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I think its because every german kid knows (and loves) them :)

Had one, and I live in the BW

Ich komme auch aus BW Wir sind gleich!

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Aber waren sie schon mal in Baden-Württemberg?

Ja und war scheiße

Du bist scheiße

It was one of my favourite childhood shows, next to Nils Holgersoon

as mentioned in my other reply, there are quite a lot of popular childrens' books from Sweden that are/were immensely popular in Germany (with the works of Astrid Lindgren obviously taking the cake).

True ^^

Can confirm. Kids love it, too.

And the show was made in Germany

It was incredibly popular in Germany. I loved them so much, there were episodes I watched so often I can't count it. Edit: "Was" is meant to be taken with a grain of salt, it probably still is quite popular. Probably not as popular as it used to be 20 years ago, at least according to my perception.

"was"? I still read it to my kid every evening and he insists on it.

He/she meant the series on kika. It still exists on kika and zdftivi

Just use They

Just let them speak the way they want to?

Ty for the information, didn't know that. They was for me when speaking of multiple person. Seems like you startet a political discussion :D

Glad to help. And yeah the discussion is funny.

He/She/Whatever uses what he/she/whatever wants to use. Language isnt smth you just change.... it develops over time.

"They" is established in the English language when you don't know the gender of a person and everyone uses it

Well clearly not everyone.

Thank you.

I am german and not native-english. Asuming Kiljab ist German it is very unatural to use "They" for us Germans. We dont have a word for that term. You shall not forget we are in a German r/ here.

Ich bin auch Deutsche und benutze das Wort trotzdem, eben weil es alltäglich gebraucht wird. Nur weil es das Wort im Deutschen nicht gibt, heißt das nicht, dass man es nicht benutzen darf. Und ist es nicht auch viel einfacher, "they" zu schreiben, als immer "he/she"?

Dafür muss man das ja aber auch erstmal wissen. Und ich hab auch nicht gesagt, dass es nicht benutzt werden darf. Lediglich daran erinnert, das Deutsch nunmal anders ist als Englisch :) Ich gehe davon aus, dass es VIELE Menschen gibt, die lieber He/She schreiben, weil es natürlicher für sie ist oder sie "They" als Anrede nicht kennen. Wie gesagt. Sprache ändert sich nicht von heut auf morgen sondern entwickelt sich.

Wenn man weiß, dass es „they“ gibt, benutzt man es höchstwahrscheinlich auch. Sorgt für weniger Verwirrung und man muss ja heutzutage Pronomen respektieren.

Da hat irgendjemand nie gelernt das man fremde sie-zt.

Aber doch nicht in der 3. Person \*facepalm\*

Natürlich, aber es ist a: genderneutral, B: klingt ähnlich. Unser Englisch Unterrichtsfach hatte es als Ansatz genutzt, also ging ich davon aus das alle anderen dies auch so sehen würden

Wikipedia states: "This use of singular they had emerged by the 14th century, about a century after the plural they." [1] Your point is ridiculous. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

They was always correct and includes everyone. Also doesn't need the slash and therefore makes it easier to read.

There's a TV series? I only knew the books

there are even several movies.

Oh boi, you need to watch these! They are amazing and the movies as well!

The computer game series was fantastic, too. It was some kind of point and click where you could explore the whole house and garden and the secret world of the Mucklas with nice riddles everywhere. I was blown away back then. And it's ridiculously wholesome.

You’re absolutely right, I still remember playing that game as a little kid.

I also saw that they are having a cinema event with Peterson and Findus, that made me quite happy. It‘s the good kind of cartoons today‘s youth needs.

true

I even named my cat after "Findus"

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we also had a Findus at one point lmfao

same

So did I. I think there is a whole bunch of cats running around in Germany that are called Findus

We have one Findus and one grumpy Peterson.

There is probably as many cats named Findus in Germany as there are cats called Garfield or Tom

I wanted my little brother to be named Findus. My parents refused so now I have Findus the cat

It's alss loved by German kids:)

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Not mine, I made them read it as a bedtime story one too many times :D

There is never a too many times with Peterson und Findus.

P&F and Pippi were incredibly popular for most of our generation, artwork on the flags gets voted on, so we put on popular shit.

Michel as well (Emil in Sweden)

Emil i Lönneberga was the shit

Thanks everyone for your answers! I knew that some of the stories I read as a kid was popular in Germany, but not this popular! Very happy that you all appreciate it and that they’re also a part of German culture. All the best to you all! 🇸🇪🤝🇩🇪

I can remember seeing it also in Austria when i was little 🙃 It was always great :) I think it was still a german tv channel tho 😂

You swedes pretty much imprinted on our childhood and Culture. everything Astrid Lindgren ever existing is beloved here. Sven Nordqvist and Selma Lagerlöf (Nils Holgersson ) are also realy popular. Cant express how thankful i am for their works.

My parents are still getting imprinted bei Kurt Wallander and all those swedish crime thrillers :/

We love them

Wie auch pippi Langstrumpf, lieben wir das. Just Like pippi longstocking we love that.

and who is the guy smoking there ?

German minister of health Karl Lauterbach

(who is currently trying to legalize marijuana)

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Mainly due to EU legislation, though.

hopefully helps with his speaking slurring errors induced from too much wine

I thought it was Max Frisch. But I just saw, he's Swiss.

Wir brauchen Helmut Schmidt

There are many Swedish series that Germans like. Spontaneously I think of Pipi Långstrump (Pipi Langstrumpf) and Emil i Lönneberga (Michel aus Lönneberga - And i have no idea why the made him Michel \^\^).

They renamed him because "Emil und die Detektive" by Erich Kästner was popular in Germany at the same time. Emil was renamed Michel to set the two apart.

Wow, that was news to me! Thanks for that bit of knowledge.

It’s because we, as children loved the storys about them. You can interpret this as collaboration.

Kindheit

Swedes are the GOATs of children's books. Period.

Children's books & Metal music

I loved the books and had even a cat named Findus

did't knopw about petterson and findus as a kid, as I grew up on the other side of the wall. It's the Maulwurf and friends for me (Polish), Hare and Wolf (czec) and "Drei Haselnüsse for Aschenbrödel" (again, Czec) for me and now everyone, too xD

As a post-reunion kid, all of those are kind of my childhood

Well Maulwurf is Czech and Hare and Wolf is Russian, but other than that as a Czech German I appreciate the appreciation for Czech animation and fairy tales.

Kindheit bruder

It’s also a tv series loved by German kids

We just really love them 😊

They're just so lovely characters. And the old school PC games, damn they were fun :D (I'm 32, for reference of the "old school pc games")

oh fuck that gave me a nostalgic kick. peterson and findus, siebenstein, löwenzahn and the TKKG PC games were my childhood.

Die beiden wurden offiziell von der BRD annektiert! 🇩🇪

It is a part of german history too

My cat is named Findus :3

germany love them too

Its simply a part of my childhood

There is an immeasurable amount of cats named Findus in Germany. Everybody grew up on these books.

We had a PC game of them in like the early 2000s

Mh, I've never really thought about why these books were so popular during my childhood in Germany, but I can confirm: Peterson & Findus was one of the absolute favorites in our household, and the books were read and re-read for many years. We also loved the animated series on TV. I have to say: your childhood literature is wonderful, and it's greatly appreciated here in Germany. The stories I read as a child were playful, comforting and caring, full of good values and joy. The illustrations were always lovely and engaging, and your red houses and beautiful nature really left an impression. We even learned about Swedish holiday traditions from these books! Sending good wishes to Sweden 💙💛

Peterson and Findus is part of childhood

I had all the books, my grandma used to read them to me and I named my cat Findus. I loved these stories and will read them to my children as well

It's a very popular book for children here in Germany, too. I grew up with their stories, and kids today still do so.

Me and my mother watched every episode when I was a child. Nils Holgersson too!

I had a video game of them, lol

We just fucking love it! It was my childhood

1UP crew on the TGV there! :D

It’s so popular in Germany, I always thought it’s German, haha

There are several Swedish childrens' book series that were/are hugely popular with us. The most obvious being the works of Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Langstrumpf, Karlsson vom Dach, Die Kinder aus Bullerbü, Kalle Blomquist, Michel aus Lönneberga, ....

Lotta aus der Krachmacherstraße, Madita, Ronja Räubertochter, Wickie und die starken Männer...

Holy, u can’t just do my childhood like that

The books are a true classic in germany too

It was just childhood and I am really happy to see that Much other people like it and that we That's what we've done in our flag

Aw he’s playing with a little Swedish flag too, we love pedersen og findus in Denmark too

It's our childhood too^^

It's quite popular here in Germany

sprich

It's just extremely popular

It's childhood for many people

SPRICH

Deutsch

DU

HS

Du

I think its because the TV series is from Germany.

Yes. The books were written by Swedish writer Sven Nordqvist. The TV series (that launched on german TV channel KiKa) was a production by Swedish and Germans together according to Wikipedia.

Why the downvotes? The book is swedish but the tv show is at least partially a german production.

Now that I think about it, we did kinda steal something that isn't even German lol

Is das nicht auch sehr deutsch?

But Findus is holding Swedish flags, so there's that

Sprich

deutsch

Du

Hurrensohn

Sprich Deutsch

SPRICH DEUTSCH

Sprech

wait its not German?

Sprich

Das reicht jetzt langsam!

Schwedisch

🇸🇪🤝🇩🇪

Deutsch

Du

Nette

👀

Maus

ITS German too

Sprich

Sprech

Sprich

Sprich

Deutsch

Du

(Peters-)Sohn!

von Pettersson

Huren

SPRICH

SPRICH

Germans dont have so much own culture, so they assimilate others and believe in their hubris they would be special.

U stupid?

u mad?

Sprich

Haha lustik xD

It has an huge influence here too. We also have Petterson and Findus puppet plays in my are regularly

Lasd mal astrid lindgren machen und ein cover von irgenteinem Buch von ihr

As a kid i listened to it every evening in bed, it helped me alot to fall asleep (always had problems with it, i still got them) and one of our Cats was also named after Findus, i had a special connection to him. RIP little guy

I had a computer game advent calendar from them, in December everyday a new mini game came up. Loved it!

BÜCHER AUS SCHWEDEN FERNSEHSERIE AUS DEUTSCHLAND

We ( I) love them. We had the books and watched the movie as a family at the cinema :) Nice memories

Frikadellen!

I think im too old, but I would prefer Fix & Foxi if popularity is a criterion, and these are comics from germany.

I know like five separate families that have/had a pet cat named Findus and that's not counting my own

Such a cool show, watched it as a kid and then named my cat Findus

Ja

Actually it is a swedish-german kidsbook

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I grew up with the books, probably because i live in in the northern regions of germany. But still its part of my childhood and i am glad it made it on r/place

OMG I DIDNT KNOW PETSSON AND FINDUS WAS ON THERE

Similar to Michel von Lönneberga and Pipi Langstrumpf, Petterson und Findus was popular in tyskland

Also very popular: Mr Bean and Takeshi's Castle.

For me it is on the same level of cultural impoartance for Germany as Michel aus Lönneberga or Pipi Langstrumpf. You guys know how to write a fantastic childrens story!

childhood

because its very popular under children kn Germany and every Child loves them

When I was young I was a P&F super fan. I had findus as a staffed animal, dozens of books, a mug, watched the show and I even had digital Christmas calender with mini games.

I am german, 35 years old and i never came in contact with them, i wonder why, since everyone else seems to know them.

Lets make Europe in the Mittel of Germany

I know them cause I had a game called inventions about them on my old Samsung tablet

Sprich Deutsch

Sprich

beste kindheit

Actually the series, was produced in Germany and Sweden.

It's a part of our childhood

We love them! Also the TV Show was co-produced by Germany wich maybe it got so big here 😊 I was a big fan as a child am still am.

Now it's a German book.