Turn right at the second star. How Peter Pan floated into the Disney universe.

In 1913, two piggy banks were slaughtered in the small town of Marceline in Missouri, USA. They belonged to Walt Disney, who was 12 at the time, and his older brother Roy, who spent their savings on tickets. A touring theater had brought Peter Pan to the Midwest.

Kunstwerk "Verweile doch" vor dem Deutschen Theater

"Nobody identified with the role more than I did," wrote Disney later, who played Peter Pan in a school performance a short time later - and finally, in 1953, immortalized him in the famous animated film.

This lecture delves into the early visual and media history of James Barrie's truly ageless invention, which was so formative not only for Walt Disney.

This includes the artistic illustrations that Arthur Rackham created for this Victorian painter in the first book edition, visionary stage tricks, the break with gender roles by the first female actresses and the impressive silent film version that Herbert Brenon created in 1924.

Disney’s influence in turn had an impact on Steven Spielberg, who readily admitted to his own “Peter panic” – the fear of ever growing old.

(PROGRAM IN GERMAN)

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