animals that left their farms because of their uselessness and cruel treatment by their owners, who are heading towards the city of Bremen to earn money there with musical performances, but so they don't get there.
In the Soviet animated film "The Bremen Town Musicians" there are a few more main characters. Together with the four described above, the Troubadour travels - an elegant and slender blond, the soloist of this wandering ensemble, who, during an unsuccessful performance near the royal castle, falls in love with the Princess. In the list of heroes of the "Bremen Town Musicians" there are also robbers led by Atamansha. These characters are the antagonists of the main characters. The cartoon "The Bremen Town Musicians" today can be called one of the most popular animated films in the countries of the post-Soviet space.
The heroes of The Bremen Town Musicians one day come across a house where the robbers are resting after another robbery campaign. The friends decide to scare the bandits with noise. The idea works - the robbers, having heard strange and frightening sounds that are heard outside the window, leave their home in fear. A little later, the bandits decide to send their scout there. The messenger enters the house at night. Moments after that, an arrow flies out of there - scratched, bitten and scared to the point of madness.
Here is what the unfortunate hero of The Bremen Town Musicians told his comrades - a poor fellow who did not fully understand what really happened to him that night in the house:
After hearing this terrible story, the frightened bandits decided to leave their haven and never return there. Thus, the heroes of the Bremen Town Musicians - Donkey, Rooster, Cat and Dog - took possession of all the wealth stolen and hidden in this dwelling by robbers.
One day, wandering artists perform in front of the royal castle. The performance is attended by the Princess. The protagonist of the cartoon "The Bremen Town Musicians" falls in love with her at first sight, and the young lady of royal blood reciprocates. However, the king kicks the musicians out after they perform one of their numbers unsuccessfully, so that the minstrel is temporarily deprived of the opportunity to see his beloved.
In the next key scene, the heroes discover the bandits' house. Having overheard the conversation of the robbers, the friends learn that the Atamansha and her three assistants want to rob the royal cortege. A little later, friends drive the bandits out of the hut, and change into their clothes themselves and then kidnap the King, who is tied to a tree and left in the forest near the bandits' hut.
Soon, the kidnapped King hears someone nearby singing a song about unrequited love. The king begins to call for help, and soon, to his delight, the Troubadour appears. The minstrel rushes to the hut, where he and his friends create a noise of struggle and mayhem, after which he emerges from there as a winner and frees the King, who, in gratitude for his salvation, takes him to his daughter. After that, a festival begins in the castle, at which there was no place for Troubadour's friends. The donkey, rooster, dog and cat leave the palace grounds at dawn in a sad mood. However, the Troubadour was not going to leave his comrades and, together with his chosen one, soon joins them. The company of musicians goes to new adventures already in an expanded composition.
The troubadour was initially conceived as a buffoon and had to wear a cap on his head, but the creator of the cartoon, Inessa Kovalevskaya, rejected this version of the hero’s appearance, proposed by production designer Max Zherebchevsky. Once, in one of the foreign fashion magazines, she saw a boy dressed in tight jeans and cut his hair, like members of The Beatles, and decided that her character would look like him. The prototype of the Princess is the wife of one of the scriptwriters of this animated project, Yuri Entin, Marina. The heroine was rewarded with a funny hairstyle with tails sticking out in different directions, the assistant to the production designer Svetlana Skrebneva.
Forest bandits were copied from the heroes of Gaidai's comedy films - Coward, Experienced and Dunce, who were embodied on the screen by artists Georgy Vitsin, Evgeny Morgunov and Yuri Nikulin. The king was invented to look like the heroes of the actor Erast Garin, who at that time often played similar characters in various fairy tales, such as Cinderella, Half an hour for miracles. The prototype of the Atamansha is the wife of director Vyacheslav Kotenochkin, Tamara Vishneva, who at that time worked as a ballerina at the Operetta Theater. Oleg Anofriev, who voiced this heroine, tried to make his Atamansha speak in the manner of actress Faina Ranevskaya.
Initially, it was thought that different artists would perform the songs of the heroes of the Bremen Town Musicians, whose photos are posted here. The song of the Atamansha was offered to Zinovy Gerdt, the parts of the Donkey and the Dog were to be performed by Oleg Yankovsky and Yuri Nikulin, the Cat was to speak in the voice of Andrei Mironov, and the King was to speak in the voice of Georgy Vitsin. However, only Oleg Anofriev arrived at the Melodiya studio on the night of the recording, who appeared there only to say that due to illness he would not be able to sing his part. As a result, almost all the songs from the cartoon were performed by Oleg Anofriev, who could not only sing the part of the Princess, and she went to vocalist Elmira Zherzdeva, classmate of Gennady Gladkov. The donkey in this cartoon spoke in the voice of the poet Anatoly Gorokhov.
Hello, friends! Do you think the Bremen Town Musicians come from Bremen? And here it is not. Now I will explain everything.
* In general, this article should have been written a long time ago, yet it talks about one of the symbols of the famous German city, and I, as always, while I am swinging, let me mature =) Lots of photos at the end.
Do you remember the fairy tale? So I forgot it, so today, before I sat down to write the article, I re-read it. No, I will not retell all of it in detail, I will only remind you of the essence. And this must be done in order to understand who the Bremen Town Musicians (German: Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten) are, in general, why they are Bremen, and why they are depicted everywhere in this way: a pyramid (a donkey, a dog is on it, a cat is on it, and a rooster is on top ).
Summary
The main characters of this fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm are wandering musicians (who were not even musicians, in principle). All of them had to leave their homes due to conflicts with their owners. The donkey became too old and could no longer help at the mill, so the owner decided to get rid of him (so as not to feed for nothing). The same fate threatened the dog - they were going to shoot him. The hostess planned to drown the old cat, but they wanted to roast the rooster (or bake ... maybe cook) for the holiday.
Of course, the animals and the rooster were fundamentally disagree with such a fate and ran away from home. On the way they met. The idea to go to Bremen and become street musicians there was given to everyone by a donkey, the rest only supported. This was the beginning of the legendary quartet.
Since the path to Bremen was not close, our friends did not get there in one day. We needed a place to stay overnight. And in the forest they stumbled upon a hut of robbers. Perfect place to spend the night there. But, there was one “but” - in fact, the owners were in the hut.
Our savvy musicians figured out this problem once or twice - they just scared the robbers with their, um ... "music". The show was something else! The dog climbed on the back of the donkey, the cat climbed on top of the dog, well, and the rooster has already crowned this whole pyramid. And then they, with the whole quartet, boomed: the donkey roared, the dog barked, the cat yelled like a cat, well, and the rooster crowed.
The poor robbers did not understand what had happened. In the twilight they didn’t really see anything, and judging by the sounds, they were, in general, some kind of demon was going to attack. In short, they ran ahead of their own cry from this hut.
Well, our "musicians" occupied the reclaimed dwelling. And, moreover, they loved it there so much that they did not want to leave this place. And they did not go to Bremen, but remained to live in the forest, in a robber's hut.
But, despite the fact that these guys were not in the city, they nevertheless became one of its symbols.
Monument to the Bremen Town Musicians in Bremen
The most famous monument to the Bremen Town Musicians stands in Bremen (surprisingly, right? =)) on the Market Square, near the eastern wall of the town hall. And there are a lot of tourists there. In general, probably, everyone who has visited Bremen considers it his duty to bring a photo from there against the background of this sculpture. Therefore, people line up to be imprinted there.
The bronze monument was erected in 1951. Its author is the Berlin sculptor Gerhard Marx. Based on this sculpture, two more were created. One was staged in Riga in 1990, the second in Zülpiche (Germany). And they are completely different. The only thing they have in common is that they represent a composition in which the characters of the fairy tale are canonically arranged (on top of each other).
Legends and myths
Any popular sculpture is covered with some legends of its own. So here too. It is believed that the Bremen Town Musicians can grant wishes. To do this, you just need to rub the nose of the donkey or take hold of its front paws, and also rub it lightly (the photo shows how the tourists carefully polished these places =)).
* Just remember - you must hold on to both legs, not just one! Otherwise, the wish will not come true. And yet, they can say about you: “Look, one donkey greets another.” Such is it, local humor, do not be offended by it =)
And yet, the sewer manholes on the Market Square of the city “sing” with the voices of the Bremen Town Musicians. All you have to do is toss a coin. And if earlier there were few coins in the sewers, now there are more than enough people who want to hear the “singing” of the quartet, so city services have to “withdraw the proceeds” several times a day.
Bremen town musicians as a symbol of Bremen
Friends, the heroes of this famous German quartet are found everywhere in Bremen. Well, really, everywhere! On magnets, postcards, books, badges, billboards, shop windows, clothes, houses and even dishes. In short, you can meet this symbol in the most unexpected places. At home, for example, books with the Bremen Town Musicians are multiplying =)
They are portrayed in different ways: somewhere more canonically, somewhere less, somewhere ironically, and somewhere completely ... abstract (but, nevertheless, recognizable). I have put together such a rather big gallery for you, where everything is shown. I will bring it out at the end of the article so that it does not interfere here.
And yet, I noticed a slight relationship between the Bremen Town Musicians and the Tula mother-in-law. What one, what the other can sometimes be seen in an unexpected way, for example, in a New Year's cap or raincoat. Sweetheart, and only =)
Well, on this positive note, I'll say goodbye to you. All the best! Read fairy tales, travel more and smile! See you.
The main characters of the tale - a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster, offended by their owners, go to the city of Bremen to become city musicians.
Only they could not reach Bremen in one day and decided to spend the night in the forest. The donkey and the dog lay down to sleep under a large tree, the cat settled on the branches, and the rooster flew up to the very top of the tree - it seemed to him the safest there.
Stopping on the way in the forest, they discover a robber's hut. The Bremen town musicians climb on top of each other and perform their "music" (the donkey roared, the dog barked, the cat meowed, the rooster sang). The robbers run away in fear.
Each of the Bremen Town Musicians goes to bed according to his own taste and habits: the donkey lies down in the yard, on a pile of rubbish, the dog behind the door, the cat on the hearth, and the rooster sits on the roof of the robber's hut.
Another sculpture stands in the city of Krasnoyarsk; figures of singing musicians, equipped in the form of a fountain, depict the heroes of an animated Soviet film. Also, monuments to fairy-tale heroes are located in Sochi and Lipetsk.
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The Bremen Town Musicians is one of those stories that each of us learned in childhood. The tale of the Brothers Grimm, which is based on folk motifs, was loved by many and won the hearts of millions of children and adults around the world. Therefore, it is not surprising that they decided to immortalize their favorite heroes and erect a monument to them. Where is actually he is not alone. There are many more such monuments. But it's better to start over.
Indeed, where else would the first monument of a world-famous fairy tale be located? Of course, in Bremen, a small town in Northern Germany. It was here that they were sent in the hope of becoming real musicians. The symbol of the city in the form of a monument was established in 1951. The place was chosen very well - the very center of the city, near the western wall of the city hall.
The creator, Gerhard Marx, immortalized the moment from the fairy tale when the characters climbed on top of each other and looked out the window of the robber's house. A donkey stands at the base, a dog climbed on it, a cat climbed on top, on which a rooster fit. The locals are very fond of this sculpture and are proud of it. Thousands of tourists come to the city where the monument to the heroes of the Bremen Town Musicians is located.
One of the legends says that if you rub the nose or hooves of a donkey, it will come true, therefore these parts of the donkey sculpture are especially polished. And there is also a version that the higher the nose that you rub, the more likely it is that the wish will come true, or the more wishes you can make.
And in 2007, they decided to add a new zest to the monument, there is now some similarity near the bronze monument. If you insert a coin into a special hole on it, you can hear the voices of “musicians” from under the ground: a donkey, a dog, a cat or a rooster. The initiative to create such a musical hatch came from one of the charitable organizations. The hatch itself is guarded so that every penny of the money will definitely go to charity, and not fall into the hands of thieves.
The next place where the monument to the Bremen Town Musicians is located is the sister city of Bremen. This is Riga. This creation was created by a sculptor named Krist Baumgartl in 1990. In the same year, Bremen solemnly handed it over to its sister city. The monument itself is made in the same pyramidal form as the one in Germany: a donkey from below, a dog is on it, then there is a cat, and a rooster sits at the very top. However, there is also a distinctive detail that symbolizes the exit from behind the Iron Curtain and the end of the Cold War, a kind of political overtones.
The place where the monument to the heroes of the fairy tale "The Bremen Town Musicians" is located is located in the Old Town, near the Church of St. Peter and very close to Skarnu Street. This sculpture has exactly the same legend associated with noses, so all animals have their noses polished to a shine, even the rooster that sits above all. Although it is difficult to reach him, but he will help to fulfill the most cherished desire. As in the case of the Bremen sculpture, many tourists from all over the world also come to see the Riga sculpture.
These are perhaps the most popular monuments to the Bremen town musicians in Europe, but they are far from the only ones. Another version of such a pyramid is located in the German city of Zulpiche. Other cities in Germany where the monument to the fairy tale "The Bremen Town Musicians" is located are Erfurt, Fürth and Leipzig. There are a variety of compositions. Even a sculpture dedicated to the heroes of a fairy tale in the land of the rising sun, Japan, was noticed. Indeed, the fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm is known and loved all over the world.
The fairy tale has been filmed many times around the world in the form of films, cartoons, theatrical productions and musicals. In 1969, a Soviet musical cartoon based on the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm "The Bremen Town Musicians" was released. The audience fell in love with him so much that in 1973 the sequel “In the Footsteps of the Bremen Town Musicians” was released. Unlike the original fairy tale, the main character of the Soviet animated film was the Troubadour, of course, with inseparable friends: a donkey, a cat, a dog and a rooster. This musical production really became a cult in the Soviet Union, and then in the entire post-Soviet space, far from one generation of children grew up on it.
In Russia, monuments were created specifically to Soviet cartoon characters. In 2006, local sculptor Andrey Tkachuk presented his native Krasnoyarsk with an amazing creation that adorns the square near the May 1 Palace of Culture. The four-meter sculpture depicts a pensive Troubadour and his true friends, and next to it is a fountain made in the form of a bridge, which complements the composition and personifies the path to creativity and art.
A distinctive feature of this masterpiece is the soundtrack: every day in the morning, afternoon and evening, a rooster cries and plays an excerpt from a cartoon song. However, Krasnoyarsk is not the only city in Russia where the monument to the Bremen Town Musicians is located. Original chamber sculptures by the author Hakob Khalafyan are located in Lipetsk and Sochi. But Khabarovsk in 2009 also became the city where the monument to the Bremen Town Musicians is located, or rather, not a simple monument, but a whole gallery of sculptures of the heroes of the Soviet animated film. In addition to the main characters in the face of a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster, there is a Troubadour with a Princess, and an Atamansha with robbers, and a King with a Detective.
