Uncle Otto (right)

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Uncle Otto has been the Hessischer Rundfunk mascot since 1958 . It was used in the regional evening program of HR as an advertising separator between the individual commercials . From 1985 to 1992 he was also used in Hessen Drei as an opener and at the end of the commercial. Currently it still appears occasionally in the advertising blocks of Das Erste , which are distributed via the Hessian regional window (only receivable in Hesse via analogue cable TV and DVB-T ).

The longer commercial separators are musically accompanied by Roger Roger’s piece Holiday Party .

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Uncle Otto is a gray Fern-Se (e / h) dog that was created in 1958 by Hans Fischerkoesen . The TV spots were then drawn by Heinz Tischmeyer.

In the 1958 contract between Fischerkoesen and the hr to create a mascot, there was only talk of a "television dog". The name Uncle Otto is first documented in the hr archive from a newspaper advertisement from April 16, 1958. According to Rolf Richter, then head of advertising at the hr, the mascot was shown without a name for the first few weeks of its use in television advertising. Then the audience was asked to suggest a name. For reasons that are no longer comprehensible today, the name Uncle Otto was then mentioned by many viewers.

In the early years up to the early 1990s, the hr mascot had a television antenna in the shape of an "H" on its head. In more recent episodes it is “hr”.

On Hessentag 2018 , an Uncle Otto sculpture was exposed in Michelstadt and, with the help of spectators, should hitchhike by the start of Hessentag in Korbach .

Adaptations

The Hessischer Rundfunk fan article shop was called “Onkel-Otto-Shop”, but was renamed “hr-shop” in August 2005. The more than 700 animated episodes are no longer available on DVD, but numerous other Uncle Otto fan articles are.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait: Onkel Otto - The life of a television (e) h dog
  2. ↑ Lars Hofmann: How did Uncle Otto get his name? In: Karl-Heinz Wellmann (Ed.): Can birds cough? 111 new answers to questions that have always been on your fingertips. Jonas Verlag, Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-89445-346-X , p. 13.
  3. ↑ hr-online: #OttosReise. Retrieved May 8, 2018.