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Comments on MetaFilter post (Let me be your) Foto-EisbärMon, 20 Jul 2015 12:42:45 -0800Mon, 20 Jul 2015 12:42:45 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60(Let me be your) Foto-Eisbär
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/shortcuts/2015/jul/19/the-mysterious-german-fad-for-posing-with-a-polar-bear-imitator">From the 1920s to the 1960s, German people loved to pose with actors dressed as polar bears.</a> Large images <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/jul/19/teddybar-in-pictures">here</a>, smallish images<a href="http://www.innocences.net/product/teddybar"> here</a>. In German: a <a href="http://www1.wdr.de/themen/archiv/sp_digit/derfotoeisbaer100_imageNo-1.html">gallery</a> and a <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=OMecrOLZpcYC&pg=PA429">book article</a> (<em>The Foto-Eisbär: an unusual memento of beautiful moments</em>). Other pictures from the internet: <a href="http://misscellania.blogspot.fr/2013/03/german-soldiers-of-world-war-ii.html">Wehrmacht soldiers with a person in polar bear suit</a>. <a href="http://www.hausergallery.com/thewoofgang/poodles.htm">Revelers in polar bear costumes (with poodle), Berlin, 1929</a>. And <a href="http://digit.wdr.de/search?search=eyJ7Yn0iOiJlaXNiXHUwMGU0ciJ9">many, many others</a>. <br /><br />From the German gallery cited above<em>: For photographers, the polar bear pictures were a good source of income. Such a photo cost 3 to 5 Marks at that time. Carl Bitterling, who operated a <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=OMecrOLZpcYC&pg=PA431">photo studio on Rügen Island</a> in the 30s, took advantage of the "Foto-Eisbär" fad to encourage bathers to pose for such pictures. His son (<a href="http://www1.wdr.de/themen/archiv/sp_digit/derfotoeisbaer100_imageNo-2html">photo</a>) was playing the role of "Susi", a female polar bear. The bathing months were for the "Photo-Polar bears" a rather sweaty affair. Historian Michael Schimek thinks that the suits were made of sheepskin before WWII and later of fake fur</em>post:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.151381Mon, 20 Jul 2015 12:39:52 -0800elgilitobearbearsuitpolarbearfursuitprotofurriesgermanyphotophotographyMichaelSchimekJeanMarieDonatnottheshiningfotoeisbareisbarkostumeeisbarkostumBy: Bulgaroktonos
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This is really cool. That Wehrmacht picture in this <a>form</a> is a classic around my house that has led to "they still do not know I am bear" being a phrase that's used on a weekly basis, but I had no idea it was an extended thing for 40 years.
So many covert bears. I wonder what their plan was.comment:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.151381-6133500Mon, 20 Jul 2015 12:42:45 -0800BulgaroktonosBy: incomple
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I don't care what ANYONE says. Germans of the mid-century were delightful eccentrics.comment:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.151381-6133503Mon, 20 Jul 2015 12:47:01 -0800incompleBy: item
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I can't see the word Eisbär without wanting to hear <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhtxqvAlIpo">Grauzone.</a>comment:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.151381-6133509Mon, 20 Jul 2015 12:50:27 -0800itemBy: davros42
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<i>I don't care what ANYONE says. Germans of the mid-century were delightful eccentrics.</i>
Must... resist... urge.. to.. Godwin.. thread...comment:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.151381-6133520Mon, 20 Jul 2015 12:57:33 -0800davros42By: wormwood23
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Germans really like polar bears, and I don't understand why. Why the special affinity? They were crazy over little <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_(polar_bear)">Knut</a> (who, given, was adorable).comment:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.151381-6133530Mon, 20 Jul 2015 13:02:02 -0800wormwood23By: Wemmick
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I wonder if the video for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWbN3-6o3WQ">Herbert Grönemeyer's <i>Mensch</i></a> is related.comment:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.151381-6133553Mon, 20 Jul 2015 13:24:40 -0800WemmickBy: lagomorphius
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Is that first photo in the Guardian article really just "a German couple?"comment:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.151381-6133629Mon, 20 Jul 2015 14:13:40 -0800lagomorphiusBy: chillmost
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Ein Leben ohne Eisbär ist kein Leben.comment:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.151381-6133663Mon, 20 Jul 2015 14:37:38 -0800chillmostBy: PinkMoose
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i wonder if Iriving thought about this, when he wrote Hotel New Hampshirecomment:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.151381-6133962Mon, 20 Jul 2015 19:25:41 -0800PinkMooseBy: fallingbadgers
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We had our photo taken with a polar bear inside a glacier in Switzerland in the 1970's. It was a school trip and it taught me the most important lesson I ever learned at school - nothing will ever make any sense.comment:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.151381-6134099Mon, 20 Jul 2015 21:54:27 -0800fallingbadgersBy: Too-Ticky
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This is great. I had no idea.comment:www.metafilter.com,2015:site.151381-6134136Tue, 21 Jul 2015 00:15:36 -0800Too-Ticky
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