The talking dog

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The talking dog (even Bello or Bello, the talking dog ) is a cartoon - Sketch of the German humorist Loriot . In it, a man is interviewed who claims to have taught his dog to speak. The dog brought to the demonstration is not able to repeat the spoken text of its master, but only makes "Ho" sounds.

The animated film was first shown in the fourth episode of the Loriot television series , which aired on First in November 1977 . It is divided into three separate sections, which are shown throughout the sequence. In the recut version of the series from 1997 (episode 5) he is shown in one piece. The text of the sketch first appeared in 1981 and has since been included in several of Loriot's anthologies.

action

Two men sit across from each other in a television studio. Between them sits a large, fat dog with long, white fur. The man on the right, a television reporter, introduces the other man as Dr. Summer before, the founder and head of the Animal Education University in Cuxhaven . He calls the dog his best friend and student. The dog then makes a farting sound with its tongue.

The reporter begins to interview his guest. The audience learns that Sommer wants to have taught the dog called Bello to speak. To demonstrate this ability, ask the reporter to suggest words for the dog to repeat. The reporter suggests the name of a famous actor, but he cannot think of it. The two men get bogged down trying to find out the name. Then the dog's speech demonstration begins. Sommer speaks to him several sentences, which he always introduces with "Bello ... tell me" and which often contain the letter O. Instead of repeating the lyrics, Bello replies with a sequence of "Ho" sounds, the rhythm of which is similar to the original. The reporter does not address this mistake, however, just says that you have to listen very carefully or the dog is probably not up to certain topics. When Sommer suggested that the dog could talk about nuclear power , the reporter initially refused, as political statements from dogs on television were undesirable, but then allowed it. Only after further speech demonstrations does the reporter confront his guest with the fact that his dog cannot speak at all and can only speak one letter. Sommer describes this as an “outrageous claim” and the dog utters a protracted wail. When the reporter asked what the dog had said again, Sommer replied with the tongue twister “Fischers Fritze fishes fresh fish.” The sketch ends with the dog's farting noise, which he had already made several times before.

Production and publication

Loriot in 1971 during an autograph session

The animation was made in the animation studio Loriots, which he founded in the early 1970s in Percha on Lake Starnberg not far from his home in Ammerland , and where he employed up to five people. As is usual with Loriot's cartoons, the characters' mouth movements are in sync with their spoken words. To achieve this, a large number of individually drawn phases was necessary. As with almost all of his cartoons, Loriot took on the speaking roles of the two men and that of the dog itself.

The cartoon was shown for the first time in the fourth episode of the Loriot series produced by Radio Bremen , which was broadcast on German television on November 7, 1977 . It is divided into three parts, which are shown throughout the episode. The first part is shown before the title is displayed. Only the presentation of the guests by the moderator and the subsequent farting noise of the dog can be seen. The second part ends after the two men failed to find the actor's name. The third part then contains all of the dog's attempts to speak.

1997 Loriot rearranged his television work and divided the 6 old, 45-minute Loriot episodes into 14 episodes with a length of 25 minutes. The talking dog is part of the fifth episode of stone lice, pugs and mice, Vom Ferienglück and a pasta problem , which premiered on May 20, 1997 in the first . Unlike in the original episode, the sketch can be seen in one piece. The film was also shown in one piece in the show for Loriot's 65th birthday on November 12, 1988.

The text of the animated film first appeared in 1981 in the anthology Loriot's dramatic works , which combines the texts of many animated and real film sketches of the Loriot series as well as some other television works by Loriot. It was later published in Loriot's other anthologies. The DVD collection The Complete TV Edition of Loriot contains the cartoon twice, once as part of Loriot IV and once as an extra in a version without interruption. The latter was already part of Loriot's VHS collection in 1984 .

classification

The situation depicted in The Talking Dog is one of the basic motifs of Loriot's animated films. Television interviews were featured in his early animated films on his first cartoon series. As with The Talking Dog , the content of the interview was mostly absurd to absurd, and scientists were interviewed more often. In the Loriot series , this motif was already seen in the first episode in the animated film studio interview , in which a scientist enlarges his body parts using breathing techniques. It was there that Loriot first used the distribution of a cartoon, which he still used in the fifth episode for the men in the bathroom after The Talking Dog .

The dog lover Loriot processed dogs several times in his work. Right at the start of his career in 1953, his series of drawings, Auf den Hund haben , in which the roles of humans and dogs are reversed, caused a sensation. His own boobs appeared several times in the cartoon television series . To Loriots most popular works of talking cartoon dog counts Wum , the mascot of the action problem child ZDF programs from 1971 in the three times nine and the great price occurred and the song I wish me 'ne little kitty sang that the top of the German single charts reached and received a gold record . According to Stefan Neumann, who wrote his dissertation on Loriot's work, The Talking Dog can be understood as Loriot's self-parody of the speaking Wum . As Loriot's long-time colleague and friend Stefan Lukschy emphasizes, Loriot's synchronization does not mock the dog, but treat him with respect.

At the time of the first broadcast of the cartoon, the nuclear power and the anti-nuclear movement were important political issues in the Federal Republic of Germany. Loriot dealt with this several times in his work. Nuclear power was a recurring motif in his series The Commentary , which appeared in Stern from 1975 to 1978 . In the sixth and last episode of Loriot , he processed the motif again when Grandpa Hoppenstedt bought his grandson a model of a nuclear power plant in the sketch Toys , which then exploded in the Christmas sketch at Hoppenstedts after construction.

Aftermath

The talking dog is one of Loriot's most famous skits. In 1997, for example, he was among the eight Loriot sketches that respondents mentioned most often straight away. In the 2011 year of stamps issued by the Federal Republic of Germany , four charity stamps with cartoon motifs by Loriot were published, including a picture from The Speaking Dog . An article by Andreas Platthaus in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 2009 in which he reviews the DVD collection of the television series Tintin was headed with the sketch quote “The dog cannot speak at all” .

Audio-visual media

  • Loriot's library. Volume 5: The Talking Dog or From Person to Person . Warner Home Video, Hamburg 1984, VHS No. 5 (without interruption).
  • Loriot - His large sketch archive. Warner Home Video, Hamburg 2001, DVD No. 2 (as part of Loriot 5 ).
  • Loriot - The complete television edition . Warner Home Video, Hamburg 2007, DVD No. 4 (as part of Loriot IV and as an uninterrupted extra).

Text publications (selection)

literature

  • Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the comedy. Life, work and work of Vicco von Bülow . Scientific publishing house Trier, Trier 2011, ISBN 978-3-86821-298-3 .
  • Felix Christian Reuter: Chaos, comedy, cooperation. Loriot's television sketches (=  Oliver Jahraus , Stefan Neuhaus [Hrsg.]: FILM - MEDIA - DISCOURSE . Volume 70 ). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8260-5898-1 (also dissertation at the University of Trier 2015).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The text of the sketch appeared under the title The speaking dog . The sketch is also called this in the VHS collection Loriot's library , the DVD collection Loriot - His large sketch archive and in the books by Stefan Neumann and Felix Christian Reuter. In the Loriot DVD collection - The Complete TV Edition, it is called Bello (The Talking Dog) . The website loriot.de , run by Loriot's community of heirs, calls him Bello, the talking dog .
  2. ↑ In the text version of the sketch, the dog is described as a large, fat, long-haired animal.
  3. ^ Felix Christian Reuter: Chaos, comedy, cooperation. 2016, p. 275.
  4. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, p. 45.
  5. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, p. 226.
  6. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, p. 279.
  7. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, p. 304.
  8. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, p. 415.
  9. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, p. 411.
  10. ↑ Uwe Ehlert: "That is probably more of a communication disorder". The representation of misunderstandings in Loriot's work . ALDA! Der Verlag, Nottuln 2004, ISBN 3-937979-00-X , p. 461 (also dissertation at the University of Münster 2003).
  11. ↑ a b Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, p. 280.
  12. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, p. 220.
  13. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, pp. 255-256.
  14. ↑ Stefan Lukschy : The lucky one doesn't hit dogs. A Loriot portrait . 2nd Edition. Structure, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-351-03540-2 , p. 126-127 .
  15. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, p. 97.
  16. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, pp. 235-236.
  17. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, pp. 46-48, 336-338.
  18. ↑ Stefan Lukschy: The voice of the draftsman . In: Peter Paul Kubitz, Gerlinde Waz (Ed.): Loriot. What! Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2367-1 , p. 90–93 , here: 93 .
  19. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, p. 210.
  20. ^ Felix Christian Reuter: Chaos, comedy, cooperation. 2016, pp. 198–199.
  21. ^ Rolf: noodles and cossack croissants . In: TV feature film . No. 8 , 1997, pp. 30 . Quoted in: Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, p. 354.
  22. ↑ Andreas Platthaus: The dog cannot speak at all. Reduced animation: the television series Tintin and Struppi . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 5 , January 7, 2009, p. 34 . Quoted in: Felix Christian Reuter: Chaos, comedy, cooperation. 2016, p. 14.