The famous cute little figure is not only cute, creative and adorable,
it is nowadays all over Berlin (and Germany)....The East Berlin
Ampelmännchen (the little traffic light man) was crreated as a way to
show better what should be done by red and green light and turned (from
1961 till 2005) into a cult! After the Berlin wall fall most of the East
Berlin Ampelmännchen were dismantled due to unification reasons.
Already in 1995 there were movements for saving East-Berlin traffic
lights as part of East Berlin culture. The modern "little traffic light
man" had their come-back in 2005: both to East and West Berlin.
What is
even more interesting that even few other (West-)German cities installed
some in their streets, for example Heidelberg and Saarbrücken. The
reason for this the more appealing symbols and better effect on public.
In 2004 the female version of Ampelmann, die Ampelfrau, was born. You
may meet her on traffic lights in Dresden, Zwickau and
Fürstenwalde...They make me smile, what about you? Any cute/ funny/
different traffic lights actors in your city/area/country we should know
of?
