Das Spielhaus


Das Spielhaus
Country of originEast Germany
No. of episodes91
Original release
NetworkDDR-F2 / DFF 2
Release1982 (1982) –
1991 (1991)

Das Spielhaus (The Playhouse) was a popular puppet theatre television series that played on the second channel of Deutscher Fernsehfunk in the former East Germany.

Plot

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The eight residents of a mobile home with twelve wheels experienced fantastic adventures together. The character Knollo often created inventions that ended in explosions, while Schlapper was more sceptical and timid. Together with the vain Defifé and the brilliant Masine, the series featured other colourful characters.

Characters

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  • Masine (caring girl with red hair)
  • Kleiner (cheeky boy with a snub nose)
  • Laribum (somewhat chubby artist)
  • Kniffo (cosmonaut)
  • Knollo (inventor)
  • Defifé (vain and moody girl with long red hair)
  • Casimir (clever cat)
  • Schlapperplapper (a sheep)

Cast

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Cast Voice-over artist Puppet artist
Casimir Gert Kießlin [de]
Heinz Schröder [de]
Schlapper Ingeborg Naß [de]
(Dieter Peust)
Defifé Hildegard Alex [de] Kornelia Eulert,
Hella Müller [de]
Karl Huck [de]
Masine Helga Sasse [de] Friedegard Kurze
Kleiner Evamaria Bath [de] Ingeburg Fülfe
Kniffo Gunter Sonneson [de] Violetta Czok
Florian Krüger
Knollo Walter Wickenhauser Bernd Broszeit
Laribum Ernst-Georg Schwill [de] Barbara Augustin
Barbara Gorn
Fridolin
Jonathan Helmut Müller-Lankow [de] ?, Angelika Lietzke [de] ?

Crew

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  • Redaction: Rita Hatzius, Bärbel Möllendorf, Gerdamarie Preuße
  • Dramaturgy: Bärbel Möllendorf, Rita Hatzius, Helga Krecek
  • Manager: Antje Geiger
  • Production Manager: Eckhard Grosch, Doris Kocks, Christina Eggert
  • Assistant director: Camilla Meyer
  • Director: Kurt Schumacher [de], Wolfgang Genth
  • Lyrics: Andreas Turowski
  • Music: Helmut Frommhold [de], Volkmar Schmidt [de]
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