Robbi, Tobbi und das Fliewatüüt
Robbi, Tobbi and Fliewatüüt is a children's book author of Sylt Boy Lornsen from the year 1967. According to the book presentation of the WDR produced an elaborate puppet film, which was first broadcast in four parts on September 3, 1972 at the First.
Book
Robbi, Tobbi and Fliewatüüt first appeared in 1967 in the publishing K. Thienemann, Stuttgart, with illustrations by Franz Josef Tripp. The 256 -page book was honored by inclusion in the selection list of the German Youth Book Prize.
Executive Summary
Tobias Findteisen called Tobbi, visited the third grade of elementary school and is the inventor of the Fliewatüüts, a universal means of locomotion. Because it can fly like a helicopter, like a ship floating on the water and drive like a car as a land vehicle - hence the Tüüt. Driven is Fliewatüüt with the raspberry juice from Aunt Paula, later this fuel is replaced by cod liver oil.
Tobbi is co-pilot of the Fliewatüüts. The pilot is called ROB 344-66/IIIa is, but called for obvious reasons Robbi. Robbi is in the third grade of the Robot School.
Together, the two in Fliewatüüt on to release three robots examination papers for Robbi:
Filming
The film adaptation of the book was produced by WDR over a period of about two and a half years. Writer-director Armin Maiwald was known to today's audience from the program with the mouse.
The film is based relatively close to the book. By way of derogation from the book and meet Robbi Tobbi at the North Pole in the Arctic in the film not to the family of Nana and Nunu. Another exception is the last section: The Magic Count is in the template actually a wizard, in the film version, however, only a swindler. In addition, Robbi and Tobbi encountered in the written version on the castle a ghost. Also the Fliewatüüt in the book is red while it is blue in the film adaptation.
The recordings were not rotated with a conventional film camera, but recorded as a video directly on magnetic tape. That was then a novelty. This new method was specially honored in the original opening credits, where it is not " A film by ... ", but " A deck of ... " was called. It enabled his time novel and sensational -looking blue screen technique. Real landscapes were associated with recordings of rod puppets and marionettes. For example, served a glacier at the Grossglockner as the backdrop for the scenes at the North Pole, and a bay of Lake Schwammenaueler for the backdrop of plum pudding Castle.
The dolls were not - as it was often assumed - played by the Augsburger, but by the puppeteer Albrecht Roser and his Stuttgart ensemble (Studio Roser ). As a puppeteer Hildegard and Karl -Heinz Drescher were also ( Weilheim puppet ), Friedrich Arndt, Rudolf Fischer and Ingrid Höfer involved, Robbi was spoken by Harry J. Bong and Tobbi by Ulrike Luderer. The popular and catchy theme tune was composed by Ingfried Hoffmann.
At the beginning of the credits, a photo of the whole crew is shown. If the names appear, a zoom is performed on the associated persons and groups.
In 1972 the production was first broadcast in four parts, each 45 to 65 minutes in television ARD ( Erstausstrahlungstermine: September 3, 1972, September 17, 1972 September 24, 1972 and 1 October 1972). In the countless repetitions of the following years and decades ( first in the ARD in August 1973, December 1975, July 1979 and then very common in the third programs and the children's channel ) the consignment has been as one-, two -, five-, six recut or eleven-part version and broadcast -.
Produced in the year of Air Date WDR also do a special How the Fliewatüüt flying over the elaborate filming ( ARD broadcasting in 1972 and 1973 and in the 1980s in WDR).
The series was released on a total of six VHS tapes. A double DVD with additional bonus material has been available since April 2005 trade. It contains the series in the eleven-part version, as well as the above-mentioned special broadcast. In October 2007, a new DVD box set was released in unabridged and digitally re (remastered ) material. In addition to extensive bonus material, the box contains a CD with the music for the film.
Action
The synopsis of the plot is based on the television series ( here in the eleven-part version ), whose action differs only slightly from the book. In the television production was waived some important figures of the book as the castle ghost Ghosty.
Synchronization
The German synchronization was created in 1972.
Radioplay
The story was also published as a radio play on three records or cassette tapes. This radio play but neither the music nor the speakers in common with the WDR television production. As representatives appeared there Sigi Harreis as Aunt Paula and Dieter Eppler as Robbi on.
There are today three known radio play versions:
Moreover, in THE appeared > AUDIO < PUBLISHING in 2005, an issue that campaigned on the cover with made by WDR ( ie the first version of 1968). In fact, was on the two CDs, the carousel version of 1991.
Furthermore, there DER > AUDIO < VERLAG an audiobook version on six discs with a total running time of 460 minutes.
Museum
Since 23 April 2005, the original figures are exhibited in the Museum of puppet theater ( PuK ) in Bad Kreuznach. You can see there except Robbi, Tobbi and the Fliewatüüt also the yellow black striped lighthouse crew, the North Pole with Arctic researchers Zacharias Peter Paul On top, the polar bear and the Eskimo children, Nessie and the castle plum pudding Castle with Joshua, the armor and the smallest figure: Polly McMouse.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack of the series comes from the pen of Ingfried Hoffmann. The introduction of the theme song is played on a keyboard, the - Tobbi motif Robbi the listener repeatedly encounters in different variations. The Frank Popp Ensemble has the theme song re-released in several versions, including a drum -and- bass version. Another cover version, there is the group of Welle: Erdball.
Locations
Book and film are partly based on real places such as Loch Ness and the North Pole. Other places are fiction, but have some real counterparts. So Robbi and Tobbi embark on the search for a triangular castle in Scotland, where they find Castle Castle plum pudding. Indeed, there are the ruins of a triangular castle in Scotland - it's called Caerlaverock Castle.