Album - pictures of a year

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Album (year number) - Pictures of a year (e.g. Album 2020 - Pictures of a year) is a television review of the year broadcast annually by ZDF since 1981 .

content

Divided into twelve monthly blocks introduced by seasonal trailers, television images of the most important events in the world are shown. Sometimes little-known curiosities are also presented. The pictures are commented on by a journalist who speaks from the off . Are known v. a. the fireworks shots shown at the beginning and at the end of the program . The animation trailers used in the 1980s to introduce the respective month also achieved cult status. The program always offers a compact review of the year with critical and sometimes bitingly ironic comments.

In the end credits of the show all cameramen around the world are thanked for their sometimes life-threatening efforts.

Commentators

The review of the year is commented on by ZDF news editors, who are usually either moderators of one of the “ heute” programs or the “ heute journal” . The following is an overview of the previous commentators:

commentator Period
Karlheinz Rudolph 1981-1989
Gert Anhalt and
Steffen Seibert 		1990
Gert Anhalt 1991-1992
Eberhard Piltz 1993-1997
Helmut Reitze 1998-2001
Thomas Kausch 2002-2003
Marietta Slomka 2004
Norms Odenthal 2005-2008
Elmar Theveßen and
Thomas Schmeken 		2009
Elmar Theveßen 2010
Matthias Fornoff 2011–2012
Elmar Theveßen 2013-2014
Claudia Rüggeberg 2015
Elmar Theveßen 2016
Wulf Schmiese since 2017

Broadcast date

Until about 1999, album pictures of a year (or an updated repetition) was always sent in the last two days of December. After that, the broadcast date was set before Christmas (December 23, 2001, December 18, 2005, December 17, 2006, December 21, 2008, December 20, 2009, December 19, 2010) without the repetitions (including on ZDFinfokanal ) being updated . Therefore, important events at the end of the year are no longer taken into account. The tsunami disaster of December 26, 2004 was only mentioned a year later on Album 2005 . The execution of the Iraqi ex-dictator Saddam Hussein on December 30, 2006 was also not mentioned in the 2006 album . However, this event was reported a few days later in a repeat in early January 2007. In 2011 the album was broadcast again later. With the date on Boxing Day, the show achieved the highest audience rating for years, so this date was continued.

music

For years the opening and closing credits were underlaid with the instrumental piece Eric's Theme by the Greek composer Vangelis from the film The Hour of the Winner (original title: Chariots of Fire). The monthly animations used the piece Rêve from the Vangelis CD Opera Sauvage (1979).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Album - Pictures of a Year ; First broadcast dates.
  2. ↑ «Album - Pictures of a Year» much more popular than in previous years

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