Coldmirror
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| Kathrin Fricke at Gamescom 2012 in Cologne | |
| YouTube channel ( comedy ) | |
| language | German |
| founding | October 2, 2006 (main channel) January 29, 2010 (Let's Play channel) April 13, 2013 (Synchro channel) |
| channels |
coldmirror (main channel) coldmirrorgames (let's play channel) PlzDontSueColdmirror (synchro channel) |
| Subscribers | over 1,250,000 (main channel) over 150,000 (let's play channel) over 90,000 (synchro channel) |
| Calls | over 300,000,000 (main channel) over 22,000,000 (let's play channel) over 11,000,000 (synchro channel) |
| Videos | over 400 (main channel) over 180 (let's play channel) 7 (synchro channel) |
| network | Wireless |
Cold Mirror ( Engl. Cold mirror , cold mirror , cold mirror ') is the pseudonym of the German Webvideoproduzentin and presenter Kathrin Fricke (* 13. October 1984 in Bremen ). The pseudonym was inspired by the song Creatures That Kissed in Cold Mirrors by the dark metal band Cradle of Filth .
Fricke operates various YouTube channels, moderates radio and TV programs and publishes blog and vlog articles.
Life
According to his own statements, Fricke suffered from depression as a teenager . In an interview on the YouTube channel “clixoom” she said that among other things, the Harry Potter series and the desire to know how the series would continue gave her strength and saved her from suicide . However, she states that it was not just the exciting plot that she liked about the books, but rather “having something to look forward to.” Harry Potter is still one of the motifs of her artistic and comedic work to this day eventually got her first attention on the internet.
Fricke began early to record radio plays with a friend, which laid the foundation for her creative work. In 2000 she joined the team at MixX , a youth magazine in the open channel Bremer Umland (today Bürgerfunk Bremer Umland) as a volunteer editor . During this time she also set up her own web presence, where she published, for example, self-drawn pictures with fantasy motifs. Your fan fictions with the characters from the Harry Potter series soon took up a significant part of the website and first attracted attention on the Internet.
Fricke studied art history with a minor in philosophy at the University of Bremen .
Fricke has been a presenter in radio and television programs since 2010: She produced the program Der YOU FM Game Check with Coldmirror for the youth broadcaster of the Hessian radio station You FM , in which she tested computer games; by 2016 one of Fricke looking video clip show under the name was Coldmirror in ARD transmitter EinsFestival broadcast.
Prizes and awards
- On February 20, 2011, Fricke was awarded the Gray Young Talent Award in the competition for the first German Web Video Award. She was also nominated in the Personality category. The Gray Young Talent Award was endowed with an offer of 5,000 €, which Fricke ultimately did not accept because the fee seemed too high to her.
- On August 16, 2011, You FM and Kathrin Fricke were nominated for the German Radio Prize 2011 in the category Best Innovation .
- In 2012 Fricke was a member of the jury for the second web video award .
- In 2017 she received the Sondermann Prize .
Video art on the YouTube channel "Coldmirror"
The YouTube channel "Coldmirror" went online on October 2, 2006. The first videos consisted of archive material from Fricke's work at the editorial office of the Bremen community radio youth magazine MixX . After that, Fricke made most of the videos on his own.
From 2008 the channel rose to second place in the statistics of the most subscribed German-language channels. The first place was taken by the Justin Timberlakes channel , which was mistakenly registered in Germany. After correcting this bug, Coldmirror was officially the most subscribed German-speaking channel from February to October 2009. Until August 2016, your main channel was among the 100 most subscribed YouTube channels in Germany. Unlike most “big” YouTube channels, it doesn't monetize their videos.
Resynchronization of the Harry Potter film series
The channel first gained popularity through the re-synchronization of the Harry Potter films. From autumn 2006, Fricke dubbed the following films and uploaded them to YouTube: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (in Coldmirror: Harry Potter and a stone ), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ( Harry Potter and the secret porn cellar ) and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ( Harry Potter and the Plastic Cup [ sic ]). These appeared at irregular intervals in parts of almost ten minutes each, with ten parts of their synchronization usually covering a film. So far, the films have not necessarily been completely re-dubbed, individual scenes have been left out, re-edited or replaced by integrated images or video sequences.
Fricke's synchronization style allows the protagonists of the films to address taboo topics and allusions from pop and internet culture . She uses vulgar and fecal language , completely reinterprets many scenes in the films and distorts their original meaning. For example, a scene from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets , in which Severus Snape annoyed the protagonists Harry and Ron, reads a newspaper article about a turmoil they caused in the non-magical world and then reprimands them, was reinterpreted in such a way that Snape had an argument complains about a difficult crossword puzzle and asks the two students for a colloquial, six-letter word for the male reproductive organ . The characters also partially break through the fourth wall and recognize other characters as extras or make ironic allusions to the original plot. The individual synchronization parts are consistent throughout. The characters have the same characteristics in all episodes. However, the characters differ considerably from their behavior in the original film; in particular, Fricke attributes special sexual preferences such as homosexuality , pedophilia , zoophilia or the like to almost every character . In contrast to the original, a considerable number of insults are also exchanged.
Fricke speaks most of the characters himself, using a different vocal range and technique for each character, similar to the audio books spoken by Rufus Beck . In individual cases, acquaintances of hers are also involved: Since a joint battle rap song between the character Fresh Dumbledore and MC Voldemort , YouTube user Sk3pn4 (formerly “aequitaS”) has spoken Voldemort's voice in the synchronization. She also played the role of Viktor Krum.
In November 2008, YouTube's user account was temporarily deactivated because the rights holder of the Harry Potter films, Warner Bros. , saw possible copyright infringements in the parodies. According to YouTube Germany, however, the deactivation was a system error, because it should only have resulted in a warning for infringement of copyrights. After reactivating her channel, Fricke had to delete all resynchronizations due to the threat of a permanent ban, as these contained foreign video material. However, the synchronizations via links on the Coldmirror channel are still available because other users have re-uploaded the material.
Canal concept
Fricke follows a very relaxed concept in her videos for the coldmirror channel . Regular formats, as can be found with other YouTubers, are often interrupted by long breaks, sometimes canceled, redesigned and alternated with individual videos on other topics.
The channel primarily contains skits with Fricke alone or with friends in her apartment on various topics. Harry Potter has now become a rarer motif. So the formats Patzer , in which incorrect or funny newspaper clippings were satirically commented on the films and books, and the 5-minute Harry Podcast , in which the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is analyzed in great detail, were produced and their fictional character of the Fresh D , which is based on the Harry Potter character Albus Dumbledore, has been maintained for a long time by her, but nowadays the channel is shaped by varied themes.
There are also numerous animation videos created by Fricke himself on the channel, including her well-known Japanese sluts format , which parodies anime . Since October 2016, Coldmirror has been producing the weekly animation series StarStarSpace for funk on its channel , which contains and parodies elements from science fiction works. Other animation videos that she publishes on Coldmirror were originally produced for public television for educational purposes, including primarily political issues.
Other formats, which were created for television in their function, are partly uploaded to the coldmirror channel.
In addition to the main coldmirror channel , videos are uploaded to PlzDontSueColdmirror . These videos often contain material from protected films and series that is satirically modified by Fricke. So here you can find further synchronizations following the style of their famous Harry Potter synchronization. The canal was created as a result of the incorrect and now lifted closure of their main canal.
Your + coldmirrorgames + channel is now idle. It contains video reviews and game scenes for video games that have been produced for You FM, among others.
Television broadcast
| Television broadcast | |
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| Original title | coldmirror |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 2010-2016 |
| length | about 12 minutes |
| Episodes | 48 in 5 seasons |
| genre | Personality show, comedy |
| Moderation | Kathrin Fricke |
| First broadcast | October 7, 2010 at Einsfestival |
Beginning on October 7, 2010, the TV station Einsfestival broadcast a program with Kathrin Fricke under the title coldmirror . The 15-minute show was shown monthly on the first Thursday at 8:45 p.m. in the evening program. The last regular episode was released on November 5, 2015, a special episode in the form of an animated film followed on March 3, 2016.
In terms of content, the program was based on Fricke's productions on the Internet. It consisted of individual segments such as video game reviews or advertising parodies, some of which had already been seen on the Internet before and were only technically improved for television. In addition, synchronizations were shown that were created with ARD material: usually appearances by politicians were shown, which Fricke underlined with his own text. A separate category of the television format was the Netmob Challenge in the first seasons , in which viewers were given a task (e.g. to eat an untoasted toast in less than a minute or to turn in a circle for thirty seconds and then approach the camera). The tasks performed by the viewers and recorded on video were shown in the following broadcast.
Initially the most successful category of the show were the so-called Misheard Lyrics (English for ' interrogated lyrics'), a copy or continuation of the long-standing Youtube trend, in which a similar sounding but incorrect lyrics are shown during a song and the whole thing titled as Misheard Lyrics. One of the most famous original videos is Nightwish - Wishmaster . A video in the category, which parodies the song Git Hadi Git by the Turkish singer İsmail YK as a biscuit, old biscuit , was initially uploaded to YouTube by a fan and was seen by almost 350,000 viewers on the day of the upload. This put the video on the YouTube trends list and was copied and uploaded to their own channel by several users. Fricke himself only uploaded Misheard Lyrics "Ismail YK" to her YouTube channel on February 3, 2011, when the video had already gained popularity in the YouTube community. It was also shown on the Bülent Ceylan Show on RTL on February 19, 2011 and evoked a strong media response with contributions and the like. a. in the online edition of the taz and on Sat.1 . After the positive media response, Fricke was commissioned to produce more Misheard-Lyrics videos for the 2011 Women's Soccer World Cup , which were shown in the sports show, among other things .
In addition to the 48 regular episodes, Fricke produced four best-of episodes, one worst-of episode and three fifteen-minute animated films on the Japanese slut series.
Segments of the broadcast
- StarStarSpace (since 2016)
- Misheard Lyrics
- Game Check (discontinued)
- Commercial
- Netmob (discontinued)
- Synchro (since 1x02)
- Friends (from 1x07) (discontinued)
- Japanese sluts (since 2x01)
- What the FAQ ?! (from 2x01) (discontinued)
- Kaddi's Cut (since 2x03)
- Let's Play (since 3x01)
- Fresh D (since 3x01)
- Wild Card (since 3x01)
- Art history analysis (since 3x01)
- Art tips with Hauke (since 3x03)
- Kaddi's star hour (since 3x03)
- Living Things (since 3x03)
Discography
Under the pseudonym Fresh D , a new interpretation of Hogwarts -Schulleiters Albus Dumbledore as hip gangsta rapper , emerged some rap songs that the established German hip-hop genre of frequently excessive profanity parody.
Albums
- 2005: Stay Fresh, Stay Dumb!
- 2006: Underground
- 2007: Dumbledore's Army
- 2007: grandmother fucker
- 2007: audio rape
- 2008: mail for me
- 2008: Tubal Uriah Butler
- 2011: Dumblecore
Singles and video clips
- 2006: Back from The Underground
- 2006: Geddo in the zoo
- 2007: if you think
- 2007: Fresh D. vs. MCV
- 2008: Fresh D vs. MC V in the TS
- 2008: Xtreme Dumbledore
- 2009: Tromaggot
- 2009: In the nursing home
- 2009: Ho Ho Ho ...
- 2012: Workstatt
- 2013: music video
- 2013: The old ones
- 2013: FreshDs fedder beat
- 2014: Sit'n'Dance
- 2014: Grandmotherfucker (Naughty reinterpretation)
- 2016: Fresh from the Rhymebook
Web links
- Kathrin Fricke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Coldmirror's channel on YouTube
- Coldmirror page on the radio channel You FM of the Hessischer Rundfunk
- wiki.coldmirror.net - Wiki with articles about Coldmirror
Individual evidence
- ↑ Own presentation "what the FAQ ?!" , YouTube upload September 30, 2009, accessed on August 5, 2011
- ↑ Coldmirror in an interview with Christoph Krachten from clixoom ; Retrieved August 22, 2011
- ↑ Website of the former MixX editorial team ( Memento from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Clixoom interview , YouTube upload May 21, 2010; Short biography ( memento from November 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at Einsfestival ; Film project “Escape” , YouTube upload March 19, 2010; all accessed August 5, 2011
- ↑ Johannes: 1st German Web Video Award: Coldmirror Winner of the GRAY Young Talent Award! In: GRAY. February 21, 2011, accessed February 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Nominees in the personality category ( Memento from December 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Almost Daily # 113: In a talk with Coldmirror (minute 0:30 to 1:51); YouTube upload September 27, 2014; Retrieved October 5, 2014
- ↑ YOU FM is nominated for the German Radio Prize 2011 ; Retrieved October 12, 2012
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ YouTube - Most Subscribed - Germany ( Memento from February 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) from February 2009 in the Internet Archive
- ↑ Top 100 German YouTubers according to subscribers , accessed on August 28, 2016
- ↑ Coldmirror: I don't want to become a YouTube partner! - User question. In: YouTube. May 6, 2010, accessed November 13, 2013 .
- ^ The Rambo adventures of Kasperli on Youtube. In: Tages-Anzeiger. December 12, 2007, archived from the original on July 14, 2012 ; Retrieved November 15, 2012 .
- ↑ YouTube: Fresh D vs. MCV ; Retrieved October 9, 2010
- ↑ Warner has the account of Germany's most famous Youtuber Coldmirror deleted. In: gulli.com , November 27, 2008; Retrieved September 26, 2010.
- ↑ YouTube - Frickes' statement on reactivating her coldmirror channel ; Retrieved October 4, 2010.
- ↑ coldmirror: 5 minutes Harry Podcast # 1. December 5, 2015, accessed January 6, 2017 .
- ↑ YouTube : Videos of the format Japanese sluts accessed on January 7, 2016
- ↑ ARD and ZDF start funk. (No longer available online.) In: funk. Archived from the original on October 9, 2016 ; Retrieved July 9, 2017 .
- ↑ YouTube : Second channel PlzDontSueColdmirror Kathrin Frickes accessed on January 7, 2016
- ↑ YouTube : Third channel + coldmirrorgames + Kathrin Frickes accessed on January 7, 2016
- ^ Coldmirror page at Einsfestival ( Memento from November 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 6, 2011.
- ↑ Stick figure on wrong lyrics - Is the one with the ear sand? taz.de on January 28, 2011
- ↑ Tweet from Coldmirror. Retrieved December 22, 2011 .
- ↑ Clip from the net: A blogger from Bremen translates Turkish pop from January 31, 2011 on hna.de.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Coldmirror |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fricke, Kathrin (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German video and network artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | near Bremen |