Elefant, Tiger & Co.
- Speaker: Christian Steyer
Elephant, Tiger & Co. is a series of the Central German Radio (MDR ), the first episode was aired on 1 April 2003. She is the most successful German zoo docu-soap. Handlungsort is the zoo in Leipzig.
Content
In the series incidents from the life of the zoo animals and the work of the keepers, curators and veterinarians are reproduced, such as the career of the small Angola lion Malik, the samples of public promotional appearances of the llama Horst and alpacas Harry and the entry of the animals into new Gondwanaland. 2010 and -11 included the world-famous, now deceased Virginia opossum Heidi to animal ensemble of the show, was dedicated to the Internet its own series.
Background
The new transmission in this format was the inclusion of the keepers personalities in the concept and the plot of the series. The success of Elephant, Tiger & Co. exceeded the expectations of MDR and the zoo. Originally only eleven episodes of the program were planned. Meanwhile, more than 500 episodes have been broadcast in the MDR. Initially, only observed locally, with an initially 15 -, then 25 -minute episode per week, the repetition of the series with double episodes sent daily to one of the best odds bearer within the ARD from 4 October to 23 December 2005, average 1.93. million viewers watched at the time this series. In the second season double episodes, which aired on ARD from 27 December 2006 to 5 April 2007, there were an average of 2.64 million viewers.
The series was largely developed by the two television writers January Tenhaven and Axel Friedrich. Meanwhile, nine other authors in exchange for the program are also responsible: Jens Strohschnieder, Kerstin Holl, Antje Schneider, Eva Demmler, Lutz exchanger, Stefanie Wagemann, Christiane Probst, Beate Gerber and Melanie Henze. Speaker and - in special broadcasts - of occasional actor is the musician and actor Christian Steyer.
More Zoo docusoaps
According to the concept of Elephant, Tiger & Co. also more Zoo docu-soaps were designed as Penguin, Lion & Co. from the Münster Zoo and Panda, Gorilla & Co. from the animal park and the Zoological Garden in Berlin. More offshoot series followed and ZDF sent similar series, with titles like snouts from Berlin Zoologischer Garten Berlin, and Beastly Kölsch from Cologne Zoo. In response to the many imitators will be in the credits of claim Elefant, Tiger & Co. - made the original claim.
In the speech at the opening of the new elephant enclosure at Leipzig Zoo in March 2006, Bernhard Blaszkiewitz, director of the zoo in Berlin, the benefit of all zoos of this broadcast format, combined with the demand " again to pack more information into those programs ."
Another mission of the ARD, which also plays in the Leipzig Zoo, is Zoo Doctor.