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Peter Lustig (27 October 1937 in Breslau, Silesia – 23 February 2016 near Husum, Germany) was a well-known German presenter of TV children’s programming.

Former broadcast-engineer for US-station AFN and German Sender Freies Berlin Lustig began his creative career by writing scripts for radio plays.

1973 he appeared for the first time on screen in the long-running German children-show Die Sendung mit der Maus where he explained together with a robotic bird called Atze technical ecquipment (Clips were entitled Peter und Atze).

He became famous in 1979 when he started presenting and acting in the kids-show Pusteblume on German pubcaster ZDF. The edutainment-format about technic and environment was renamed Löwenzahn and Lustig hosted it till 2005.