Germany, your artists

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Television broadcast
Original title Germany, your artists
Country of production Germany
Year (s) since 2008
length 45 minutes
Episodes 40
Broadcasting
cycle		 Wednesdays and Thursdays
genre documentation
First broadcast July 2, 2008 on Das Erste

Germany, your artists is a documentary series from Das Erste . It portrays German artists from the fields of music , literature , theater , film and the visual arts . The first episode about Armin Mueller-Stahl was broadcast on July 2, 2008. So far, nine seasons have been produced.

background

Germany, your artists is a joint project of the culture departments of all ARD broadcasters. The idea for the series came from Südwestrundfunk . Bernhard Nellessen , TV director of SWR, explained that the series wanted to present the biography of the artists as well as the process of the creation of art projects. When selecting the artists portrayed, people were considered who are characterized by “ their artistic quality, their unmistakable nature and the richness of facets of their creative work as well as their special artistic résumé ”. The ARD editor-in-chief Thomas Baumann said that the documentaries are not only aimed at art connoisseurs, but also for people who are less concerned with art, should bring art and culture closer.

Overview

Season episode Artist Film by First broadcast
1 1 Armin Mueller-Stahl Inga Wolfram July 2, 2008
2 Herbert Grönemeyer Ulrich Stein July 3, 2008
3 Cornelia Funke Andreas Ammer July 9, 2008
4th Thomas Quasthoff Reinhold Jaretzky July 10, 2008
5 Reinhard Mey Dagmar Wittmers July 16, 2008
6th Jonathan Meese Julia Benkert July 17, 2008
2 7th Loriot Claudia Müller July 1, 2009
8th Anne-Sophie mother Angelika Kellhammer July 2, 2009
9 Iris Berben Andreas Lueg July 8, 2009
10 Christoph Schlingensief Sibylle Dahrendorf July 9, 2009
11 Kurt Masur Reinhold Jaretzky July 15, 2009
12 Campino Cordula Kablitz-Post July 16, 2009
3 13 Peter Maffay Vanessa Nöcker July 14, 2010
14th Doris Dörrie Alice Agneskirchner July 14, 2010
15th Ulrich Tukur Stefanie Appel July 21, 2010
16 Katharina Thalbach Lutz Pehnert July 21, 2010
17th Helge Schneider Sabine Carbon July 28, 2010
4th 18th Senta Berger Michael Wulffes July 27, 2011
19th Günter Grass Dagmar Wittmers August 3, 2011
20th David Garrett Silvia Palmigiano 17th August 2011
21st Jan Josef Liefers Kathrin Pitterling August 24, 2011
5 22nd Hannelore Elsner Inga Wolfram July 18, 2012
23 Matthias Brandt Inga Wolfram July 25, 2012
24 Till Brönner Michael Wulfes August 1, 2012
25th Christian Thielemann Mathias Siebert August 15, 2012
26th Markus Lüpertz Cordula Kablitz-Post 22nd August 2012
6th 27 Herta Müller Angelika Kellhammer October 6, 2013
28 Klaus Maria Brandauer Johanna Schickentanz October 13, 2013
29 Xavier Naidoo Harold Woetzel 20th October 2013
30th Wolfgang Joop Cordula Kablitz-Post 3rd November 2013
7th 31 Karl Lagerfeld Gero from Boehm 2nd November 2014
32 Axel Milberg Tom Ockers November 9, 2014
33 Nina Hagen Cordula Kablitz-Post November 16, 2014
34 The Earl Lothar Schröder November 30, 2014
8th 35 Dieter Hallervorden Hilka Sinning October 25, 2015
36 Moritz Bleibtreu Ulrike Bremer November 8, 2015
37 Annette Dasch Mathias Siebert 15th November 2015
38 Peter Lindbergh Gero from Boehm November 29, 2015
9 39 Herbert Grönemeyer Ulrich Stein April 10, 2016
40 Klaus Doldinger Anje Harries May 8, 2016

Audience numbers

The first season of the series was seen by an average of 1.08 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 8.4%. The portrait of Herbert Grönemeyer achieved the best rate in the series with 1.67 million viewers and a 11.4% market share. In the second season the issue of Christoph Schlingensief was seen by 750,000 viewers. The market share was a below average 4.8%. A market share of 2.3% was measured in the advertising-relevant target group .

The third season in 2010 got off to a weak start. 2.00 million viewers followed the portrait of Peter Maffay . This corresponds to a market share of 8.4%. The target group measured 0.49 million viewers and a 4.9% market share. The episode about Doris Dörrie that was subsequently broadcast was seen by 0.72 million, resulting in a market share of below average 5.5%. Among the 14 to 49 year olds, 0.19 million viewers (3.1%) watched.

criticism

In a report by Stern magazine , the episode about the life of the author Cornelia Funke was praised as a “ very intimate portrait ”. The editor David Denk noted that the viewer benefited from the " relationship of trust " between the author and the director of the film, Andreas Ammer. In this way, the viewer can learn more about Funke than is normally the case in television documentaries .

Armin Mueller-Stahl stated in an interview that he originally didn't want to shoot the portrait because there was already a good one about himself that Gero von Boehm had shot. Mueller-Stahl found criticism above all of the broadcast slot set by the ARD: “ Whether a broadcast date at eleven thirty in the night is an appreciation? I don't think that's nice. If you can do that with you, it should also be given an appropriate place. "

Die Welt published an article in which it was praised that "in the best moments of all portraits [...] one can feel the passion that drives every development of the numerous talents ". This becomes clear in the portraits of Herbert Grönemeyer and Jonathan Meese . Meese allows great closeness, so that the viewer gets an impression of the " borderline between silliness, grotesque and immense creative power ".

For the third season of the series, Wilfried Geldner wrote for the Weser Kurier that when selecting artists, the focus was on popularity and the “art scene” (“ painter, sculptor, conceptual artist ”) was left out. However, once the viewer has “ freed themselves from the overly cheeky title ”, they can enjoy the portraits.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DasErste.de: Background  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.daserste.de  
  2. ↑ quotemeter.de: ARD: Uniform place for artist portraits
  3. ↑ quotemeter.de : Bio & Co .: A messed up evening for Das Erste
  4. ↑ quotemeter.de: Nobody wants to see Germany's artists
  5. ↑ Stern: "Playing Mice" at the Inkheart Spark
  6. ↑ FAZ: In any case, I don't live for television
  7. ↑ Welt.de: ARD discovers Germany's artists
  8. ^ Weser-Kurier: The portrait series "Germany, your artists" in the first