It’s Gran’s birthday and there’s pancakes, which everybody loves. The little devil wants the bowl all to himself, though, and almost spoils the party for Punch, Judy, the witch, the robber, the king and the crocodile. But then there is a wild chase.
Old boxes, glue and some paint are enough to make the most wonderful things. Animals are created in a trice – even a whole zoo. Unfortunately, the lion turns out to be extremely greedy. Balthasar devours everything, even the moon.
“Toughness, courage and tenacity” at the elite school of GDR sports.
None other than Goethe once said: “Let me praise my Leipzig! It is a small Paris and educates its people.” It’s precisely for the purpose of education that 17-year-old high-school graduate Angelika arrives in town. She meets the racing cyclist Tommy at her feisty landlady Mrs. Häublein’s flat. Naturally for Tommy
A new inhabitant arrives at the zoo: Heinrich the deer. The children welcome him with glee and visit often. When winter has come, Heinrich wonders why the children don’t come to see him anymore.
This pleases not only the farmers of the “Red Banner” agricultural production cooperative: high performance cows and a UN delegation at the extremely popular GDR agricultural fair.
Meta Morfoss is a girl with a vivid imagination who has a special gift: she can change into an angel, an animal, anything she thinks of.
Leipzig as a city of music: the broadcasting company’s dance orchestra, conducted by the legendary Kurt Henkels (who later emigrated to the West). “Quick rhythms bring joy.”
Observations in the Deutsche Bücherei: readers and librarians, storerooms, reading room and registry – all without computers yet!
A feature to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Leipzig Zoo, introducing a zoo director and pioneers, lots of animals and an East-West German mating of hippopotamuses.
