LL-L "Tradition" 2009.08.10 (05) [EN]

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From: Hellinckx Luc <luc.hellinckx at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Tradition"

You wrote:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandm%C3%A4nnchen
 
 Man hat so seine Freude.

Little guy "Zandmanneke" brings back sweet memories, as the series was on
Belgian tv when I was a kid. Am not sure whether it was the West- or
East-German version, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was the Eastern one,
since many programs for kids were imported from the "Oostblok". Apparently,
Belgium was not the only country, Norway was also flooded with Eastern
European programs for children, and fairly recently a movie has been made on
this subject "Sandman, the story of a socialist superman":

http://www.nfi.no/english/norwegianfilms/show.html?id=519

Seems that Mister Sandman grew into a mascot for the German Democratic
Republic, promoting "optimism, technology and solidarity".

Mister Sandman himself had a darker side too *s*. He's said to scatter sand
in children's eyes in order to make them blind (wonder if the GDR was aware
of this metaphor), then steal their eyes and feed them to his own kids, who
reside on the moon (translate "Apparatschik", "Moscow" *s*). Of course,
children who didn't want to go to bed would believe this, because in the
morning they would still feel some sort of sandy feeling in their eyes
(rheum), if they stayed up too late.

Kind greetings,

Luc Hellinckx, Halle

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