Zwirbel's 6th Birthday
In spring, just a
little bit before my 6th birthday, I’ve travelled into the Black Forest and I’ve found some new friends. And I’ve
brought you a present: a little history.
Zwirbel and the Daisies
In nature nothing comes by chance,everything comes from the highest;
So never reprove in the ignorance
what does not have been recognized.
What you crush as an enemy
sometimes will be your very best friend.
(poem from 1912)
For children between 3 and 7 years.
It’s a very strange history:
the little cow Zwirbel
will be the ambassador of the daisies. Never in her life had she thought that she would travel to the Black Forest to
be in charge of such a great and important mission.The Black Forest possesses what the entire and the animals need for their life. Fertile bottom, nice smelling forests and blossoming meadows. But it’s exactly in this unhurt and dreamy world that the cunning Pesti has penetrated to have the fling and to become rich in the expenses of the nature. The winter has just departed and the first daisies pull their heads joyfully to the warming sun of spring. when Pesti distributes flyers in the Black Forest and recommends pesticides against weeds and vermins. He thinks that he will be rich in being the representative of pesticides! But the cunning Pesti has done its bill without the inhabitants in the Black Forest and without Zwirbel. They commit for the animals and the plants. At the end the reason should win!
Author:Anita Silvia Leiser Designer: Sebastian Schütz
„Isn’t it strange to get a friendship between
a daisy and a cow“, wants to know Zwirbel. “No“, anwers Ursel the daisy „we are the best friends of the animals. Every life has ist destiny.
Our mission is to grow and to grow in this world and to bloom and to give food, health and pleasure to all the people and the animals”.
Ursel continues: “The goose is like my sister. It ‘s written in a legend: It’s very easy: no daisy without a goose, and no goose without a daisy!”
„ The wind carries the daisies
semen of the Black Forest into the large world and the Black Forest bee collects daisy pollen, makes honey with it and pleases with
it big and small people”.
„Do you like being eaten from a cow? “wants to know Zwirbel.
„This is a part of my life too, little cow”, answers the daisy.
„Oh, I didn’t know that. I love daisies, but I’ve always eaten them with a guilty conscience”, confesses Zwirbel.
“Look, our roots have rooted deeply in the ground. We blossom from the spring to the autumn, blossom around blossom, year after year. People and animals which are well disposed to us and who are hungry, add no pains to us”.
“But fort he moment a
cunning strolls in the Black Forest and he maintains that daisies are only weeds that needs to be eliminated. The
bee told it to me”.
Zwirbel is offended!
Ursel the daisy explains:” Sunday we have a meeting to demonstrate at the city council. The goose will be there, the bee and many daisies. We want to force the cunning Pesti to quit the Black Forest”. Naturally Zwirbel promises to come too!
The next Sunday is a radiant spring day.
Slowly the demonstration moves to the city council. Everybody has come, the mayor, the forest warden, many families and also the cunning Pesti who wants to talk to all. But his nose is very swollen. He looks like a monster, and everybody diverts from him.
Nevertheless Zwirbel dares and addresses to Pesti: “What happened to your nose? “
„A bite has bitten me, stupid cow”, answers Pesti annoyed.
Zwirbel will not be provoked and answers quietly: “Is stupid who names daisy weeds and who does not know that daisies cure bee- stings…”
Zwirbel’s new friend, Ursel the daisy, stands near Zwirbel and nods at her enthusiastic…
Pesti wants to laugh at Zwirbel, but it’s only a quiet painful groan that can be heard. „So would you prove me that daisies can cure bee-stings,
little cow! “whistles Pesti unpleasantly.
„What will you offer if we help you, Pesti?” wants to know Zwirbel.
„So in the future I will sell daisies as a miracle product“, proposes Pesti.
„You are cheeky, Pesti“, contradicts Zwirbel. “Daisies will not be sold , they are offered to all people and animals.” “Ok, so I will offer the daisies if you want”, promises Pesti.
„Stop, that’s not enough Pesti. You have to renounce to sell pesticides from now.
You have to change your attitude and you have to live biological in the future!”
Pesti promises to do all that if only his nose gets cured…
Zwirbel and Ursel put daisies on his nose,
which shrinks and shrinks rapidly.
Meanwhile the demo move has farther gone and goes away more and more from Zwirbel, Ursel and Pesti. The three want to join as fast as possible and tear off.
In no way they want to miss the demo party. When they arrive, breathlessness, the mayor already holds his lecture to the people:
” We want to respect the nature here in the Black Forest…”
And so Ursel the daisy, Zwirbel and Pesti get a big friendship in the Black Forest...
