Saarlodris
The Saarlodris are cartoon characters that the Saarland Radio as part of the ARD -Vorabendprogramms as bumpers started by 2008.
History of origin
The cartoon family of three, consisting of father, mother and son, first went on air in November 1984.
The intellectual and artistic father of the characters is Gerhard Hahn , the head of the cartoon forge Hahn Film AG in Berlin , which also produces the cartoons about Bibi Blocksberg , Benjamin Blümchen and Werner . He designed the figures and sketched them for the first time on a beer mat. He wanted to make the green people, who wear leaves instead of hair and clothes , into the people of the “Saarland, which is characterized by its large tree population”.
In 1989 the family grew and a Saarlodri girl joined the trio in the spots from now on.
The hit duo Cindy & Bert takes care of the local painting of the short cartoons . The two singers from Saarland lend the voices to the family and let them speak or often sing in the Saarland dialect . The sound recordings were not made in Berlin, but in a studio in Homburg / Einöd . In many of the spots the Saarlodris sing songs that were also composed, written and recorded by Bert. Above all, the introductory and closing spots with which every advertising broadcast began and ended, with their songs, became a trademark of the regional evening program. The text of the most famous jingle reads:
- The saarlodris are mine,
- doh guggen 'he, ei joh,
- the mum, the babba
- and I'm ah 'still doh!
Surname
The Saarlodris got their name through the announcement of a competition in the current report , the regional news magazine of the SR. The viewers were asked to send in suggested names. The submissions included the following:
- Wusselchjer
- Shamrocks
- Schlipp-Schlapp-Schluhri
- Mäckesjer
The name ultimately chosen, "Die Saarlodris", is composed of the terms Saar and possibly Hallodri (rogue, do-not-good).
Beyond the short films
The great acceptance that the Saarlodris gained in the population over time is reflected, among other things, in the wide range of merchandising products that adorned the motifs of the green family. These include plastic figures, T-shirts and tracksuits, game balls, inflatable figures and - probably best known - the illustrated mustard jars from Amora .
To mark the ten-year anniversary of the Saarland cult figures, who had their own fan club shortly after they were first broadcast, Saarland Radio published a 30-minute video documentary by Wolfgang Felk (script, director) and Manfred Spoo (script, moderation) in 1994. on VHS cassettes.
35 years after their debut on TV, eight traffic lights with Saarlodri motifs were inaugurated in Saarbrücken . The girl symbolizes the standing traffic light man while the boy represents the walking traffic light man. Further traffic lights are to follow in the course of the year.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saarbrücken now has Saarlodri traffic lights . SR.de, July 12, 2019