Neues aus der Anstalt

  • Urban Priol
  • Georg Schramm (episodes 1-36)
  • Frank -Markus Barwasser ( sequence from 37 )

Various guests from the field of cabaret.

News from the Institute was a political cabaret show, which was produced and broadcast by German television station ZDF on 62 episodes. In the summer of 2013, the end of the program was given surprisingly known. On 1 October 2013, the last live episode aired on ZDF. On February 4, 2014, the successor of the broadcast under the title The institution was first broadcast.

Mission

News from the Institute was the first political cabaret show ZDF, since the event chaired by Dieter Hildebrandt consignment notes had been discontinued from the province in 1979 following the intervention of the ZDF program director Dieter Stolte. Therefore Hildebrandt also appeared in the first episode of News from the institution. His contributions were restricted to the handover of the " baton " to " 28 years of satire Wi ZDF " and a single sentence to the end of the show, but lasted three minutes, and in which he was once the alleged revelation of Cicero, Jürgen Habermas, a convinced National Socialist been ridiculed.

The political cabaret has up to ten times a year usually broadcast once a month on Tuesdays after the ZDF heute-journal and a live broadcast from the ARRI Studios in Munich. By sending led the cabaret Urban Priol, consequential to 36 Georg Schramm and result from 37 Frank -Markus Barwasser. They were joined by well-known guests joined in the field of cabaret. The regular duration of the output was 45 minutes and had thus the same transmission duration as the ARD cabaret wipers. Priol moderated broadcast start and end in the style of Dieter Thomas stern dramatic staccato moderation of the series ZDF hit parade. Title and incidental music on the program was the song Spinning Wheel by Blood, Sweat & Tears.

The studio should be the foyer of a psychiatric hospital. The cabaret artists could occur via corridors, stairways and an elevator hit the stage. Priol presented in Neues aus der Anstalt the head of the clinic dar. As a running gag, he put a lot of emphasis to the fact that he was allowed to use the elevator was the only one. Schramm played the patient speaker as pensioners Dombrowski. In the supporting roles Schramm appeared as Lieutenant Colonel Sanftleben and when the old Hessian Social Democrat and trade unionists August. In episode 6 Schramm also played the role of a medical sales for the first time. Director of the show was Frank yard. Guests occurring mostly played patient, but also partly external, for example, visited the institute for professional reasons.

On 25 May 2010 Georg Schramm announced that he would leave the cabaret series in order to concentrate fully back on his stage show after ten years of intensive television coverage can. The decision was not easy for him fallen, and he also paid tribute to the confidence of the ZDF in his work. After his last mission on 8 June 2010, he only appeared on the farewell episode of the program on 1 October 2013. On October 19, 2010 Frank -Markus Barwasser joined aka Erwin Furry, who in the show was a guest on several occasions, the successor of Schramm as a permanent member of the envelope. Barwasser played the speakers for PR and communication in the institution, but also came with topics on without this reference.

On June 26, 2013 it was announced that both Frank -Markus Barwasser and Urban Priol leave the show and would move on to other projects. The format was aired for the last time on 1 October 2013 with two presenters before it returned on February 4, 2014 under the title The institution with the new hosts Max Uthoff and Claus Wagner of the ZDF program.

Frank -Markus Barwasser as Erwin Furry

Georg Schramm as a pensioner Dombrowski

Time slot

The show Neues aus der Anstalt was broadcast in a usually four-week distance Tuesday night on ZDF. Repeatedly she was in the ZDF broadcasting partners ZDFinfo and in the German - Austrian-Swiss Community 3sat ( next Monday ).

Episode List

Reception

Ratings

In 2007 the ZDF had sent ten episodes of Neues aus der Anstalt, reaching an average of 2.91 million viewers and a market share of 13.7 percent. The first edition was seen average of 3.86 million people ( 16.6% market share). In the group of 14 - to 49 -year-olds were 740,000 viewers (7.3% market share ) are measured. Overall, the series in 2007 reached a market share of 12.9%. The reintroduction of the political cabarets had " given the program a boost ", according to the program director Thomas Bellut. The radiated in December 2008, the 20th edition of News from the Institute was watched by 3.31 million viewers, which made for a market share of 16%. All previous editions were offered in the online library of the ZDF. In the first issue with furry as an integral member of 3.6 million people watched. In order for a market share of 15.8 % could be achieved. Only the inaugural edition in 2007 had been more viewers. In the group of 14 - to 49 -year-olds were 0.62 million viewers (6.2% market share ) were measured. The highest market share was achieved with the Christmas 2010 edition. This was switched of 3.00 million viewers, which led to a market share of 17.1%.

Criticism

In the broadcast of 13 April 2010, Urban Priol commented on the death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, who had arrived three days earlier in the plane crash near Smolensk killed. He also took with regard to the funeral and international reactions to the death: "Is there a hypocrisy in progress: How popular was he who ridiculed as pest throughout Europe Lech Kaczyński. With no bad but wanted to have something to do. " The statement triggered criticism in Polish media. The ZDF program director Thomas Bellut gave an opinion on the for Polish television, in which he pointed out that it was a satire, and the transmitter is sorry to have hurt feelings. Priol stated that he had " the rituals denounce around bereavement " want.

Awards

  • 2007: German Television Award in the category of Best Comedy at Urban Priol and Georg Schramm
  • 2008: nominated for the Adolf Grimme Award in the category Entertainment
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