Screenshot of Tabaluga, taken from an episode aired via Cartoon Network

The little green Dragon Tabaluga is a Puppet character, who lives in Greenland. He is around 100 years old (and every year for a dragon is 700 for a human!). He is the creation of a German Rock musician, Peter Maffay, children's song writer Rolf Zuckowski and the author Gregor Rottschalk. The artist Helme Heine gave Tabaluga his appearance.

The musical "Tabaluga & Lilli" celebrated its premiere on 24 September 1999 in the TheatrO CentrO, Oberhausen, and ran there until 30 June 2001. The little dragon amongst other things, managed to unite the High Society of German musical actors, with stars such as Andreas Bieber, Ross Antony, Paul Kribbe and Carolin Fortenbacher.

The First Studio Album "Tabaluga or the journey to reason." (1983) was the step to success: there followed in the course of the years some Helme Heine books, four Studio albums, a resounding tour and many TV Cartoons, which are Broadcast in over 100 countries round the world. Over 100 kindergartens and child care groups carry the word "Tabaluga" in their names.

On TV, Tabaluga fights against Arktos, who is an evil snowman, intent on burying Greenland under snow, and making it part of Iceworld.

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Tabaluga on TV[edit]

In Tabaluga tivi, the television show (90 min.) (only shown in Germany), you will see the little green dragon, Tabaluga, his friend Happy (a snow hare) and his enemy Arktos, the wicked snowman. In the show, two teams play against each other in 5 competition rounds to win prizes for themselves, and to win the contents of a treasure chest, which they can donate to their school, a children's home, etc. The broadcast is transmitted by ZDF and also KI.KA. In Summer 2005 the show celebrated its 400th transmission. The show is made for ZDF in co-production with Munich Production Company MingaMedia and is made in the Bavaria-Studios in Unterföhring, near Munich.


"History"[edit]

1983: "Tabaluga or the journey to reason.", First Concept Album.
1986: "Tabaluga and the bright silence.", Second Concept Album.
1993: "Tabaluga & Lilli"
1994: Tour of "Tabaluga & Lilli", 90 appearances with a total audience of around 700,000 people.
1997: Tabaluga on TV: Cartoon Episodes in "Tabaluga tivi" on ZDF
1999: "TheatrO CentrO" in Oberhausen showed the premiere of the "Tabaluga & Lilli" musical.
2001: Second Series (26 New Episodes, again on ZDF and KI.KA)
2002: All 52 episodes are repeated again on television.
2002: "Tabaluga and the Gift of Luck".
2003: Tour of "Tabaluga and the Gift of Luck".

In 2004, Tabaluga viatja buscant el seny - Tabaluga, the journey to reason, became the first of the Tabaluga stories to be translated into Catalan. The story was recorded onto CD and Cassette, and was very popular.

It was also staged for the first time in 2005 in Mallorca, and drew an exceptionally large audience. The singers, Jose Carreras and Cris Juanico, along with de:Udo Jurgens and Peter Maffay bought the concept to the stage.

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[4] Yoram Gross Films: Producers of the Tabaluga Animated Cartoon

Links to people listed on other Wikipediæ[edit]

Peter Maffay (Deutsch) Helme Heine (Deutsch)