Rappelkiste
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Rappelkiste |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 1973-1984 |
| length | 30 minutes |
| Episodes | 160 |
| genre | Children's program |
| First broadcast | September 30, 1973 on ZDF |
Rappelkiste was a German children's television series that was broadcast on ZDF on Sundays at 2 p.m. from 1973 to 1984 . Their target audience were preschoolers. The first of a total of 160 episodes (30 minutes each) was broadcast on September 30, 1973. Especially in the 1970s, the series achieved high ratings . For the 1973/74 season, the director Elmar Maria Lorey received the Adolf Grimme Silver Prize in 1975 .
The Rappelkiste still serves as the namesake for day-care centers, playhouses, theater groups and other facilities for children. The variant of a traditional counting rhyme from the opening credits of the series has also passed into general usage : Ene mene miste, it rattelt in the box (...), ene mene meck, and you're gone.
style
The Rappelkiste was one of the first children's programs on German television to be explicitly designed as an educational program. In keeping with the spirit of the times, which was strongly influenced by the 1968 movement , it represented an anti-authoritarian , emancipatory reform pedagogy and was primarily aimed at children from non-privileged backgrounds . In the 1970s, the authors often took up socially taboo topics such as sexuality and unemployment, called for equal opportunities and criticized social inequality , capitalist property relations, war but also, in general, the values and habits of the bourgeoisie . In this context, children of Turkish guest workers were also seen early in one episode or another. B. how they taught their German friends Turkish.
The magazine-like programs consisted of several components that approached the topic of the respective episode in different ways. The focus was on real films with easy-to-understand stories. In addition, elements of animation and puppetry as well as grotesques were incorporated . A learning target song, sung by Ratz and Rübe , got the message of the episode in a nutshell.
The children in the series solved everyday problems or fulfilled their wishes by cooperating with one another, helping the weaker, undoing prohibitions that were perceived as unjust or nonsensical and making the adults around them think. In doing so, they usually acted in solidarity and in a logically understandable manner, while the behavior of many adults was portrayed as selfish and unreflective, with the exception of a few well-liked people. The representatives of bourgeois institutions (such as teachers, policemen, politicians, industrialists or officers) often appeared as unsympathetic, clichéd caricatures, which were ultimately duped and ridiculed by the self-confident children.
criticism
Contemporary criticism was directed u. a. against the family image conveyed by the broadcast. So was z. B. offended by the fact that the dolls Ratz and Rübe grew up with only one parent each, who was also of a different gender than themselves.
Some of the consequences were vehement protests from conservatives, such as Vom Bauen und Wohnen (1975), because when his son asked why he had to pay so much rent, the working-class father replied that this was the only way the landlord could buy his wife a beautiful mink coat . While well-meaning comments (“Do not harm the children”) remained in the minority, the allegations ranged from “inciting conflict” to “manipulating preschool children” and “perfidious indoctrination” to “poisoning our children”.
Appreciation
The Rappelkiste was an educational television project with a socio-political agenda. It corresponded to the ideas of emancipatory TV designers who tried to use children's television to provide information and social education.
In 1984 the production of the Rappelkiste was stopped.
Awards
- The director Elmar Maria Lorey received the Adolf Grimme Prize with silver in 1975 for the 1973/74 season.
- For the four-part film Metin , which was broadcast as part of the Rappelkiste , Thomas Draeger was awarded the Gold Adolf Grimme Prize in 1980 for directing.
Others
- In the song Rappelkistenkids from the 1998 album of the same name, the hip-hop band Anarchist Academy tells about what they consider to be a positive influence of the show on their childhood development.
characters
- Ratz and Rübe ( snap-mouth figures , spoken and sung by Kristov Brändli and Rita Ziegler )
- Rappel with the boxes (the series is named after)
- Oswin and Nickel (grotesques, played by Michael Habeck and Eberhard Peiker )
- The Ompis (clay figures)
- The building blocks
DVD
The first 56 episodes of the television series were released on DVD in 2011 and 2016.
Web links
- Rappelkiste on fernsehserien.de, broadcast dates, episode guides etc.
- Critical audience mail from the 70s (including about the Rappelkiste)
- Commentary on the ZDF children's program at the time
- Internet broadcast RetroTV, etc. a. for the series Rappelkiste, with excerpts and background information
- Stretching like a jumping jack . In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 1974, p. 124-126 ( Online - Jan. 14, 1974 ).
swell
- ↑ Supplement songs from the Rappelkiste and two ballads for children, Polygram 1973
- ↑ Eene Meene Miste, it rattles in the box ( Memento from December 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Metropolico , August 20, 2012
- ↑ Hörzu No. 13/1975 , p. 8
- ↑ Hörzu No. 12/1975 , p. 121
- ↑ Lyrics on hiphoplyrics.de. Retrieved July 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Rappelkiste episode 1-28, new edition of the cult series available from today , July 29, 2016