Eared bear
Ear Bear - Radio Stories for Little People is a literary radio program broadcast in Germany for children between four and eight years of age.
Channel
The Ear Bear is a production of the Berlin-Brandenburg broadcasting company , which cooperates with NDR Info and WDR 5 . The program is broadcast daily before 8 p.m., but at different times for the three channels.
Missed episodes can be listened to as podcasts on the RBB website , and since April 2014 even with a feed .
procedure
The program begins with the Peter motif from the musical fairy tale Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev . The bedtime stories are written specifically for the series and read by professional speakers. Most of the stories are told as sequels in several parts that develop over a whole week. At the end of the program, a child's voice used to say: “The eared bear, he's going to sleep now. But tomorrow it's back with new radio stories for little people. Good night for today. "
history
The first ear-bear show was broadcast on October 1, 1987 by the broadcaster Free Berlin (SFB). This series was developed and maintained until the end of 2000 by the SFB editor Marianne Wagner. In 1997 the program received two awards from the Reading Foundation . In 2001 the eared bear called for the first time to participate in a painting competition. The theme of the first competition was "ear bear gets a face". The painting competitions have been held annually since then. The writing competition for children has existed since 2003. Children from 30 third-year classes took part in the first writing competition. The NDR , which had started the ear bears shortly after 7 p.m. until 2002, postponed the broadcast in 2003 by 45 minutes. The WDR has been broadcasting the program since 2004 as part of the Bärenbude program , previously the program had been on the music program of the Schlager radio station WDR 4 since 1989 . In October 2007, the show's 20th birthday was celebrated with a children's festival in Berlin. The bears “Johannes” and “Stachel” from the WDR bear stall took part as “guests”.
In cooperation with Deutsche Grammophon , more than 35 recordings with stories from the eared bear programs were released from 1998 to 2003. After 2003, stories were published in loose succession by the audio book publishers DAV and edelkids . In addition, a big ear-bear was published in 2008.
Cooperating broadcasters
The producing broadcaster was and is since 1987 the broadcaster Freie Berlin or, after the association of SFB and ORB , Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg ( rbb for short ), which broadcasts this series to this day on the Berlin FM radio frequency 88.8, which has been established since broadcasting (first on SFB 1, currently on Radio Berlin 88.8 ). In order to increase the range and reduce production costs, however, cooperation with other ARD radio stations was sought very soon , the number of which fluctuated between one and three partners and has stabilized at two since 1997.
Westdeutsche Rundfunk Köln was there almost from the start - until 2003 on the radio station of WDR 4 , since 2004 on WDR 5 . He is followed as the second longest cooperation partner by Norddeutsche Rundfunk , which has been broadcasting the program since 1993 initially on NDR 4 and currently on NDR Info . Only for one year the were Hessian Broadcasting (1989) and the later in the Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk rising Saxony Radio (1991) there. The MDR then participated in this cooperation from 1992 to 1996. The stations listed in the table below broadcast the respective eared bear episodes mostly only offset by a few minutes.
- 1989: SFB, WDR, HR
- 1990: SFB, WDR
- 1991: SFB, WDR, Sachsen Radio
- 1992: SFB, WDR, MDR
- 1993-1996: SFB, WDR, MDR, NDR
- 1997: SFB, WDR, NDR
- from 2003: rbb, WDR, NDR
reception
The aim of the broadcast ear bear was to reliably mark the end of the day for the children "sometimes with a cheerful, sometimes with a thoughtful tone". The eared bear is seen as a friend by many listeners, even beyond childhood. Simon Lenartz from the web radio “eldoradio” said about him: “The eared bear was a good friend of mine. He comforted me with his voice, gently covered me with his music and put me to bed with his stories. "
In the 1994 handbook for media education in kindergarten, however, the majority of the articles are criticized as "banally entertaining". They are “sometimes clearly instructive instead of productively irritating”.
Authors
Well over 100 authors have written one or more episodes for the eared bear over the years - including some who did not come out exclusively with children's and youth literature .
Since the beginning, Sabine Ludwig has been one of the editors of the ear bears for a few years, and has published several series of two to seven episodes in this series. Renate Ahrens- Kramer, Katrin Askan , Herbert Beckmann , Georg K. Berres, Martina Dierks , Martin Ebbertz , Günther Feustel , Mario Göpfert , Annette Herzog , Kemal Kurt , Marjaleena Lembcke , Joy Markert , among others, also wrote a large number of multi-part episodes Gudrun Mebs , Hermann Mensing , Andrea Paluch , Heinrich Peuckmann , Nina Petrick , Charlotte Richter-Peill , Hubert Schirneck and Karla Schneider . Petra A. Bauer , Gudrun Brug , Gisela Degler-Rummel , Elke Hermannsdörfer , Petra Kasch , Ulrich Karger and Franjo Terhart wrote individual series .
speaker
The ears bear contributions were and are only spoken by professional actors or voice actors. They include Helene Grass , Imogen Kogge , Astrid Kohrs , Steffen Lehmann , Regina Lemnitz , Christiane Leuchtmann , Sabine Sinjen , Brita Sommer , Jürgen Thormann , Gerd Wameling .
Awards
The Ohrbär editorial team was awarded the “AusLese” annual prize and the October monthly prize from the Reading Foundation in 1997 .
Web links
- Official website for the eared bear , online at ohrenbaer.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ohrbär Podcast on ohrenbaer.de , last accessed on April 3, 2014
- ↑ Ernst Hoffmann: “Good night, eared bear!” In: Die Welt , December 12, 2002.
- ↑ Bärenbude at WDR ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2004 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.
- ↑ Sonja Gähler: Ear bear - radio stories for little people . In: Wolfgang Schill, Jürgen Linke, Dieter Wiedemann (Ed.): Children and radio . kopaed, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-935686-78-1 , p. 94.
- ↑ Simon Lenartz on eldoradio.de
- ↑ Horst Heitmann: Radio for Preschool Children In: Deutsches Jugendinstitut (Ed.): Handbook Media Education in Kindergarten (Part 1), Opladen 1994, pp. 323–329 (PDF file; 32 kB)
- ↑ ohrenbaer.de ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2013 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. Reference to awards from the Reading Foundation
