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Rathausgasse 18
CH-3011 Bern
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DER BRITISCHE SCHRIFTSTELLER RICHARD ADAMS IST GESTORBEN

DER BRITISCHE SCHRIFTSTELLER RICHARD ADAMS IST GESTORBEN

28.12.2016 Der am 9. Mai 1920 in Newbury geborene britische Schriftsteller Richard Adams (Bild) ist am 24. Dezember 2016 gestorben. Sein im Jahr 1972 erschienener Roman "Unten am Fluss" war ein weltweiter Bestseller.


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Watership Down, a children's classic about a group of rabbits in search of a new home after their warren was destroyed, was first published in 1972. Adams was 52 when he wrote it, after first telling the story to his two daughters on a long car journey.

It went on to become a best-seller, with tens of millions of copies bought around the world.

Watership Down was made into a film version in 1978 and enjoyed huge success, but was notoriously frightening for young children, with its graphic, apocalyptic scenes of impending doom.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38446309

Despite being published as an adult book, Watership Down won the two most distinguished children's book prizes, the Carnegie medal and the Guardian children's book prize, and sold more than 100,000 copies in Britain in its first year of publication. Unlike some such instant successes, Watership Down was not just a book of its time; it is now firmly established as a classic and has sold more than 50m copies worldwide.

Julia Eccleshare

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/27/richard-adams-obituary

Mr. Adams was a stout, ruddy-faced man with a big chin and a flying shock of silver hair that complemented his Harris tweeds and country life. He wrote longhand with a pen or pencil, producing 1,000 words a day. Before each session, he read aloud from Milton's "Paradise Lost," Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" or C. K. Scott Moncrieff's translation of Proust.

Robert D. McFadden

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/27/arts/richard-adams-author-of-watership-down-dies-at-96.html?_r=1

Mit seinem Ideenroman "Unten am Fluß" schrieb der Brite das pelzige Evangelium der beginnenden Umweltbewegung

Bis heute wurden mehr als fünfzig Millionen Exemplare verkauft; der Zeichentrickfilm von 1978, der dem Kindergemüt die grausamen Metzeleien nicht ersparte, half nicht wenig mit. In weiteren Büchern brachte Adams noch andere Tiere zum Sprechen, doch keines war so erfolgreich wie das vom Aufstand der Nager gegen Diktatur und Zerstörung. An Heiligabend wurde Richard Adams 96jährig in die ewigen Feld-, Wald- und Wiesengründe im Hasenhimmel entrückt.

Willi Winkler

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/zum-tod-von-richard-adams-der-autor-richard-adams-ist-tot-1.3312351

Video:

Watership Down (1978) Official Trailer - John Hurt Movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S26LA8Bk14

Mehr:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0011293/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Adams

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