Quiesel
Quiesel is the name of a fictional character who, since the 1980s, has been using teaching materials in the Reading, Reading, Reading and Building Blocks German series from the Moritz Diesterweg publishing house for German lessons at primary school and as a felt hand puppet, which has been used by the teacher to emotionally involve students in the Lessons made easier. The figure consists of a blue body without a detached head, with green arms and legs, a red beak, and light yellow hair and slightly darker ears. The Quiesel serves as a funny identification figure. The name "Quiesel" was deliberately chosen to make it easier for school beginners to learn the digraphs qu and ie . Some teachers give the Quiesel doll out of their hands for a few minutes during class to reward particularly attentive students. He is then allowed to read a text passage out loud, so to speak.
From 1981 to 1985 and 1990 to 1991, stories for the first reading age appeared under the series title Quiesel books , which were temporarily sold in a box as a Quiesel library . After a series of retellings of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, published in 1981, there followed thematically related series with stories by well-known children's book authors such as Irina Korschunow , Gina Ruck-Pauquèt or Marieluise Bernhard von Luttitz . In 1990 the series was taken up again under the theme “Through the year with Quiesel”, each volume in this series described Quiesel's experiences in a particular month, and some of the pamphlet ribbons were transferred in Braille for blind students . This series has been reissued since 2003.
literature
- Quiesel hand puppet, Frankfurt am Main, 2003, ISBN 3-42511917-6