Germany's most famous mouse, born of an artist's frustration
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- One of Germany's most iconic children's TV characters, now 52 years old, is a silent mouse with improbably-sized friends. But what inspired it in the first place? And why was the show it stars in almost a complete disaster?
Die Sendung mit der Maus official RUclips channel:
/ @diemaus
Chapters:
00:00 An iconic show
00:57 Not an overnight success
02:06 Birth of a legend
03:28 The legacy
Music:
"Hot Swing"
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For the sake of clarity: the mouse is believed to be genderless. I did assume he/him pronouns in English simply because that's what English defaults to and that was what I naturally said without thinking. In German, of course, the noun "mouse" is grammatically feminine, so most Germans naturally default to sie/ihr pronouns.
Still, that doesn't mean I assume the mouse is male. I didn't think of the mouse as having any particular gender, but calling the mouse "they" unnecessarily draws attention to a pretty controversial topic, and "it" just sounds _wrong._ If I'd been thinking more clearly, I would have gone with "she" purely for the sake of consistency.
"Es" Maus.
😄
As someone that is in the demographic of ~40, that grew up with the Maus, and never really thought about this thing so far, I can actually report that I never ever even had the question of the Maus' gender. To me, it never had one, and I'm struggling to decide on one when asked to. In a very weird way it isn't even neuter to me. More like a thing of its own, that doesn't even has a notion of gender. Just Maus.
Isn't it „das Maus“?
No, it's not. But let's assume it is genderless. It is so nice to keep gender discussion out the lovely Sendungen mit der Maus (shows with the mouse).
Interesting I would have assumed that English being the gender neutral language that it is would default to *it* for non human things (exception for animals you know the gender of like pets and ships (a seaman's love thus feminine)). But true in German you would default to the grammatical gender if the biological one is blank so of course I always used female pronouns for the mouse.
I am not a native English speaker, but I was told by one that English does not default to "he" when the gender is unclear, but to the singular "they" or in case of animals to "it". I did not even know that a "singular they" even existed. As for the TV programme, it was also shown in the Netherlands, it it was not hugely popular here. It was deemed too stiff. The Dutch children liked shows with running, screaming, a bit of naughtiness and some education interwoven in the story line with human characters.
Das war Englisch.
nice
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Yes.😄
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😂❤
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I have this theory that Armin Maiwald, the voice of many of the documentaries on Die Sendung Mit Der Maus, is universally liked by every German. Almost everybody who grew up in Germany grew up with his stories (he worked on the show since its inception in 1971 and is still occasionally on screen to this day), so I doubt I'll ever meet someone who actively dislikes him.
When he put together one of his early pieces, the producer hated it. He told him his voice was all wrong, and that he should record the commentary again, "...but talk the way you did when you explained it to me yesterday." So he developed this quiet, conversational style that sounds like he's actually interested in what he's talking about. It's _really_ difficult to hate anyone who talks like that.
Jupp. Can confirm that. Him and Peter Lustig, probably.
@@raraavis7782 I've seen quite a few people on Social Media (especially since his death) who actively dislike Peter Lustig for allegedly having hated children.
I don’t like him. His wisecracking annoys me.
But i Like Christoph
Christoph mit dem grünen Pullover und Armin Maiwald der Erzählbär😂❤
I think you missed on of the important features of "Sendung mit der Maus" that the opening segment telling the audience what´s shown in the episode is done twice. Once in German and once in a different language then stating the language at the end giving children a sense of how different languages sound.
As future ideas you could do Löwenzahn, Bernd das Brot, the Mainzelmännchen and Pumuckl.
Das war… Serbo-Kroatisch. 😊
Löwenzahn and die Sendung mit der Maus are Educational.
The rest ist Entertainment.
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und das war tigrinisch, immer wieder neue Sprachen, die kaum je ein Mensch in Deutschland kennt. Aber die Kinder, die die Sprache verstehen, werden sich abgeholt fühlen.
@@galdavonalgerri2101 🙂 und die anderen werden neugierig.
I (an adult) always watch it and it is really interesting to speculate over the language. Some are easy, others are completely strange.
One thing you missed, that the mouse was actually twice in space: When Alexander Gerst flew on his second misson to the ISS he was accopanied by a stuffed animal version of the mouse as well. They even used the mouse as a zero-gravity indicator in the Soyuz capsule with which he and his collegues flew to space.
Iirc, the Little Blue Elephant joined her by now.
I always liked "The Little Mole" segments best. Like when his friend is sick and he wants to make camomile tea for her. He goes on an adventure around the world only to find that there was camomile right next to his mole hill.
I also like the little mole. I just looked it up, it's from Czechoslovakia.
The little Mole was indeed the best.
Little Krtek. ❤️ He was my favorite as well. Cute and friendly, always there for his friends. Love the little guy.
I always thought it was a gal. As far as I recall he was voiced by a woman.@@Kuchenwurst
@@QuotenwagnerianerTechnically, female moles are hermaphrodites whose ovaries are actually _ovotestes_ (meaning they are partially composed of testicular tissue); they cannot fulfill a male reproductive role, but they do produce the androgenic hormones that allow the lady-moles to build up and sustain the amount of muscles it takes to dig through the ground all day.
Basically the _DDR-Leichtathletinnen_ of the animal kingdom.
OH MY GOD THE BLUE BEAR IS REAL, I've been trying to remember that show's name for 20 years. They showed it in Argentina but I never saw it again anywhere.
Big congratulations! I know how it feels when after decades, you suddenly find a puzzle piece that resolves a vague memory of something interesting and mysterious. Could be a song name, or a movie title, many things. Finding the puzzle piece is such a delightful relief in my experience. So again, congratulations! :-)
You should look up Blaubärs creator, cartoonist Walter Moers, and his Zamonia books. First one has Blaubär as a protagonist. They are real good.
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Alles im Lot auf'm Boot...
@@SuperDropsX Ah, a fellow Walter Moers enjoyer :D But fr his novels belong to my absolute favourite books I've ever read.
I have read the book about Cpt. Blaubär and for me it was way too long 😂
I can practically hear her winking.
Klick klick
Klick klick
The Mouse... is a girl!?
My indoctrinated look at the world is shattered.
@@andyd6272I think the mouse is not supposed to have a gender at all but the grammatical gender of the word mouse in German is feminine so she's gendered accordingly.
@@andyd6272 GRAMMATICALLY! NOT SEXUALLY!
Now you definitely have to add an explanation for why children in Germany grow up watching a show called "Löwenzahn" and who Peter Lustig was. ^^
"Die Maus" und "Der Typ mit der Latzhose im Bauwagen" have definitely been the best two things growing up with german TV, even beating shows like Sesame Street.
und die Rappelkiste
You have to explain why so many Germans say that they dont speak english (very well), but Blitzkrieg the comment section with a better english as Americans.
Thats weird lol XD
Not to forget the Pupsburger Augenkiste.
@@germaniatv1870 Different generations of Germans. The older ones (let's say 40 and above) may have learned English in School (assuming they grew up in the west), but didn't use it all that often. People younger than that grew up with or grew into the internet, where English is pretty much the fingua franca.
(let's say 40 and above) may have learned English in School (assuming they grew up in the west), but didn't use it all that often.
Let's make that 55 and above. I very much grew up on english pc games and the early internet and I'm 47. ;) @@inspectorbutters166
"Die Maus" was also on the ISS (International Space Station) with Alexander Gerst.
I am in my 40th now and still watch the "Sendung mit der Maus" and learned much of how things were made during the last... 30 years.
„Die Maus“ AND „Der Elefant“ both at one time.
The first trip was just Die Maus and they showed what the Maus had to endure to be allowed to go, but the second trip was with both. They had cute little astronaut suits and slept in socks. Too cute!
Pst. Nicht weitersagen ... Ich auch
@@jennyh4025 I am still a bit disappointed they didnt sell the Space Maus as a toy. My kid loves space, we all love the Maus. Missed merchandise opportunity.
@@535phobos I tried making a costume for my child’s Maus to look like an astronaut, but I’m afraid my sewing skills are not foot enough.
Isolde Schmitt-Menzel created the orange mouse (and is always credited for it), but all animations had be done by Friedrich Streich. Who also added additional characters like the blue elephant and the yellow duck and gave to the mouse his actual shape. He passed away 2014.
Given how confused foreign tourists are when they run into him, you should definitely do Bernd das Brot next.
The mini documentaries are always my favourite segment.
I wonder that you didn't mention how they're doing the intro twice, once in German and then in another language. "This was Turkish". That part is such an iconic thing and so unique to "the mouse".
Might also be worth noting some of the more unusual languages they picked for that segmet. At least once, they used Klingon, for example. Yes, the one from Star Trek.
"Het programma met de muis"!! As I'm Dutch, I still remember that I used to watch it on German TV! We just called it differently.
Was it dubbed into Dutch or subtitled at all? Or was it only in German?
@@Ink_25, only in German. Just not in the TV guides.
It was a bit difficult for us youngsters in that time.
I'm Danish (admittedly born just a few km north of Flensburg), and I was 3 in 1971. I don't remember _not_ watching the Mouse. I do remember the silent documentaries though - and I loved them. I believe there sometimes was a repeat, or the documentary was shown backwards? In any case, I thjnk I owe some of my analytical and investigative skills, as well as some of my endless curiosity of how anything and everything works, to the Maus. I have a plushy Mouse in my bedroom. ❤❤ Danish children's TV has won prizes and is in general highly regarded; but I don't believe anything surpasses the Mouse.
@@Ink_25 As kids back then we had 3 Dutch channels and 3 German channels on TV. This was several years before cable access. I think the show ran on saturday mornings. So after we watched the cartoon program on Dutch TV we would switch over to German, and me and my sister would watch 'Die Sendung mit der Maus'. We couldn't understand everything said, but we learned enough of the language to talk with German kids while on vacation. I was about 8 at the time.
Dutch and German sound quite different but the word stems are often very similar. Not impossible to learn the other language by just listening!
I may also add that Armin Maiwald, one of the co-creators of Die Maus, also reissues the documentaries that he and his studio make for the show on DVD under the title “Bibliothek der Sachgeschichten”. He also opened a RUclips channel under the same name, where several of these can now be found, though at the moment, the channel seems to be inactive, with the last upload happening two years ago. Still worth it to peruse it, as it does feature several documentaries that are not on the Die Maus channel yet (such as the uninterrupted version on the construction of the ICE 4)
Later episodes, including Armin's are currently uploaded on the German RUclips channel Die Maus, like the A1 Rhine Bridge between Köln and Leverkusen. I don't know however, he might have had to abandon his own Channel for that reason.
I do some work at a very big hospital today, and "Die maus" has made a documentary on a very unique part of their infrastructure. Its so cool!
Also they made a documentary on a disabled boy 25 Years ago and got the same film crew to do a follow up recently. THAT is why i love the show.
In addition to the RUclips channel of the show ("Die Maus") there is also another RUclips channel - by the name "Bibliothek der Sachgeschichten " - which contains a collection of old "Sendung mit der Maus"- documentaries.
Also a recommendation for intermediate German learners! As the narration in these videos is intended for children, they are more easily understandable than most other TV programs.
The narration may be somehow intended for children, but it is well worth noting that it is never "childish" or somehow condescending or talking-down-to.
I recall watching an episode during the Covid pandemic, where they studied the use of masks and filters. I'm not a scientist, so I can't say how high it should be rated as genuine science communication, but my guess is that it was outstanding, even from a more advanced perspective.
When I was young, in the early 1970s, I lived less than 50 km from the German border in the Netherlands. Because we had a very high antenna mast together with the street, we could also receive two German TV channels, even three in good weather. So I watched "Die Sendung mit der Maus" almost from the start.
Klaus-Dietrich Flade wasn't the only one who took the Maus up to space. In 2014 Alexander Gerst also took a small plushie of the Maus up to the ISS. They filmed several educational videos from up there too. In 2018 he did it again but this time he also took the Elefant and both wore custom designed space suits. It was super cute.
The Mouse often pops up in the most unexpected of places ... e.g. Rewboss' RUclips channel.
I'm impressed - in a way. 😉
This program was broadcast here in the Netherlands, too. In Dutch, naturally. Het programma met de muis. I am 63 now, but I remember it well. It was educational and fun! Later, we had a German program named "Löwenzahn or Pusteblume "German spoken, with subtitles. Very nice tv shows for children and adults alike. 😊
I think there isn't a single person that has as big an impact on my life as Armin Maiwald. It's mostly thanks to him and his technical contributions in Die Maus that I am who I am today, and for that I'm incredibly grateful to him
As a kid in the 80s, I watched some German television at my Grandmother's place, my favourite was the mouse and elephant. I really loved the kind of German they spoke in the "how things are made" section.
As children we watched “The Mouse”.
As parents, we watched over our children when they watched “The Mouse”.
And as grandparents, we supervise our grandchildren when they watch “The Mouse”.
That is the success of the show.
and to be honest, its all about YOU can still watch the mouse and see the pleasure and joy in your, your children's and grandchildren's eyes... connecting generations. Well spoken Jens, well spoken
As someone in their late 30s, yeah, I grew up with the Sendung mit der Maus, learned lots, plenty outdated by now, but it still formed a good base to be inquisitive and eager to learn, and to tell stories.
Die Sendung mit der Maus is also widely known in Switzerland, at least in its German speaking parts. I grew up watching it too, as did my mom. When I did my civil service in a primary school (right after finishing school myself) the kids told me that they're celebrating their 50th birthday.
The Sendung mit der Maus is the best show on the planet and the real reason the Rundfunkbeitrag is worth it.
When we decided to move to Germany, I was looking for something my daughter could watch to at least listen to some German. I was told about die Maus on Reddit and she loved it immediately, despite not knowing a word in German back then. I find it amazing that it holds this well and is loved by kids so much, that you see the gadgets with the orange mouse everywhere. The documentary parts of the show are super interesting and informative even for adults, for example you can see how steel is made. It’s a really well made show.
The skit that shows how a computer boots is absolutely legendary.
True. I love it hahaha
Oh, yes. How a Computer works is a piece of art.
Or the time, they tried to weigh air.
I'm not sure I've seen that one, but the Sachgeschichte about how the Internet works (from 1998) is so iconic even within the industry, that many IT professionals often refer to this when they are asked about that, even today.
@@patrickhanft ah yes, the one with the guys from Spaceballs running through corridors
don't miss the part with armin maiwald als mobile phone in the part about mobile calling ... or same way the short movie about how the internet is working ...
As a dutchie learning a german I will definitely check it out on RUclips. Thanks for making all the videos. I have discovered your channel a few weeks ago and have been watching more RUclips than I would like to admit since then.
Look also for Bibliothek der Sachgeschichten. It‘s a channel with the educational clips from Sendung mit der Maus.
@@freddab.7110 I saw that channel when looking at videos of Der Maus. But thanks for mentioning.
I will always love the show for introducing me to Käptn Blaubär. My favourite TV-character as a child and he's still great fun as an adult.
The last segment of the show was already either Shaun the sheep or Käptn Blaubär. The reason why I didn't like this sheep farm was because every time they showed up, it meant there was no Käptn Blaubär this week.
Have you read the book version by Walter Moers, the inventor of Käptn Blaubär?
@@mothdustdreams Of course! It's a great read and the audio book with Dirk Bach as well. (only the original version, not the newer one!)
@@mothdustdreams I knew it existed, but I never actually read it. Maybe I should do that sometime. (you didn't ask me but hey)
@@jonistan9268 There is also a load of other books that take place in the same fantasy universe as "The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear", all of which are amazing imo. Including the greatest cliffhanger I've ever seen in a book.
When I was a teen, my German pen pal sent me a mix tape of German pop music that included "Hier kommt die Maus" (I think that's right) and over here in Australia I didn't have a clue why she'd included such an odd and childish song! But it's stuck with me all these years. 😅
This song has been released for the 25th anniversary of the show and is now itself more than 25 years old. Crazy! 😀
The man who wrote, produced and sang the song is a prolific man named Stefan Raab. For years, he hosted an extremely successful daily late night show, he is responsible for at least one German ESC win, he landed several no. 1 hit songs and, albeit having retired from public appearances now, is still active as a producer - and he has formed the German media landscape to this day.
He might be a controversial figure in some aspects, but one can't deny his success, skill and cultural influence.
@@patrickhanft This song was made for this anniversary, And it sticks so much to the Germans, as this program with the mouse was part of almost every German childhood.
@Kuchenwurst: and what few people remember (but he said it himself) Stefan Raab can't read notes. So despite him having written and made music for decades and very succesfully, he had to do it differently than most who write music.
One of my most favourite songs of all times. They made a cd for the 25th birthday of "the mouse". Many artists provided songs for it. A true highlight. Still hear it today.
Nice summary of the Sendung mit der Maus. I just missed:
- A nod to the jazzy instrumental title song - a remnant echo of the 1960s, I would say -, which is used since the 1970s
- The bilingually repeated intro, giving a brief summary of what one's about to see
- A note that the show still calls itself "Lach- und Sachgeschichten" (Stories to Laugh and Learn, as they translated it), as it starts every show with these words (and some kind of animation that turns "Lach" into "Sach"), followed by "heute mit ... " (in today's show ...)
The factory segments are neither dull nor uninformative. The fun part is, that they never tell you what is produced while you see it completed, step by step. It's a guessing game, what it will be at the end. It's epecially fun with a "competitor", playing the game "who knows first?". We even did this as adults. It's Fun!
They were in the first season. A typical sequence might go like this (with music, no dialogue of any kind):
- A family eating breakfast.
- An egg being taken out of an egg-box.
- A boy walking home with a box of eggs.
- The boy buying the eggs in a shop.
...and so on, basically telling the story of "Where eggs come from" in reverse order, finishing with some footage of some chickens on a farm.
Things didn't improve in the second season. A voice would say, "Here comes the carpenter," and then there would be about sixty seconds of a man banging nails into a plank of wood.
One of the writers said in a documentary about the show that it was embarrassingly bad, and "worse than school". Basically, it took them a few seasons to get the concept and the pacing right, and now -- as I said -- the documentary segments are excellent.
@@rewbossOk, I guess we mean different sequences. What I described is what I remember from the early 90's
I really increased my German vocabulary watching Sendung mit der Maus and Löwenzahn.
I looove the Lach und Sachgeschichten. It is so well explained in a simple and easy understandable way and I have learned a lot from it. The voice from the main presenter Armin is probably as familiar to us as the voice of our own grandfather. Bless him, I hope we will still get to listen to his voice many more years (mind you, he will be 84 I think on Tuesday). But also other characters have become so known to us, Christoph with his iconic green jumper, Ralph, who years back had presented another kids show with the same Sachgeschichten concept. I just like these shows. Also Loewenzahn with Peter Lustig back in the day
I love die Maus. It's the programme I I spent most of my time last year. Last year when I was learning A2 German, I found their archived channel on RUclips. At first it was incomprehensible for my German level. Later I found that they have daily radio programme so I listened to it everyday. At the end of the year, I finished my A2 and realised I can understand quite a lot of their programmes. Though it's a children's show, the contents are quite interesting for me. Definitely would recommend it for German learners
This show actually helped me with my German and also with my studies. We studied construction of materials and the episode on screws was part of my study guide 😄
My children have moved out, but I still faithfully watch the Sendung mit der Maus every Sunday, especially for the opening sequence (trying to guess the language before it is revealed), and for Käpt'n Blaubär.
This.. This is children's TV done right.
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I have never in my life realized that the mouse is orange, which is not a usual colour for a mouse
By sparking curiosity in the minds of their young audience and laying a solid fundament of knowledge, there are probaly few people that have done more for education in Germany than Armin Maiwald and his team. I'll be forever grateful for what I learned from them.
The section about the educational parts reminded me of Löwenzahn, another show i loved as a kid.
Yes the "battle" between ARD and ZDF. "Die Maus" and "Löwenzahn" 🥰
@@lannifincoris6482 Well they can battle all they want, I just watched both a a kid.
the astronaut alexander gerst also took the mouse into space to the ISS twice
the sendung mit der maus is legendary. It can't be understated how much that show impacted my childhood. As a very curious child that always wanted to know everything this was amazing as I could learn something and it was explained in a matter that I could understand it. And funny enough even today i bump into it from time to time at places I would not have expected it. For example im my first semester one of my professors recomended their video about steel production to us in one of his lectures.
As a kid I watched die Sendung mit der Maus every time.
I learned to understand, speak, write and read all because of this show. As a Dutch person a lot of older people can understand and talk German. Mostly because in the border region we all watched this program. It was the best on TV
Ich habe deutsch gelernt durch die Sendung mit der Maus.
Noch immer ist es ein super Programm.
On a funny sidenote, this show still makes it's appearances in grade schools, higher schools (Haupt- RealSchule Gymnasium), vocational school and even university. I kid you not, that's how well these technical explanations and analysis are done along with commentary to make even "simpler minds of a challanged kind in technical vocations understand what certain machines do and how they operate", yeah my teacher at vocational school sounded like sunshine when he was gritting his teeth about some of the idiots as most of us would call them. He was a good teacher though and even managed to do the extra lessons of the actual class teacher*1 on his own time, oh and in total he was allocated only like 30% of our total lessons and the classteacher had like 50% of the teaching time. Yeah without him we'd have failed. And at uni the show was presented as a means to communicate that complex technical things should be explainable to small children, because "If you can explain what the thing you are designing does to a child, than explaining it clearly to another person in a technical field or through a manual shouldn't be much of a problem."
*1 A clueless bumbling idiot of a beginner, not answering and instead asking us why we thought things were like that. Do you think we would ask you if we knew that answer? Do you think we are teachers, or experts of that field? No? We fucking thought so!
I read that the videos about the Airbus build are shown to new employees at Airbus to get a feeling what is done at what part of the factory.
One of the most amusing aspects of the mouse is the sound it makes when he blinks his eyes.
I'm 18yo and grew up watching _Die Sendung mit der Maus_ and I never stopped watching it every sunday. In fact, I'll watch today's _Maus_ right after this video XD
[EDIT]: I just opened the wdrmaus website and immediately started laughing when I saw the thumbnail image of the _Aktuelle Sendung_ , Armin in front of a tall hedge, wearing some kind of wooden box as a t-shirt.
The mouse is perfect
You can win any argument by simply saying: But it's true, they showed it at The Maus!
Around 24 years ago I saw a collection of wallpapers featuring the mouse in Austria, where the show and it's protagonists (the mouse and it's friends the elephant and the duck) is a legend, too.
Thanks for the informative video!
Captain Blaubär - that retired sailor... i love him :D
I came across a episode where they described building the ICE 4 trains. As a Dutchman with minimal training in the German language, this was a easy and informative way to get to grips with the proper pronunciation and description of things. Combining How it's Made with a lesson German seems te really connect with me.
Don't forget the iconic sound of the mouse's footsteps.
we watched the show every Sunday, it was the worst thing ever if we missed an episode. we loved it so much, we even tried to see it while on vacation :D
Early childhood memories.... Born 68.
Die Sendung mit der Maus was my favourite, and is still. Mom disliked Sesame Street...but she let us watch the mouse and also Rappelkiste...which was with a wild antiauthoritarian streak. And as we lived close to the Austrian Border, we also watched Am Dam Des and Kasperl.
Am Dam Des (which was a czech cointing rhyme) hat these iconic box cabinets with Project stuff in it, like Kallax today and were counting boxes.until they found the Project of the day. Mostly craft stuff....
I watched the mouse from the beginning at the age of 12. Today my family still watches and when my two adult daughters left us, I found out, that it is actually my wife that wants to watch it every sunday.
Großartige Sendung! Eins der besten produkte des deutschen TV.
I have learned so much through the Mouse. It's a National Treasure. Now i watch Die Maus with my Daughter and we are LOVING it. And just to be clear about it: if i would not have a Daughter, i would absolutely watch it anyways...
The documentary about how a jet engine works was one of the best I have ever seen. Explained in just a few minutes.
Armin, Christoph and Ralph were my childhood and will always have a special place in my heart❤
I even have a VHS easter special 😂
I loved watching this show when I was a child, favorite part of Sunday mornings / noons 🙂
As a German and Illustrator I didn't know the origin story yet. Very interesting! Thanks for sharing.
die sendung mit der maus is the show that introduced me to television. i loved it when i was younger.
"Die Sendung mit der Maus" is a really great way to improve your german speaking abilities as well since the german used is often extremely simple and stuff you actually use on a daily basis.
Haha im glad you mention it at the end
Die Maus introduced me to the person and work of Walter Moers via Käptn Blaubeer many years ago...so Moers became a favourite author of mine...❤
Another favourite is actually Bernd das Brot... so nasty, so grumpy, so beloved. And Tommy Krappweis is his prophet.
fun fact: the german astronaut Axlexander Gerst also took a mouse plushie with him on all his missions to the iss!
I actually remember watching parts of the dubbed version of this show as a kid - and I’m not German! What an unexpected childhood memory.
in which language was the dubb?
English! As a Malaysian living by in a tiny house within a town, this was my first exposure to the wider world.
Or it might have been during the few times I have been to Singapore to visit family - all I remember was that I was young, around the early 2000s
Die Maus is a legend and I could never dislike that show. I'm 19 now but I still watch it quite often with my 14-year-old little brother and our parents because it's always so positive and educational.
Die Maus is just legendary. I'm now nearly 24 and still like watching the Sachgeschichten from time to time and I don't know a single person (hi confirmation bias) who dislikes the Maus
I'll just say it like this: Die Sendung mit der Maus is so legendary and so well made that our chemistry teacher in 8th grade (so I was about 14 years old at the time) showed us a clip of the show to explain how atoms work.
Also it explained to me how velcro works and how it's made, when I was 6 years old (I think) and I still remember the former to this day. It just found an easy way to explain to children how things work and/or are made, with (looking back at it now) some great footage that keeps it engaging and makes it easier to follow.
There are other legendary childrens shows of course like Löwenzahn, which is the other legendary german educational show but I also loved Siebenstein back then, which made its fair mark on german culture as well.
The mouse was not only in space in 1992 (that was the first prototype of the plushy, by the way, esspecially created for that use before they had the idea to sell something like that) but also both times when Alexander Gerst was at the ISS. The last time even together with the small blue elephant. The original plushies Gerst took to the ISS are now at display at the Technikmuseum Speyer, next to the sowjet Spaceshuttle Buran.
There's also a segment on radio that plays during my daily ride to work "Frag doch mal die Maus" (ask the mouse), where children can send in questions to receive a short and concise answer.
This show travelled to other countries. I'm not German but I remember watching this as a child, it was one of my favourite shows back then.
Hey, where you're from? Or where have you watched it?
Greetings from Berlin 😎
Als Kind der 80er bin ich natürlich mit der Maus aufgewachsen.
THE Heroes of Öffentlich Rechtliches Fernsehen, Achim und Christoph 😊
2:00 I watch the "Sendung mit der Maus" even without (grand)children. 😂
I've long thought that the sign of a good children's TV show or movie is that adults can unironically enjoy it. "Shaun the Sheep" is one of my personal favourites.
If you're flipping channels and encounter the "Sendung mit der Maus" most people will stop and watch. I stumbled into a poem "Herr von Ribbeck auf Ribbeck im Havelland".
Shaun das Scharf is genuinely hilarious, I love it more than my grandson does.
@@rewbossYes, and the UK has several. Most famous is probably Doctor Who. But - unironically - I watched Teletubbies with my son (when he was 2 or 3), at a time when I was having a depression, and I can honestly say that I enjoyed it very much.
My wife and myself are well beyond the average age of the Mouse's audience. Although we do not watch TV very much (almost never from Monday to Saturday) and have no grandchildren, for us it is a Sunday ritual to walk the dog, have a long breakfast and then start into the day with the Mouse Show. We really love the documentaries and many of the stories - with "Shaun the Seep" being the highlight with it's overwhelming kind of humour.
Wow thank you so much! For such a long time I didn't know that such a show existed
When "die Maus" blinks, there's a kind of clicking sound. Or at least it was in my childhood in the early till mid-70's. The sound is produced by castanets.
Oh, and the "Lach- und Sachgeschichten" part of the original title prevailed as a secondary title. Don't know if it still does though. Haven't watched it since then.
And there's a spin-off of the show too!
"Frag doch Mal die Maus". It's a quiz show for children and grownups.
Apparently, the click and still prevails, the old title too.
Stefan Raab made a song about it in the 90s. Speaking of 90s. Germany was also the inventor of the most popular music genre of the early to mid 90s: Eurodance.
I was born near the German border in the Netherlands in '72, and we didn't have much Dutch children tv. This was our children tv, so that's why my German is almost perfect, maybe even better then my Dutch...
The Germans have Die Maus, and the British have Rattus Rattus (the talking rat from Horrible Histories). I wonder what it is about rodents that makes them so very well suited for children's TV shows.
I always loved the mouse from day one and later Käpten Blaubär with the Voice of the late Wolfgang Völtz aka Mario De Monti in Raumpatrouille and many many more shows on TV and theater
Ooh, that's an excellent fact.
Or Butler 'Johann' in 'Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre'. Once upon a time, I was about 16 then, I literally stumbled across him, late at night in the main street of a 8.000 souls village. He had a role in a bit of theater in the town hall, and decided to go for a stroll after the performance.
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"Raumpatrouille Orion" might also make for an interesting video, german Star Trek with electric razors and clothes irons as input devices and all...
@@Sleeping_Insomiac Check the video I linked to in the end titles.
Die Maus is also perfectly for adults to learn.
🇩🇪: Die Maus? Sie ist Deutschlands größter Fernsehstar.
🇬🇧: The Mouse? They are Germany’s greatest TV star.
If singular they was good enough for Shakespeare, it’s good enough for a famous, ungendered cartoon character.
Shakespeare would never has used it like that, though. Gender identity is a very new idea: one of the problems historians have researching attitudes to sexual orientation and gender is that in the past, people didn't identify with certain categories, but instead talked about what they did -- they didn't say, "He's bisexual," for example, but "He sometimes sleeps with men."
Historically, "they" was used when you didn't know who you were talking about: "Somebody broke into my house, but they didn't steal anything." When talking about a clearly identified individual, Shakespeare would have chosen either "he" or "she", and nobody would have particularly cared.
@@rewboss Sure he did. This has nothing to do with gender identity. We don’t need to assume that the Mouse has any sense of self (and therefore a self-perceived identity) or that cartoon mice could possibly be non-binary. We just don’t know (nor, hopefully, care) if this mouse is male or female. Hence, “they.” It’s just gender-neutral language, just like Shakespeare used.
I flew once that "Mouse-Airbus" from Frankfurt to Oslo and the callsign D-AIRY in itself is also a joke of the German saying "Mäuse melken ( Milking mice)" which you use when something is very frustrating.
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I mean, it's Germany, so I can totally imagine a 4 year old german boy going: "Mutter. Ich möchte mir wieder die Lach- und Sachgeschichten für Fernsehanfänger zu Gemüte führen. Wärst du so frei mir das Televisionsgerät einzuschalten?"
I love die Maus! Best TV now and in former times.
It was a nice surprise to see this appear as a suggestion to watch. It instantly brought me back to my childhood Sunday mornings when I watched this on German Television (being one of the very few foreign broadcasters we could receive in the Netherlands). I look forward to what else YT will suggest related to der Maus.🙂
Perfect timing! I found the "der Maus" RUclips channel this week. It has been very good for practicing my German. Thanks for telling the story behind it.
There's also Der Elefant, which is for younger kids. It's good for those whose German might not be quite ready for Der Maus. I've found "Moritz und die Maschinen" quite enjoyable!
On the Mouse going to space: The mouse also stayed on the ISS alongside German astronaut Alexander Gerst and its friend the elephant from 2014 to 2018.
3:44: I saw that Airbus a couple months back! It was parked next to mine on the apron at Frankfurt, and I took a picture of it because I thought it was funny that the tail number said DAIRY. There was a light pole in the way and the rear door was open, so I didn't see the Maus at the time, but looking back at the picture now she's clearly there!
I watched die Sendung mit der Maus a lot when I was a kid, and I loved it.
Hmm - I never thought about the size of the Maus(mouse), the Ente(duck) and the Elefant (elefant).
Thanks for this video! I grew up with the mouse and still watch it every sunday.
I really do not care about being German. At all. But there are two things where I am downright nationalistic. 1) Bread. 2) The brilliance of Die Sendung Mit Der Maus as an educational program. The only Leitkultur I will ever accept.
Although the two things you mention definitely are good, let me assure you that there are many other noteworthy and wonderful things that Germany can be commended for.
Forgot about the die muse and the blue bear. I am danish born in 1980, so watch a lot of german tv as kid.