Die Sendung mit der Maus ( The Show with the Mouse ) is a very famous children's series on German television that has been called "state school ". The show was first aired on 7 March 1971. Originally called Lach-und Sachgeschichten fÃÆ'¼r FernsehanfÃÆ'¤nger ("Laughter Story and Learning for Beginners Television"), it is controversial because German law prohibits television for children. children under six years. years of age. The program was initially criticized by teachers and childcare professionals as bad for the development of children, but is now praised for its ability to convey information to children. The show has received more than 75 awards. The first doctoral dissertation on this program was written in 1991. On 7 March 1999 the program's Internet site was launched and received 2,400 e-mails and 4 million clicks on the first day.
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Format
Aimed at small children, the program has a magazine format, with some segments, some funny, others education presented in a simple and straightforward manner. Many early viewers of the show now are adults whose children form the second generation of viewers. Not infrequently the children watch the show with their parents or children stop watching around the age of 10 or 12 years and then back at the age of 18 years. German newspaper Welt am Sonntag found that although the target age is about four to eight years, the average age of viewers is 39.
Each show consists of several segments, Lachgeschichten purely for entertaining, and Sachgeschichten ("non-fiction stories"), short educational features on various topics, such as what to do before the plane can take off or how the hole gets into Swiss cheese or stripes into toothpaste. It's punctuated by a short cartoon with a mouse, often with one or more of his friends.
Mouse-spot
- An orange mouse (with brown ears, arms, and legs). To solve his problem (German:, dead Maus ") can stretch his legs as long as he wants, jump rope with his torn tail or tools taken from his body.
- The elephant is blue (with yellow toenails) and is smaller than the mouse. He can be characterized as intriguing, very strong, spontaneous and faithful.When he appears on stage he has a hard trumpet.He likes to sleep, or laughs when the mouse has done error, He appears in many Mouse Places.
- The yellow duck (with orange beak and toe), smaller than the mouse but larger than the elephant, so its size is the opposite of its true counterpart. The duck was mischievous, always when he (German: ,, died Ente ") appeared on stage, ,, the chaos came to the stage". He is rarer in the mouse than elephant.
Introduction
The show begins with theme music, unchanged since 1971 and is recognized throughout the German population. The introduction consists of several German theme and voice-over bars that illustrate topics in the week's events. The voice was then repeated in a foreign language. Initially, Turkish, Spanish and Italian are used, to include children of foreign guest workers, but now, other languages ​​are also used. Foreign languages ​​change every week. After the theme music ends, a foreign language is identified.
Interlude animation
Between the event segments are "mouse spots", hand-drawn cartoons of 30 to 100 seconds featuring orange mice and their friends, small blue elephants and yellow ducks. None of the characters spoke. Instead, sound effects and music consist of soundtracks when characters interact and solve problems. An animated interrupt serves to segment the segment, offering young viewers a moment to relax, avoiding sensory overload of input input too quickly.
Educational film shorts
The idea for a short educational film comes from one of the founders of the series, who noticed that children are very aware of the advertisements on television. They were very well made with excellent photography and he got the idea of ​​making "advertising" about reality. The first production answered the question, "Where did that hard roll come from?" About 400 letters a week arrive at the production office, and most of each show is used for such features, often answering questions asked by viewers. Segments cover topics such as:
- A reusable hand warmup works
- How the Internet works
- How to fly air balloon
- How to make electricity from lemons, enough to light a light bulb
- How the phone works
- How the solar cell works
A "Rat" toy doll flies into outer space and becomes a "guest" above the Russian Mir space station, where it appears in the education segment. The toy doll is then brought back to the producers on earth.
A number of educational segments have also dealt with difficult topics, such as life in Germany after World War II, Chernobyl nuclear disaster and death. Care is taken to explain things in ways that little children can understand. Analogy is used to explain concepts, and often everyday stuff is known to most children used to illustrate. For example, the segments at the Teutoburg Battle Forest were produced using Playmobil figures to represent the three Roman legions involved, totaling 16,500 troops. Wanting to say how much strength it was, the program bought 16,500 Playmobil toys and dressed it as a Roman soldier, lining them into columns as they would appear in real life. Column of toy soldiers took 200 meters. The Roman legion of this toy is now housed in three museums in different parts of Germany.
Segments on the internet showed messengers running through the hallways of large buildings, delivering messages in envelopes (packets of data) from users to the server and back. The hallways represent the data path and its offices are internet dwellers. In just eight minutes, the program accurately described how the Internet functions in a way that is simple enough for children to understand. In the case of things produced by the industry, each step is shown in great detail, so one can see how, for example, a piece of metal is formed by a tool. If something happens too fast for the naked eye it is shown filmed in slow motion. After each step, usually the previous steps including the new ones are briefly summarized to help the children remember what they have seen. The concept that is not visible is completely explained by some form of analogue depiction.
Thus, the language used in the narrative is kept very simple. Segments are usually narrated by off-camera sound. Short sentence. "Big words" are not used, and concepts are difficult to describe and explain when they are being displayed on camera. It is designed to liberate children from more abstract concepts and language tools, thereby giving their mind space to understand the concepts described rather than having to struggle to understand explanatory language. Nevertheless, short film education is an effective presentation like their subject matter, a number of them are used as teaching tools at universities and colleges.
Cartoon
Each show also has at least one cartoon. Some old classics, like Moll Zden'k Miler adventures or new cartoons, like Charlie and Lola.
KÃÆ'¤pt'n BlaubÃÆ'¤r
As the last part of every show, KÃÆ'¤pt'n BlaubÃÆ'¤r (Captain Bluebear) tells his pink, green, and yellow grandchildren about the rooster and bull story, which his grandson always doubted as a reality. The sailor's side-kick, Hein BlÃÆ'¶d, a mouse, is created as a clown, a tool that allows freedom for his character to express things that other characters can not do. The characters KÃÆ'¤pt'n BlaubÃÆ'¤r, his grandchildren, and Hein BlÃÆ'¶d were created by Walter Moers and popularized by Moers' book, The 13Ã,½ Lives of Captain Bluebear and BlaubÃÆ'¤r's appearance at Die Sendung mit der Maus . KÃÆ'¤pt'n BlaubÃÆ'¤r is voiced by German veteran actor Wolfgang VÃÆ'¶lz, with a deep timbre and accent from Lower Germany common in the coastal regions of Germany. The scene on board the BlaubÃÆ'¤r ship is made with Muppets style dolls, while the story is a short animated film.
Shaun das Schaf
KÃÆ'¤pt'n BlaubÃÆ'¤r is sometimes replaced or equipped with a stop-action animation, Shaun the Sheep ("Shaun das Schaf"), and one episode of The Mouse show a visit to Aardman Animations, show how Shaun is produced. This short educational film, broken into segments due to its complexity and length, shows the various stages of production and the amount of work required to create an episode of Shaun . The episode Shaun seen in production is then broadcast in the finished state at the end of the Mouse .
Schnappi
One episode featured a small crocodile named Schnappi (Snappy) who sang about his life in Egypt on the Nile. The song was circulating in Germany and became a hit in other countries as well.
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Awards
Die Sendung mit der Maus and its creators continue to receive high praise from television critics and pedagogists. The most prominent of the approximately 75 awards won by the show and its creators are:
- 1973 Bambi Gold
- 1985 Ernst Schneider Award
- 1988 Adolf Grimme Award in Gold
- 1993 Deutscher Fernsehpreis, special gift
- 1995 Bayerischer Fernsehpreis was awarded for Postwar Mouse (Armin Maiwald)
- 1995 Order of Excesses of the Federal Republic of Germany to Armin Maiwald and Christoph Biemann
- 1996 Goldene Camera
- 2002 Ernst Schneider Award
- 2005 Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Journalism of Science
- IQ 2006 Award
International version
The program is now visible in nearly 100 countries.
In countries outside of Germany carrying an English version of the show, Die Sendung mit der Maus airs under the title Mouse TV . The program retains many of its original formats, but the dialogue and narration have been dubbed into English. The English version was created in Australia and has been shown on the following networks:
- Astro TVIQ in Malaysia and Brunei
- ABC TV (Australia)
- Indonesia
To encourage French children to learn German and vice versa, the program began airing on arte, French-German television channel, on Sunday morning, starting in October 2005. In Germany, the show is dubbed into French and in every country, text appears in the local language. In France, this program is called La souris souriante ( Smiling Mice ). In Bolivia and in El Salvador, the show is shown in Spanish as El cajÃÆ'³n de los juguetes ( Toybox ).
In Japan, some short films are broadcast by NHK ETV as Daisuki! Mausu (????! ???) as part of bilateral exchange program "2005/2006 Deutschland in Japan" between WDR and NHK.
Spin-off
The elephant show is a spin-off devoted to preschoolers, which began in 2007 and consists mostly of small stories, songs and games.
References
Further reading
- Sophie von Lenthe, Mouse Book - The Story of Laughter and the Best Sacher "Broadcasting with the Mouse" Publisher Zabert Sandmann GmbH, Munich (2000) First edition. ISBN 3- 932023-61-7
- Just ask... mouse! Most frequently asked questions to the mouse . cbj, Munich (2005) ISBN 978-3-570-13094-0
- Christoph Biemann, Christophs Experiments Weltbild GmbH, Augsburg. ISBN 978-3-8289-6116-6
External links
- Christoph Biemann's Deutsch web pages
- Mouse broadcasts on IMDb
- Program with mouse , Homepage official (in German)
- Program with mouse podcast
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