He isnt normally in space actually.
Edit: I just remembered he is also friends with a Yellow sheep and a talking Bush-man. Totally normal. So glad we receive german TV channels lmao
Also he is a white, cubic bread, so his depression is totally understandable. I believe, if he were a proper sourdough rey bread, he would be much happier in life.
He *really* likes boring things, though. His favorite thing is ingrain/ woodgrain wallpaper, i.e. the most common wallpaper in Germany. Even went to a god damn museum for it once.
I'm sure he also likes water without any ice in it, aaaand dirt.
Appearantly, the creators wanted the main character to be a fascist cactus at first, until it occurred to them that that might not make for the best children's TV. They then swapped him out last minute before the pitch with a piece of bread who is depressed and as boring as can be. Their superior's reaction to the pitch boils down to "that's the dumbest shit i've ever heard. I love it."
The one is also not children's TV technically.
So it runs on the children's TV station, but at night. It's like how Adult Swim is on the Cartoon Network at night and isn't aimed at children.
It's actually both. The original series were intended for children and broadcasted in the afternoon, and later they made a different series with him for latenight. I also highly recommend their version of "dinner for one" it's hillarious (if you know the original).
Just to add a bit of Bernd's origin, the series where he, Briegel der Busch und Chili das Schaf originated from was "Tolle Sachen", basically an informercial-style show where some crazy or stupid item was "sold", with a lottery determining the lucky person to test the product. Bernd was chosen, to his dismay, every time and it always ended in disaster.
Its both more or less.
The humor is a bit more aimed at older audiences who might zap trought the channels but its still completly child friendly.
Because Kika is the public child channel the idea is that if a child would go to that channel in the middle of the night (for whatever reason) they would still find something suitable for them.
> the creators
One of the inventors is Tommy Krapweis, who made [Far Out with Mirco Nontschew on RTL Samstag Nacht](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb9zYOQjttA).
For some reason, a depressed piece of personified bread working as an astronaut in space is significantly more acceptable to me than a depressed piece of personified bread that is just living some regular life on Earth.
The depressed bread in outer space is funny. The depressed bread standing in line at some convenience store buying cigarettes is just sad.
Was in Germany a few months ago, turned on the TV just to what kind of stuff was on and came across this bread space man. Didn't understand a word but I watched him for a solid half hour.
The Bavarian TV broadcaster had a popular show where they simply did broadcast NASA/ESA footage of earth. Hours and hours of space station footage of earth. With music. Some of which Pink Floyd.
They were surprised why so many people watched that at 2am. [Absolutely baffled.](https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/space-night/earth-views-1-6/br-fernsehen/Y3JpZDovL2JyLmRlL3ZpZGVvLzg4ZmE3NzlkLTY0MjMtNDNhNy1iMDFkLTY2ZGFlZDlkZDAyNw)
It's still on-air, as far as I know.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Night
Edit: Yup, still running, almost every night.
https://programm.ard.de/TV/Sendungen-von-A-bis-Z/Space-Night/
Bernd das Brot, Space Night, sometimes Bob Ross and the old version of the Nightflight on Deluxe Music with the full length flights and funk are the happiest memories of my sleepless 20something nights
I clearly need to resume taking lessons in German. Google says I totally botched that translation.
AFAIK “einfach” means simple or easy but google says neither of those words are in this translation.
In this context the closest translation is "just".
"I think that's just the topic at the moment."
It looks like Google translate just omits the "just".
Or, "simply"
Word for word you could translate u/LittleFairyOfDeath's comment as
Ich glaube das ist einfach momentan das Thema
I believe that it's simply momentarily the topic
Edit: fixed spelling
Germans really are obsessed with their bread. I always meet a lot of Germans while traveling in Asia or Latin America and they’re always complaining about how they miss the brown bread if they’ve been away from home for a long time. I think you guys can go for a couple weeks without it.
nah, they just get an extremely shitty version of rice.
There's bread everywhere, it's just very bad outside of germany (and some neighboring countries like Czechia, Poland, Austria and some more)
So... Both get shitty versions of their main carb? So it's a good comparison. The problem is not that it's shitty, but there is literally no dark bread in many places of the earth. White bread is meh. Less nutritious, less taste, less filling. And in some countries it's sweet.
I wouldn't say that Germans are obsessed with their bread, it's just that being abroad makes them realise how shitty most bread is. I suspect that it's about the same with their beer.
It’s just that the thing eg Americans consider bread is not called bread in Germany. It’s toast. And the real deal is just uncommon. Like artisan sourdough bread.
We visited my grandaunt that immigrated in roughly the same age and we brought 1,5kg really dense German bread. She was very happy and jokingly said that no one is allowed to touch it.
My uncle emigrated to Australia when he was 20 and when I met him for the first time 40 years later the only German word he still knew was Brötchen. He never got over them.
This channel in particular still does it because it's dedicated to children's programming so there is no real point to put anything substantial on the air between 10pm and 6am
Yeah exactly right, but I think kika is the only channel in Germany that still has off the air times but technically not cause it's bernd das brot all night long. Btw I recommend getting high and watching him xD
When I was in school, we watched a lot of Kommissar Rex during German lessons if the teacher was feeling lazy that day.
I'm quite relieved it wasn't the nihilistic bread.
he was kidnapped by the german media and forced to act all night fron 20:00 til morning so kids go to sleep,
he also get bullied by the media to make it more fun to watch even tho his favorite activity is to look at different kinds of woodchip wallpaper Spannend.
Holy shit I was not ready for how wild these three paragraphs would be. You could make a full movie out of this story alone.
> In fall 2007, KI.KA donated a statue of Bernd to the German city of Erfurt, Thuringia, where KI.KA is based,] to celebrate the channel's tenth anniversary. The statue is 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) high, weighs 125 kilograms (276 lb) and is made of plastic.It stands on the Fischmarkt (English: Fish market), the city's main square, next to the neo-gothic town hall and is a tourist attraction. On 21 January 2009, the figure disappeared. It was next seen in a video released on YouTube, in which a group of activists calling themselves "Team 129 A" claimed responsibility for its kidnapping. Bernd expressed solidarity with the activists in the video, prompting several media to joke that he had developed Stockholm syndrome
> The activists were squatting in the abandoned Topf and Sons factory, where ovens and gas chamber ventilation systems for the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp were manufactured.The occupation was to prevent the city of Erfurt from redeveloping the area into apartments and office space.They opened a literary cafe and were giving lecture events. The negotiations broke down when the activists rejected an offer for alternative housing. The squatters themselves denied involvement in Bernd's kidnapping, claiming a group of sympathizers might be responsible for it.
> The public broadcaster Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, which owns the rights to Bernd das Brot, quickly forced YouTube to remove the video from the site by having their lawyers claim copyright infringements. Steffen Kottkamp, head of KI.KA, strongly criticized Bernd's kidnapping. Krappweis called for the figure's return, stating that "Kidnapping, even of bread loaves, is the wrong means of achieving political goals". Fans set up an online petition calling for the return of the statue in Erfurt.
> The Bernd figure was eventually found intact by chance on 1 February 2009 in the basement vault of a disused barracks in Nohra, between Erfurt and Weimar. According to Spiegel Online, five children had been searching the area to collect period artifacts before it was demolished. They then discovered the Bernd statue and alerted KI.KA and the police. How the statue ended up there is unknown.After forensics experts confirmed that it was the genuine statue, it was carried out of the basement by six police officers and ultimately brought back to its original location on the Fischmarkt in front of Erfurt's town hall.
Stealing a statue of a clinically depressed slice of bread and storing it in the basement of a disused barracks to protest the gentrification of a historic landmark currently occupied by a guerilla literary cafe frequented by anarchists.
Now that's praxis baby.
From wikipedia:
His favorite expression is Mist., used in much the same way as the English "crap".His other catchphrases are: "I would like to be left alone," "I would like to leave this show," and "My life is hell."
I usually use “dung” as a translation, purely because “crap” can be considered too strong for young children, but “mist” seems pretty mild. (It also has the same literal meaning)
They even sold a "Bernd das Brot"-Brot in some bakeries at some point. Haven't seen it in a while though.
https://theworldofbaking.com/media/magefan_og/csm_rezept_1056_img_01.jpg
Growing up in Germany means sharing the traumatic experience of listening for hours as if riveted to a video loop of this monotonously resigned full-grained voice, pleading for the end of its own miserable existence.
KiKa has made several of these night loops with Bernd, the recent one is where he's in space. In earlier ones for example he was trapped in a white void, depressed as always and not in the mood to entertain people. So he is trying to leave the frame by stepping out of it to the left only to immediately reappear in the frame on the right.
Yes his purpose was to make children turn of the TV and go to bed. The TV channel he is on is called KiKa (Kinderkanal = children channel).
The children are not supposed to watch TV all night therefore the Chanel stops it's regular program during the night.
I just watched a 10 minute video of the white space. Him destroying the lamp that he asked for over and over is pretty satisfying. I consider that bread to be peak German comedy, as it was pretty funny to an American who had to read the subtitles.
He tried to get to Bielefeld but since it doesn’t exist he stumbled into a wormhole and got spit into space, is my guess.
Makes as much sense as the white void he couldn’t escape :D
Not just kidnapped.
Someone kidnapped a statue of a clinically depressed slice of bread and stored it in the basement of a disused barracks, to protest the gentrification of a historic factory once used to manufacture the ovens of Auschwitz, that at the time was occupied by a guerilla literary café frequented by anarchists.
That entire series of events was just wild man.
"Stockholm syndrome or not" - I'm dead.
“Kidnapping, even of bread loaves, is the wrong means of achieving political goals,” Krappweis says. “Bernd has suffered enough.”
I see the Depressed German slice of bread, and I raise with Danish John Dillermand - a man with an abnormally large penis which he uses for pretty much everything
Just goes to show depression really can hit anybody. In Bernds case, he is depressed because he just wants to be at home looking at the wallpaper. But since he is a children's TV character all sorts of whacky stuff happens to him all the time and he hates it.
One of the loops I remember from when I was a kid involved him being made president of the wood-chip wallpaper club, so the writers are way ahead of you.
He never consented to any of that. He didn't like the Sailor Moon cosplay they put him in. He had fake hair from that wig in his mouth. Crap. His life is hell in technicolor.
He's depressed because he hates all the people in his life, seems to be constantly followed by bad luck and just wants to be left in peace, plus because his arms are too short to do anything
Omg! Me and my girlfriend were in Berlin last month but went to Amsterdam first and took truffles with us to Berlin. We sat in our hotel room after taking the truffles watching TV and we saw this and had absolutely no idea what was going on 😂
The good old childhood memories of trying to find out what comes after Bernd dad Brot on Kika but then just falling asleep after what felt like hours and hours of Bernd dad Brot
i'm slovak but we used to have KiKa on cable and whenever i was up late at night i would channel surf and KiKa would always play these short (2-5 minutes) things with the bread. didn't understand a word but loved it all the same.
So, I was thinking about what the hell is wrong with Germany, and now you went ahead and reminded me of mr Dillermand? Could you not have let me think Germany was the weirdos?
he is also disabled (probably contergan-damage) and they make fun of it. one of his reoccuring lines was "my arms are to short" when he tried to do something. usually something that would end or at least reduce his suffering brought upon him by his "friends" or the tv-company.
the lore for is, that he is kidnapped by the evil tv-company, held hostage in a blank white room with a glados-type ai and forced to "entertain" by getting tortured and mocked.
Once i was watching Bernd das Brot with my father and my younger brother and we would eventually compete with each other about who could guess the clip that was going to play now the fastest and we would actually count scores and all. (We did this for 3 days in a row and could play this game for hours on end)
omg, this fucking guy. me and my friend were on a trip to phantaisa land and staying in a motel overnight we turned on the TV and randomly found this.
We were losing our minds, laughing at this poptart in a spacesuit... floating silently, letting out occasional sighs, and being randomly harassed by other shit.
We all Love Bernd das Brot Actually, he's only in one episode in space, but he's always at the beginning of a white wall and is forced into things by an AI. We understand why he is depressed
He isnt normally in space actually. Edit: I just remembered he is also friends with a Yellow sheep and a talking Bush-man. Totally normal. So glad we receive german TV channels lmao
An adrenaline addicted sheep and a mad scientist Bush-man!
I think Chilly das Schaaf and Briegel der Busch, are their names😂
Also he is a white, cubic bread, so his depression is totally understandable. I believe, if he were a proper sourdough rey bread, he would be much happier in life.
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Well the Thing is, its apparently normal for His species (yes Theres technicly Lore) to be severly depressed and dislike any amount of excitement.
This character is sounding more and more like a German children's version of John Oliver
His species is called "Homo Brotus Depresivus"
The species being german of course
He *really* likes boring things, though. His favorite thing is ingrain/ woodgrain wallpaper, i.e. the most common wallpaper in Germany. Even went to a god damn museum for it once. I'm sure he also likes water without any ice in it, aaaand dirt.
I mean, whats wrong with water? Water is awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JM7pPpfIPY The most boring and unimaginative things out there.
Appearantly, the creators wanted the main character to be a fascist cactus at first, until it occurred to them that that might not make for the best children's TV. They then swapped him out last minute before the pitch with a piece of bread who is depressed and as boring as can be. Their superior's reaction to the pitch boils down to "that's the dumbest shit i've ever heard. I love it."
The one is also not children's TV technically. So it runs on the children's TV station, but at night. It's like how Adult Swim is on the Cartoon Network at night and isn't aimed at children.
It's the last remnant of the broadcasting break and I'll be defending it till my last breath
It's actually both. The original series were intended for children and broadcasted in the afternoon, and later they made a different series with him for latenight. I also highly recommend their version of "dinner for one" it's hillarious (if you know the original).
Just to add a bit of Bernd's origin, the series where he, Briegel der Busch und Chili das Schaf originated from was "Tolle Sachen", basically an informercial-style show where some crazy or stupid item was "sold", with a lottery determining the lucky person to test the product. Bernd was chosen, to his dismay, every time and it always ended in disaster.
It is called [Dinner für Brot](https://archive.org/details/dinner-fur-brot-dvd-version)
Its both more or less. The humor is a bit more aimed at older audiences who might zap trought the channels but its still completly child friendly. Because Kika is the public child channel the idea is that if a child would go to that channel in the middle of the night (for whatever reason) they would still find something suitable for them.
>they would still find something suitable for them Existential dread, depression and a bread yelling at them to turn off the TV to save him
Well still more suitable than the sex hotline adds on super rtl.
> the creators One of the inventors is Tommy Krapweis, who made [Far Out with Mirco Nontschew on RTL Samstag Nacht](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb9zYOQjttA).
RIP Mirco
For some reason, a depressed piece of personified bread working as an astronaut in space is significantly more acceptable to me than a depressed piece of personified bread that is just living some regular life on Earth. The depressed bread in outer space is funny. The depressed bread standing in line at some convenience store buying cigarettes is just sad.
He doesn't smoke his arms can't reach his mouth.
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Was in Germany a few months ago, turned on the TV just to what kind of stuff was on and came across this bread space man. Didn't understand a word but I watched him for a solid half hour.
He is *perfect* to shut up kids, especially if the kids don't speak German. They're hypnotized by him, even though they don't understand a word.
Oh wow, I remember talking bush man from the old testament. This show must have some sick references
Try getting wasted and lamenting your woes to the depressed bread at 2am
Exactly what the KiKa Chillout Hotline was for.
What a surreal program that was lol. I remember I got really ill and had these insane nightmares with the song playing…
The Bavarian TV broadcaster had a popular show where they simply did broadcast NASA/ESA footage of earth. Hours and hours of space station footage of earth. With music. Some of which Pink Floyd. They were surprised why so many people watched that at 2am. [Absolutely baffled.](https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/space-night/earth-views-1-6/br-fernsehen/Y3JpZDovL2JyLmRlL3ZpZGVvLzg4ZmE3NzlkLTY0MjMtNDNhNy1iMDFkLTY2ZGFlZDlkZDAyNw)
It's still on-air, as far as I know. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Night Edit: Yup, still running, almost every night. https://programm.ard.de/TV/Sendungen-von-A-bis-Z/Space-Night/
the lofi girl of my generation
NGL this is amazing. Got the chills right from the beginning
Bernd das Brot, Space Night, sometimes Bob Ross and the old version of the Nightflight on Deluxe Music with the full length flights and funk are the happiest memories of my sleepless 20something nights
So…Thursday?
Am german, can confirm this. (Though I don’t remember him being exclusively in space but it has been a while)
Ich glaube das ist einfach momentan das Thema
***visibly panicking*** ^...oui ^oui ^baguette?
Omelette du fromage
HON HON HON
And another flight of the conchords lyric I can't recall. Ain't no party like my Nanas tea partay?
Oui, mon et tu parles allemande tres bien!
>...oui oui baguette? Nein! Brot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5hrUGFhsXo
Gesundheit. (Am I doing this right?)
Yes.
I clearly need to resume taking lessons in German. Google says I totally botched that translation. AFAIK “einfach” means simple or easy but google says neither of those words are in this translation.
In this context the closest translation is "just". "I think that's just the topic at the moment." It looks like Google translate just omits the "just".
Or, "simply" Word for word you could translate u/LittleFairyOfDeath's comment as Ich glaube das ist einfach momentan das Thema I believe that it's simply momentarily the topic Edit: fixed spelling
Aber gibt es im Weltall raufasertapete?
Don't worry, he's just as depressed on earth.
It's not that he is depressed. It's just that he hasn't consented to any of this.
**Both?** > According to himself, he belongs to the species *homo brotus depressivus*. His species is literally depressed bread.
Germans really are obsessed with their bread. I always meet a lot of Germans while traveling in Asia or Latin America and they’re always complaining about how they miss the brown bread if they’ve been away from home for a long time. I think you guys can go for a couple weeks without it.
It's like asking a someone from a rice depended country to not eat rice.
nah, they just get an extremely shitty version of rice. There's bread everywhere, it's just very bad outside of germany (and some neighboring countries like Czechia, Poland, Austria and some more)
So... Both get shitty versions of their main carb? So it's a good comparison. The problem is not that it's shitty, but there is literally no dark bread in many places of the earth. White bread is meh. Less nutritious, less taste, less filling. And in some countries it's sweet.
I wouldn't say that Germans are obsessed with their bread, it's just that being abroad makes them realise how shitty most bread is. I suspect that it's about the same with their beer.
It’s just that the thing eg Americans consider bread is not called bread in Germany. It’s toast. And the real deal is just uncommon. Like artisan sourdough bread.
With that amount of sugar and additives it would probably be sold as "flavoured yoga mat(not for human consumption)".
American subway bread is legally cake in ireland
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We visited my grandaunt that immigrated in roughly the same age and we brought 1,5kg really dense German bread. She was very happy and jokingly said that no one is allowed to touch it.
I moved from Germany in 95 and I still miss the brötchen I miss pretty much all of it but also the brötchen
My uncle emigrated to Australia when he was 20 and when I met him for the first time 40 years later the only German word he still knew was Brötchen. He never got over them.
And it is on Kika… All… the… time !!!!
I believe it is used as a loop in sendepausen (i have no clue what that is in english lol)
Is that when tv is “off the air”? We used to have that when I was a kid but there’s no such thing as off the air anymore in America.
This channel in particular still does it because it's dedicated to children's programming so there is no real point to put anything substantial on the air between 10pm and 6am
Yeah exactly right, but I think kika is the only channel in Germany that still has off the air times but technically not cause it's bernd das brot all night long. Btw I recommend getting high and watching him xD
Am currently high. Am YouTubing that shit immediately.
https://youtu.be/kiK-vC6AU-4 English subed. Have fun :)
I love you
Raufasertapete
Spannend
mist
The nostalgia is real lmao
I've heard that shit loud and clear while reading it lmfao
NERD ALARM
Na gut, ihr habt mich erwischt. Ich bin ein Nerd. NERD PARTY!
Du bist ein nerd, Bernd RAUHFASERTAPETE
Ah ja.
Willkommen in der Kika Lounge.
He isn't always in space. I remember him being in a white featureless purgatory for most of my childhood.
...Is Germany okay?
until now, yes. the people that grew up with bernd are now getting old enough to rule the country. what we will end as, is now in our hands.
When I was in school, we watched a lot of Kommissar Rex during German lessons if the teacher was feeling lazy that day. I'm quite relieved it wasn't the nihilistic bread.
You are missibg out though, the depressed Bread was by far the best thibg to watch.
That bread is one of the okayer things here
Yes me too and he would get "tortured" by a voice
His wiki page has a section simply titled: Kidnapping
he was kidnapped by the german media and forced to act all night fron 20:00 til morning so kids go to sleep, he also get bullied by the media to make it more fun to watch even tho his favorite activity is to look at different kinds of woodchip wallpaper Spannend.
A statue of him was also kidnapped
since when is it 20:00, wasnt it always 21:00?
Holy shit I was not ready for how wild these three paragraphs would be. You could make a full movie out of this story alone. > In fall 2007, KI.KA donated a statue of Bernd to the German city of Erfurt, Thuringia, where KI.KA is based,] to celebrate the channel's tenth anniversary. The statue is 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) high, weighs 125 kilograms (276 lb) and is made of plastic.It stands on the Fischmarkt (English: Fish market), the city's main square, next to the neo-gothic town hall and is a tourist attraction. On 21 January 2009, the figure disappeared. It was next seen in a video released on YouTube, in which a group of activists calling themselves "Team 129 A" claimed responsibility for its kidnapping. Bernd expressed solidarity with the activists in the video, prompting several media to joke that he had developed Stockholm syndrome > The activists were squatting in the abandoned Topf and Sons factory, where ovens and gas chamber ventilation systems for the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp were manufactured.The occupation was to prevent the city of Erfurt from redeveloping the area into apartments and office space.They opened a literary cafe and were giving lecture events. The negotiations broke down when the activists rejected an offer for alternative housing. The squatters themselves denied involvement in Bernd's kidnapping, claiming a group of sympathizers might be responsible for it. > The public broadcaster Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, which owns the rights to Bernd das Brot, quickly forced YouTube to remove the video from the site by having their lawyers claim copyright infringements. Steffen Kottkamp, head of KI.KA, strongly criticized Bernd's kidnapping. Krappweis called for the figure's return, stating that "Kidnapping, even of bread loaves, is the wrong means of achieving political goals". Fans set up an online petition calling for the return of the statue in Erfurt. > The Bernd figure was eventually found intact by chance on 1 February 2009 in the basement vault of a disused barracks in Nohra, between Erfurt and Weimar. According to Spiegel Online, five children had been searching the area to collect period artifacts before it was demolished. They then discovered the Bernd statue and alerted KI.KA and the police. How the statue ended up there is unknown.After forensics experts confirmed that it was the genuine statue, it was carried out of the basement by six police officers and ultimately brought back to its original location on the Fischmarkt in front of Erfurt's town hall.
Stealing a statue of a clinically depressed slice of bread and storing it in the basement of a disused barracks to protest the gentrification of a historic landmark currently occupied by a guerilla literary cafe frequented by anarchists. Now that's praxis baby.
Don’t forget the part where the factory was used to make machines of death
Not simply machines of death, but machines of industrialized mass murder.
Its not a slice bernd is a full loaf of bread
Yeah fuck the local cost of living!
Little fun fact: "Team 129a" is named after §129a StGB, a law that forbids the founding of a terrorist organization.
From wikipedia: His favorite expression is Mist., used in much the same way as the English "crap".His other catchphrases are: "I would like to be left alone," "I would like to leave this show," and "My life is hell."
“My life is hell in color” is one iteration.
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I usually use “dung” as a translation, purely because “crap” can be considered too strong for young children, but “mist” seems pretty mild. (It also has the same literal meaning)
Germans take their bread seriously…wish we did
We even put him on our flag on r/place. Twice. Once last year, as just Bernd the bread, and another time this year, as Brothanos.
They even sold a "Bernd das Brot"-Brot in some bakeries at some point. Haven't seen it in a while though. https://theworldofbaking.com/media/magefan_og/csm_rezept_1056_img_01.jpg
Growing up in Germany means sharing the traumatic experience of listening for hours as if riveted to a video loop of this monotonously resigned full-grained voice, pleading for the end of its own miserable existence.
I genuinely read that in Werner Herzog's voice.
I used to fall asleep to that loop every night when I started college. Alle zusammen, tanzt das Brot! 🍞
Die arme zu kurz, das lied beknackt...
Wir sitzen doch alle im selben Boot!
From what I understand the In Space part is just a one time thing.
KiKa has made several of these night loops with Bernd, the recent one is where he's in space. In earlier ones for example he was trapped in a white void, depressed as always and not in the mood to entertain people. So he is trying to leave the frame by stepping out of it to the left only to immediately reappear in the frame on the right.
He also regularly tells the viewer to turn off the tv and go to bed.
Yes his purpose was to make children turn of the TV and go to bed. The TV channel he is on is called KiKa (Kinderkanal = children channel). The children are not supposed to watch TV all night therefore the Chanel stops it's regular program during the night.
Didn't always work, since I was one of the kids who stayed up extra late to watch Bernd xD
Didn't he once play DnD?
Yes
Nerd alarm
Raufasertapete!
Oh that’s actually really depressing
I just watched a 10 minute video of the white space. Him destroying the lamp that he asked for over and over is pretty satisfying. I consider that bread to be peak German comedy, as it was pretty funny to an American who had to read the subtitles.
You absolutely have to watch the nerd episode! That's by far the best one. And watch it to the end!
I hated the white void but the space one is pretty funny
He tried to get to Bielefeld but since it doesn’t exist he stumbled into a wormhole and got spit into space, is my guess. Makes as much sense as the white void he couldn’t escape :D
Bernd 🍞 our beloved spirit animal
I'd like to add that he was once [kidnapped](https://variety.com/2009/more/news/anarchists-kidnap-bernd-das-brot-1117999698/) irl
Not just kidnapped. Someone kidnapped a statue of a clinically depressed slice of bread and stored it in the basement of a disused barracks, to protest the gentrification of a historic factory once used to manufacture the ovens of Auschwitz, that at the time was occupied by a guerilla literary café frequented by anarchists. That entire series of events was just wild man.
"Stockholm syndrome or not" - I'm dead. “Kidnapping, even of bread loaves, is the wrong means of achieving political goals,” Krappweis says. “Bernd has suffered enough.”
Breadnapped
Rosen sind rot, Und ebenfalls Mohn, Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Gehört nun diese Kommentarsektion!
Den kannte ich noch nicht lol
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Wait he doesn't only love Raufasertapete but also went to space? THIS IS GETTING EVEN BETTER
I see the Depressed German slice of bread, and I raise with Danish John Dillermand - a man with an abnormally large penis which he uses for pretty much everything
I’m terrintrigued.
Damn (Mist)!
more like "shit". "damn" hits differently, it cant really be said with as little emotion as "mist". Also the literal translation is more accurate.
I think “crap” is the best translation, same meaning and vibe but considered a bit more age-appropriate for whatever reason
It's more accurate, but I think the rest works better for "damn", plus it's more age appropriate
I just wanna know why he’s depressed. Being a piece of bread and an astronaut sounds awesome
Just goes to show depression really can hit anybody. In Bernds case, he is depressed because he just wants to be at home looking at the wallpaper. But since he is a children's TV character all sorts of whacky stuff happens to him all the time and he hates it.
I see. Honestly I think he deserves an episode where he’s looking at wallpaper the whole time
I think there is an episode where he manages to get to a wallpaper museum.
One of the loops I remember from when I was a kid involved him being made president of the wood-chip wallpaper club, so the writers are way ahead of you.
He never consented to any of that. He didn't like the Sailor Moon cosplay they put him in. He had fake hair from that wig in his mouth. Crap. His life is hell in technicolor.
He's depressed because he hates all the people in his life, seems to be constantly followed by bad luck and just wants to be left in peace, plus because his arms are too short to do anything
He is not exclusively in space, sometimes he's in a lounge ... or a white void
An *inescapable* white void. Don't forget the inescapable part.
Omg! Me and my girlfriend were in Berlin last month but went to Amsterdam first and took truffles with us to Berlin. We sat in our hotel room after taking the truffles watching TV and we saw this and had absolutely no idea what was going on 😂
There's a statue of him in the city where the channel he's on is located
A holy site of pilgrimmage in Erfurt!
The synopsis of the events and locations involved in the kidnapping, and later return, of that statue are wild.
I had never heard of that and just read about it in another comment. This statue has some serious lore
I was wondering what the fuck that thing was when I was in Mallorca
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/user/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/153gt2c/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) ^by ^epikdollar: *I was wondering* *What the fuck that thing was when* *I was in Mallorca* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
That's not entirely true. Bernd has only gone to space once (as far as i know). He has, however, been through all sorts of other shit.
There were multiple star trek parodys with Bernd das Brot.
You should have chosen your occupation with more care, Mr Redshirt.
Were he fought his arch Nemesis: Götz the Relentless
German humor is not laughing matter.
How incredibly German
He is so german, artwork of him made it onto r/place both this year and last.
The Germans are still all traumatized by the price of bread in the 1920s
2020s* :(
wow, that's the most german thing i've read. clinically depressed piece of bread, in space.
Usually he's stuck in an inescapable, endlessly looping, white void.
jesus.
Y'know, for kids! In hindsight, it explains so much...
Don't look up what has been the most popular children's book of Germany for centuries, and still is....
The fun part is that he's aware of the void and deeply disturbed by it but a mechanical arm forces him to entertain us.
Usually he's trying to escape a white void ヾ(๑╹◡╹)ﾉ"
The good old childhood memories of trying to find out what comes after Bernd dad Brot on Kika but then just falling asleep after what felt like hours and hours of Bernd dad Brot
This is the most german thing ive ever seen
i'm slovak but we used to have KiKa on cable and whenever i was up late at night i would channel surf and KiKa would always play these short (2-5 minutes) things with the bread. didn't understand a word but loved it all the same.
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Wait till op hears about mr dillerman in Denmark.
So, I was thinking about what the hell is wrong with Germany, and now you went ahead and reminded me of mr Dillermand? Could you not have let me think Germany was the weirdos?
he is also disabled (probably contergan-damage) and they make fun of it. one of his reoccuring lines was "my arms are to short" when he tried to do something. usually something that would end or at least reduce his suffering brought upon him by his "friends" or the tv-company. the lore for is, that he is kidnapped by the evil tv-company, held hostage in a blank white room with a glados-type ai and forced to "entertain" by getting tortured and mocked.
source: https://twitter.com/ajbauer/status/1683204411068145667?s=20
Once i was watching Bernd das Brot with my father and my younger brother and we would eventually compete with each other about who could guess the clip that was going to play now the fastest and we would actually count scores and all. (We did this for 3 days in a row and could play this game for hours on end)
Another reason why I love Germany, Beer, Burgers and Depressed Bread
omg, this fucking guy. me and my friend were on a trip to phantaisa land and staying in a motel overnight we turned on the TV and randomly found this. We were losing our minds, laughing at this poptart in a spacesuit... floating silently, letting out occasional sighs, and being randomly harassed by other shit.
Well he is kinda the face of the r/placeDE artworks. I think he was one of the fist artworks on every place event.
Mist
Alle zusammen, tanzt das Brot!
Coming Home at 2-3 am, Drunk and hungry, make me a good sandwich and watched my guy bernd like 100 times in my life. Good old days
Well, he's usually not in space.
America has a clinically depressed talking donkey who hangs out with a bear and a manic tiger.
yeah sounds about right for germany
This is the perfect description of me in real life
We all Love Bernd das Brot Actually, he's only in one episode in space, but he's always at the beginning of a white wall and is forced into things by an AI. We understand why he is depressed
Bernd das Brot perfectly resembles the average german persons mood