B celebrities

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B-Prominence is a term coined by the media, which describes people who are not undisputedly prominent or at best represent celebrities from the "second row". The individual people are called B celebrities or mostly B celebrities for short .

Conceptual background

The term can be seen as an analogy to the term “ B-Movie ”. As C-movies are low-budget productions. The term C-celebrity is therefore occasionally used for people who are once again less prominent . Ironically, in parts of the scene, D-celebrity or Z-celebrity is used to indicate that the person does not fall into any of the celebrity categories.

The division of celebrities into categories depends on the frame of reference. A mayor or regional singer can be an A celebrity locally, but a B or C celebrity nationally.

Categorization

A celebrities

A celebrities are permanent and almost universally known persons such as internationally known or nationally outstanding actors, singers and top athletes, whose status as celebrities is generally recognized and who are able to generate general media attention for an event or project through their participation in it .

B celebrities

B celebrities are people who are well known but not generally known. These include B. Supporting actors in well-known or leading actors in various lesser-known films and TV series, athletes from the second row and similar people. B celebrities have mostly earned their status professionally and are not the only products of media hype.

C celebrities

C-celebrities are people with relatively little or only short-lived, sometimes negatively noted, but by no means general awareness. Often they owe their fame only to media attention for appearances in individual show series or series (e.g. casting shows or soap operas ) and in many cases have no training whatsoever for the activity through which they became known. The (ex) life partners of A celebrities who are not known themselves also fall into this category. Your status as a celebrity is in doubt.

More terms

  • In Switzerland, people who are only locally or regionally known are known as Cervelat celebrities .
  • In Austria and Bavaria hot subordinated celebrities that appeal to the glitterati participate Adabei s (from " A while " high German " Here, too ").
  • In the Netherlands, people on the threshold of prominence are known as Bekende Nederlanders (Known Dutch, abbreviation BN'ers ). In Flanders there is also the name Bekende Vlaming (known Flame, BV ).

literature

  • Ulrich Ammon et al. German variant dictionary: The standard language in Austria, Switzerland and Germany as well as in Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, East Belgium and South Tyrol , Walter de Gruyter 2004, ISBN 3-11-016575-9 , therein p. 21 to "Adabei", p. 161 zu "Cervelat celebrities".
  • Rainer Ballin: Stars non-stop. Getting famous is not difficult , with comments from Rudi Carrell, JaJa-Verlag, Germany, 2001, ISBN 3-9808067-0-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A career at any price: Some C-celebrities earn good money and do nothing , Schwäbisches Tageblatt, January 31, 2014
  2. ↑ Jacob Hein: ironic attempt at definition, already quotes this Wikipedia article, for A, B, and so on celebrities at blogs.taz.de from February 19, 2013 (accessed May 11, 2014)
  3. ↑ Ammon et al. 2004, p. 21
  4. ↑ Ammon et al. 2004, p. 161
  5. ↑ a b Nederlands »Blog Archive» BN'ers en BV's. In: blogs.fu-berlin.de. Retrieved January 12, 2019 .
  6. ↑ limited preview in the Google book search