The word for Sunday

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Television broadcast
Original title The word for Sunday
Country of production GermanyGermany Germany
original language German
Year (s) since 1954
length 4 minutes
First broadcast May 8, 1954 on NWDR television

The word for Sunday is the title of a Christian series on ARD and German television.

history

Das Wort zum Sonntag is one of the oldest TV series on ARD and, after the Tagesschau, the second oldest broadcast on German television.

The initially ten-minute and now four-minute show is broadcast every Saturday evening, mostly after the show Tagesthemen and before the late- night film. In 1957 it was broadcast on Sunday evening and was therefore renamed Between Yesterday and Tomorrow . From the first broadcast on May 8, 1954 to December 25, 2004 alone, 281 pastors, priests and theologians, but also “ lay people ”, commented on Christian and theological issues, often with reference to current issues. By the 60th anniversary year 2014, over 2,400 episodes with around 300 speakers had been broadcast. Initially, people spoke freely, so that there was the possibility of reacting to events or the previous broadcast at very short notice. The broadcasts have been recorded since 1968; often not in the television studio, but also outdoors in a location appropriate to the topic.

speaker

At the beginning of 1999 the number of speakers was reduced from 16 to eight people, who appear in front of the camera on a weekly basis. At the moment they are Gereon Alter (Catholic), Wolfgang Beck (Catholic), Annette Behnken (Protestant), Lissy Eichert (Catholic), Christian Rommert (Protestant), Stefanie Schardien (Protestant), Ilka Sobottke ( ev.) and Benedikt Welter (cath.). A previous speaker was Heribert Gauly (Catholic).

particularities

On May 1, 1954, a technical defect, a broken cable, prevented the Catholic prelate Klaus Mund from Aachen from doing the first broadcast. Therefore, on May 8, 1954, the Protestant pastor Walter Dittmann from Hamburg spoke the first word on Sunday with the title "Seeing and Hearing". Committed Protestants took this cable break as an opportunity to accuse TV-critical Catholics of this defect as an attempt at sabotage.

In 1957, Erika Schwarze was the first woman to speak on Sunday.

The show became a political issue for the first time in the late 1970s. In 1977 the Protestant pastor Jörg Zink put his manuscript aside for the broadcast and spoke freely about the hijacking of the “Landshut” plane . During Oktoberfest attack in 1980, at the Madrid cable stops or at Domodedovo International Airport bombing did his colleagues alike. In November 1979 it was also zinc that complained about the destruction of the environment and thus allegedly enabled the Green Party to enter the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg . From 1983 the program became fresher and more humane thanks to Isa Vermehren 's regular sermons. Another step was the first live broadcast in 2000 from the Reeperbahn , where the official celebration of the Eurovision Song Contest took place.

On April 25, 1987 spoke with John Paul II. A first Pope , the word on Sunday. This generated a record audience and was considered a political symbol at the time. Pope Benedict XVI. turned to German television viewers on September 17, 2011 before his trip to Germany with the word for Sunday .

On May 6, 2004, the 50th anniversary of the series was celebrated in a ceremony in Hamburg. The anniversary edition on May 8, 2004 was designed by Stephan Wahl (Catholic).

The COVID-19 pandemic was the occasion for the first ecumenical edition in 2020 .

reception

The presenter Jörg Thadeusz called the program “four minutes of religious teaching from the front” as part of a festive event in Hamburg in January 2014. The former EKD council chairman Nikolaus Schneider sees the program as a "low-threshold point of contact with the gospel".

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Word for Sunday: The sermon according to the topics of the day , accessed on January 21, 2014
  2. ↑ 60 years "Word for Sunday" , ekhn.de, message from May 7, 2014.
  3. ↑ 60 years of “Wort zum Sonntag” ( memento from December 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), ndr.de, message from January 17, 2014.
  4. ↑ List of speakers on the program's website , accessed on September 17, 2019.
  5. ↑ gutenberg-biographics.ub.uni-mainz.de Accessed on May 28, 2020.
  6. ↑ The first “Word for Sunday”: seeing and hearing. daserste.de, accessed on March 24, 2014
  7. ↑ a b c d Jan Friday: We are television . Retrieved February 9, 2013
  8. ↑ Due date - May 8, 1954: "Das Wort zum Sonntag" is broadcast for the first time. May 8, 2019, accessed February 21, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Text at www.vatican.va
  10. ↑ The Pope speaks for Sunday
  11. ^ Text of the report on Vatican Radio . Website radiovaticana.org. Retrieved September 18, 2011.
  12. ^ "Four minutes of religious teaching from the front". Evangelical news portal Idea, January 20, 2014, accessed on January 21, 2014