Peter Rühmkorf: Auf Wiedersehen in Kenilworth. Ein Märchen in dreizehn Kapiteln

A fairy tale in 13 chapters. Cover design and chapter headings and drawings by Albert Schindehütte - Original edition, illustrated paperback, art paper, 140 pp. Frankfurt/Main, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1980.

"Many many years ago... as befits a proper fairy tale, Peter Rühmkorf's story of realization begins in a castle ruin that is over a thousand years old. We are introduced to the castle's caretaker Jam McDamn and his cat Minnie, who goes by the name of Ginger because of her ginger-red fur, as the permanent inhabitants of this unusual place.

However, the castellan is not only a foolish cat lover, but also a wondrous ghost seer, and the more ghost stories he concocts, the deeper he falls under the spell of the ghost of Kenilworth, who awaits his resurrection in the lowest vaults.

In the end, all it takes is one particularly dark midnight and one wrong word in this great place to make the miracle come true and the magic real. The castellan is transformed into a tomcat, the cat is changed into an amber-haired girl, and both newborn beings are transported to two different corners of the world: one to Italy, the other to India. "Goodbye is a resurrection in Kenilworth" are the last words they remember of their old existence, and they accompany the tale of finding a home like a secret melody.

How the two dissimilar creatures find their way in their new world and the convoluted paths they take to get back together in the end must, of course, remain a secret of our fairy tale. And whether the fairytale cat or the cat girl might not gradually get used to their new roles and whether it might not be difficult to find their way back to themselves from time to time. Seen in this light, spectacular events and the most fantastic entanglements could ultimately lead to completely different confusions: mysterious mental realms where wishes and curses have a common magical root."

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