torsdag den 5. marts 2009

This is where it all began...

This monday the most important 50th birthday party of the year goes down (except for my mothers off course)... In the meantime here's a little history lesson...
Lilli was a German cartoon character, created by Reinhard Beuthien for the German Bild-Zeitung.

In 1953 they decided to market a Lilli doll and contacted Max Weissbrodt from the toy company O&M Hausser. Following Beuthien's drawings Weissbrodt designed the prototype of the doll which was on sale from 1955 to 1964 when Mattel acquired the rights of the doll so the German production had to stop....



-but she was reborn in 1959 with a new indentity...

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