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The television court is the first court show as part of a television series on German television and between 1961 and 1978 dealt with the television-friendly staging of real cases based on court files.
General
According to § 169 GVG , the hearing before the court making the decision, including the announcement of the judgments and resolutions, is public. However, according to sentence 2 of this provision, “sound and television broadcast recordings as well as sound and film recordings for the purpose of public presentation or publication of their content are not permitted”. In the case of Egon Krenz before the Berlin Regional Court , the Federal Constitutional Court had once again confirmed that the judicial authority ( Section 176 GVG) is exercised by the presiding judge primarily during the court hearing in order to ensure an orderly procedure, i.e. also the observance of those relevant to the procedure legal regulations. If the chairman enforces the legal prohibition of sound and television broadcast recordings contained in § 169 sentence 2 GVG within the negotiation and thereby ensures compliance with judicial constitutional law, he does not encroach on the protection of the fundamental right of freedom of broadcasting . Image and sound recordings are only permitted before the start of the main hearing until the matter is called .
In contrast to the USA, for example, filming of ongoing court hearings was prohibited in Germany. In order not to withhold this part of everyday life from the television viewer, the trial had to be re-enacted for television purposes.
content
Real cases were simulated using court files in mock court hearings . The title Das Fernsehgericht meets already referred to the scenes re-enacted for television. The series began on March 26, 1961 and was last broadcast on October 19, 1978 by the First Program . The producing institution was the North German Broadcasting Corporation . As a judge of the District Court retired director acted Dr. August Detlev Sommerkamp , then from 1968 the district judge Volker Deutsch . Prosecutors and defense attorneys were portrayed by still practicing colleagues, accused and witnesses by actors. The cases - from fraud and theft to murder - were initially dealt with in three, later in two and in the end in one program. Negotiations are re-enacted in scenes in court. Since the outcome of the negotiation was open, everyone involved had to improvise without a dialogue book . During the breaks, reporter Giselher Schaar asked the audience in the hall about their opinion on the current case. The acting roles were only taken over by laypeople in 1970. Critics, however, attested the series a certain kind of emotional justice.
Role model function
The series became the professional model for the court shows that were later to fill the afternoon programs of several private broadcasters from September 27, 1999 and were also based on the US court show Judge Judy , which has been running since September 1996 . These court shows handled multiple cases in 45 minutes of net airtime, which suffered from thoroughness. With the pioneer, each negotiation initially lasted two days, the two 90-minute programs ran on consecutive days, mostly Tuesdays and Wednesdays, during prime time . After that there was a break for a few weeks. While the first series of courts on German television was strictly based on procedural law , today's court shows show a more or less undisciplined behavior that does not correspond to the reality of the process.
The End
The television series had 74 episodes , the last of which was broadcast on October 19, 1978 ("Abusing a Child").
Individual evidence
- ↑ BVerfG, judgment of January 24, 2001, Az .: 1 BvR 2623/95
- ↑ Nickname "Papa Gnädig", Der Spiegel 48/1963 of November 27, 1963, TSCHÜHÜSS , 115
- ↑ Alexander Elster / Rudolf Sieverts / Heinrich Lingeman / Hans Joachim Schneider: Kriminalpolitik - Narcotics abuse , 1977, p. 232 books.google