Best German animation series

Pumuckl is a Kobold from a German radio play series for children. He is a descendant of the Klabautermänner. He is invisible to people around him except for the master carpenter Eder with whom Pumuckl lives. Pumuckl was invented by Ellis Kaut for a radio play series of the Bavarian Radio in 1961. Later on it was turned into a very successful TV series. Three movies and a musical also deal with the adventures of the little kobold. Pumuckl is one of the most popular characters in children's entertainment in Germany and several generations have now grown up with the cheeky but funny little Kobold.

SimsalaGrimm is a German television series, consisting of stories based on fairy tales by Grimm Brothers, Hans Christian Anderson and other notable authors.

The children's show has been a fixed Sunday morning ritual in German living rooms since 1971. Not only children, but also many adults sit in front of the television every week when the clever orange mouse, his blue elephant buddy and the yellow duck lead the way with short, funny cartoon clips between the "funny and factual stories".

The DePatie-Freleng animated series. For other uses, see Inspector (disambiguation). For the 1962 feature film starring Stephen Boyd and Dolores Hart, see The Inspector (1962 film). For the 2010s Litton Entertainment live-action series, see The Inspectors. The Inspector

A vampire boy that hates the sight of blood in love with a human named Sunshine – the odds don’t look to be in Oskar’s favor, but with the help of his friends and fellow vampires Stoker, Gothetta, Klot, and Ashley, he is sure to get through it!

The lives of teenagers Emma, Cleo and Rikki are forever changed when a magical, forbidden island gives them the power to turn into mermaids.

An animated series based on the West German comic strip of the same name, which follows a private detective Nick Knatterton.

Jim Button and his friends Luuk and Princess Li Si travel the world in their locomotive.

A young bee named Maya leaves her hive to discover the beauty and mysteries of nature, making new insect friends along the way.

Flying Bark Animation produced an animated cartoon series of Tabaluga. In this series, Tabaluga is the last of the dragons and the crown-prince of Greenland, a magical place inhabited by talking animals of many different species. Tabaluga must defend his home from two rival kingdoms on either side of Greenland; a frigid arctic tundra, ruled by the evil snowman Arktos and a searing desert, ruled by an evil sand-spirit named Humsin.

Richard the Lionheart has gone to war, leaving power in the hands of Prince John. Sherwood is in danger, but Robin Hood and his gang are on hand to save the day! Meet Maid Marian with her castle insider knowledge, charming Little John, grumpy Tuck and Robin's funny cousin Scarlett. Follow the gang who with comedy, magic and friendship will save the day.

StarStarSpace is an animated series by German YouTuber Coldmirror. The series parodies different Sci-Fi shows and movies like Star Trek, Star Wars or Alien.

Afterworld, a tale of a world trying to recover from a cataclysmic event that has changed life on Earth beyond all recognition. 99% of the population has vanished and all technology has been rendered useless. Russell is going to have to go through hell and back if he is going to be reunited with his family 3000 miles away.

Janoschs Traumstunde is an German animated children's television series that originally ran from 1986 to 1990. It is based on the works of German artist and children's book author Janosch.

At first glance, Bibi Blocksberg is a fun loving, ordinary teenage girl. She goes to school, has friends, she wants a pet and she falls in love… There is just one little thing that makes all the difference in the world! Bibi happens to be able to perform witchcraft. However, as a witch in training, solving problems and fighting injustice with just a teensy bit of magic, leaves a lot of room for enjoyable chaos. BIBI IS A LITTLE WITCH WITH A BIG PERSONALITY!

Jim Button is a little black boy living on the tiny island of Lummerland. When Jim grows bigger, there is simply no longer enough space for everybody. Someone has to go, decides King Alfons the Quarter-to-Twelfth. But should that someone really be Emma, the locomotive of Jim’s best friend Luke? Jim cannot allow that. Together with the engine driver and Emma he leaves the island and sets off on the great adventure: Transparent trees, stripy mountains, apparent giants and dragons cross their way. In the end, however, Jim is not only able to solve the enigma of his birth; he also manages to free the beautiful princess Li Si. And even for their return to Lummerland a solution is found.

Mr. Rossi feature films created by Brono Bonzzetto.

"Japanoschlampen" is about the adventures of the two friends Wake and Chao.

JoNaLu is a German animated television series for young children. The main characters are a male mouse called Jojo, a female mouse called Naya and a ladybug called Ludwig.

Trico is an enthusiastic sheep who loves to share new objects and ideas with the rest of the flock. This causes ruckus in the mountain pastures, which all inevitably end up at Wanda’s expense, a tough ewe whose job is to keep the sheep safe. Not a small feat, especially when Wolf is always lurking, waiting to make the most of this newfound chaos.

Laura is a 7-year-old girl who moves to the city. During her first night in the new house, she captures a falling star and brings it home. The star turns out to be a living being... complete with cosmic powers.

Old Petterson lives on the edge of a small village somewhere in Sweden. Together with his cat Findus and his ten white hens he always experiences wonderfully funny and exciting adventures. The stories are about friendship, travel and the crazy and loving everyday life of Pettersson and Findus.

Charly and his friends love solving mysteries while facing the challenges of growing up. This unlikely group of junior detectives – and their dog – will stop at nothing to find and solve cases they uncover in and around their hometown. And between the excitement, action and laughs, they'll find out a bit about themselves and each other along the way. They don't have superpowers, they aren't geniuses and they don't even look like TV stars, but these normal, unexceptional kids and their funny-looking dog achieve amazing things when they get together as the Charly & Co. Detective Agency.

Houba Houba Hop is the German cartoon of Marsupilami and his family, and their adventures with a couple of humans that are living in the Polombian Jungles with them for a year to study the local wild life: Hector, a young pre-teen boy with intelegence that'll envy the great inventors before him, and his Aunt Diane, who's a female "absent-minded proffesor" who prides her studies on the local plants. Mars and Hector are best friends, and there enemies are Felicia (though nothing like the Disney version, she'd be soulmates with Norman, especially with their common goal of turning the jungle sanctuary into an overcrowded city... if one can get the marsupilami out of the way) and her henchmen Blu Print (a short know-it-all who panics when his creations are tampered with) and Ollie Stroy (a former military demolitionist who hasn't retired from his weapons). They also have to deal with Bring M. Backalive, with his usual goal of smuggling a baby marsu out of the jungle.

There is a little girl in a cargo train driving through the night: The orphan Momo, who is looking for a new home. As a conductor become suspicious and stops the train, Momo has to jump off. She meets the little turtle Cassiopeia, who is accompanying Momo from now on. Together, the two find a small cozy town in which they immediately make the acquaintance of Beppo The Sweeper. Beppo takes care of Momo and realizes that she has a special gift: Simply her presence enchants people and brings out the best in them. Only the mysterious gray gentlemen, who appear increasingly in the town, are unimpressed by Momo's gift and continue their dark business.

Tom und das Erdbeermarmeladebrot mit Honig is a German television series.

The true story of the classic Arabian Nights tales. We follow Sherazade, the real hero of the famous stories, on her quest to find the Tree of Life and save the Prince of the Golden City, who has been turned into a blue-haired monster.

Kika, 9 ans, essaie de sauver son chat Tigre avec l'aide d'un pompier, Bob. Mais une tornade aspire et rejette Kika et Bob de l'autre côté de la planète. Depuis lors ils cherchent à rentrer chez eux et sauver Tigre avant qu'il ne soit trop tard.

The focus is on the life and everyday life of the “half triplets”: On the one hand, there is Paul, a king of procrastinating, who resolves every day to change his life... but unfortunately something is constantly interfering with him. Be it budding feelings for his ex Berthe, the constant best buddy advances of her new lover Jan or an urgent series episode - Paul always has an excuse ready. But luckily there is his half-sister Barbie, a determined top manager with significantly more balls in her pants, and his half-brother Ludwig, a bon vivant who avoids work like the devil avoids holy water. He constantly intrudes on Paul and drives him crazy. The “half triplets” are inextricably linked to one another through father Gerd's involuntary, perfectly timed contraceptive failures, who were born by three different women on the same day and are welded together by their family neuroses.

Little Amadeus is an animated television series which is intended to promote the interest in music and musical instrument playing in young viewers. The series consists of 26 episodes, each of which tell a fictional story of a young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The silly adventures of everyone's favorite gummy bear character and his friends Kala the cat and Harry the chameleon.

"Cosmic Quantum Ray" is a zany comedy-action-adventure series that brings the strange corners of the universe to the world of Earth teenager Robbie Shipton. Robbie represents Earth as a member of Team Quantum - an elite, eccentric team of heroes that saves the Universe almost every day, and hopefully in time for Robbie to get to his third-period Science class!

On the show, the eponymous main character resides at the Newtown Zoo, with friends Otto and Stella. The adventures Benjamin gets involved in often require slipping into various roles, learning new jobs, or discovering new and distant places.

Der kleine Ritter Trenk is a German television series.

Hired gun and loudmouth Mowld repeatedly drags Phungus, an anxious little alien, from his cushy life as bartender into countless outlandish adventures. Accompanied by ALIS, their hacked robot, they travel in a decrepit spaceship with an experimental Framistan Drive.

Nile, an Egyptian woman, after one of her spells goes wrong, winds up trapping herself in a tomb as a mummy and waking up thousands of years in the future, where she befriends siblings Alex and Samantha and gets a job as their nanny.

Space Night is a mixture of chill-out-music and records of the earth seen from space intermitted by informative broadcasts.

Nick Knatterton's adventures were translated into many languages, and a television cartoon show based on them was shown in the 1980s. Episodes of the show are available on DVD. The show is narrated, and the narrator is in fact the only voice actor. Characters merely squeak when they are shown talking, and the narrator then explains what was said. Knatterton himself often voices out the conclusions of his deductions by saying "Conclusion" (German: "(Ich) kombiniere!", literally: "I conclude!"), followed by the conclusion itself. This has become a kind of catch phrase for him.

Sonya Kraus presents the best of talk shows.

Follow the many adventures of Mofy, a shy and tender rabbit who lives in a cotton ball, as she learns to understand and deal with different feelings, such as loneliness, jealousy, joy, and empathy.

Die Welt ist elefantastisch – Augen auf und mitgemacht! Der kleine blaue Elefant und seine Freunde präsentieren Geschichten zum Entdecken, Staunen und Mitlachen – extra für kleine Kinder.