The museum rats
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The museum rats |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 1967-1972 |
| Production company |
Hessischer Rundfunk , Augsburger Puppenkiste |
| length | 30 minutes |
| genre | Children's series , puppet show |
| Director | Manfred Jenning , Harald Schäfer |
| script | Manfred Jenning |
| music | Bernhard Stimmler |
| camera | Karl-Heinz Schlutter |
| First broadcast | 1967 on German television ( ARD ) |
The Museum rat is a German puppets - television series of the Augsburg Puppet Theater , which from 1967 to 1972 in nine episodes from the Hessian Radio was produced. The last two episodes were shot in color .
action
The rat father Friedrich Wilhelm wants to give his sons Franz Josef and Karl Theodor education and visits with them various museums in West Germany and Austria . Franz Josef and Karl Theodor were born in the Army History Museum in Vienna . In the first episode, the museum rats in the Offenbach Leather Goods Museum receive a pair of giant seven-mile boots in which they can travel quickly and safely from one museum to another.
The museum visits are exhausting for father Friedrich Wilhelm, as both sons are constantly hungry and are distracted by it. In the museums they experience all kinds of adventures, for example when they encounter the ghost of Baron Münchhausen or a cat . At times they are followed by two detectives who are portrayed by the two directors. Secondary characters are the water rat Fietje, the ballet rat Mizzerl and Mizzerl's father Johann Wolfgang. At the end of the first eight episodes, the visit to the next museum is announced.
Episodes
- In the German Leather Goods Museum Offenbach , visit on January 22, 1967
- In the Nuremberg Transport Museum , visited on February 9, 1967
- In the Wilhelm Busch Museum Hannover , in Munchhausen-Museum Bodenwerder and Till Eulenspiegel Museum Schöppenstedt , visits on 5 March 1967.
- In the Übersee-Museum Bremen , visit on March 12, 1967
- In the puppet theater collection of the City of Munich , visit on March 19, 1967
- In the Army History Museum, Vienna , visit on March 30, 1967
- Visit to the Musical Instrument Museum in Berlin on March 5, 1968
- In Augsburg museums , visits 6 July 1972
- Visit to the German Bread Museum , Salt Museum and Gemstone Museum , visits on October 19, 1972
Trivia
- In the eighth episode, which was filmed in Augsburg museums, occurs on the hunt for the held for burglars Museum rats Augsburg city police , which was still communally at that time and until 1973 the Bavarian Police was affiliated.
Lore
The series was edited on DVD in 2006 .
literature
- Harald Schäfer: The museum rats. An entertaining educational journey with marionettes from the Augsburger Puppenkiste through the Leather Museum in Offenbach, the Transport Museum in Nuremberg, the Wilhelm Busch Museum in Hanover, the Münchhausen Museum in Bodenwerder and the Till Eulenspiegel Museum in Schöppenstedt. R. G. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-89501-376-5 .
