Picture of the week: Ede and Kuno

»When the day of Pentecost came, everyone was together in the same place. Then suddenly there came a roar from heaven, as if a violent storm were blowing… And everyone was filled with the Holy Spirit,” says the Acts of the Apostles, which is being preached in Christian masses around the globe these days, from Suhl to Zanzibar and Sumtra. However, there is much that is unholy in the world. Hatred, violence, discord, war… The Holy Spirit of brotherhood and humanity does not want to be poured out. You are happy about the few more positive news:

The Berlin zoo has sweet offspring. The Sumatran tiger twins are twelve weeks old and have now been baptized. Their names will be Ede and Kuno, announced director Andreas Knieriem in the presence of the Indonesian deputy ambassador. Citizens socialized in the GDR remember. These were two figures by the press illustrator and cartoonist Erich Schmitt, who would have been 100 years old in March. Everyone in the East German region knew “Tierpark Apprentice Ede” and “Knight Kuno Wimmerzahn,” but AI also anticipated “Sister Monika” and “Colleague Blech,” a funny robot who was a savior in all emergencies. The trained mechanical engineer, who worked primarily for the “Berliner Zeitung”, the “Wochenpost” and the “Eulenspiegel”, also translated biblical mythology for real socialist everyday life, for example with “Adam and Evchen” or “Noah’s Ark”, the construction of which almost would have failed due to excessive bureaucracy in the workers’ and farmers’ state. It is not known whether Schmitt, who died in 1984, believed in the Holy Spirit. With his space adventurer Karl Gabel, stout and comfortable like himself, he went skyward and into the vastness of space in search of aliens. The “Great Schmitt Books” were bestsellers and hand-me-downs, and the jovial original Berliner with a mustache and white sailor’s hat was already a legend during his lifetime. Like Heinrich Dathe, director of the Berlin Zoo for over three decades and also unforgettable. The passionate zoologist (1910–1991) would certainly have been happy about naming the tiger babies after cult figures from his best “publicity person”.

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