Rabbit (Loriot)

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Rabbit is a cartoon - Sketch of the German humorist Loriot . It interviews a scientist who received the Nobel Prize for converting a woman into a rabbit .

The cartoon was shown for the first time in the fourth episode of the cartoon television series , which was broadcast on German television in November 1967 . It was Loriot's first animated film to feature an interview, a motif that he picked up several times below. The text of the sketch first appeared in print in 1971 and has since been included in several of Loriot's anthologies.

plot

You can see Professor Mutzenberger, holding a white rabbit in his arms, and chief reporter Rösner. Mutzenberger received the Nobel Prize for the first successful transformation of a woman into a rabbit. He reports that in 1953 he succeeded in transplanting the head of a postal worker onto a rabbit. The woman continued to work at the post office, married a wild rabbit and now lives in a pet shop in Heidelberg . Interrupted only by brief interjections by Rösner, Mutzenberger describes his motivation for these changes. Women as such are outdated in their current form, and there is, on the one hand, an excess of women and, on the other hand, a lack of high-quality rabbits. In addition, it is well known that 70 percent of married men would rather live with a rabbit than with their wife.

At Rösner's request, Mutzenberger presented the rabbit on his arm as the wife of the chairman of the supervisory board of Duisburger Rohstahl AG. Rösner then wants to learn from the professor how to distinguish real rabbits from transformed women. Both talk past each other and the question remains unanswered. Instead, Rösner asks about Mutzenberger's wife, who had made herself available for the first attempts. However, according to Mutzenberger, these were very unsatisfactory. She only got strong incisors, big ears and a fluffy tail, for which they would have cut a hole in her clothing.

Production and publication

Loriot in 1969 at an autograph session in Kiel

From 1967, Loriot presented the cartoon series produced by Süddeutscher Rundfunk , according to the subtitle of the first program, "[e] in a stroll through drawn humor". In addition to moderating, Loriot also contributed his own cartoons from the start. At first he produced it with a camera borrowed from the broadcaster, later he bought his own. It is not known which camera was used to produce rabbits .

Rabbit was part of the fourth episode of cartoon , which was broadcast on German television on November 30, 1967 . As in almost all of his animated films, Loriot Rösner and Mutzenberger dubbed himself. In his announcement for the film, Loriot presents the excess of women as an oppressive problem that could not be solved by converting some women into men. Professor Mutzenberger's method made this possible, however, and the Nobel Prize is therefore an appropriate tribute to his life's work. The reporter Rösner reported directly from the awards ceremony in Stockholm .

Together with the texts of other cartoon cartoons, the text of Rabbit appeared in Loriot's Little Prose in 1971 . Loriot's announcement precedes the sketch text. The contents of the book were included in the 1973 anthology Loriot's Heile Welt . The text of Rabbit is also part of other anthologies by Loriot. In 2007, the film Rabbit appeared together with Loriot's Announcement in the Loriot DVD collection - The Complete Television Edition for the first time on a video recording medium.

classification

The cartoons Loriot produced for cartoon before Rabbit always showed only one person giving a speech. For the first time a dialogue was seen in Rabbit . The interview situation shown later developed into a basic motif of Loriot's cartoon work. In the seventh episode of Cartoon , the next such sketch was The Family User, this time with an interview with a businesswoman; a few more followed. In Loriot's next series, Loriot , the motif was taken up again with studio interviews and The speaking dog , in which scientists were interviewed again. Typical of these Loriotian interview situations is the failure of communication between the interviewees, which can also be seen in rabbits . Failed communication also shapes many other animated and real film skits by Loriot.

Two skits shown in cartoon vary Mutzenberger's statements about men and women. In the cartoon Moonstone , broadcast in October 1969, the roles of the sexes are reversed. In it, a scientist reports on the discovery of very small people on a piece of moon rock . He comes to the conclusion that 120,000 of these lunar inhabitants are a suitable partner for an earth inhabitant, since they are visible to the naked eye when put together, but are not perceived as disturbing. In the real film sketch Professor E. Damholzer from August 1972, explicit reference is made to the content of rabbits . Although Mutzenberger's attempt to reduce the surplus of women was to be welcomed, it would have led to a rabbit plague. Instead, the eponymous professor, played by Loriot, suggests reducing the size of the women, since if they are less than 10 centimeters tall, they are no longer seen as a nuisance, even in masses.

Audio-visual media

  • Loriot - The complete television edition . Warner Home Video, Hamburg 2007, DVD No. 1.

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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, p. 214.
  2. ↑ a b Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, p. 226.
  3. ↑ a b Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, p. 220.
  4. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, pp. 224-225.
  5. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, pp. 255-256, 280.
  6. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, p. 222.
  7. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, pp. 229-230.
  8. ^ 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 , p. 230–231 (also dissertation at the University of Trier 2015). Loriot: Collected prose . Diogenes, Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-257-06481-0 , pp. 320-323 .