Hyperboles
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| YouTube channel (entertainment, culture, politics) | |
| language | German |
| founding | December 10, 2013 |
| channels | Hyperboles |
| Subscribers | over 600,000 |
| Calls | over 160,000,000 |
| Videos | over 700 |
| (updated Aug. 26, 2020) | |
Hyperbole ( haɪˈpɜːrbəli ), also HyperboleTV, is a YouTube channel that was launched in 2013 and is operated by the production company of the same name.
Name meaning
The name hyperbole is derived from the word hyperbola . A hyperbole is the literary form of exaggeration to clarify a fact. According to its own information, Hyperbole wants to tell interesting cultural, political and other topics in order to draw attention to them.
The YouTube channel
Hyperbole sees itself as a political channel that wants to make politics interesting for everyone. Web videos on various topics are provided on the channel . Under Ask a cliché cliché-loaded people are presented such. B. transgender people , people with glass bones , autistic people , crime scene cleaners or cosplayers . Questions about the respective persons can be submitted in advance. Other formats include a. Disslike , street choice or truth be told .
The production company
The production company Hyperbole produces the web videos for the channel. But it also creates formats to order, e.g. B. Nearer , Art Work or Monodrama for ZDFkultur , Germania , Die above! or Shapira Shapira for funk or respect begins with the name for the DeutschPlus initiative .
Grimme Online Award 2015
Hyperbole was awarded the Grimme Online Award in the culture and entertainment category in 2015. Gregor Gysi gave the laudation for Hyperbole . Several hundred websites were suggested for this category. Hyperbole was one of the seven final nominees and was ultimately chosen by the jury as the winner.
“With a total of nine video formats, the makers offer their audience information, entertainment and above all: material for discussion. Because discussions on political and social issues, that is the declared aim of the makers. Current topics are translated into moving images in a pointed and modern way, the discourse on this is encouraged via all social media channels and the feedback is in turn fed into the company's own formats. The special thing about it: The culture of debate and comment remains factual, fair and self-regulating - regardless of whether the users argue about post-traumatic stress disorders of a Bundeswehr veteran or explain to each other what an oxymoron is. "
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ about Hyperbole Own description, channel info on the YouTube page of the channel. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
- ↑ Respect begins with the name. Press release at the beginning of the campaign on deutsch-plus.de. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
- ↑ a b c Award winner Hyperbole The award winner Hyperbole on grimme-online-award.de. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
- ↑ YouTube channel “Hyperbole TV” honored Article in the Stuttgarter Zeitung from June 18, 2015. Accessed June 4, 2020.
- ↑ List of suggestions on grimme-online-award.de. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
- ↑ Nominated list of all nominees and categories on grimme-online-award.de. Retrieved June 4, 2020.