D-96450 Coburg-Cortendorf /
Germany
HERMANN-Spielwaren GmbH
D-96450 Coburg-Cortendorf /
Germany
Welcome to the
HERMANN-Coburg Festival Editions
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On this page we want to introduce to you those Teddy Bear Editions, which
are published by HERMANN-Coburg yearly on the occasion of special events.
Today HERMANN-Coburg introduces unique Limited Editions for the following
big German Shows:
The Neustadt Festival Bear 1998
For the first Festival in the year 1992 HERMANN-Coburg had an excellent idea and created the First Neustadt Festival Bear as a surprise for the town Neustadt. With this Teddy Bear HERMANN-Coburg became the pioneer of a very new kind of collectible Teddy Bears - called Festival Bears. Since that time HERMANN-Coburg introduces each year a new Neustadt Festival Bear in a limited Edition of only 100 pieces. The Festival Bear 1998 is the 7th in this series. In the course of the years the HERMANN-Coburg Festival Bears became one of the most desired Teddy Bears in Germany. Although nobody knows the design of the next year, the upcoming up Festival Bears are already sold out. HERMANN-Coburg, one of the oldest toy companies of this region, takes part in the festivities of the Festival with several special HERMANN-Coburg events like:
The Sonneberg Museum's Bear 1997
In a great ceremony, the Number 001 of the Museum's Edition is presented every year in September to the Museum. The picture shows the presentation of the Sonneberg Museum's Bear 1995 to Dr. Hofmann, president of the Sonneberg Toy Museum. The Sonneberg Toy Museum is the oldest and most traditional German Toy Museum, founded 1901 by the old Sonneberg Toy Manufacturers. HERMANN-Coburg is proud and thankful, that some of the Old Max Hermann Teddy Bears are preserved in the possession of this museum.
Here are some words from the Festival speech of Dr. Ursula Hermann in 1995 (translated in English): "As I make this traditional presentation to you today, Dr. Hofmann, of the Number 001 of our Sonneberg Museum Bear for this year, I do so in memory of my grandfather, who has also presented his Teddy Bears to this Museum in the past. I do this with some words told to me by an old friend: The manufacturers have to bring their Dolls and Teddy Bears today to the museums, because the museums alone are the places, which preserve them for the future and for all times." Now, in 1997 HERMANN Coburg published in accordance with the Museum, a special Limited American Edition of 500 pieces of this Sonneberg Museum Bear, available only in the United States. HERMANN-Coburg did this, because they want that the name and tradition of the oldest German Toy Museum shall be enlarged in the whole world.
The Hennef Edition 1996 - HERMANN One of a Kind Bears
This year HERMANN-Coburg published with its "One of a Kind Bears" a very
new kind of a Limited Edition. As a world-wide experiment, HERMANN-Coburg
was the first and only Teddy Bear manufacturer in the
world to publishing of a Limited Edition of 65 different "One of a Kind
Bears".
The manufacture of these 65 Teddy Bears was for all participants a great adventure, because nobody knew at the starting point of the manufacture something about the face and the figure of the respective Teddy Bears. Each was produced only one time without any pre samples.
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Since 1994 HERMANN-Coburg introduces every year in September
on the occasion of the Sonneberg Museum's Festival a special Limited Edition
of 100 pieces for the Sonneberg Toy Museum, called Sonneberg Museum's Bear.
The design of this year´s
1997 Sonneberg Museum´s Bear is pictured on the left side of this
page.
Click for some other importent HERMANN Bears in the possession
of this Toy Museum
The Hennef Bear - a special edition of HERMANN-Coburg
- is introduced each year on the occasion of Europe's biggest Teddy Bear
Show, "Teddy Bear Total" in the German town Hennef.
End of April 1996 "Teddy Bear Total" took place for the second time.
This unique experiment was only possible by the help of all
HERMANN-Coburg workers. While the artist Ulla Hermann drew the 65 different
patterns for the Bears and laid down the base line, which united all 65 Teddy
Bears to a uniform edition, the workers were free in their fantasy to realise
this conception.
The pictures show a selection of some of these Bears.
The uniting base-line of all 65 different Teddy Bears
was the design of the same uniform collar and the same uniform embroidery
of the paws. Each Bear was numbered, but not with the words "Number
01 of 65", but with marking "modell (that means design) 01 of 65". In addition
all Bears were made of the same fabric. The chosen fabric
was an old, out of produdtion artificial silk of the Fifties, which is now
exceptionally costly.
Incredibly, one half hour after the "Teddy Bear Total Show"
opened its doors in Hennef, the entire Limited Edition was sold out. Only
the design 01 and 65 remained in the possession of the HERMANN Company.
Although Dr. Ursula and Martin Hermann had decided that
also the design 02 and 03 shall remain in their personal possession, a fanatical
Teddy Bear collector didn't move away from the HERMANN booth for more than
one hour until he had persuaded the HERMANN family to separate itself also
from their personal pieces. Never before the HERMANN family had seen
so many tears in the eyes of collectors when they had to inform them that
the Limited Edition is sold out.