My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance
- Jessica Witte - Winter: Moderation
- Tetje Mierdorf: Gunnar Janssen
- Erna E. Aretz: Gunnar's mother
- Rolf Bente: Gunnar's father
- Jennifer Maria Ehnert: Niffy Janssen
- Arno Kempf: Gunnar's best friend
My big, fat, embarrassing fiance is a seven-part television production on behalf of Sat.1 from the year 2004., You adapted the concept of the U.S. hit format My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance for the German market and has enjoyed high.
Concept and action
During the broadcast the Kiel dentistry student Mareike was introduced to " Gunnar Janssen ". Your task in the context of the mission was to convince her parents that she wanted to marry him. In their view, had " Gunnar " the same task over its own parents. If this were possible, the two should receive a large sum of money.
" Gunnar ," but was in reality the actor Tetje Mierdorf, who had been hired by Sat.1 to make Mareike their task as difficult as possible. But he defied many taboos, such as complete lack of table manners, rudeness and clumsiness. His family and his friends were played by actors who intentionally placed a shocking for all Mareike and their family behavior on the day.
Following this mission Mareike received a fee of 500,000 euros. " Gunnar " said her and her family until one minute before the arranged marriage that everything was made and that he normally would not behave like that. Accompanied and commented on was the whole consignment of the presenter Jessica Witte - Winter.
Background
The series was filmed of UFA Entertainment with 47 cameras in a luxury villa in the Lüneburg Heath. The finale reached an audience of 4.68 million viewers and a market share in the target group of 24.0 percent.
My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance was shown in the U.S. in early 2004 on FOX; primary school teacher Randi McCoy was it promised a million dollars if she could convince her family to want the unpleasant "Steve Williams", played by actor Steven W. Bailey married. On the whole, the show was just starting as the German counterpart.
After My big, fat, embarrassing fiance lasted from September until October 2004 on Sat.1 beamed cable one in November 2004, the original series under the title My fiance from terrible.
Reception
My big, fat, embarrassing fiance was part of a wave of reality television productions of which were also many copies of British or American concepts. Although the odds compared to many other of these broadcasts were still good, the show was considered by many critics as mediocre and the marriage taunting. However, Julian Miller, critics of the online magazine Quotenmeter.de held the show for an interesting study of society and believes that she had made " an important statement about venality and media lust ".
There were also discussions about the veracity, as many viewers doubted that Mareike and their parents would not see through them offered the spectacle.
However, it is assumed that the € 500,000 were actually paid out: In a judgment of the Court of Schleswig- Holstein financial statements are reproduced from the treaty, according to which Mareike must pay tax on half of their " profit " of € 250,000 as other income. Although profits from a television quiz are in principle tax exempt. The scope of services to be provided by Mareike services should, however, gone far beyond taking part in a TV quiz show, the judges said.
The remaining 250,000 euros, however, were paid directly to her family and is not taxable in the judgment mentioned above, since Mareike has indeed earned this money, this is their but not remitted. Mareike had appealed against that judgment to the Federal Fiscal Court (BFH ). The revision was rejected by the BFH as unfounded, so the € 250,000 should be taxed as other income under § 22 Income Tax Act ultimately.
ProSieben brought in 2005 with the series out My new friend, in the Christian elms in new panels drove the candidates as a " new best friend " to despair, a similar show concept.