Amish mafia
Television series | |
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German title | Amish mafia |
Original title | Amish mafia |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Year (s) | since 2012 |
Production company |
Hot Snakes Media |
length | 60 minutes |
Episodes | 35 in 4 seasons |
genre | Reality TV |
production |
Eric Evangelista Shannon Evangelista |
First broadcast | December 11, 2012 (USA) on Discovery Channel |
German-language first broadcast |
April 13, 2014 on DMAX |
Amish Mafia is a US scripted reality - TV show , on since December 11, 2012 Discovery Channel is broadcast. Amish Mafia has been on DMAX since April 13, 2014 in German-speaking countries . According to snopes.com, the plot is fictitious.
action
The series allegedly accompanies the Amish "Lebanon" Levi King Stoltzfus and his gang, who ensure law and order in Lancaster County , Pennsylvania according to their ideas, but they do not shy away from the use of force.
criticism
The series has been heavily criticized by leading Amish scholars such as Donald Kraybill, who teaches at Elizabethtown College and Donald Weaver-Zercher, who is a professor at Messiah College. Kraybill calls Amish Mafia “a fabrication” (“invention” or “story of lies”) and says: “My own view is that this is trash TV. To call these shows documentaries is a fraudulent lie. " (In my opinion, television is junk. Calling such programs documentaries is a malicious deception.) Donald Weaver-Zercher sums up the criticism as follows: "There is no Amish mafia." Amish not only reject violence in any form in their rules, but also exclude anyone from the community who violates the rules.
Web links
- Amish Mafia in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/amishmafia.asp
- ↑ Discovery Channel's next reality series: “Amish Mafia” - News . LancasterOnline.com. January 5th, 2013. Archived from the original on March 28th, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 9, 2015.
- ↑ Experts Dispute Existence of “Amish Mafia” as Reality Show Debuts . Newsmax.com. December 11, 2012. Retrieved August 9, 2015.
- ↑ Blog.pennlive.com: 'There is no Amish mafia' says Amish expert