Starparade
The Star Parade was a music broadcast by ZDF with up to 28 million viewers. At the great success had their share presenter Rainer Holbe, who presented the program, the James Last Orchestra, the ballet choreography and Ewald Burike who cared as a director for complex image effects. The James Last Orchestra made his first television appearance in the Star Parade.
The show
Concept
The Star Parade was a live broadcast from various large halls in Germany. The focus was on the music performances, in addition, there were brief conversations with the artists and perhaps a guest who did not occur as a musician. For example, Dieter Thomas Heck asked in the last issue of 1968, whether he should present the new series ZDF hit parade with or without a beard. To this end, the audience should express by postcard. Later there were several actions involving audience something should submit, for example, 1978 photos, as they dance in their living room to the music of James Last.
When ZDF you put value on a perfect show, so the samples on Sunday began when the show was broadcast on Thursday. This effort stunned American stars, as there was not such an effort in the United States. In the early years the hall audience sat at tables and had drinks in front of him, it was only in the first rows tables until you went all over the course of the year 1976 rows of seats. Shows a long time was also a quarter-circle shaped leather sofa, on which the artists took place and there were sometimes questioned by Rainer Holbe. In 1977 it was replaced by a chair from where Holbe and took to court to announce guests.
In many countries, a summary of the programs ran under the title The James Last Show. Especially good was this because of the ballet ensemble of the Arabian Peninsula.
Time slot
The Star Parade ran on the time slot for the great ZDF Entertainment on Thursday night. This was originally 20.00 clock bis 21.30 clock, from the 6 issue of 20.15 bis 21.45 clock clock and due to the large reform program from October 1973 from the 24th edition at 19.30 clock bis 21.00 clock. However, an exception was in 1976 represents, in this year's Star Parade ran on Saturdays from 20.15 bis 21.45 clock clock. These programs were also broadcast by the ORF, an issue even came from Austria. However, many German viewers wanted back the Thursday deadline because they wanted to enjoy going out on Saturday night.
Presentation
Rainer Holbe had already been presented at ZDF a program called The Show- chance, as the editor Dieter Weber was looking for someone for the Star Parade. This series was initially limited to four issues of which every three months should be run.
Ballet
What at one time frequently, so also belonged to Star Parade ballet performances, the choreography came in the first years of Herbert F. Schubert, who also mittanzte sometimes. When it was first ensemble to Schubert Herbert Dancers, from 1971 to the newly founded ZDF television ballet, whose head was Schubert. In order to offer the public variety, it came from 1974 to changing choreographers. Each Star Parade began with a dance and two dances were performed at least. Sometimes Rainer Holbe changed in the show a few words with the choreographers.
James Last Orchestra
The Star Parade was inseparably connected with the James Last Orchestra. However, playing in the early days some times the Orchestra Max Greger, these expenses were opening and closing credits with the theme music of the Orchestra James Last unchanged.
The James Last Orchestra played music for the ballet and always had their own performances, which are mostly played tracks from one of the many current albums. If this required an extended occupation, they also occurred. It was a group of strings for classic titles, the James Last Choir, who also went with the orchestra on tour, or the Bergedorf Chamber Choir, with whom regularly worked the orchestra. Last created special arrangements specifically for the mission, which occurred on any record.
The singing stars had the orchestra break, unless they wished to be joined by James Last. While it is mostly concerned to complete playback at other performances, load placed great value on everything possible to play live, although this caused additional production costs. It was one exception: When load was due to an operation for appendicitis at the hospital, he had all previously recorded and can play under the direction of his brother Kai Warner to tape the orchestra. Even during the broadcast came here to audience calls, who found the brother do it quite well, but you hear is a difference.
When singer appeared with a playback, then, so that the screen did not show the band in another rectangle of the hall. This usually played with, which, although the audience in the hall, but not listened to the viewers. Sometimes the band Clowned also, at a performance of Mireille Mathieu they exchanged the instruments and even exaggerated so much that the audience was distracted. Henceforth, let the editor of a wall in front of the band to build if they did not play.
Music program
The Star Parade was marked by a particularly broad musical spectrum. James Last was both folk songs, as well as classical or international hits play. The star guests were so different artists such as Heino and T. Rex. Some international stars had in the Star Parade even their first German gig, including Neil Diamond and Barry Manilow.
Image Effects
The film was directed from the third edition of Ewald Burike, who worked on this station since the ZDF start, first as a cameraman, then as head of a broadcasting van. He introduced some new effects:
In the early days Burike often used the blue-box method. This earned him the team the nickname Blurike.
In the fall of 1971 Burike has provided a monitor with a light pen in front of the guest bed, as he was with the game show Pictionary very famous later. The artists, including Herbert F. Schubert wrote this apparatus with her autograph and the audience were called, with her camera to take a picture by the artist together with autograph and to send it. The photographer of the best image was then invited to the next shipment. In the summer of 1972, you put the photo back in action. We used the apparatus only once to display the artist's name at the beginning of his performance.
The spectacular performance Burikes was the big screen, which belonged to the Star Parade since the radio show in 1975. It was an assembly of first 140 ordinary color television sets, their number increased sequence for 36 to 192. They were approached by an elaborate electronic control and thus were all the same image, or all together show a big picture. In addition, the overall picture was quartered, in each quadrant in turn a large or many small pictures were displayed. This wall was copied from American television stations.
Others
Although the color television was introduced since half a year, the Star parade began still in black and white. The broadcast in color starting with the fourth edition, it was entitled blow by blow, as it was feared a confusion with the just-introduced ZDF hit parade. It was then count towards the Star Parade consequences.
Successor
The Star Parade is presented in the summer of 1980, despite unchanged excellent attendances a unfounded. Follow-up mission was presented by Michael Schanze Show- Express, on the James Last was involved unchanged. This had not been the success of the Star Parade and was discontinued in 1982 so again.
Radiations in the ZDF
The first broadcast took place on the following dates in the ZDF, the consequences 2 to 13 no longer exist:
Sources: Online Archive of the Vienna Arbeiter-Zeitung and the Hamburg Evening Gazette, closing the original programming