Peter Lustig

Peter Fritz Willi Lustig ( born October 27, 1937 in Breslau) is a German television presenter and children's author. He became known as the star of the children's series dandelion (1979-1980: dandelion ) and in the middle.

Life

Peter Lustig is a qualified radio engineer and studied electrical engineering after training. After graduating, he began with the U.S. radio station AFN to work as a sound engineer, later he went to the SFB. There he wrote the way radio plays, was a lecturer at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin, responsible for the tone of the film recording of John F. Kennedy's speech Ich bin ein Berliner front of the Rathaus Schöneberg and Günter Grass film adaptation of cat and mouse and also worked in the Beautiful Weltlaterne in Berlin Motz.

1973 Peter Lustig joined the program with the mouse in Einspielern titled Peter and Atze on, in which he explained together with the robot bird Atze technology (eg phone or door bell). Thereafter, he hosted the jackalope newsreel for Bayerischer Rundfunk. When a television production for broadcast Dandelion 1979 at ZDF Lustig was discovered as a presenter and actor. He remained so even after the renaming of the consignment in dandelions. Peter Lustig in 1980 and 1982 awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize.

Peter Lustig was a member in the 1980s, the Osho-/Bhagwan-Bewegung until its founder died in 1990. In his second marriage he was married to Elfie Donnelly ( author inter alia of Benjamin Blümchen ), which also was a student of Osho and with whom he has a son ( Momme Pavi ). Donnelly wrote the children's book Peter's escape over the flight of eight -year-old Peter from Wroclaw.

1984 Peter Lustig ill from lung cancer, which was treated in seven surgeries and left him only one lung left. During his hospitalization, he wrote letters to his son, child-friendly, as the children's book titled Dear Momme - published Whimsical letters.

In 2004 launched the animated series mammoth country that originated in a German -French- British cooperation. Peter Lustig edited the German version of the show and said the inventor. The series takes place on an island where the people keep mammoths as working animals. Making the characters in each episode thematically related inventions and explain physical relationships.

Due to health restrictions Peter Lustig announced on 23 March 2005 announced its withdrawal into private life at. On 16 October 2005, he was seen in the Dandelion feature film Journey to the adventure of the 25th anniversary of the series. This was followed in November and December of the same year four last new episodes; next -mentioned film a total of 197 episodes with Peter Lustig arising on ZDF. He also appeared in the episode of life - time travel in Bärstadt ( Original Air Date on October 28, 2007) as a guest together with his successor Guido Hammes driving on.

Peter Lustig wrote a book about the dubbing of films, among others, and participated in two craft books as well as the book series to dandelion. In addition, there is of him the art - comic How does a car?, He has drawn in response to this question of his son. He also borrowed in the computer game series of the same name Willy Werkel the tinkerer and inventor in the first four games of his voice.

On September 4, 2007, he by Federal President Horst Köhler was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

2012 launched a " Peter -Funny- exhibition", as informed the traveling exhibition on technical inventions. The show premiered on Saturday, 28 April 2012 at the Museum of Technology Freudenberg ( Westphalia).

Together with his wife Astrid mountains Peter Lustig now lives in Berlin.

Honors

Writings

• Peter Lustig, Theo Kerp: The hamsters come. vgs, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-8025-5020- X.
• Peter Lustig: How does a car? Peter Lustig art comic. Maier, Ravensburg 1983, ISBN 3-473-35565-8.
• Peter Lustig: In the head lights are still on. vgs, Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-8025-5024-2.
• Peter Lustig, Burckhardt Mönter: Peter Lustig's crafting book. Volume 1, vgs, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-8025-5036-6.
• Peter Lustig, Burckhardt Mönter: Peter Lustig's crafting book. Volume 2, vgs, Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-8025-5041-2.
• Peter Lustig, Gerhard Auer Lech: dubbing. The tone to the images. Slide, film and video. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1987, ISBN 3-499-17189-9.
• Peter Lustig, Sabine Damke: The firefighter, nobody wanted to have more. W. Mann, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-926740-01-9.
• Peter Lustig, Sophie Brandes, et al: The snowman who wanted to travel. W. Mann, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-926740-02-7.
• Peter Lustig: Dear Momme - Whimsical letters. W. Mann, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-926740-16-7.
• Peter Lustig: cookbook for little gourmets. W. Mann, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-926740-04-3.