28-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Meet Bernd das Brot, a depressed German loaf of bread that's spent 25 years as a TV cult classic
BERLIN — Forget SpongeBob SquarePants, Sesame Street and the sourdough starter craze: a depressed German loaf of bread named Bernd das Brot is celebrating his 25th anniversary as the reluctant star of a children's television program that accidentally became equally popular with adults.
A cult classic in Germany , Bernd das Brot (Bernd the Bread) is a puppet renowned for his deep, gloomy voice, his perpetual pessimism and his signature expression, 'Mist!' (Think 'crap!' in English.)
Played and voiced by puppeteer Jörg Teichgraeber, Bernd is a television presenter who wants nothing to do with TV and can't wait to go home to stare at the wallpaper.
