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German novel

Lottie and Lisa
One of earliest German editions, c. 1949
Author	Erich Kästner
Original title	Das doppelte Lottchen
Translator	Cyrus Brooks^[1]
Illustrator	Illustrated by Walter Trier
Country	Germany
Genre	Children's novel
Publication date	1949

Lottie and Lisa (original German title: Das doppelte Lottchen, "The Double Lottie") is a 1949 German novel by Erich Kästner, about twin girls separated at birth who meet at summer camp.

The book originally started out during World War II as an aborted movie scenario. In 1942, when for a brief time Kästner was allowed by the Nazi authorities to work as a screenwriter, he proposed it to Josef von Báky, under the title The Great Secret, but the Nazis once again forbade him to work.

After the war, Kästner worked the idea into the highly successful book. Subsequently, it has been adapted into film many times, most notably Disney's 1961 movie The Parent Trap starring Hayley Mills, the subsequent film series, and their various translations.

Plot summary [edit]

Two nine-year-old girls, bold Lisa Palfy (orig. Luise Palffy) from Vienna and shy Lottie Horn (orig. Lotte Körner) from Munich meet in a summer camp in Bohrlaken on Lake Bohren (orig. 'Seebühl am Bühlsee'), where they discover that they are identical twins whose parents divorced, each keeping one of the girls.

The girls decide to trade places at the end of the summer so that Lottie will have a chance to get to know her father and Lisa will get to meet her mother. While many adults are surprised at the changes in each of the girls after they return from camp ("Lottie" has apparently forgotten how to cook, gets in a fight at school, and becomes a terrible student, while "Lisa" has begun to keep a close eye on the housekeeper's bookkeeping, will no longer eat her favorite food, and becomes a model student), no one suspects that the girls are not who they claim to be.

When Lottie (under the name of Lisa) finds that her father is planning to remarry, she becomes very ill and stops writing to her sister in Munich. Meanwhile, Lottie's mother comes across a picture of the two girls at summer camp, and Lisa tells her the entire story. The girls' mother calls her former husband in Vienna to tell him what has happened and to find out why Lottie has stopped writing. When she hears that her daughter is ill, she and Lisa immediately travel to Vienna. At the daughters' request, the parents are reunited.

Adaptations [edit]

1950: Two Times Lotte (West Germany)
1951: Hilbari's Lullaby, (Japanese: ひばりの子守唄, romanized: Hibari no komoriuta) with Hibari Misora (Japan)
1953: Twice Upon a Time (United Kingdom)
1961: The Parent Trap with Hayley Mills (United States)
1965: Kuzhandaiyum Deivamum in Tamil (India)
1966: Letha Manasulu in Telugu (India)
1968: Do Kaliyaan in Hindi (India)
1980: Mischievous Angels (Korean: 개구장이 천사들, romanized: Gaegujangi Cheonsadeul, Korea)
1987: Pyaar ke kabil" in Hindi (India)
1991: I and Myself: The Two Lottes (Japanese: わたしとわたしふたりのロッテ, romanized: Watashi to Watashi: Futari no Lotte, Japanese animated TV series)
1994: Charlie & Louise (Germany)
1994: Dvynukės (Lithuania)
1995: It Takes Two with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
1995: Strange Sisters, (Persian: خواهران غریب‎, romanized: khaharan-e gharib) with Khosrow Shakibai (Iran)
1998: The Parent Trap with Lindsay Lohan (United States)
1998: Minty (TV series), a 13-episode Australian-British comedy television series
1999: Mania czy Ania in Polish (Poland)
2001: Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi in Hindi (India)
2002: Cómplices Al Rescate for TV (Mexico)
2003: Tur & Retur (Sweden)
2007: Das doppelte Lottchen in animation form (Germany)
2010: אורה הכפולה a stage play in Hebrew (Israel)
2015: Cúmplices de um Resgate for TV (Brazil)
2017: Das doppelte Lottchen for TV (Germany)
2021: Identical, an upcoming British stage musical

References [edit]

^ "Cyrus Brooks". New York Review Books. Archived from the original on 13 October 2016. Retrieved 24 February 2019.

English editions [edit]

Kästner, Erich; Walter Trier (Illustrator) (February 1, 1962). Lottie and Lisa. Translated by Cyrus Brooks (English ed.). Puffin Books. ISBN0-14-030167-4.
Kästner, Erich; Victoria de Larrea (Illustrator) (1969). Lisa and Lottie . Translated by Cyrus Brooks (English ed.). New York: Knopf. OCLC 353477.
Kästner, Erich; Walter Trier (Illustrator) (November 6, 2014). The Parent Trap. Translated by Anthea Bell (English ed.). Pushkin Press. ISBN978-1-78-269055-9.
Kästner, Erich (March 31, 2015). Lisa and Lottie. Translated by Cyrus Brooks (English ed.). Lizzie Skurnick Books. ISBN978-1-93-960133-9.