Pan dew

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Television series
German title Pan Tau, The Adventures of Lord Tau
Original title Pan dew
Country of production Czechoslovakia ,
Germany
original language Czech
Year (s) 1970-1988
Production
company		 ČST ,
WDR ,
Barrandov film studio
length 30 minutes
Episodes 33
genre Children's series
idea Ota Hofman
Jindřich Polák
music Jiří Malásek
Jiři Bažant
Vlastimil Hála
German-language
first broadcast		 December 13, 1970 on German television
occupation
Otto Šimánek
Pan Tau / Alfons Urban
Vladimír Menšík
Josef Urban
Gustav Bubník
Boy
František Filipovský
Grandfather Urban
Jiřina Bohdalová
Helene Urban
Magda Krízková
Káta
Karel Höger
teller

Pan Tau (German "Herr Tau") is a modern fairy tale character of the last decades of the 20th century and the main character in a children's series of the same name , which was created as a German-Czechoslovak co-production between WDR , the Prague film studios Barrandov and Czechoslovak Television (ČST) . Panau's intellectual fathers are the team of authors Ota Hofman and Jindřich Polák . Hofman was also the scriptwriter of all Pan Tau films directed by Polák. The series ran on GDR television from August 5, 1973 under the title The Adventures of Mr Tau .

content

Pan Tau himself is always a friendly, smiling, very elegant, good-natured man in a Stresemann suit with a bowler hat , an umbrella and a white carnation in his buttonhole. And Pan Tau can do magic. He mostly exudes silent magic by making things appear with a characteristic gesture on his bowler hat, for example, or transforming himself into a small doll.

Pan Tau does not speak for the first 26 of 33 episodes. Instead, he communicates in a pantomime and dance-like manner with people, primarily children, but almost never shows himself to their parents and thus remains invisible to them through hiding or the aforementioned miniaturization. In the first season he meets the student Emil, goes on a boat trip with a young runaway and goes on a journey as a vagabond with Claudia and her grandfather. In the finale of the first season, the children get together after the owner of a lost property office has locked Pan Tau in order to enrich themselves with the magical power of the melon.

In the second season, the highlight of the series, he meets the Urban family, who live on the outskirts of Prague. One of the family members (Alfons Urban) looks very similar to Pan Tau, but has been missing for many years. Pan Tau finds the missing person and leads him back to his family. This leads to the most absurd situations because Alfons is constantly confused with his doppelganger Pan Tau.

The third season is about Pan Tau's appearance on the wing of a passenger plane and a children's camp. Throughout the season he is followed by the clumsy officer Málek, who is supposed to investigate the incident with the plane. In this season Pan Tau learns to speak and refrains from using magic more and more, so he works as a cook in the holiday camp without the help of the melon. In the end, he lends Málek his magic melon so that he can demonstrate to his boss Pan Taus that he appears on the wing. When he tries to throw it back to Pan Tau, however, it is caught in the wind and torn to pieces by the greedy people, but Pan Tau no longer cares.

The series takes up the old childhood dream of an invisible, loving and protective friend at the side of a child.

Leitmotifs

The leitmotif of the Pan-Tau stories is the apparent and actual conflict between dreams and reality, between differing views, between the world of children and adults. In their sometimes unbelievable actions, some of the characters who appear change the idea of ​​this leitmotif over two levels: One level is formed by the children with their wishes and dreams, which are often in contrast to the rules of adults. The second level is formed by the adults, whose everyday life, which is often characterized by routines and norms, stands in the way of the children's longing for adventures and fantasies. Unexpected and surprising scenes and situations show the initially decent parents and other adults in a new light: They appear as children who have grown too big and who are again aware of their repressed dreams and weaknesses.

Fantasy turns into reality

The exciting descriptions of the actions, which are shaped by the contrasts between the world of children and adults, are carried by the mischievous humor of the Pan-Tau figure. Her main quality is the absolute understanding of the children. The “fantasy motifs”, which are related to everyday civilization and which characterize the fairytale figure Pan Tau, are integrated into the fairytale world and thus become an indisputable part of reality. For the children this new reality is the result of their friendship with Pan Tau, whereas for the adults it is rather uncomfortable, because social norms are sometimes exceeded. Thanks to Pan Tau, the everyday worries of adults, mostly those of their parents or grandparents, are pushed aside. As Pan Tau takes them back to their past in their memories, reality and fantasy grow together, making them closer to their own children than before.

Contributors

Was played Pan Tau by Czech actor Otto Šimánek . Scenes with a reduced Pan-Tau figure were filmed using stop-motion technology. In the second season there was also the character Alfons, who was a kind of double to Pan Tau. This was also played by Otto Šimánek. Alfons could speak, however. The German voice of Otto Šimánek in the role of Alfons in the German dubbing was Horst Raspe . Other actors who have also become famous in Germany are Vladimír Menšík (Josef Urban) and František Filipovský (grandfather Urban).

The pilot film was shot in 1966, including in the Vienna Prater . Between 1969 and 1978 a total of 33 episodes were created. Ten years after the end of the series, the movie Pan Tau followed again in 1988 . Pan Tau finally had a very last appearance in the 1990 music video for the song You are everywhere by Nena , which was filmed in Prague. In 1992 the actor Otto Šimánek died in Prague.

Theodor Pištěk designed the costumes for the series.

Awards

The series has received numerous awards:

  • 1970: National Children's Film Festival, Gottwaldov
  • 1970: International Children's and Youth Film Festival, Venice
  • 1971: International TV Festival, Monte Carlo
  • 1974: Silver Bambi

Film adaptations

movie theater

  • Pan Tau: The Movie (1988)

Television films

  • Pan Tau Occurs (1970); Cut from fragment of Pan Tau occurs , Schöne Bescherung and Im Schnee
  • Pan Tau and the Long Sunday; Cut from The Long Sunday and Pan Tau goes to school
  • Pan Tau and Claudia in the castle; Cut from Pan Tau and Claudia in the castle , Pan Tau packs the suitcases and the first half of Auf Reisen
  • Pan Tau on trips (GDR: The adventures of Mr. Tau / Mr. Tau travels around the world); Compilation of the second half of Auf Reisen , incomplete circus world and Pan Tau drives a taxi
  • Pan Tau is sought; Looking for a cut from Pan Tau and Pan Tau is back
  • Mr. Tau and Robinson
  • Mr. Tau and the much too big balloon
  • Mr. Tau and the dog
  • Mr. Tau and the family festival
  • Mr. Tau goes to work
  • Mr. Tau and the black umbrella
  • Pan Tau - Alarm in den Wolken (1978; GDR: Herr Tau in den Wolken); Editing of episodes 1 to 4 of season 3
  • Goodbye, Pan Tau (GDR: Mr. Tau says goodbye); Editing of episodes 5 to 7 of season 3

series

Pilot (1966)

Pan Tau - the first adventure

1st season (1970–1972):

  1. Enter Pan Tau
  2. Pan Tau in beautiful mess
  3. Pan dew in the snow
  4. Pan Tau and the long Sunday
  5. Pan Tau goes to school
  6. Pan dew and loud water
  7. Pan Tau and Claudia in the castle
  8. Pan Tau packs the suitcases
  9. Pan Tau on the road
  10. Pan Tau and Circus World
  11. Pan Tau drives a taxi
  12. Pan Tau is searched
  13. Pan Tau is back

2nd season (1975):

  1. Pan Tau belly lands
  2. Pan Tau and Robinson
  3. Pan dew in the balloon
  4. Pan Tau and the goat dog
  5. Pan Tau and the relatives
  6. Pan Tau makes curd
  7. Pan Tau is being investigated
  8. Pan dew and a few sunshine
  9. Pan Tau steps out of line
  10. Pan Tau and the hunt for the frog
  11. Pan dew and the sheet metal damage
  12. Pan Tau is rebuilding
  13. Pan Tau warped unknown

3rd season (1978–1979):

  1. Alarm in the clouds
  2. Elephant hunt
  3. I can't believe it
  4. Magic is not easy
  5. In the potatoes, out of the potatoes
  6. The swapped melon
  7. Goodbye, Pan Tau

Specials / making-of

  1. Pan Tau News (1971)
  2. How Pan Tau Does Magic (1972)

Series (2020)

A new edition of the same name should appear in 2020.

literature

  • Ota Hofman: Pan Tau: His Full Story, How He Was Lost And Found Again . Schroedel, 1977, ISBN 3-507-00417-8
  • Ota Hofman: Pan Tau . German by Ivana Meinel and Margrit Ferch. Patmos, Düsseldorf 1994, 287 pages, ISBN 3-491-37289-5
  • Srubar, Helena: Ambivalences of the Popular: Pan Tau and Co. between East and West . UVK, Konstanz 2008, 400 pages, ISBN 3-86764-047-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Zips: Mit Hirn, Charme und Melon in: Süddeutsche Zeitung from November 7, 2018.
  2. ↑ BUČKOVÁ, Tamara: Time changes, the fantasy remains or pan-tau stories in childhood from yesterday and today. In: MAIBÄRL, G .; SEIBERT, E. (Ed.) Childhood between West and East. Children's literature between the cold war and the new Europe. Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Vienna: Peter Lang Verlag, 2010. European Literature for Children and Young Adults in an Inter-Cultural Context. European children's and youth literature in an intercultural context. ISBN 978-3-0343-0560-0 . Pp. 127-138.