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Ampelmännchen

February 13, 2023

Ampelmännchen (German: [ˈampl̩ˌmɛnçən] (listen); literally little traffic light man, diminutive of Ampelmann [ampl̩ˈman]) is the symbol shown on pedestrian signals in Germany. Prior to German reunification in 1990, the two Germanies had different forms for the Ampelmännchen, with a generic human figure in West Germany, and a generally "male" figure wearing a hat in the East.

East German Ampelmännchen

The Ampelmännchen is a beloved symbol in former East Germany,[1] "enjoy[ing] the privileged status of being one of the few features of East Germany to have survived the end of the Iron Curtain with his popularity unscathed."[2] After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Ampelmännchen acquired cult status and became a popular souvenir item in the tourism business.[1]

Concept and design

 
Karl Peglau's proposal for a traffic lights layout (left) compared to modern traffic lights (right)

The first traffic lights at pedestrian crossings were erected in the 1950s, and many countries developed different designs (which were eventually standardised).[3] At that time, traffic lights were the same for cars, bicycles and pedestrians.[4] The East Berlin Ampelmännchen was created in 1961 by traffic psychologist Karl Peglau (1927–2009) as part of a proposal for a new traffic lights layout. Peglau criticised the fact that the standard colours of the traffic lights (red, yellow, green) did not provide for road users who were unable to differentiate between colours (10 percent of the total population); and that the lights themselves were too small and too weak when competing against luminous advertising and sunlight. Peglau proposed retaining the three colours while introducing intuitive shapes for each coloured light. This idea received strong support from many sides, but Peglau's plans were doomed by the high costs involved in replacing existing traffic light infrastructure.[5]

Unlike motor traffic, pedestrian traffic has no constraints for age or health (physical or mental), and therefore must allow for children, elderly people and the handicapped. Peglau therefore resorted to the realistic-concrete scheme of a little man that is comprehensible for everyone and appeals to archetypical shapes. The thick outstretched arms of the frontal-standing red man is associated with the function of a blocking barricade to signal "stop", while the side-facing green man with his wide-paced legs is associated with a dynamic arrow, signalling the permission to "go ahead". The yellow light was abandoned because of generally unhurried pedestrian traffic.[5]

Peglau's secretary Anneliese Wegner drew the Ampelmännchen per his suggestions. The initial concept envisioned the Ampelmännchen to have fingers, but this idea was dropped for technical reasons of illumination. However, the man's "perky", "cheerful" and potentially "petit bourgeois" hat – inspired by a summer photo of Erich Honecker in a straw hat[6] – was retained, to Peglau's surprise. The prototypes of the Ampelmännchen traffic lights were built at the VEB-Leuchtenbau Berlin.[5]

The Ampelmännchen was officially introduced on 13 October 1961 in Berlin, at which time the media attention and public interest focused on the new traffic lights, not the symbols.[5] The first Ampelmännchen were produced as cheap decal pictures. Beginning in 1973, the Ampelmännchen traffic lights were produced at VEB Signaltechnik Wildenfels and privately owned artisan shops.[7]

Decades later, Daniel Meuren of the weekly German newsmagazine Der Spiegel described the Ampelmännchen as uniting "beauty with efficiency, charm with utility, [and] sociability with fulfilment of duties".[8] The Ampelmännchen reminded others of a childlike figure with big head and short legs, or a religious leader.[9]

The Ampelmännchen proved so popular that parents and teachers initiated the symbol to become part of road safety education for children in the early 1980s.[5] The East German Ministry of the Interior had the idea to bring the two traffic light figures to life and turn them into advisors. The Ampelmännchen were introduced with much media publicity. They appeared in strip cartoons, also in situations without traffic lights. The red Ampelmännchen appeared in potentially dangerous environments, and the green Ampelmännchen was an advisor. Together with the Junge Welt publishing company, games with the Ampelmännchen were developed. Ampelmännchen stories were developed for radio broadcasts.[10] Partly animated Ampelmännchen stories with the name Stiefelchen und Kompaßkalle were broadcast once a month as part of the East German children's bedtime television programme Sandmännchen, which had one of the largest viewing audiences in East Germany.[11] The animated Ampelmännchen stories raised international interest, and the Czech festival for road safety education films awarded Stiefelchen und Kompaßkalle the Special Award by the Jury and the Main Prize for Overall Accomplishments in 1984.[11]

History after reunification

 
Pan-German Ampelmännchen in Chemnitz
 
Ampelmännchen in Berlin

Following the German reunification in 1990, there were attempts to standardise all traffic signs to the West German forms. East German street signs and traffic signs were dismantled and replaced because of differing fonts in the former two German countries.[12] The East German education programmes featuring the Ampelmännchen vanished. This led to calls to save the East German Ampelmännchen as a part of the East German culture.[1][2] The first solidarity campaigns for the Ampelmännchen took place in Berlin in early 1995.

Markus Heckhausen, a graphic designer from the West German city of Tübingen and founder of Ampelmann GmbH in Berlin,[1] had first noticed the Ampelmännchen during his visits to East Berlin in the 1980s. When he was looking for new design possibilities in 1995, he had the idea to collect dismantled Ampelmännchen and build lamps. But he had difficulty finding old Ampelmännchen and eventually contacted the former VEB Signaltechnik (now Signaltechnik Roßberg GmbH) regarding their excess stock. The company was still producing Ampelmännchen, and liked Heckhausen's marketing ideas. The public embraced Heckhausen's first six lamp models. Local newspapers published full-page articles, followed by articles in national newspapers and designer magazines. The successful German daily soap opera Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten used the Ampelmännchen lamp in their coffeehouse set.[9] Designer Karl Peglau explained the public reaction in 1997:

It is presumably their special, almost indescribable aura of human snugness and warmth, when humans are comfortably touched by this traffic symbol figure and find a piece of honest historical identification, giving the Ampelmännchen the right to represent a positive aspect of a failed social order.[13]

The Ampelmännchen became a virtual mascot for the East German nostalgia movement, known as Ostalgie.[2] The protests were successful, and the Ampelmännchen returned to pedestrian crossings. They can now also be seen in some western districts of Berlin.[4] Some western German cities such as Saarbrücken[14] and Heidelberg[15] have since adopted the design for some intersections. Peter Becker, marshal of Saarbrücken, explained that lights of the East German Ampelmännchen have greater signal strength than West German traffic lights, and "in our experience people react better to the East German Ampelmännchen than the West German ones."[14] In Heidelberg, however, a government department asked the city to stop the installation of more East German Ampelmännchen, citing standards in road traffic regulations.[15]

 
Tourist souvenirs featuring the East German traffic lights.

Heckhausen continued to incorporate the Ampelmännchen design into products and had an assortment of over forty Ampelmännchen souvenir products in 2004, reportedly earning €2 million yearly. In the meantime, east German businessman Joachim Rossberg had also used the distinctive traffic symbol as a logo, and claimed to make €50,000 per year from merchandise. Heckhausen appealed to a Leipzig court in 2005 over the marketing rights, suing Rossberg for failing at making full use of his marketing rights; German legislature rules state that if no use of marketing rights is made for five years, the rights can be cancelled. The court ruled in 2006 that Rossberg's right to use the Ampelmännchen as a marketing brand had largely lapsed and had passed back into the public domain. Rossberg only retained the right to use the symbol to market liqueur, and may no longer use the logo on beer and T-shirts. The court case was later seen by some as part of the cultural and political struggle between residents of the two parts of the reunified country, in which the underdog East generally lost.[1][2]

Berlin started to modernize its traffic lights from using regular light bulbs to LED technology in early 2006, which promised better visibility and lower maintenance costs.[16]

Variations

There are three Ampelmännchen variations in modern-day Germany – the old East German version, the old West German version, and the pan-German Ampelmännchen introduced in 1992. Each German state holds the right to determine the version used.[17] East Germans have changed the look of Ampelmännchen traffic lights as a joke since the early 1980s; this turned into media-effective efforts to call attention to the vanishing East German Ampelmännchen in the 1990s.[18] The Ampelmännchen on several traffic lights in Erfurt were changed through manipulation of the template, showing Ampelmännchen carrying backpacks or cameras.[15] In 2004, Joachim Rossberg invented the female counterpart to the Ampelmännchen, the Ampelfrau, which was installed on some traffic lights in Zwickau,[19] Dresden[20] and Fürstenwalde.[21]

Art collective Ztohoven

Roman Tic (a pseudonym playing with "romantic") of the art collective Ztohoven ("(The way) Out of shit") changed some pedestrian traffic lights in the daylight hours of 8 April 2007 in five hours work, with a ladder and wearing red overalls. He used different motifs, including men and women (e.g. drinking, urinating).[22][23][24][25]

Inclusive traffic lights

On 11 May 2015, before the Life Ball and the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, the city changed some traffic lights to "Ampelpärchen"; these are designs with homo- and heterosexual couples, hugging or holding hands. In June 2015, Salzburg (at Staatsbrücke) and Linz (at Mozartkreuzung) followed suit with the same designs. However, in December 2015, a city traffic minister of the party FPÖ dismounted the privately sponsored faceplates, deeming them unnecessary.[26][27][28][29]

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    The Ampelfrau

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    Ampelmännchen with umbrella

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    Ampelmännchen with bicycle

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    Ampelmännchen as warning light

Tribute

On 13 October 2017, Google celebrated the 56th anniversary of the Traffic Light Man with a Google Doodle.[30]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "East German Loses Copyright Battle over Beloved Traffic Symbol". Deutsche Welle. 17 June 2006. Retrieved 6 December 2008.
  2. ^ a b c d "Ampelmännchen is Still Going Places". Deutsche Welle. 16 June 2005. Retrieved 6 December 2008.
  3. ^ Heckhausen, Markus (1997). "Die Entstehung der Lichtzeichenanlage". Das Buch vom Ampelmännchen. pp. 15–17.
  4. ^ a b Jacobs, Stefan (26 April 2005). "Ein Männchen sieht rot". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). from the original on 12 February 2009. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
  5. ^ a b c d e Peglau, Karl (1997). "Das Ampelmännchen oder: Kleine östliche Verkehrsgeschichte". Das Buch vom Ampelmännchen. pp. 20–27.
  6. ^ "East Germany's iconic traffic man turns 50". The Local. 13 October 2013. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
  7. ^ Roßberg, Joachim (1997). "Vom VEB zur GmbH". Das Buch vom Ampelmännchen. pp. 42–44.
  8. ^ Meuren, Daniel (26 September 2001). "Die rot-grüne Koalition". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 6 February 2009. Das 40 Jahre alte Ampelmännchen sozialistischer Prägung verbindet Schönheit mit Effizienz, Charme mit Zweckmäßigkeit, Gemütlichkeit mit Pflichterfüllung.
  9. ^ a b Heckhausen, Markus. "Ampelmännchen im zweiten Frühling". nnchen in Rostock. pp. 52–57.
  10. ^ Vierjahn, Margarethe (1997). "Verkehrserziehung für Kinder". Das Buch vom Ampelmännchen (in German). pp. 28–30.
  11. ^ a b Rochow, Friedrich (1997). "Stiefelchen und Kompaßkalle". Das Buch vom Ampelmännchen. pp. 32–41.
  12. ^ Gillen, Eckhart (1997). Das Buch vom Ampelmännchen. p. 48.
  13. ^ Peglau, Karl (1997). "Das Ampelmännchen oder: Kleine östliche Verkehrsgeschichte". Das Buch vom Ampelmännchen (in German). p. 27. Vermutlich liegt es an ihrem besonderen, einer Beschreibung kaum zugänglichen Fluidum von menschlicher Gemütlichkeit und Wärme, wenn sich Menschen von dieser Symbolfiguren der Straße angenehm berührt und angesprochen fühlen und darin ein Stück ehrlicher historischer Identifikation finden, was den Ampelmännchen das Recht zur Repräsentation der positiven Aspekte einer gescheiterten Gesellschaftsordnung gibt.
  14. ^ a b Bolzenius, Theodor (23 May 2006). "Polizisten flitzen mit Segways durch die Kirchenmeile" (in German). katholikentag.net. Retrieved 11 December 2008.[permanent dead link]
  15. ^ a b c "Deutschland wächst zusammen – Ampelmännchen und Grüner Pfeil". Politik und Unterricht (in German) (2/2000). 2000. Retrieved 11 December 2008.
  16. ^ Lemmer, Christoph (8 May 2006). . Der Tagesspiegel. Archived from the original on 10 February 2009. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
  17. ^ "Heimliches Wappen der DDR". Der Spiegel (in German). No. 2/1997. 6 January 1997. p. 92.
  18. ^ König, Maria (1997). "Die Gallier aus Thüringen". Das Buch vom Ampelmännchen. pp. 46–47.
  19. ^ "Grünes Licht für Ampelfrau". Der Spiegel (in German). 23 November 2004. Retrieved 11 December 2008.
  20. ^ "Markenrechte an Ampelfrau beschäftigen die Justiz" (in German). Berliner Morgenpost. 23 April 2007. Retrieved 11 December 2008.
  21. ^ "Hats off as "Ampelfrau" helps Germans cross the road". Reuters. 7 March 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2012.[permanent dead link]
  22. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BksSF4oQe4Y Portrait: Prager Kollektiv Ztohoven - Part 1 - arte Tracks vom 31 March 2011; Tom Klim, 6 April 2011, youtube.com, Video 6:53. Retrieved 16 May 2015
  23. ^ Sabotage in Prag – Ampelmann mit Pulle. auf: sueddeutsche.de, 11 April 2007
  24. ^ Hans-Jörg Schmidt: Urinierende Ampelmännchen – Künstler verurteilt. auf: Welt Online. 6 December 2011
  25. ^ sidewalkCINEMA 2007, film.at, 2007. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  26. ^ ""Lockeres Statement": Ampelpärchen gibt es jetzt auch in Salzburg" (in German). Kronen Zeitung. 18 June 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  27. ^ http://ooe.orf.at/news/stories/2718342/ Ampelpärchen leuchten jetzt auch in Linz, orf.at 26 June 2015, retrieved 7 December 2015. (German)
  28. ^ http://www.krone.at/Oesterreich/Linzer_FPOe-Stadtrat_liess_Ampelpaerchen_abmontieren-Voellig_unnoetig-Story-485830 "völlig unnötig": Linzer FPÖ-Stadtrat liess Ampelpärchen abmontieren, krone.at 7 December 2015, retrieved 7 December 2015. (German)
  29. ^ http://ooe.orf.at/news/stories/2746216/ FPÖ-Stadtrat liess Ampelpärchen abmontieren, orf.at 7 December 2015, retrieved 7 December 2015. (German)
  30. ^ "56th Anniversary of the Traffic Light Man". Google. 13 October 2017.

Further reading

  • Heckhausen, Markus, ed. (1997). Das Buch vom Ampelmännchen (in German). Eulenspiegel Verlag. ISBN 3-359-00910-X.

External links

 
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from the existing German Wikipedia article at de Ampelmannchen see its history for attribution You should also add the template Translated de Ampelmannchen to the talk page For more guidance see Wikipedia Translation Ampelmannchen German ˈampl ˌmɛncen listen literally little traffic light man diminutive of Ampelmann ampl ˈman is the symbol shown on pedestrian signals in Germany Prior to German reunification in 1990 the two Germanies had different forms for the Ampelmannchen with a generic human figure in West Germany and a generally male figure wearing a hat in the East East German Ampelmannchen The Ampelmannchen is a beloved symbol in former East Germany 1 enjoy ing the privileged status of being one of the few features of East Germany to have survived the end of the Iron Curtain with his popularity unscathed 2 After the fall of the Berlin Wall the Ampelmannchen acquired cult status and became a popular souvenir item in the tourism business 1 Contents 1 Concept and design 2 History after reunification 3 Variations 3 1 Art collective Ztohoven 3 2 Inclusive traffic lights 4 Tribute 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksConcept and design Edit Karl Peglau s proposal for a traffic lights layout left compared to modern traffic lights right The first traffic lights at pedestrian crossings were erected in the 1950s and many countries developed different designs which were eventually standardised 3 At that time traffic lights were the same for cars bicycles and pedestrians 4 The East Berlin Ampelmannchen was created in 1961 by traffic psychologist Karl Peglau 1927 2009 as part of a proposal for a new traffic lights layout Peglau criticised the fact that the standard colours of the traffic lights red yellow green did not provide for road users who were unable to differentiate between colours 10 percent of the total population and that the lights themselves were too small and too weak when competing against luminous advertising and sunlight Peglau proposed retaining the three colours while introducing intuitive shapes for each coloured light This idea received strong support from many sides but Peglau s plans were doomed by the high costs involved in replacing existing traffic light infrastructure 5 Unlike motor traffic pedestrian traffic has no constraints for age or health physical or mental and therefore must allow for children elderly people and the handicapped Peglau therefore resorted to the realistic concrete scheme of a little man that is comprehensible for everyone and appeals to archetypical shapes The thick outstretched arms of the frontal standing red man is associated with the function of a blocking barricade to signal stop while the side facing green man with his wide paced legs is associated with a dynamic arrow signalling the permission to go ahead The yellow light was abandoned because of generally unhurried pedestrian traffic 5 Peglau s secretary Anneliese Wegner drew the Ampelmannchen per his suggestions The initial concept envisioned the Ampelmannchen to have fingers but this idea was dropped for technical reasons of illumination However the man s perky cheerful and potentially petit bourgeois hat inspired by a summer photo of Erich Honecker in a straw hat 6 was retained to Peglau s surprise The prototypes of the Ampelmannchen traffic lights were built at the VEB Leuchtenbau Berlin 5 The Ampelmannchen was officially introduced on 13 October 1961 in Berlin at which time the media attention and public interest focused on the new traffic lights not the symbols 5 The first Ampelmannchen were produced as cheap decal pictures Beginning in 1973 the Ampelmannchen traffic lights were produced at VEB Signaltechnik Wildenfels and privately owned artisan shops 7 Decades later Daniel Meuren of the weekly German newsmagazine Der Spiegel described the Ampelmannchen as uniting beauty with efficiency charm with utility and sociability with fulfilment of duties 8 The Ampelmannchen reminded others of a childlike figure with big head and short legs or a religious leader 9 The Ampelmannchen proved so popular that parents and teachers initiated the symbol to become part of road safety education for children in the early 1980s 5 The East German Ministry of the Interior had the idea to bring the two traffic light figures to life and turn them into advisors The Ampelmannchen were introduced with much media publicity They appeared in strip cartoons also in situations without traffic lights The red Ampelmannchen appeared in potentially dangerous environments and the green Ampelmannchen was an advisor Together with the Junge Welt publishing company games with the Ampelmannchen were developed Ampelmannchen stories were developed for radio broadcasts 10 Partly animated Ampelmannchen stories with the name Stiefelchen und Kompasskalle were broadcast once a month as part of the East German children s bedtime television programme Sandmannchen which had one of the largest viewing audiences in East Germany 11 The animated Ampelmannchen stories raised international interest and the Czech festival for road safety education films awarded Stiefelchen und Kompasskalle the Special Award by the Jury and the Main Prize for Overall Accomplishments in 1984 11 History after reunification Edit Pan German Ampelmannchen in Chemnitz Ampelmannchen in Berlin Following the German reunification in 1990 there were attempts to standardise all traffic signs to the West German forms East German street signs and traffic signs were dismantled and replaced because of differing fonts in the former two German countries 12 The East German education programmes featuring the Ampelmannchen vanished This led to calls to save the East German Ampelmannchen as a part of the East German culture 1 2 The first solidarity campaigns for the Ampelmannchen took place in Berlin in early 1995 Markus Heckhausen a graphic designer from the West German city of Tubingen and founder of Ampelmann GmbH in Berlin 1 had first noticed the Ampelmannchen during his visits to East Berlin in the 1980s When he was looking for new design possibilities in 1995 he had the idea to collect dismantled Ampelmannchen and build lamps But he had difficulty finding old Ampelmannchen and eventually contacted the former VEB Signaltechnik now Signaltechnik Rossberg GmbH regarding their excess stock The company was still producing Ampelmannchen and liked Heckhausen s marketing ideas The public embraced Heckhausen s first six lamp models Local newspapers published full page articles followed by articles in national newspapers and designer magazines The successful German daily soap opera Gute Zeiten schlechte Zeiten used the Ampelmannchen lamp in their coffeehouse set 9 Designer Karl Peglau explained the public reaction in 1997 It is presumably their special almost indescribable aura of human snugness and warmth when humans are comfortably touched by this traffic symbol figure and find a piece of honest historical identification giving the Ampelmannchen the right to represent a positive aspect of a failed social order 13 The Ampelmannchen became a virtual mascot for the East German nostalgia movement known as Ostalgie 2 The protests were successful and the Ampelmannchen returned to pedestrian crossings They can now also be seen in some western districts of Berlin 4 Some western German cities such as Saarbrucken 14 and Heidelberg 15 have since adopted the design for some intersections Peter Becker marshal of Saarbrucken explained that lights of the East German Ampelmannchen have greater signal strength than West German traffic lights and in our experience people react better to the East German Ampelmannchen than the West German ones 14 In Heidelberg however a government department asked the city to stop the installation of more East German Ampelmannchen citing standards in road traffic regulations 15 Tourist souvenirs featuring the East German traffic lights Heckhausen continued to incorporate the Ampelmannchen design into products and had an assortment of over forty Ampelmannchen souvenir products in 2004 reportedly earning 2 million yearly In the meantime east German businessman Joachim Rossberg had also used the distinctive traffic symbol as a logo and claimed to make 50 000 per year from merchandise Heckhausen appealed to a Leipzig court in 2005 over the marketing rights suing Rossberg for failing at making full use of his marketing rights German legislature rules state that if no use of marketing rights is made for five years the rights can be cancelled The court ruled in 2006 that Rossberg s right to use the Ampelmannchen as a marketing brand had largely lapsed and had passed back into the public domain Rossberg only retained the right to use the symbol to market liqueur and may no longer use the logo on beer and T shirts The court case was later seen by some as part of the cultural and political struggle between residents of the two parts of the reunified country in which the underdog East generally lost 1 2 Berlin started to modernize its traffic lights from using regular light bulbs to LED technology in early 2006 which promised better visibility and lower maintenance costs 16 Variations EditThere are three Ampelmannchen variations in modern day Germany the old East German version the old West German version and the pan German Ampelmannchen introduced in 1992 Each German state holds the right to determine the version used 17 East Germans have changed the look of Ampelmannchen traffic lights as a joke since the early 1980s this turned into media effective efforts to call attention to the vanishing East German Ampelmannchen in the 1990s 18 The Ampelmannchen on several traffic lights in Erfurt were changed through manipulation of the template showing Ampelmannchen carrying backpacks or cameras 15 In 2004 Joachim Rossberg invented the female counterpart to the Ampelmannchen the Ampelfrau which was installed on some traffic lights in Zwickau 19 Dresden 20 and Furstenwalde 21 Art collective Ztohoven Edit Roman Tic a pseudonym playing with romantic of the art collective Ztohoven The way Out of shit changed some pedestrian traffic lights in the daylight hours of 8 April 2007 in five hours work with a ladder and wearing red overalls He used different motifs including men and women e g drinking urinating 22 23 24 25 Inclusive traffic lights Edit On 11 May 2015 before the Life Ball and the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna the city changed some traffic lights to Ampelparchen these are designs with homo and heterosexual couples hugging or holding hands In June 2015 Salzburg at Staatsbrucke and Linz at Mozartkreuzung followed suit with the same designs However in December 2015 a city traffic minister of the party FPO dismounted the privately sponsored faceplates deeming them unnecessary 26 27 28 29 The Ampelfrau Ampelmannchen with umbrella Ampelmannchen with bicycle Ampelmannchen as warning lightTribute EditOn 13 October 2017 Google celebrated the 56th anniversary of the Traffic Light Man with a Google Doodle 30 See also EditOstalgie Road traffic safety Xiaoluren an animated traffic light system in TaiwanReferences Edit a b c d e East German Loses Copyright Battle over Beloved Traffic Symbol Deutsche Welle 17 June 2006 Retrieved 6 December 2008 a b c d Ampelmannchen is Still Going Places Deutsche Welle 16 June 2005 Retrieved 6 December 2008 Heckhausen Markus 1997 Die Entstehung der Lichtzeichenanlage Das Buch vom Ampelmannchen pp 15 17 a b Jacobs Stefan 26 April 2005 Ein Mannchen sieht rot Der Tagesspiegel in German Archived from the original on 12 February 2009 Retrieved 6 February 2009 a b c d e Peglau Karl 1997 Das Ampelmannchen oder Kleine ostliche Verkehrsgeschichte Das Buch vom Ampelmannchen pp 20 27 East Germany s iconic traffic man turns 50 The Local 13 October 2013 Retrieved 18 May 2014 Rossberg Joachim 1997 Vom VEB zur GmbH Das Buch vom Ampelmannchen pp 42 44 Meuren Daniel 26 September 2001 Die rot grune Koalition Der Spiegel in German Retrieved 6 February 2009 Das 40 Jahre alte Ampelmannchen sozialistischer Pragung verbindet Schonheit mit Effizienz Charme mit Zweckmassigkeit Gemutlichkeit mit Pflichterfullung a b Heckhausen Markus Ampelmannchen im zweiten Fruhling nnchen in Rostock pp 52 57 Vierjahn Margarethe 1997 Verkehrserziehung fur Kinder Das Buch vom Ampelmannchen in German pp 28 30 a b Rochow Friedrich 1997 Stiefelchen und Kompasskalle Das Buch vom Ampelmannchen pp 32 41 Gillen Eckhart 1997 Das Buch vom Ampelmannchen p 48 Peglau Karl 1997 Das Ampelmannchen oder Kleine ostliche Verkehrsgeschichte Das Buch vom Ampelmannchen in German p 27 Vermutlich liegt es an ihrem besonderen einer Beschreibung kaum zuganglichen Fluidum von menschlicher Gemutlichkeit und Warme wenn sich Menschen von dieser Symbolfiguren der Strasse angenehm beruhrt und angesprochen fuhlen und darin ein Stuck ehrlicher historischer Identifikation finden was den Ampelmannchen das Recht zur Reprasentation der positiven Aspekte einer gescheiterten Gesellschaftsordnung gibt a b Bolzenius Theodor 23 May 2006 Polizisten flitzen mit Segways durch die Kirchenmeile in German katholikentag net Retrieved 11 December 2008 permanent dead link a b c Deutschland wachst zusammen Ampelmannchen und Gruner Pfeil Politik und Unterricht in German 2 2000 2000 Retrieved 11 December 2008 Lemmer Christoph 8 May 2006 Ampelmannchen privat Der Tagesspiegel Archived from the original on 10 February 2009 Retrieved 6 February 2009 Heimliches Wappen der DDR Der Spiegel in German No 2 1997 6 January 1997 p 92 Konig Maria 1997 Die Gallier aus Thuringen Das Buch vom Ampelmannchen pp 46 47 Grunes Licht fur Ampelfrau Der Spiegel in German 23 November 2004 Retrieved 11 December 2008 Markenrechte an Ampelfrau beschaftigen die Justiz in German Berliner Morgenpost 23 April 2007 Retrieved 11 December 2008 Hats off as Ampelfrau helps Germans cross the road Reuters 7 March 2012 Retrieved 7 March 2012 permanent dead link https www youtube com watch v BksSF4oQe4Y Portrait Prager Kollektiv Ztohoven Part 1 arte Tracks vom 31 March 2011 Tom Klim 6 April 2011 youtube com Video 6 53 Retrieved 16 May 2015 Sabotage in Prag Ampelmann mit Pulle auf sueddeutsche de 11 April 2007 Hans Jorg Schmidt Urinierende Ampelmannchen Kunstler verurteilt auf Welt Online 6 December 2011 1 sidewalkCINEMA 2007 film at 2007 Retrieved 16 May 2015 Lockeres Statement Ampelparchen gibt es jetzt auch in Salzburg in German Kronen Zeitung 18 June 2015 Retrieved 28 October 2020 http ooe orf at news stories 2718342 Ampelparchen leuchten jetzt auch in Linz orf at 26 June 2015 retrieved 7 December 2015 German http www krone at Oesterreich Linzer FPOe Stadtrat liess Ampelpaerchen abmontieren Voellig unnoetig Story 485830 vollig unnotig Linzer FPO Stadtrat liess Ampelparchen abmontieren krone at 7 December 2015 retrieved 7 December 2015 German http ooe orf at news stories 2746216 FPO Stadtrat liess Ampelparchen abmontieren orf at 7 December 2015 retrieved 7 December 2015 German 56th Anniversary of the Traffic Light Man Google 13 October 2017 Further reading EditHeckhausen Markus ed 1997 Das Buch vom Ampelmannchen in German Eulenspiegel Verlag ISBN 3 359 00910 X External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ampelmannchen Original Ampelmann Company which manufactured them originally Ampelmann at ampelmann de Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ampelmannchen amp oldid 1118963758, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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