The world of phantoms.

Loriot Steinlaus legendary, indestructible Members of the Jacob Mierscheid or the ancient game of football Apopudobalia - so bespaßen politicians and scientists themselves and the rest of the world. A visit to the most beautiful phenomena and phantoms.

 

The Steinlaus, a shy and hungry rodents

Loriot's invention of the general Steinlaus aka Petrophaga lorioti "is a true classic and a prime example of academic joke. Even before the fourth century, well-managed to the animal, virtually removed related to the Bavarian Wolpertinger mythical creatures in the Pschyrembel, a well-known medical dictionary. Meanwhile, the editorial team repaid the note, the fictional rodent rehabilitated but immediately in the next edition - the reader protests were great.

Steinlaus: The website of a classic

Had started it with a Loriot-parody of the animal filmmaker Bernhard Grzimek, who in the seventies, the immensely popular series' A Place for Animals "moderated. 1976 Loriot described in an ARD-Sketch Steinlaus as the shy rodents, the stones of nutrition - with a daily consumption of 28 kilograms of concrete and bricks, pregnant females have significantly more.

When Wissenschaftsverlag de Gruyter, the Pschyrembel out there, has apparently a large Steinlaus friends. On a separate
Steinlaus website started the publishing company a few months before a competition. Authors were looking for scientific articles to rodents: "The contribution should be the medical aspect of the research focus Steinlaus and articles for Glossary our medical dictionary, the Pschyrembel, be drafted."

In February, won the Steinlaus researchers Peter A. Brauch. Title of his text: "New mutations of Steinlaus Petrophaga lorioti for therapeutic purposes is discovered: Petrophaga cervans and Petrophaga nasus foratrex". In addition to the "good and multidisciplinary reasoning" the jury especially praised the "beautiful drawings of the new mutations Steinlaus".