Any German speakers who can answer a quick question?

[lillymunster]

Hoping someone can help clear up a bit of confusion which has come about because of Peter Rabbit!

In German is he Peter Hase?

We're a bit confused about whether kaninchen and hase both mean rabbit and are interchangeable or if one means bunny?

Going back and forth on google translate hasn't answered the question so I hoped a German speaker who knows what people would usually say in context could help!

Thank you!!

Not a German speaker but after a quick Google, seems it's Peter Hase according to the trailers on YouTube for the German version

@youngfreeandnotsingle thank you!! It looks like I've got a Peter Hase on his way to live in my house now! He'd better be good at teaching kids German or he won't be staying long 😂

It's Peter Hase, although Hase would theoretically be a hare and Kanninchen would be a rabbit. :)

kanninchen is rabbit. hase is a hare. But we have the Öster Hase not the kanninchen.

@CeeCee88 @Bananalanacake thank you so much for clearing that up!! Finally the "debate" (with a lot of shouting and brandishing of cuddly rabbits) is now solved!

It's "Peterchen (little Peter) Hase (hare)" in the 1992 translation.

At easter we have in fact the Osterhase because they used to be seen around this time before they became an endangered species.
Apart from the regions where the eggs are brought by a fox.

Rabbit = Kaninchen is only a thing in "Pu der Bär".

@Prokupatuscrakedatus I never knew foxes brought Easter eggs anywhere in the world! Which areas is this a popular idea in? I've only ever known of the Easter bunny as a bringer or eggs!

@lillymunster
I needed to research this for DS (AS) a couple of years ago.
As both animals show up in spring at the same time (predator and food), there are areas where it's traditionally a hare, areas where both do it (tiny areas in Sachsen-Anhalt) and areas where it is the fox (a few regions in the north-east of Nordrhein-Wstfalen).
But I think today it is mostly the hare - more child friendly and sells better.

@Prokupatuscrakedatus that's really interesting, thank you for telling me about it! I think a fox is going to have to become involved in the animals with an interesting background story helping us to learn German narrative now!

@lillymunster
There is a children's book form 1924 that's still sold at Easter (I had it, my DC had it, my DM had it) called 'Die Häschenschule'. There is an English version, too.
(It's now been franchised and expanded, I think.)