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Dingsda is a German entertainment program on television that paraphrases children's guessing terms. It is based on the American format child's play , which ran between 1982 and 1983 on the CBS channel .

history

Fritz Egner took over the American concept for the show in 1985 and called it Dingsda. It was first broadcast on Bavarian television and, after a successful test broadcast in 1987, from 1988 onwards regularly on Erste . The 45-minute rate show ran on Tuesdays at 8:15 p.m. Fritz Egner moderated 132 episodes until 1994. Egner's successor was Werner Schmidbauer , who took over the program from 1994 to 1999, but was unable to build on the earlier success. Between 2001 and 2002 Thomas Ohrner attempted a revival at kabel eins without any notable success .

Since October 2018 there has been a new edition of initially twelve episodes with presenter Mareile Höppner , which is broadcast on Fridays at 6:50 p.m. on Erste .

The title melody comes from Heinz Kiessling . Fritz Egner received the Bavarian TV Prize in 1989 for this program .

description

In the show, two celebrity couples competed against each other. The game was played over three rounds. The terms to be guessed were explained by one or more children in their familiar environment ( kindergarten or elementary school ) and presented to the candidates on a large screen. If a child slipped out the term they were looking for, it was covered over by a "oops" sound and speech bubble. Each candidate played for himself per round. For a correctly guessed term, the candidate received 30 points. If a player gave an incorrect answer, the candidate of the opposing team received a new description for the same term. If the term was guessed correctly based on the second paraphrase, 20 points were awarded, with a third paraphrase only ten points were awarded. In the quick guessing session, the moderator read out definitions . There were ten points for each correct answer. Finally there was a ringing round, in which the person who was the first to stop a running film with a buzzer and gave the correct answer received 30 points .

The "thing there professor"

Among the children shown in the program, the most memorable was the “thing-da-professor”, who explained scientific and technical terms with a factual knowledge that was not only exceptional for elementary school students. In the big birthday show for the 60th birthday of ARD 2010 there was an interview with the now grown up "professor" named Andreas Turriff, who is now responsible for IT security at Portland State University .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Dingsda" with Mareile Höppner in the first. Presseportal.de, September 20, 2018, accessed on September 24, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Dingsda: We still remember this child today
  3. ↑ Description of the show on tv-kult.com