The race to the South Pole

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Television broadcast
Original title The race to the South Pole
Country of production Germany , Austria
Year (s) 2010-2011
Production
company		 Interspot , loop film
length 60 to 120 minutes
genre Documentary soap
German-language
first broadcast		 February 24, 2011 on ORF eins

The Race to the South Pole is a joint television production by ZDF and ORF , which was produced between December 8th and December 30th, 2010 based on the historic race between Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott .

background

The implementation was organized by the British outdoor company Extreme World Races , which has already carried out similar tours for a BBC film production and for private customers. The selection process of the Austrian team was carried out with the support of the Federal Army .

procedure

An Austrian and a German team, each consisting of two celebrities and two participants selected from 9000 applicants in a selection process by the broadcasters, competed against each other in the Antarctic . The aim was to be the fastest team on a 400-kilometer route to the South Pole . The teams were accompanied by cameras during the race, and the result was then broadcast in two television series on ORF eins and ZDF in the style of a docu-soap . The starting point was the Russian station Novolasarewskaja ("Novo"), 2140 km from the South Pole , where the groups acclimatized by walking to the Antarctic highlands of Queen Maud Land and were then flown to the starting point, where the race began on December 20, 2010 .

The celebrities of the German team were the moderator Markus Lanz and the musician Joey Kelly , in the selection process the marathon runner Claudia Beitsch and captain Dennis Lehnert were chosen as team members. The Austrian team consisted of the former ski racer Hermann Maier and the radio presenter Tom Walek as well as the team members Gebirgsjäger -Wachtmeister Sabrina Grillitsch and Alexander Serdjukov, a dog sled athlete.

Although the participant Alexander Serdyukov had to end the race early due to frostbite, the Austrian team reached the South Pole 45 hours before the German team on December 28, 2010.

The ORF documentation was broadcast on ORF eins from February 24 to March 22, 2011. ZDF showed its six-part documentary from March 6 to 22, 2011.

reception

Audience ratings

While the first episode on ORF achieved a market share of 25% with 703,000 viewers in Austria, the first episode of the ZDF series was seen by only 8% of the total audience. The final on ORF Eins was followed by 889,000 viewers and thus 30% of the total Austrian audience. The ZDF program broadcast at the same time achieved a share of 8.4% with 2.79 million viewers.

Awards

  • Nomination for the German Television Award 2011 in the category Best Entertainment Documentary
  • Nomination for the international Emmy 2012 in the Documentary category

See also

literature

  • Guido Knopp: The Race to the South Pole: The Greatest Adventure in History. C. Bertelsmann Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3570100783
  • Tom Walek: Race to the South Pole: With Hermann Maier and the Austria team in the ice desert of the Antarctic. Pichler Verlag, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3854315544 - not published

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://karpfenteich.blogactiv.eu/2010/08/05/wwwwettlauf-zum-suedpolde/
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bild.de
  3. ^ Fulfillment of a childhood dream: Expeditions to the South and North Pole 2007, Dustri Verlag, December 2007, ISBN 978-3899674316
  4. ^ Advertising film by the Austrian Armed Forces about the selection process
  5. ↑ More than 9,000 want to go into the eternal ice. In: derStandard.at. August 16, 2010, accessed December 12, 2017 .
  6. ↑ http://www.oe24.at/kultur/Wir-iegen-mit-Hermann-Maier-zum-Suedpol/1681465
  7. ^ "Race to the South Pole": Failure due to frostbite. In: DiePresse.com. December 27, 2010, accessed February 21, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Kurier.at: Austria wins "Race to the South Pole" ( Memento from September 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ http://portal.tt.com/csp/cms/sites/tt/%C3%9Cberblick/Freizeit%C3%BCberblick/TV/2286929-6/ervielreicher-quoten-auftakt-f%C3%BCr-wettlauf- zum-s% C3% BCdpol.csp
  10. ↑ http://unterhaltung.t-online.de/miese-quoten-fuer-markus-lanz-suedpol-expedition/id_44873342/index
  11. ↑ ORF 1: runaway to "race". In: derStandard.at. March 23, 2011, accessed December 12, 2017 .
  12. ↑ http://www.tt.com/csp/cms/sites/tt/Nachrichten/NachrichtenTicker/2450027-53/orf-wettlauf-zum-s%C3%BCdpol-889.000-sahen-das-finale.csp
  13. ↑ http://www.quotenmeter.de/cms/?p1=n&p2=48528&p3=
  14. ↑ http://www.dwdl.de/mipcom2012/37861/zwei_deutsche_nominierungen_fuer_international_emmys/