Ferdinand Diehl

A Silver Bear winning short animation.

At midnight, two elves help a pair of shoemakers in distress by making shoes. They make it a condition that they are not watched. When the cobblers do it anyway and then send them the matching clothes, they stop working but continue to help the cobblers.

A German explorer sails in his U-boat, Nautilus, all the way to the North Pole.

The film is an example of films from the Nazi era that focused on alpine sports and often used them for propaganda purposes.

When a young girl finds out that, due to her existence, her seven brothers are struck by a curse and have to live their lives as ravens, she goes out in a quest to find them. Considered to be the first German feature length stop motion film.

A early puppet animation by Ferdinand Diehl

A Silver Bear winning short animation.

At midnight, two elves help a pair of shoemakers in distress by making shoes. They make it a condition that they are not watched. When the cobblers do it anyway and then send them the matching clothes, they stop working but continue to help the cobblers.

At midnight, two elves help a pair of shoemakers in distress by making shoes. They make it a condition that they are not watched. When the cobblers do it anyway and then send them the matching clothes, they stop working but continue to help the cobblers.

A German explorer sails in his U-boat, Nautilus, all the way to the North Pole.

The film is an example of films from the Nazi era that focused on alpine sports and often used them for propaganda purposes.

The film is an example of films from the Nazi era that focused on alpine sports and often used them for propaganda purposes.

When a young girl finds out that, due to her existence, her seven brothers are struck by a curse and have to live their lives as ravens, she goes out in a quest to find them. Considered to be the first German feature length stop motion film.

A early puppet animation by Ferdinand Diehl

A early puppet animation by Ferdinand Diehl

The moving story of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press, in a meticulously detailed stop-motion animated film by Ferdinand Diehl.

Story loosely based on Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Bottle Imp".

Elaborately designed puppet animation film about the Brothers Grimm's "Fairy Tale of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was"

Elaborately designed puppet animation film about the Brothers Grimm's "Fairy Tale of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was"

Mecki Introduces Himself - This stop motion puppet film explains the making of animated shorts featuring the character Mecki.

Mecki Introduces Himself - This stop motion puppet film explains the making of animated shorts featuring the character Mecki.

A German stop-motion adaptation of Sleeping Beauty.

Stop-motion animated short, with sound by Rudolf Pfenninger.

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Kasperle Larifari travels to a distant island in search of a magic flower.

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Mecki demonstrates to the audience what can happen when widespread voter apathy sets in. This 1953 film was produced on behalf of the Federal Agency for Civic Education’s predecessor, the Federal Agency for Home Affairs (*Bundeszentrale für Heimatdienst*).

Stop-motion animated short with experimental sound by Rudolf Pfenninger.

Film adaptation of the folk tale "The Hare and the Hedgehog": A slow but shrewd hedgehog challenges an equally nimble and snooty hare to a race in a field [filmportal].

Film adaptation of the folk tale "The Hare and the Hedgehog": A slow but shrewd hedgehog challenges an equally nimble and snooty hare to a race in a field [filmportal].

Max and Moritz terrorize a village by killing chickens, stealing food, and harming villagers.

Cites were obligated in the middle ages to defend themselves against plunderers and against the claim to power of neighboring lords. Cities, who were especially blooming economically, stirred the envy of foreign troops. This puppet-animation film shows the occupation of a city in the 14th century before the invention of gunpowder with a detailed portrayal of the weapons' technology of the middle-ages.

Stop-motion version of the Grimm fairy tale from the Nazi era.

A mouse from the city invites a country mouse to the cellar where it lives to show how much food they have there. But soon the country mouse realizes that there is also a vicious cat sneaking around in this cellar. The lesson of the story: Wealth doesn't mean that you live without worries.

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