Emm like Meikel
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Emm like Meikel |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 1975-1988 |
| length | 40 to 50 minutes |
| Episodes | 40+ Christmas special |
| genre | Comedy for kids |
| music | Walt Rockmann , Tommy Nagel |
| First broadcast | January 20, 1975 to December 24, 1978 on ARD |
Emm wie Meikel was a television comedy series for older children with real actors and the doll 'Meikel Katzengreis' or 'Mausegreis'.
Serial data
The NDR produced the series based on the puppet design and book by Manfred Tesch . Wolfgang Buresch spoke and played Meikel Katzengreis, while Marion Michael (five episodes), Andrea Bergmann (three episodes) and Hanni Vanhaiden acted as co-presenters . Later, a shaggy blue yeti joined the team of moderators.
The series ran once a month on Monday afternoons. In July and August 1983, 20 shortened episodes were repeated.
A special episode was broadcast as part of the annual series We're waiting for Christkind . In it the puppeteer Rudolf Fischer played a speaking and wandering Christmas tree. Fischer had become known as a television puppeteer primarily through his portrayal in Der Spatz vom Wallrafplatz and had already worked with Buresch in numerous other productions.
Meikel (Mausegreis) Katzengreis
In the first two episodes, the main character was still called Meikel Mausegreis and looked like an outdated Mickey Mouse with a full white beard, who conducted an interview with the then government spokesman Klaus Bölling in January 1975 . Thereupon the Cologne TV colleagues complained to the NDR, who produced the program with the mouse and said that this could lead to confusion. Wolfgang Buresch from NDR did not believe that Meikel Mausegreis could be confused with a cartoon mouse, but he let Meikel mutate into a cat with a red tennis ball nose.
Sound carrier
At the beginning of the broadcast on television, Emm wie Meikel also appeared as an MC or LP in the sales department of BASF with the original speakers Wolfgang Buresch, Marion Michael and Andrea Bergmann. For this purpose, a television episode was not simply set up for the record, but an independent episode more appropriate to the acoustic medium developed.
Quotes
Meikel feline friend
- Tse, tse, tse, tse, tse ...
- Well, problems, you know that!
- Women are womanly, men are wonderful!
The blue yeti
- If only I had stayed in the Himalayas.
Web links
- Emm as Meikel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Episode guide
- Article in tv cult with pictures
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cover of episode 1 ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Hörspielwelten.de
- ↑ Personal details , in: Der Spiegel, January 27, 1975
- ↑ Beginning of the video in episode 9 on retro-tv.de
