The bamboo bear gang
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | The bamboo bear gang |
| Original title | バ ン ブ ー ・ ベ ア ー ズ |
| Country of production |
 Japan Germany France Spain North Korea   
|
| original language | Japanese |
| year | 1995 |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Episodes | 52 |
| genre | Children's series |
| Theme music |
Voice (In Summer) by Takeshi Kusao (Japanese version) The song of this world by Nena and Sebastian Krumbiegel (German version) |
| idea | Sicco Kinyma |
| music | Axel Kroell (German version) |
| First broadcast | September 2, 1995 on Canal J |
| German-language first broadcast |
March 25, 1996 to January 18, 1997 on ARD , ZDF |
The Bamboo Bear Gang (French Bambou et Compagnie , Japanese Bamboo Bears ( バ ン ブ ー ・ ベ ア ー ズ , Bambū Beāzu )) is a 52-part animated series for children that deals with environmental problems and species protection . It is a German-Japanese-French-Spanish-North Korean coproduction that was broadcast on March 25, 1996 by ARD and then ZDF .
content
The 52-part series is about the destruction of the environment and the corresponding measures against it. The human race is embodied by rats. These pollute and destroy nature. Almost all locations, landscapes as well as animals and threat scenarios are or were present in reality . The series takes place during the first construction phase of the Three Gorges Dam in China from late 1993 to mid-2006.
In addition, four animal species that are now extinct appear in the series: a Java tiger ( Panthera tigris sondaica ), a pouch wolf ( Thylacinus cynocephalus ), a Chinese river dolphin ( Lipotes vexillifer ) and a representative of an extinct subspecies of the chisel-tooth kangaroo rat ( Dipodomys microps russeolus ) . In each episode, the three main characters meet animals that suffer from the influences of rats. Together with the new friends they make on their travels around the world, they can prevent worse and worse in the end. The end of the series is still open.
main characters
- Bambu-Li, male red panda (leader of the bamboo bear gang)
- Lang-Zu, male giant panda
- Li-Pling, female bamboo rat
- Wai Wai, large, female, pink dragon, who can be summoned from anywhere in case of danger with the help of a magical bamboo stick
- Wao Hao, older, male rat
- Rataleone, male rat, head of "RATCO" (company name), whose true identity is concealed until the end, e.g. B. by cigarette smoke, blueprints, dark rooms with little light, back view u. a.
- Rat number 1, tall, slender rat with a light head that sometimes skips
- Rat number 2, small, fat, brown rat with a little bit of sense
- Rat number 3, big, stupid, little brained rat
production
The series was produced in 1995 by Mitsui & Co. Ltd., ZDF Enterprises GmbH, ZDF, TF1 SA, TVE SA, 4D Marina Prod. And Pixibox. The concept and the characters come from Sicco Kingma. The book for the series was written by Dennis Livson and Jimmy Hibbert. The most labor-intensive part of the animation was created at the SEK animation studio in North Korea.
Television broadcast
The German first broadcast of the first 12 episodes ran from March 25, 1996 to April 12, 1996 in the joint holiday program of ARD and ZDF and the remaining episodes from April 13 to January 18, 1997 on ZDF. Further broadcasts could be seen on KiKA , ORF one , SRF 1 and SRF two . The series last ran from August 27, 2007 to November 8, 2007 at KiKA.
The series has also been translated into Spanish, French, English and Japanese. Studio Hamburg was responsible for the German synchronization. In France, the series ran for the first time on September 2, 1995, Canal J .
music
Singer Nena and singer Sebastian Krumbiegel are singing the theme song Das Lied der Welt . The final song, also interpreted by Nena, is called Friends . Axel Kroell was responsible for further music.
The title song and the final song were also released on CD in 1996, along with other songs and explanations by Wao Hao.
more publishments
Episodes 1 to 6 were published in 1996 on VHS video cassettes and as a book.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Bamboo Bear Gang: Broadcast dates of the TV series. In: fernsehserien.de. Retrieved July 24, 2010 .
- ↑ Da le roux: Bambou et Compagnie. In: Planète Jeunesse. Retrieved July 23, 2010 (French).
- ↑ CD Nena and the Bamboo Bear Gang at nena.de, accessed on December 1, 2014.
Web links
- The bamboo bear gang at fernsehserien.de
- Bamboo Bear Gang Content and consequences at KI.KA