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Die Sendung mit der Maus
1971 · TV series · 30 min episodes · 56 seasons
Created by Siegfried Mohrhof, Dieter Saldecki, Gert K. Müntefering, Monika Paetow, Armin Maiwald
The children's show has been a fixed Sunday morning ritual in German living rooms since 1971. Not only children, but also many adults sit in front of the television every week when the clever orange mouse, his blue elephant buddy and the yellow duck lead the way with short, funny cartoon clips between the "funny and factual stories".
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I never watched sesame street even thought it aired here. I watched Löwenzahn and a bit "Die Sendung mit der Maus" when I was young and I couldn't imagine who I would be today if I didn't watched this when I was young.
It's a bit sad (at least for me) to admit, but I think some programs helped shaped me into the person I'm today, for better or worse.
Today the TV hopefully hasn't got the impact on me that it used to have and I only watch selected programs and not the mainstream TV (I mean the broadcasted channels), but I guess series and movies are still a big part of my life that have a bigger impact on me than I would like to admit.
Anyway what I really wanted yo say is that I'm happy for content that tries to deliver good values and information without trying to manipulate.
Armin Maiwald produced hundreds of educational shorts, so called Sachgeschichten for the german TV show Sendung mit der Maus[1] with a target audience of 4 to 8 year olds.
Here is one from 1999 that explains the Internet, including dial-up and DNS-lookup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKLz4ufCuKk
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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Sendung_mit_der_Maus#Educational_film_shorts
inofficial youtube playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1875415EEB9204AC
official page at WDR [german]: http://www.wdrmaus.de/sachgeschichten/filme.php5
official page to order DVDs [german]: http://www.bibliothek-der-sachgeschichten.de/