Rumpel

  Muppeteer :   Joachim Hall   Rumpel  is the Grouch  from Sesamstrasse, the German co - production of Sesame Street.

Appearance
Rumpel is a green  GROUCH  ( originally " Griesgram " in German, lately " Grautsch " ) with big energetic eyes. He live s in a rain barrel  with his caterpillar  Gustav.

Personality
Rumpel, like all other GRouches  , hates rain when others lo ve it , but he love s rain when other s hate it. He can be mischievous, but simply can ' t help but show his good heart from time to time.

History
Rumpel was added to Sesamstrasse i n 1989 alongside Buh & Simson. The German Grouch  was to replace deemed negative characters such a s Uli von Bödefeld &  Oscar the Grouch  : quite a few critics weren ' t fond of the Ame ric an Sesame Street set. German ki ds didn ' t grow up in a suburb full of trash can s. After a few years of absence, the insert scenes of OSCAr  returned.

Trivia

 * Rumpel started out with a dark green nose, which became a dark , rusty orange in later seasons.
 * Rumpel, along with other international Sesame Street characters , appeared on the cover of Sesame Street Magazine in October 2004 . Rumpel 's uncle Professor Rumprad Guse  invented the very 1 st ever  Grouch  computer.
 * Rumpel, at 1 point , had a superhero alter - ego , similar to Super Grover.