The show with the elephant

Television series
Original title	The show with the elephant
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Year (s)	since 2007
length	25 minutes
Episodes	370 + 8 specials + 15 best-ofs
genre	Knowledge broadcast for preschoolers
Theme music	The world is elephantastic
production	WDR
Moderation	Tanja Mairhofer André Gatzke
First broadcast	September 10, 2007 on KiKA

Figure of the elephant in Erfurt on the Anger

The show with the elephant (subtitle: laughing and non-fiction stories for TV beginners ) has been an offshoot of the show with the mouse since September 10, 2007 . The program has been developed to do justice to the interests and level of development of three to six year old children.

construction

An episode lasts about 25 minutes. The components designed for the needs of TV beginners are entirely in keeping with the Maus tradition. The little blue elephant got a new playmate on the show, a pink rabbit. Individual episodes of the British cartoon series Peppa Pig in English are intended to introduce young viewers to a new language.

Tanja Mairhofer and André Gatzke lead the show . Robert Metcalf , who sings children's songs and accompanies himself on the guitar , and Anke Engelke as Anke , who lives in a painted world and often finds herself in illogical or contradicting situations, have regular appearances .

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  Color fields between different broadcast items

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  Moderator Tanja Mairhofer

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  Moderator André Gatzke

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  Songwriter Robert Metcalf

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  Anke Engelke

history

Over 340 episodes have been broadcast so far, as well as a special episode at Easter and two at Christmas . In 2009 the episode Kunst und Co. (written and directed by Renate Bleichenbach, Leona Frommelt) received the Golden Spatz award in the entertainment category .

Since March 2010, KiKA has started broadcasting newly produced episodes, beginning with episode 146 on March 22, 2010 and the last episode 165 on July 16, 2010. Since July 19, 2010, old episodes have been broadcast again.

In 2009 the elephantastisch branch started with twelve episodes. Ten-minute laughing stories for TV beginners are shown in the elephant cinema. Since 2010, 30 more episodes have been broadcast annually.

Web links

• www.wdrmaus.de/elefantseite Official website
• The show with the elephant at Fernsehserien.de
• The show with the elephant in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Commons : The broadcast with the elephant  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Parent information of the WDR
2. ↑ The blue elephant walks on solo paths (interview with Friedrich Streich, the "father" of the elephant) . In: The world . August 6, 2007. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
3. ↑ Vera Ariane Stowasser: Paradigms of language promotion in the context of language-promoting children's programs - a media analysis (master thesis presentation 2012) . Retrieved August 13, 2015.
4. ^ First foreign language - The page with the elephant - WDR television . December 15, 2011. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
5. ↑ Content of the individual episodes ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.