Emm wie Meikel

Emm as Meikel was a comedy television series for older children with real actors and the doll ' Meikel cats old man ' or ' Mausegreis '.

Series data

The NDR produced the series after the doll design and book by Manfred Tesch. Wolfgang Buresch talked and played Meikel cats old man, as co- facilitators acted successively Marion Michael ( five episodes), Andrea Bergmann ( three episodes) and Hanni Vanhaiden. Later reinforced a shaggy, blue Yeti the moderator team.

The series ran once a month on Monday afternoons. In July and August 1983 20 abridged episodes were repeated.

A special episode was part of the annual series We are waiting for the Christ Child 's broadcast. It played the puppet master, Rudolf Fischer, a talking and wandering tree. Fischer had become known as a television puppeteer especially by his performance in The sparrow from Wallraf Square and had already worked together with Buresch in numerous other productions.

Meikel ( Mausegreis ) Cats old man

In the first two episodes was the main person still Meikel Mausegreis and saw something like a somewhat dated Mickey Mouse with a white beard, which had an interview with the then government spokesman Klaus Bölling in January 1975. In response, the Cologne TV colleagues complained to the NDR, which produced the program with the mouse and thought that this could cause confusion. Although Wolfgang Buresch the NDR did not think you could be confused with a cartoon mouse Meikel Mausegreis (even the magazine Der Spiegel found the silly ), but he was Meikel mutate easy to cat with a red tennis ball - nose.

Media

Emm as Meikel appeared at the beginning of the broadcast on TV as a MC or LP in the sale of BASF to the original speakers Wolfgang Buresch, Marion Michael and Andrea Bergmann. For this purpose, a television episode for the record was not simply furnished, but developed an independent, the acoustic medium more appropriate follow-up.

Quotes

Meikel cats old man

• Tse, tse, tse, tse, tse ...
• Tjä problems, you know that!
• Women are feminine, men are gorgeous!

The Blue Yeti

• If I were merely remained in the Himalayas.