Peter Lustig

Peter Lustig (27 October 1937 in Breslau, Silesia – 23 February 2016 near Husum, Germany) was a well-known German presenter of TV children's programming. Former broadcast-engineer for US-station AFN and German Sender Freies Berlin Lustig began his creative career by writing scripts for radio plays. 1973 he appeared for the first time on screen in the long-running German children-show "Die Sendung mit der Maus" where he explained together with a robotic bird called Atze technical ecquipment (Clips were entitled "Peter und Atze"). He became famous in 1979 when he started presenting and acting in the kids-show "Pusteblume" on German pubcaster ZDF. The edutainment-format about technic and environment was renamed "Löwenzahn" and Lustig hosted it till 2005.