Is Heidi Not Swiss After All?
Peter Buettner, a 30-year-old PhD candidate at the University of Zurich, has told Japan’s Kyodo News that he’s discovered convincing evidence that Swiss author Johanna Spyri’s beloved 1880 novel Heidi’s Years of Wandering and Learning may actually be “inspired” by a little known German novel by Hermann Adam von Kamp published 50 years earlier, in 1830. von Kamp’s Adelheid, a Girl From the Alps has similarities, “too strong to be pure coincidence,” asserts Buettner. However, Buettner, along with the Swiss media, recognize, “It is nothing unusual for people to copy stories. A lot of authors did this, just think of Shakespeare, Goethe and so on.”
Heidi of the Alps was adapted into a 52 episode anime television series in 1974. Isao Takahata directed the series. Hayao Miyazaki provided layout and animated most of the show’s opening animation. The series remains very popular and beloved in Japan.
Source: Breitbart
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SKINNER
Well, maybe it was for the best. Now I…I finally have time to do the thing I’ve always wanted…write the great American novel. Mine is about a furturistic theme park where dinosaurs are bought to live by advanced cloning techniques. I call it “Billy and the Clone-O-Saurus”
*Apu has been listening to this, and he is not impressed. If anything, he is rather angry*
APU
Oh, you have “got” to be kidding me sir. First, you think of an idea that has already been done, and then you give it a title no one could possibly like. Didn’t you even think this through…
*LATER*
…was on the best-seller list for eighteen months! Every magazine cover had…
*LATER STILL*
…most popular movies of all time sir! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?! (Sees Skinner upset, and realises) I mean “thank you, come again”.