The Mainzelmännchen are animated characters that are show in short clips between advertisements on the ZDF channel. They started in 1963 are now there are over 40.000 different spots. Originally there were six characters, but recently a set of twins and a dog has been added.

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Tags: Advertisements, animation, ZDF

Some other posts on this topic that you might like to read:

• TV Pack
• When are the adverts on German TV?
• Das Sandmännchen

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