Little Dodo (TV Series)
| Television series | |
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| German title | Little dodo |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| year | 2007 |
| length | 5 minutes |
| Episodes | 26 in 1 season |
| genre | cartoon |
| idea | Hans de Beer |
| production | Maya Countess Rothkirch, Thilo Graf Rothkirch |
| music | Henning Lohner |
| German-language first broadcast |
December 3, 2007 on KIKA |
| occupation | |
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The animated series Little Dodo is about a little orangutan named Dodo who plays the violin with virtuosity. Old Darwin is a monkey who lived in human care and has now returned to the jungle. Other characters in the series include Arnold, the crocodile , Patana, a female rhinoceros , a leopard named Lollo and many others.
template
The five books (sales: 150,000 in Germany and other German-speaking countries) by the draftsman Hans de Beer and his wife Serena Romanelli , who came up with the idea, serve as a template for the series .
production
The Berlin company Rothkirch Cartoon-film, MaBo Filmproduktion, WDR and KIKA as well as Hans de Beer were involved in the production of the series . The producer was Thilo Graf Rothkirch.
series
The 26-part series (running time approx. 5 minutes per episode) was broadcast for the first time from Easter 2007 on the show with the mouse in Germany and then ran several times on KIKA . The series was awarded the Silver World Medal at the New York Festival.
The last broadcast took place from January 4, 2009 to July 5, 2009 at KIKA.
Motion picture
The movie Little Dodo was produced in 2007 and was released in German cinemas on January 1, 2008. Directed by Thilo Rothkirch and Ute von Münchow-Pohl, Thilo Rothkirch, Ute von Münchow-Pohl, Rolf Giesen and Michael Mädel were responsible for the script. The film is the prequel to the series. He shows Dodo's life with his parents in the rainforest, how the violin got into the jungle and how the little orangutan finally became its owner. The film was released on DVD on September 5, 2008.
more publishments
The book Little Dodo, what do you play? was published in German and Slovenian in 1995 and in Italian in 1998. In 1999 the two authors published the book Little Dodo, Let the Dragons Fly , 2004 Dodo's Circus Adventure and 2007 Little Dodo - Best Friend .
In 2001 the first audio book for the Little Dodo series was published . by Georg Bühren, Heiner Heusinger a. a.
In 2007 another audio book for the series by Marcell Gödde came out and was accompanied by Andy Muhlack.
In 2008, several books for preschool children to learn numbers were published under the title Kleiner Dodo, such as Kleiner Dodo - Preschool Numbers 1 to 10 and Kleiner Dodo - Magic Number School or for learning letters such as Little Dodo - Magic Letter School and the music book Kleiner Dodo - sing with us! .
Further marketing
There are various merchandising items for the series such as plush toys , pen attachments, bed linen and other textiles on the market.
exhibition
In Iserlohn , a special exhibition on the cartoon series Kleiner Dodo took place from mid-September to the end of October 2008 in the municipal gallery.
literature
- Hans de Beer, Serena Romanelli: Little Dodo, what are you playing? 1st edition. Nord-Süd-Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-314-00720-5 .
- Hans de Beer, Serena Romanelli: Little Dodo, let the kite fly! 1st edition. Nord-Süd-Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-314-00825-2 .
- Hans de Beer, Serena Romanelli: Dodo's circus adventure . 1st edition. Nord-Süd-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-314-01399-X .
- Hans de Beer, Serena Romanelli: Little Dodo - Best Friend . 1st edition. Nord-Süd-Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-314-01558-8 .
Web links
- Kleiner Dodo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Entry of the series at fernsehserien.de
- WDR info page about the series
Individual evidence
- ↑ Portrait: Hans de Beer and Serena Romanelli Der Westen, the portal of the WAZ media group, from September 4, 2008.
- ↑ Kleiner Dodo Description of the TV series in the IMDb
- ↑ Dodo on the website of the WDR Mediagroup ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Website for the movie, with pictures and trailer
- ^ Website for the film at Warner Bros.
- ↑ to the movie at Spielfilm.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hans de Beer, Serena Romanelli: Little Dodo, what are you playing? 1st edition. Nord-Süd-Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-314-00720-5 .
- ↑ Hans de Beer, Serena Romanelli: Dodo z violino. Translated by Jana Osojnik. Založba Kres, Ljubljana 1995, ISBN 86-7823-067-1 .
- ↑ Hans de Beer, Serena Romanelli: Gogo e il balocco che suona. Nord-Sud De., Pordenone 1998, ISBN 88-8203-049-0 .
- ↑ Little Dodo, what are you playing - audio book 2001 in the catalog of the German National Library
- ↑ Little Dodo, what are you playing - audio book 2007 in the catalog of the German National Library
- ↑ Little Dodo - Preschool Numbers 1 to 10 in the catalog of the German National Library
- ↑ Little Dodo - Magic Numbers School in the catalog of the German National Library
- ↑ Little Dodo - Magic Letter School in the catalog of the German National Library
- ↑ Little Dodo - sing with us! in the catalog of the German National Library
- ↑ WDR Mediagroup ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2011 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.
- ↑ Municipal gallery turned into a jungle: Children's hands-on musical opened program for the dodo exhibition Der Westen, the portal of the WAZ media group, on September 2, 2008.
