Total Normal

  • Hape Kerkeling
  • Achim Hagemann

Total Normal was the name of a seven -part comedy series from Hape Kerkeling. The episodes were sent from 1989 to 1991 in the First. The program was produced by Radio Bremen and won many awards, including the Golden Camera, the Adolf Grimme Award, the Bronze Rose of Montreux, the Golden Gong and the Bavarian Television Award.

Action

Hape Kerkeling and Achim Hagemann showed absurd game shows, skits, parodies and wacky songs, including a half-finished "Song for the World" in Esperanto before studio audience. In addition, own films were shown, such as spontaneous visits to unsuspecting and overpowered citizens who had suddenly a television crew in the living room while Kerkeling and Hagemann the " Kufstein Song " brought for the best. This Kerkeling gave almost everyone who contributed to the show, a Mitropa coffee - Mitropa was the fictional sponsor of the show. Although the program was broadcast only irregular, but they got all the important German TV Awards.

The series

Episode 1

  • First broadcast: October 5, 1989 (45 min).
  • Guest: Mary Roos, Wolfgang Lippert, Claus Hinrich Casdorff

Episode 2

  • First broadcast: . December 7, 1989 (45 min)
  • Guest: Margaret shrines Makers, Paul Kuhn, Margot and Maria Hellwig, including
  • Information about the program: Kerkeling calls for a chance for love and tells a hair-raising story about a married couple for many years, which can not communicate because of the different native language. The program with Erika Berger was previously broadcast live on RTL.

Episode 3

  • First broadcast: December 3, 1990.
  • Guest: Paul Kuhn, Wilhelm Wieben, Dagmar Berghoff and Herdis Zernial.
  • Information about the program: Kerkeling attended, among others, as a reporter disguised the federal press conference and asks emphatically there is a detailed explanation ( " Where is the market? " ), For which its tax payments are used.

Episode 4

  • First broadcast: December 10, 1990 ( 25 min).
  • Guest: Max Schautzer and Herdis Zernial
  • Information about the program: Kerkeling attended the Bambi Awards 1990 and distributed its own " Bambi " in advance of the potential winners.

Episode 5

  • First broadcast: December 17, 1990 ( 25 min)
  • Guest: Chris Howland and Wim Thoelke.
  • Information about the program: Kerkeling annoying 5 minutes before the broadcast Wetten Dass ...? Moderator Gottschalk, as he had in the last consignment allegedly forgot his scarf. He also asks ZDF program director Penk to accommodate a Mitropa coffee in the stage design. Since the Penk does not, Kerkeling go on stage and puts the machine on the coffee table. / Since the TV reruns from 1995 and also on the DVD version sequence includes 5 behind the " We're betting what " skit Kerkeling raid interviews from the SPD party congress, on the Björn Engholm was elected SPD chairman. However, this congress was held in May 1991, the report has been shown to result in 7 for the first time and inserted a row in 5 to - for whatever reason - to replace an interview with Phil Collins.

Episode 6

  • First broadcast May 2, 1991 ( 90 min)
  • Guest: Jörg Wontorra, Chris Howland, Gotthilf Fischer, Eberhard Feik, Nina Hagen and Thomas Gottschalk. Musical Guest: Michael Bolton and Boy George.
  • Information about the program: a sketch of this episode gained enters the Bellevue Palace of the Federal President in Berlin great fame in which Kerkeling disguised as Queen Beatrix with a car with a chauffeur. Only after several minutes, he was invited by the present security personnel to leave the premises immediately.

Episode 7

  • First broadcast: July 4, 1991 (2x 30 min)
  • Guest: Roberto Blanco, Paul Kuhn, Maria Hellwig and Herdis Zernial
  • Information about the program: This program has its also very well-known appearance as a Polish opera singer. Together with Hagemann he played a system modeled on Peter and the Wolf, pseudo- experimental operatic solo in which the outcry Hurz ended. The audience animated debate with the alleged artist about the meanings of the text. For this appearance a few years later, a single was produced on the expressions from the audience, however, were repeated after. Moreover, Episode 7 has been sent as a super special show with two directly consecutive ( and indeed belong together ) consequences.

DVD

Total Normal appeared 1992/1993 on VHS. For some time, there is all the episodes on a double DVD and in a Hape Kerkeling - box along with 3 of Kerkeling television films.

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