Die Sendung mit der Maus won lots of awards for explaining complicated things to kids. I specifically remember a segment about "What is nuclear radiation / a nuclear reaction?". They set up dozens of old school mouse traps and put two ping pong balls on each. Then they threw one ball in and the chain reaction ensued. It stuck with me. When I was 15 in science class, the teacher posed a question about that and after a few seconds of silence, I uncomfortably gave it a shot with "Well in the Sendung mit der Maus..." there was some giggling, but he just said "Very simplified, but the principle is completely correct."

Die Sendung mit der Maus (the show with the mouse) educates and explains the world: how flowers grow, how trucks are build... with funny cartoons between. Running since 1971 in ARD, often called the first TV station (in Germany). Mainzelmännchen (little men out of Mainz) running since 1963 when the second TV station was founded. Headquarter in the city of Mainz. Short clips. Maybe passing the screen and just saying: Good Evening. Over the years of course they told every nice story you can imagine As they are old cartoons they are just nice without much or any bang boom crash

"Gud'n Abend" really Guten Abend = good evening, says the Mainzelmännchen. And it's been around on ZDF since the 1960s a German public broadcaster

The Mainzelmännchen are six cartoon characters called Anton, Berti, Conni, Det, Edi and Fritzchen, who are mainly used in commercials on ZDF. They can also occasionally be seen in the satirical program heute-show (since 2009). Their name goes back to the city of Mainz, the headquarters of the Second German Television, and to the Heinzelmännchen. Their creator was Wolf Gerlach. The Mainzelmännchen have been very popular with the public from the very beginning and have not only served the broadcaster as an advertising hit for a long time, but have also become the mascots and an important part of ZDF's corporate identity. Their great success has also led to appearances in other media such as radio plays, children's books and children's songs as well as numerous merchandise products. The Mainzelmännchen are dwarf or gnome-like creatures that bear a resemblance to the Heinzelmännchen, which is expressed in their name (a play on the words Heinzelmännchen and Mainz). They wear a Phrygian cap in the garden gnome style, but unlike garden gnomes, they have no beards. Their appearances, which usually only last around three seconds, usually consist of a single, short gag. They usually speak only a few words, if at all, in a characteristic grumbling tone and perform most of the gags visually and pantomimically. Their most famous line is the traditional audience greeting “Gud'n Aamd”. The Mainzelmännchen first appeared on ZDF on April 2, 1963. They were developed in order to comply with the state treaty obligation to separate advertising and programming, and are at home in the broadcaster's own ZDF-Werbefernsehen-GmbH. Alfred Biolek, who joined the ZDF legal department in February, was responsible for the contract that was drawn up with the producer of the Mainzelmännchen. The short spots, which serve to break up the television advertisements, last around three seconds; in earlier years they were longer. The idea and original design came from graphic artist and set designer Wolf Gerlach. Initially, the commercial dividers were broadcast in black and white, but since 1967 they have been in color. Around 1968, Wolf Gerlach drew a Mainzel woman, but she did not become part of the cartoons. In 1980 and 1990 there were minor visual changes and modernizations, for example no more children's aprons. From the very beginning, the Mainzelmännchen cartoons were not produced in Mainz, but in Wiesbaden by Neue Film Produktion. The team led by chief cartoonist Jürgen Titus König still creates the animations frame by frame with a pencil. Only the coloring of the figures is now done by computer. In 1975, there were already over 10,000 episodes of the Mainzelmännchen, with around 500 being added each year. There are now around 50,000 commercials and around 1000 more are produced every year. At the end of the 1960s, the capers, longer films, were brought to television. This was followed by mini thrillers, such as Sender Nordlicht (1977), fairy tales and Rescuers in Distress. At the beginning of the 1970s, there were collectible pictures of the Mainzelmännchen, which were glued into an album and formed comics without speech bubbles.

She basically named all the important things 😄

Die Sendung mit der Maus has a KZread channel. Called "Die Maus". I highly recommend!

@Zentralrat-der-Schwaben

22 күн бұрын

And is educational television for children.

5:02 "So I can only imagine how long you know actual bread is good for" imho around 3 to 4 days. That's why you can buy half a loaf of bread at bakeries. So you don't have to throw it always away if you're single or don't eat that much bread.

@maireweber

22 күн бұрын

And once it's dried out a little, you can use it for all those traditional recepies that were invented specifically for old bread... and taste awesome!

Did you see the German proverb she had on her letterboard ;o)?