Malaysian stories told in German
Students create animated films

The Berlin team of "Trickmisch - das mobile Sprachlabor" made a digital stopover in Malaysia and organized a film competition.

In this student project, students from 12 Malaysian secondary schools created their own animated films by creating their self-drawn silhouettes and articulated figures, animating them using the stop-trick technique, and then setting their texts to music themselves.

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Lets role!

In both form and content, the project drew on old Malaysian traditions. On the one hand, the students illustrated and told the contents of old Malaysian fairy tales. On the other hand, the form of the silhouettes are closely related to the old Malaysian form of storytelling - the shadow theater Wayang Kulit.

SMS Kepala Batas

©SMS Kepala Batas Trickmisch Workshop at SMS Kepala Batas

The resulting films are available here as well as on the Trickmisch.de site. Let's role!

Kick-off: The first video

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Explore the Trickmisch-Films from Malaysia

Our Partner

Julia Kapelle studied film and photography (visual communication) at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. At the University of the Arts, Berlin she studied in the postgraduate program at the Institute for Art in Context.
In her artistic work she deals with media image production and processes of collective authorship.
She works as an art mediator in exhibition and school contexts.

Since 2014, Julia Kapelle and her team have been on the road as "Trickmisch - Das Mobile (Bild)Sprachlabor" (Trickmix - The Mobile (Image) Language Lab) at Berlin schools (at language schools and schools with welcome classes) for students* who want to learn German with animated films.

For the Goethe-Institut Malaysia, the Trickmisch team left the Berlin area for the first time in 2021 - albeit only digitally.

Julia Kapelle

Julia Kapelle ©Trickmisch

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