# Ever hear of German animator Hans Fischerkoesen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** cartoons-animation\ **Created:** [June 30, 2022, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-hear-of-german-animator-hans-fischerkoesen/967170 "2022-06-30T03:47:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-hear-of-german-animator-hans-fischerkoesen/967170/1 "2022-06-30T03:47:23Z")
I hadn’t before about twelve minutes ago. They just uploaded one of his cartoons at the youtube channel Cartoon Classics: _Snowman in July_. It was charming, so I searched for any other cartoons by this animator. I just watched [Verwitterte Melodie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Rb3WF3SIQ). Wow. It’s weird and charming and strange. Check it out. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-hear-of-german-animator-hans-fischerkoesen/967170/2 "2022-06-30T04:22:58Z")
> [@teelabrown](#): > > They just uploaded one of his cartoons at the youtube channel Cartoon Classics: _Snowman in July_. Didn’t recognize him by name, but \*Snowman in July" used to play on my local early-morning kid’s show. > [@Lost animated specials](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lost-animated-specials/782635/51): > > Don’t they still show the Rudolph new year special on CBS? I remember seeing it again just a couple of years ago. Could have been a download, I suppose. The donkey one I had forgotten even existed. There is short film called “Snowman in July” that I used to see occasionally on a local morning kid’s show. Haven’t seen that one in decades until I looked it up on Youtube. Never suspected that it was actually a [German film](http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.7/articles/moritz1.7.html) made deep inside of WWII. [Here’s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS-EJfGo4EM) the version I remembered, and [here’s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j7_t9HPBPA) the … ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-hear-of-german-animator-hans-fischerkoesen/967170/3 "2022-06-30T11:25:11Z")
I had never seen this, thank you for sharing it. Here’s the original version of Snowman in July, “Der Schneemann”. That’s some surrealist ending! ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-hear-of-german-animator-hans-fischerkoesen/967170/4 "2022-06-30T12:36:13Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > That’s some surrealist ending! I’m glad that the writers of Disney’s _Frozen_ gave Olaf’s ending a happier twist. Although the German snowman didn’t seem upset at his fate. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-hear-of-german-animator-hans-fischerkoesen/967170/5 "2022-06-30T12:40:46Z")
Yes, I suppose that was more of a “Frosty the Snowman” ending…