The ” Pumuckl “-Erfinderin Ellis Kaut is dead. She had fallen asleep peacefully in the night of Thursday at the age of 94 years, her daughter Uschi Bagnall told the news agency AFP. Ellis Kaut died consequently after a long illness in a nursing home near Munich.
The Leprechaun “Pumuckl” is one of the best-known figures of the German Children’s Literature. The time at Bayerischer Rundfunk working as an author of children’s radio plays Kaut had invented the character 1962nd On the name “Pumuckl” she came to his own words, when she soaped the winter holidays her husband with snow and her husband scolded, “you’re a right Pumuckl”. The Head of Children’s Orchestra was then asked what a “Pumuckl” is -. And she had then devised the character
1962 was the first radio play with the puck, already spoken with the characteristic voice of Hans Clarin. Until 1971, Ellis Kaut wrote some 90 plays, this came later eleven books. Germany was the widely popular “Pumuckl” especially through a 1982 appeared cinema and the directly subsequent television series “Pumuckl”. Gustl bayrhammer played in the series the champion Eder, the distinctive voice of the goblin said, as well as in the radio plays the actor Hans Clarin.
The director of the Bavarian Radio , Ulrich Wilhelm, declared, “Pumuckl” have “delighted generations of children and Erwachenen”. Had born in Stuttgart on November 17, 1920 Kaut before “Pumuckl” with the figure of “hangover Musch” another series success.
My daughter Uschi Bagnall told AFP that she had her mother on the day before can visit her death. As comforting they feel the time of her death. “She was the first Münchner Kindl and died during Oktoberfest.” The Münchner Kindl, the coat of arms figure of the Bavarian capital, leads sitting on a horse to collect the Wiesn-hosts the Oktoberfest and is in addition to the Mayor Faßanstich. The custom was introduced in 1938, the then 17-year-old Ellis Kaut was the first Münchner Kindl.
In recent years, the “Pumuckl” was subject to a number of court disputes that in the end be borne by the popularity of figure went. The illustrator of “Pumuckl”, Barbara Johnson, and Ellis Kaut quarreled diverse. Johnson had the puck in 1965 given its appearance and successfully fought, that they may be called the mother of the graphical Pumuckl.
repeatedly defeated Ellis Kaut court against Johnson. As a result of disputes was 2007, the series “Pumuckl TV” also due to a copyright dispute from concluded a “Pumuckl” museum. Until 2012, the 50th anniversary of the Leprechaun, the author and the illustrator reconciled. Last cared “Pumuckl” for excitement because he got a slimmer stomach for a special edition. After protests assured Bagnall that “Pumuckl” will get the usual round belly again in future releases.
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