Sandman
| Television broadcast | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Sandman |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 1959-1989 |
| Production company |
SFB |
| length | 10 mins |
| genre | Children's series |
| First broadcast | December 1, 1959 on German television |
Sandmännchen was a German children's program that was produced from 1959 to 1989 by the Sender Freies Berlin .
background
The literary figure of the Sandman has been known for centuries from various stories, for example The Sandman by ETA Hoffmann or Hans Christian Andersen's Ole Lukøje . According to the literary model, the cartoon doll is a small man with a white beard. It appears in a framework before or after a child-friendly short film and at the end of each program it sprinkles its sleeping sand in order to give the children pleasant dreams. It is shown as a stop-motion animation.
From 1946, evening song was the name of a radio broadcast by Ilse Obrig on the Berlin radio . At the beginning of 1958, Obrig developeda simple little hand puppet for a television adaptationtogether with the doll designer and author Johanna Schüppel . But before Sandman's Greetings for Children appeared on the screen on December 1, 1959, the German TV broadcaster (DFF) in the GDR broadcast the first episode of Our Sandman on November 22, 1959- the television makers there had learned about the SFB's plans and at short notice developed its own broadcast concept. On October 29, 1962, the SFB-Sandmännchen also appeared in the NDR and HR programs.
Sandman was discontinued on March 31, 1989 after the individual broadcasters of the ARD had gradually removed it from the program since 1984. The later takeover of the DFF sandman in the ARD program was not foreseeable at that time.
concept
The SFB's Sandman was broadcast for the first time in Germany on December 1, 1959, nine days after its counterpart at DFF started . The sandman came floating in with a cloud, or with an aircraft, the orange body of which was modeled on the Porsche 908/03 racing car , and said: “Well, dear children, take care, I brought you something.” The sandman- The doll was animated by Rosemarie Küssner .
Short films
In the short films of the Sandman, for example, characters such as Piggeldy and Frederick , the two pigs, appeared. Here, a question from the curious, younger of the great was answered narratively, starting with the standard introduction “Nothing easier than that!”. Each story ended with the ending "... and Piggeldy went home with Frederick".
The Augsburger Puppenkiste (with figures like octopus Klecksi, the alpine residents Beppo and Peppi, the knights Kunibert and Heiner and the announcer Hilde Nocker with Teddy and Puppi), then Janosch , Gina Ruck-Pauquèt and James Krüss made contributions.
song
The melody was written by Kurt Drabek , the text was written by Helga Mauersberger from Norddeutscher Rundfunk, who was also responsible for producing the format. The individual episodes were produced until 1985 by the “cinetrick” company headed by Herbert K. Schulz (1926–1985).
In the early 1980s, a second, instrumental Sandman song was created, which was used in new Sandman productions that were produced until 1989.
variants
In the 1960s and 1970s, WDR also broadcast a sandman program in its third program . In the 1970s there was also a broadcast on WDR called Sandmännchen international , in which the framework story was not shot as a puppet trick, but with real actors. Between 1982 and 1987 the puppeteer Rudolf Fischer shot 60 episodes of the Felix und Felizitas film series as a mixture of hand puppet, marionette and mask play; all of the figures are now in the collection of the Bensberg Puppet Pavilion and some of them are still in use on the stage.
In Austria there was the same figure as on ARD, but instead of the "Sandmännchen-Lied", the Wolkenwagerl-Männchen , known in the Alpine republic as Betthupferl , came to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata in A major, KV 331 , beginning of the 1st movement, Andante grazioso, traveled to the 1960s and 1970s living room. The children shouldn't pay attention to “fine” either, but “good”, and at the end it was said “Goodbye and good night”.
The Swiss television broadcast De Tag isch vergange from 1968 until the late 1970s .
See also
- Around the world in 80 days , a puppet cartoon from 1972 that wasbroadcastas part of the Sandman .
literature
- Wolfgang Hensel, Gerd J. Pohl (preface): Kasper's way from east to west . Memories of the Pirna puppeteers. Roehl, Dettelbach 2008, ISBN 978-3-89754-301-0 ( reading sample as PDF, 26 pages; 2.25 MB - memoirs of the real creator of the sandman (West)).
- Volker Petzold: The sandman . Everything about our TV star. Edel Edition, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-941378-06-3 .
- Volker Petzold: The great east-west sandman lexicon . 1st edition. Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg (vbb), Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86650-475-2 .
- Christoph Classen (2009): The Sandman. In: Martin Sabrow (Ed.): Memories of the GDR. Munich: CH Beck, pp. 342-350.
Web links
- Sandman at fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b East and West Sandman together in the museum . In: Der Tagesspiegel , December 3, 2008
- ↑ a b welt-des-wissens.com 50 years of children's television on welt-des-wissens.com
- ↑ The Sandman in: Das Fernsehlexikon
- ↑ Mozart Piano Sonata in A major, KV 331 ( MID ; 61 kB) - Sandman music on ORF