Barbapapa

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Television broadcast
German title Barbapapa
Around the world with Barbapapa
Original title Les barbapapa
Barbapapa Sekai o Mawaru
Country of production France , Japan
original language French
Year (s) 1974-1999
length 5 minutes
Episodes 150 in 3 seasons
genre Animation film
production Askania Media film production
music Henk van der Velde
First broadcast November 5, 1974 on Das Erste

Barbapapa is the name of a series of children's book and cartoon characters that were developed in 1970 in Paris by the French architecture student Annette Tison and the American biology teacher Talus Taylor (1933-2015).

The name is derived from the French word for cotton candy ( barbe à papa , Papa's beard ').

Content and characters

The Barbapapas are a family of single-colored fantasy figures . In their normal state they are about pear-shaped, but they can change their shape similar to modeling clay and thus serve as a wheelbarrow or bridge and thus help others. When shapeshifting , they can also transform into animals. They are very friendly and happy creatures and get on well with people and animals. They live in the garden of the children Lotte and Stefan (in the French original Claudine and François). The metamorphosis of every Barbapapa is in the original "  Hup Hup Hup, Barbatruc  " (in the German dubbing "Ra-Ru-Rick, Barbatrick"). The saying was partially modified in other synchronized versions. It is called “ Clickety Click - Barba Trick ” in English or “ Resta di stucco, è un barbatrucco ” in Italian .

Stones painted as barbapapa and barbacus

The family consists of the parents and seven children, each of whom has a distinctive character trait:

  • Barbapapa: pink, father
  • Barbamama: black, mother

Girl:

  • Barbabella: purple, vain
  • Barbaletta: orange, well-read (will be later on the Barbasophie website)
  • Barbalala: green, musical

Boys:

  • Barbarix: blue, scientist, creative (later becomes Barbahelle on the website)
  • Barbawum: red, sporty, plays a detective and owns the dog Lolita (later becomes Barbabravo on the website)
  • Barbabo: black and hairy, artist
  • Barbakus: yellow, animal and nature lover (later becomes barbazoo on the website)

Emergence

The idea for Barbapapa came about on May 19, 1970 in the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris by chance . While walking in the park with Annette Tison, Talus Taylor overheard a child asking his parents for something like "Baa baa baa baa". Not understanding French, he asked Tison what the words mean. She explained that the child wanted “  barbe à papa  ” (German: cotton candy ). Later, in a restaurant, the couple began to draw a pink round figure inspired by cotton candy on the tablecloth. They used “Barbapapa” as their name. The two authors of the characters married some time later and created eleven books on the Barbapapas.

Publications

Books

The first Barbapapa book was published in 1970. The German first edition was published in 1979 by Stalling Verlag Hamburg . The Barbapapa books have now been translated into over 30 languages. The following volumes were published in a new German edition by the Swiss Atlantis-Verlag in Zurich:

title New edition
date ISBN
Barbapapas trip February 2006 ISBN 3-7152-0534-2
Barbapapa February 2007 ISBN 3-7152-0533-4
Barbapapa saves the animals August 2007 ISBN 3-7152-0540-7
The Barbapapa School August 2007 ISBN 3-7152-0541-5
Barbapapa in winter August 2007 ISBN 3-7152-0542-3
A house for Barbapapa August 2007 ISBN 3-7152-0539-3
Barbapapa and the tree February 2008 ISBN 3-7152-0548-2
Barbapapa on Mars February 2008 ISBN 3-7152-0547-4
The Barbapapas play theater February 2008 ISBN 3-7152-0549-0
Holidays with Barbapapa February 2008 ISBN 3-7152-0546-6
The Barbapapas as craftsmen March 2009 ISBN 3-7152-0585-7

Cartoons

Based on the comics, a Franco-Japanese cartoon series with 45 episodes of five minutes each was produced in 1973. The German premiere of the first episode was on November 5, 1974. All characters were voiced by the voice actor and director Peter Kirchberger . This first series was released on DVD under the title Barbapapa Classics and Barbapapa Classics 2 . In many of the episodes, socially critical issues such as environmental pollution, land use , traffic, whaling, etc. are dealt with.

In 1977 a further 55 five-minute episodes were produced, but a German version was only released in 2010 on two DVDs under the title Barbapapa Classics 3 and Barbapapa Classics 4 . Peter Kirchberger is again the spokesman for all characters.

For the 25th anniversary of the television series, the new series Barbapapa Sekai o Mawaru ( バ ー バ パ パ 世界 を ま わ る , Bābapapa sekai o mawaru ) with 50 episodes of five minutes each as a purely Japanese anime series by Studio Pierrot , again based on original drafts and scripts , was created in 1999 by Tison and Taylor. It was released in full on DVD under the title Around the World with Barbapapa . In contrast to the 1974 series, the different characters are now spoken by different speakers. The saying "Ra-Ru-Rick Barbatrick" is also missing before the transformations.

On September 14, 2012, Universum Film released a complete Barbapapa box containing all 150 episodes in German on six DVDs.

Video games

In 2001, the Sunsoft company in Japan released a Barbapapa game for the PlayStation .

reception

On the occasion of the release of the television series on DVD, Animania writes that the old series from the 1970s has its very own charm with its light, sometimes bumpy narrative. The new series from the 1990s is told in a more fluid and fast-paced way and is a successful entertainment for preschool children with instructive anecdotes, but it seems a bit more constructed. The designs have been carefully revised for the new series without departing from the original.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Transmission dates for Germany. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 19, 2015 .
  2. ↑ see the official German website http://www.barbapapa.com
  3. ↑ see the official French website http://www.lesbarbapapa.com
  4. ↑ 45 years of Barbapapa: What does the name mean? noz.de, May 18, 2015.
  5. ↑ Olivier Delcroix: Les Barbapapa pleurent la mort de l'un de leurs créateurs. In: Le Figaro , March 2, 2015
  6. ↑ a b Animania 11/2003, p. 18f.