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Sounds strange, but that’s what the mouse was doing in OWL

The dinosaur on German television has never had to reinvent itself for over half a century and is as popular as ever. The cult of the orange rodent has many facets.



Gregor Winkler



Bielefeld / Cologne. “How does it actually work? We don’t know either, we asked an expert.” The factual stories begin with this formulation. Symbolic figure, mascot, trademark – no, more likely the star – is an orange mouse on two legs – sounds strange, but that’s how it is. Matchstick, ancient Rome or the left foot: there’s nothing that hasn’t made it onto this TV show. At least two generations have learned how things work or are produced. The show with the mouse is 50 years old. “Clack, clack” …

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