From Jens Christian RabeThe latest episode of Jan Böhmermann's show, broadcast on Friday evening ZDF Magazine Royale was a high point in German satirical history. It doesn't go below that. Without further explanations for the audience, she parodied Dieter Nuhr's ARD satirical show for almost half an hour Nu(h)r in the first as "Nuhr in the second". So the entire show, from start to finish, including some of Nuhr's controversial favorite guests like cabaret artist Lisa Eckhart. So detailed and...
Who offered the best television and streaming formats in Germany? The Grimme Prize juries answer this question every year, distributing a total of 16 awards in four categories as well as special prizes. The surprise winner this year is: Tim Mälzer.When the trophies - donated by the German Adult Education Association (DVV) - are distributed in the Marler Theater on April 21, the TV chef and his production team can take two of them home, because Mälzer's Vox format to...
Basically, it's like having a family coffee at Aunt Anni's: people come together, each with their own uniqueness. One has studied philosophy, the other has just had his wrinkles sprayed off, one only ever talks about the past, and the other would like to save the world, if necessary by force.On television, the concept is called a "talk show," and the first of its kind aired exactly 50 years ago. "The later the evening" was the name of the program...
From Aurelie von Blazekovic and Cornelius PollmerThere is gold dust on the word "hybrid", a reflection of modernity. The neighbor drives a hybrid, the son is studying business psychology, does the insurance against disability promise additional returns? That sounds great and often better than it can actually be. The hybrid: a made-up combustion engine; the return on insurance: pure marketing; the course: fraudulent labeling for an arrangement of long-established, unrelated modules. source site
From Tobias ZickJan Böhmermann and his team can certainly claim one merit: they have sensitized their audience to the conditions in a country that is geographically close, but represents a kind of black box for many socially and politically. The multi-ethnic state of Bosnia-Herzegovina, which emerged from the collapse of the former multi-ethnic state of Yugoslavia with mass murder, expulsion and rape, is still a sometimes grotesquely complex state whose structures can even drive those who are somehow supposed to...
Christian Schmidt, High Representative of the international community in the south-eastern European post-war country, is under pressure from various quarters. Now also by ZDF entertainer Jan Böhmermann. It is not always actually clean. From Tobias ZickA Franconian politician who defends the right to roast pork for German daycare children is, of course, a grateful feast for a satirist - especially a North German one. And so it has a corresponding, six and a half year old statement by the then...
Harald Schmidt on awareness, quality time, mistakes on the theater stage and Andrea Tandler's disguise. Interviewed by Christine DosselHarald Schmidt is currently enthralling audiences for almost two hours in his program "Spielzeitanalyse" at the Stuttgarter Schauspiel. Only he and a piano on the stage, on which he alludes to the low E flat from Wagner's "Rheingold" towards the end. Then nothing. The ex-late-night talker delivers masterful satire. Contrary to what the title suggests, it is only marginally about the theatre,...
Director Norbert Himmler explains who ZDF wants to reach with its program, why it's worth the money - and how the public broadcasters are getting out of the crisis.Interviewed by Claudia TieschkyNorbert Himmler has been with us since March 2022 Director of ZDF up on the Lerchenberg in Mainz. He started here in 1997 as a freelancer. Later he was head of the then new station ZDF neo and then ZDF program director for almost ten years. Back then, Himmler...
Director Norbert Himmler explains who ZDF wants to reach with its program, why it's worth the money - and how public broadcasters are getting out of the crisis.Interviewed by Claudia TieschkyNorbert Himmler has been with us since March 2022 Director of ZDF up on the Lerchenberg in Mainz. He started here in 1997 as a freelancer. Later he was head of the then new station ZDF neo and then ZDF program director for almost ten years. Back then, Himmler and...
from Claudia Tieschkythe World-Editors and earlier mirrorEditor-in-Chief Stefan Aust has an injunction against a broadcast in Jan Böhmermann at the Hamburg Regional Court ZDF Magazine Royale shown satirical wanted poster obtained. This is confirmed by ZDF; first he had mirror reported about it. The depiction from the broadcast of November 25 is in the style of the wanted posters from the RAF era; under the photos of the "left-wing violent criminals" of a "Lindner/Lehfeldt gang" who are allegedly wanted by...
