THE SNOBS - You can do without yourself
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| Original title | THE SNOBS - You can do without yourself |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| year | 2010 |
| Production company |
Ulmen Television GmbH |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Episodes | 6 in 1 season |
| genre | Sitcom , farce |
| Theme music | Georg Levin |
| idea | Janna Nandzik , Max Luz |
| production | Janna Nandzik (executive producer), Christian Ulmen |
| music | Daniel Freundlieb |
| camera | Markus Zucker, Ngo The Chau |
| First broadcast | November 11, 2010 on ZDFneo |
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THE SNOBS - You Can Also Without You is a German miniseries with Christian Ulmen . The setting for the six-part sitcom is a golf course (Golf Resort Semlin) in Brandenburg . The first broadcast took place in November 2010 on the German television station ZDFneo . From October 2012 the series was available on the internet at ulmen.tv. The Snobs was nominated for the 2011 Grimme Prize in the entertainment category. The script was written by writer and producer Janna Nandzik . Directed by Max Luz .
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THE SNOBS - You Can Even Without You is a piece of conversation between three dissimilar men that extends over eighteen holes of golf that they play together . The snobs Astor and von Zesen call their well-established exchange of hostilities friendship and have met for 7 years at the end of each month for a round of golf, where they catch up on the latest developments in their turbulent private lives. At their side is a freshly recruited Berlin grillwalker who has no clue about golf or social etiquette and now unexpectedly has to act as the caddy for the two of them. Far away from the office, bar and family, big problems are negotiated with irony and aloof and minor conflicts are hyped up with the impetus of Olympic competitions.
characters
main characters
- Astor
Astor is a self-made man. He is an autodidact who had to open all the doors himself and has come a long way. He wears khakis, polo shirts and thick watches. Professionally and privately, he likes to pose as a man of power and tries to play the role of “doer and checker”. Astor demonstrates his potency with English curses. He is married faithfully but dispassionately. He regularly forgets the names of his two daughters, identical twins. He usually just calls them "Hanni Nanni" or "the Twins". Twice a month he meets an illegitimate son in various hotel bars. Astor's real passion is golf. Sport has absolute priority for him, even if his actual playful skill does not come close to the perfection of his theoretical knowledge and shop-floor talk. He has already achieved quite a bit economically, but his family only interests him to a limited extent and the Champions Tour of the PGA Tour is far from within reach. For some time he has therefore been writing on his manifesto: "Golf to Evolve - from fearful rabbits to albatross". The ultimate "ascension primer", the publication of which he hopes for recognition and fame. The performer is Christian Ulmen .
- From Zesen
Von Zesen is an upper-class snob of the best education. Privileged from birth and extremely easily bored. He is intelligent and astute, and can have an in-depth conversation on almost any subject. He is constantly on the lookout for exclusive and exotic hedonism . His opinions and attitudes are often contradicting and self-righteous. Many of his behaviors show pronounced addictive behavior. As a man of the world, nothing is alien to Zesen, which is by no means emancipated. His style of clothing is impeccable and timelessly elegant. His relationships are complicated and opaque. He is sexually disoriented and neither men nor women come close to his idolized ideal "Maman", who lives with him in his hotel suite. Von Zesen has been playing golf since he was a child. He is neither talented nor particularly ambitious. The performer is Wilfried Hochholdinger .
- Sausage boy
The sausage boy is a classic underachiever in the quandary between actual wealth and excessive performance expectations. He is the only child in his family with a university entrance qualification, and the hopes of his relatives weigh heavily on him. He is the opposite of his brother, who went into business for himself with a Grillwalker GmbH. Overwhelmed by the agony of choosing a career, the sausage boy grinds from casual job to casual job and otherwise buries himself at home. The sausage boy is secretly waiting for a chance to exhaust his true potential. But instead of taking action, he usually rolls a joint first. The snobs treat the sausage boy like a tool, a dancing bear, which is used exclusively for their entertainment. The actor is Frederick Lau .
reception
Awards
In 2011 the TV series was nominated by the Adolf Grimme Institute at the Adolf Grimme Prize award ceremony in the entertainment category 2011 .
Reviews
The series was very well discussed in the German feature pages. In the opinion of the FAZ one should watch The Snobs - You can also watch without you for various reasons: “The wonderful actors, the literary and film-historical quotes, the loving bizarre nature of this project, especially because of the dialogues. While Ulmen's Astor snaps out unvarnished directness between classic managerial platitudes, von Zesen's language meanders somewhere between Thomas Mann and lifestyle column. The golf course is the biotope in which men's conversation and healthy competition unfold in a tamed bucolic environment. A green stage, which, depending on requirements, can be a sports field or an elf forest, Venice or Vietnam, peaceful nature or a scene of armed conflict. After the eighteenth hole nothing is as it was. ”( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Andrea Diener , No. 263, page 39, November 11, 2011). The star wrote “Ulmens new masterpiece”, “Absurd, surprising, nasty. A good piece of television that can be seen on ZDF Neo. "