Sandmännchen

Sandman ( briefly also Sandmann ) is a German children's television program that is produced since 1959. From 1959 to 1989 both a sandman at the German television (DFF ) of the GDR ( under the title Sandman ), and in the ARD in the Federal Republic of Germany was in a divided Germany produced and sent ( under the title Sandman ), two different programs, the lot had in common. Since the German reunification, the Sandman of the former DFF by Rundfunk Berlin -Brandenburg will continue to be produced and broadcast in the evening programs of the RBB, the MDR and the KiKA on behalf of ARD. Seeing this show was and is for toddlers in many German households a ritual before bedtime.

The literary figure of the sandman has been known for centuries for various stories, for example by ETA Hoffmann, Hans Christian Andersen Ole Lukøje. Signified in all television series as a stop-motion animated cartoon doll, the literary text according to a small man with a white beard. It appears in a frame story before or after a child-friendly short film and scatters at the end of every show his sleeping sand to give pleasant dreams to children.

• 3.1 Short films
• 3.2 song

Children bedtime stories was read and is a tradition. Also radio stations picked up on it in the postwar period. Evening song was called Ilse Obrigs radio show in Berlin Radio. In the GDR radio the Sandman went for the first time on May 19, 1956 broadcast. In the German television (DFF ) of the evening greeting was from October 8, 1958 from it. The idea for a television Sandmann had the originator, changed from the DFF to the western Sender Freies Berlin. Together with the doll designer and author Johanna Schüppel developed Ilse magistrates early 1958 a simple little hand puppet. But before Sandman Greeting for children on December 1, 1959 appeared on the SFB - screen, the DFF sent on November 22, 1959 Sandman - the local television producers had learned from a Western Sandman. On October 29, 1962, the Western Sandman appeared in NDR, SFB and HR. Herbert K. Schulz it produced until 1985 in 80 episodes ( and about 1500 movies for bedtime stories ). In the 1960s and 1970s, the WDR shone in his third program also made a sandman broadcast.

For thirty years, there were two or three Sandman - one for the East and one or two for the West, where Gina Ruck- PAUQUET is responsible for many stories.

Sandman (DFF )

When the TV producers of the German Television in Berlin- Adlershof had heard under the former TV Chef Walter Heynowski from the plans of the CRC to produce a Sandman, had the set and costume designer Gerhard Behrendt the desired sandman figure in just two weeks with sophisticated animation technology bring about. The scenes and the numerous vehicles built Harald Serowski. The studio was up to the turn in Berlin- Mahlsdorf. After work, the Sandman fell asleep in the first episode on a street corner. The charisma of this scene - it was November 22 - led to protests from parents. Many children will have the Sandman in letters offered their beds.

In the summer of 1960 he received its final shape with 24 cm size and the typical beard until today. Then Sandman consequences emerged with varied content - scenes of everyday life, traveling the Sandman to distant (usually socialist ) countries and even into space ( among others traveled the Sandman with the Lunokhod on the moon ), fairy tale scenes but also scenes with strong political content, such as Visit the Sandman at the National people's Army, the border troops along the Oder and Neisse rivers or in the pioneer summer camp. The Sandman had a rich fleet with some very conventional, partly also very futuristic vehicles. As the Sandman in an episode arrived with a hot air balloon, however, there was anger and function, this episode was banned by the SED - two families two days earlier had fled with a homemade hot air balloon from Thuringia to Bavaria.

In all the stories of the East- Sandmännchens an imaging device or the like happens on the end of the greeting of the Sandman is zoomed in, bringing the daily bedtime story begins. Until a few years after German reunification, the word Abendgruß appeared at the beginning of history in school starting writing on the screen. At the end of each episode the Sandman scattered the children still a large handful of sleeping sand in the eye and waved goodbye.

The evening greeting

In the short films ( Abendgruß ), which were enclosed by the frame story, published numerous figures: for example Pittiplatsch and Schnatterinchen ( a goblin and a duck ) and Moppi ( a dog ), Mr. Fox and Mrs. Elster, Flax and crumbs, Punch and Gretel Anne Marie and Brummel, dots and Felix, Rolf and Reni, Borstel ( a hedgehog ), or later thud ( a water imp ) and the chick achieved cult status. Others were, for example, from November 23, 1955 Champion Stamp ( Heino Winkler ), Tadeusz point Tintin, Master bottleneck ( Eckart Friedrichson ) or woman Puppendoktor pill ( "the pill with the great wise glasses woman Puppendoktor " led to parent complaints because of rhyme, why this was changed to 'with the big round glasses "). Many of these figures were also found in other children's programs on GDR television as Visiting in Wonderland.

The evening greeting Stories - 1966 for the first time in color - followed a fixed weekly schedule. Some stories remained for decades always on the same day (for example, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday). In the 1980s, the weekly schedule of the stories presented like this:

• Mon: different ( 1980: Traffic Compass ( kid version ) with little boots & Compass Kalle )
• Tues: tell stories of joy and hard work - professions are presented suitable for children
• Mi: different ( 1980: Woman Puppendoktor pill dots and Felix, Taddeus point, Gertrude and Buddelflink )
• Do: thud
• Fri: Songs playground - play kindergartners and sing
• Sat: Pittiplatsch and Schnatterinchen in Wonderland with Moppi
• To: Mr. Fox and Mrs. Elster

On the customary evening greeting history is omitted from the television of the GDR, when a high state and party official, was in the GDR or allied countries, died. In their place, then musicians were shown, played funeral music.

The Sandman Song

The composer Wolfgang Richter was - in the great haste in which the Shipment was prepared - to the text (see talk page ), which derives from Walter Krumbach, said to be dictated on the phone and created the melody in just one evening in three hours. By experts, the song was considered too complicated for children and was therefore really only as a last resort.

The song had at times of television in the GDR before the evening greeting two, after the evening greeting a verse. In abbreviated form ( one stanza before the short film ), it applies to the present day use.

The Sandman of the DFF in the literature

The writer and playwright Rudi beam wrote in 1963 - shortly after the broadcast of the evening greeting - the children's book Sandman on the lighthouse island, which was illustrated by Eberhard binder and is applied to the present day from the children's book publisher in Berlin.

Sandman (ARD, 1959-1989 )

The Sandman the SFB was the DFF on 1 December 1959 a few weeks after the launch of its counterparts - broadcast for the first time in the Federal Republic. The Sandman came with a cloud is hovering, or even with an aircraft whose orange body was the race car Porsche 908/ 03 modeled, and said, " Now, dear children, pay attention, I've brought you something. " The Sandman doll was animated by Rosemarie Küssner. The show was set on 31 March 1989.

Short Films

In the short films of the West German Sandman, for example, were figures on how Piggeldy and Frederick, the two pigs. Here, a question of the curious, the younger of the great narrative was answered, starting with the standard introduction " Nothing easier than that! ". Each story ended with the conclusion "... and Piggeldy went with Frederick home."

The Augsburg Puppet Theatre ( with figures such as squid Klecksi, the Almbewohnern Beppo and Peppi, the Knights Cunibert and Heiner and announcer Hilde Nocker with Teddy and Puppi ), then Janosch, Gina Ruck- PAUQUET and James Kruss made ​​contributions.

Song

The melody wrote Kurt Drabek, the text was written by Helga Mauersberger the Norddeutscher Rundfunk, was also responsible for the production of the format. The individual episodes were produced until 1985, led by the Herbert K. Schulz ( 1926-1985 ) Company " cinetrick ".

The early 1980s was still a second, instrumental Sandman song that came with the new Sandman - productions are used, which were produced until 1989.

More Sandman variants

In the 1970s there was a WDR broadcast entitled Sandman international, in the overall story was not rotated as puppet, but with real actors. Between 1982 and 1987, the puppeteer Rudolf Fischer turned 60 episodes of the film series, Felix and Felicity as a mixture of puppets, marionettes and masque; all figures are now in the collection of dolls Pavilion Bensberg, and in part on the stage in use.

In Austria there were indeed the same figure as in the ARD, but instead of the " Sandman song" referred to in the Alpine republic 's bedtime Wolkenwagerl male came to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata in A Major, K. 331, the beginning of the 1st movement, Andante grazioso, traveled to the 1960s and 1970s living room.

The children should also be careful not "fine", but "good", and at the end it said " Good-bye and good night ."

Sandman after 1990

After the change in the GDR was to decide on a new program scheme at the former GDR television because the DFF from December 1990 instead of two programs could only broadcast one. DFF 1 should be set and the frequencies of the two DFF now " DFF countries chain " hot program will be broadcast in the future. It should, and was carried to the viewing habits of the audience into account and also on the transmission date of the Sandman at 18:50 clock in the DFF countries chain and a second date in the ARD regional programs held on the frequencies of the former DFF 1. In many cases these program reduction was mistakenly interpreted as a complete setting of the DFF television broadcasts for autumn 1990. In addition, there were rumors of the SFB would cost reasons, dispense with the continuation of the Sandman and looking for a cheaper replacement. In addition, the Sandman fell on Sunday, 14 October 1990, because it was reported extensively on the same day, held the first elections in the five new federal states.

All this together sparked a wave of protests that were mainly directed against the radio officer of the DFF, Rudolf Mühlfenzl, straightened. This denied these allegations from well immediately and explained the existence of the Sandman on the 1991 addition to his personal concerns. Thus, the Evening Greeting remained, even as the DFF on 31 December 1991 ceased its transmit mode, receive the spectators in the MDR and ORB. With the German unit accounted for the second verse of the Sandman song, because there the television broadcasting is mentioned, the short time was disbanded later.

As part of the division of tasks within the ARD, the ORB was later RBB entrusted with the sandman. The sandman was produced after the turn of the newly founded Sandman Animation Studio GmbH, which has yet to Mahlsdorf produced in the old studio, then to Adlershof and eventually moved into the Babelsberg Film Park in a glass studio.

Since 1999, the sandman can be seen online with plastic face.

Today, the Sandman in the NDR is running in the MDR, RBB and especially since January 1, 1997 KiKA. Among the well-known figures of the DFF Sandmännchens as Pittiplatsch and Schnatterinchen or Mr. Fox and Mrs. Elster new characters like Kalli, Three Little sleuths, the super-cool South Pole gear, Ebb and Flo, Raven sock, Miffy and The Little King joined. Also figures of the West German Sandmännchens as Piggeldy and Frederick were integrated into the program of the United sandman. Besides repetitions politically neutral and newly set to music Sandman consequences of DFF new framework handles the Sandman were produced. These are manufactured since 1999, no longer as mere puppet animation films, but with the help of computer animation.

With the merger of the ORB and SFB for RBB The Sandman was a co-production of RBB, NDR and MDR, although the lead was taken over by RBB. This since September 2007 sends the Sandman 16:9. MDR and KiKa followed.

In Babelsberg Film Park was dedicated from the fairy tale forest own large exhibition twelve years the Sandman, its history, its vehicles and the above figures. Since autumn 2009, the 50th anniversary of The Sandman, is the exhibition at the Filmmuseum Potsdam. In Babelsberg Film Park in April 2010 opened a new exhibition that The Sandman with the Sandman movie - Adventure deals in dreamland.

In 2006, the Children's Channel of the Arab news station Al -Jazeera acquired 78 Sandman Follow RBB. However, Al Jazeera finished the decrease of the broadcast material in connection with the dispute over the Islamic remarks by Pope Benedict XVI.

Since October 2012 Sandman consequences, and other materials are also available free of charge via a mobile app for smartphones and tablet computers.

Importance

For the great majority of the German population each "their" version of the Sandman or Sandman is a cherished part of childhood for many, both versions.

When Sigmund Jähn 1978 flew into space as the first German, he led with a sandman doll. His Soviet colleague brought the Soviet television doll Masha, the two cosmonauts aboard the space station celebrated a spontaneous " Dolls Wedding ". The representatives of the GDR television noticed horrified the Sandman should have but not a woman.

Among children in the two German states, the Sandman of your own or of the other transmitter were very popular. This resulted in the kindergartens of the GDR isolated fishing expeditions to the children. If the children were to describe or paint the Sandman in the GDR Kindergartens, it soon became clear that television was seen in the parental home.

Merchandising

There was (already in the GDR ) and are numerous merchandising products for Sandman, including dolls and a postcard series called The Sandman traveling.

After the fall of the Sandman was similar to the Ampelmännchen an important advertising medium of nostalgia wave and several East German firms competed and advertise their products to the East Sandman. So in the 1990s produced the Thuringian dairy company Osterland Abendgruß Children yogurt on whose lids different Sandmann motifs were seen. Mid-1990s were published under the title sandman Dummies several CDs on which sound bites of GDR figures were backed by techno. Among the CDs Oh were my nose with Pittiplatsch and Schnatterinchen and the fox walking through the forest with Mr. Fox and Mrs. Elster.

Many consequences of Sandman, but also of the Sandman from 1959 to 1989 produced by the SFB were released on DVD.

The Sandman in the cinema

• In the movie Good Bye, Lenin! are to see original footage of the Dolls Wedding of Sandy 's in space.

• 2009 was produced for the 50th anniversary of a Sandman movie. The Sandman - Adventures in Dreamland is based on the presentation of the DFF Sandman and was also realized in stop-motion technique. Volker Lechtenbrink lent his voice to the sandman. Ilja Richter will be heard as Habumar and Anke Engelke sang for the movie a lullaby. The film came on 30 September 2010 at the rental Falcom Media in the German cinemas. The film was produced by Scopas Medien AG in co -production with RBB, MDR, NDR, KiKA and Amuse Films SA, Paris. Was directed by Sinem Sakaoglu and Jesper Møller. The screenplay was written by Katharina Reschke and Jan Strathmann. The production was supported by funding from DFFF - German Federal Film Fund, Media Board Berlin- Brandenburg, Hessen Invest Film, Medium German Media (MDM ), FFA - Federal Film Board, MFG Baden- Württemberg, the Hamburg Film Fund Schleswig -Holstein ( FFHSH ) and the German - French film funding agreement Minitraité.