The little television game

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The logo of the little television game

Das kleine Fernsehspiel is an editorial department and a series on ZDF that (co-) produces and shows television plays by young film and television directors from the fictional or documentary field as well as experimental films and essays. It is currently broadcast on 40 broadcast dates a year on Mondays at midnight.

Around 2005, the song Inner Smile by the band Texas served as the title music of the series .

history

The first broadcast of the little television game took place three days after the ZDF started broadcasting on April 4, 1963 with the play Die Unzufriedenen by Prosper Mérimée , edited by Eckart Stein. In the following years, films were made here under the direction of Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Alexander Kluge , Jim Jarmusch , Patrick Ledoux , Elfi Mikesch and Agnès Varda .

The junior editorial team at ZDF: Mission and areas of activity

The tasks of the small television game include in particular the promotion of young film and television makers; Authors, directors, actors and producers get the chance to realize their first film projects here. A fixed broadcast date is offered on Mondays around midnight as a broadcasting slot for innovation and youth work. In addition, Das kleine Fernsehspiel also plays the second prime time from 10.30 p.m. with its series Shooting Stars - Young Cinema in the Second . Every year, 26 new productions are made, including television and cinema films, documentaries, essays, experimental and mixed forms, both as pure television commissioned productions and as cinema co-productions. In the television laboratory Quantum, pilot programs for new television formats are produced, including Ijon Tichy: Raumpilot and Lerchenberg .

Awards

In 1978 the editors received a special honor from the Adolf Grimme Prize .

In 2008 the editorial team was awarded the “Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Culture Prize” from the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival , which goes to companies, institutions and individuals who have continuously rendered services to film culture in Germany over the years. In 2012, the editorial team received an honorary award at the First Steps young talent award.

Examples

literature

  • John Sandford (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture. , Routledge Chapman & Hall 2001
  • Andreas Schreitmüller , Eckart Stein (ed.): Free games. The little television game - freedom in the program. TR Publishing Union, Munich 1986
  • Second German television, information and press department (ed.): Das kleine Fernsehspiel. Balance sheet - analysis - perspectives. ZDF series, issue 13, material on the program, Mainz 1974

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Deutsches Filmhaus . Retrieved July 21, 2011.
  2. Das kleine Fernsehspiel, ZDF . Retrieved June 21, 2009.
  3. ^ "The Braun family" meets in the Babylon cinema , Berliner Morgenpost, January 29, 2016