The six Siebeng'scheiten

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Television series
Original title The six Siebeng'scheiten; before The 6 x smart ones
Country of production Germany
Year (s) 1957-1996
length 30 minutes
genre Quiz show
Moderation
German-language
first broadcast
1957 in the television program "Deutsches Fernsehen" (predecessor of " Das Erste ")

The six Siebeng'scheiten was a television series in the ARD , which was produced by Südwestfunk (SWF) and later by Südwestrundfunk (SWR). In the quiz show, students from two schools competed against each other. It emerged from the broadcast Die 6 × Klugen (1957) of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation . The format was discontinued in 1996. Until then, "around 400 episodes" had been broadcast.

General information about the broadcast

"The six Siebeng'scheiten" started on January 14, 1960 in the afternoon program and - broadcast later the evening before - became a long-running hit among German entertainment programs: the youth program, in which two schools play against each other according to level, was there until it was closed Brought to around 400 episodes in 1996. In the program, two schools competed against each other - three students from each school from different grades. The quiz questions focused not only on the subjects but also on the pupils' hobbies.

On the SWF's evening program

"The six Siebeng'scheiten" was produced for the regional early evening program of the SWF, but later also broadcast by other state broadcasters in their broadcasting areas. The show was one of many programs that Fritz Aeckerle, head of the advertising television department at SWF from 1957 and co-managing director of the newly founded SWF subsidiary "Werbung im Südwesten GmbH", included in the evening program.

The quiz show "The Six Siebeng'scheiten" was produced from 1960 by the SWF subsidiary "Werbung im Südwesten GmbH", which designed the evening program with short advertising blocks and, above all, entertaining and family-friendly television formats. In addition, entertainment series such as “Der Fenstergucker” (1960–1972), “ Daring Game ” (1964–1965) or “ Butler Parker ” (1972–1973) ran on this slot .

Well-known moderators

From 1958 to 1979, Jürgen Graf moderated 260 episodes . With this, Graf had set a European record in his time. Elmar Hörig moderated the series from 1983 to 1987 . In 1994 Markus Brock took over the moderation from Ingrid Peters .

Others

In October 2019, the SWR began to open its television archive to the general public under the label SWR Retro and thus also to make early episodes of the program "Die six Siebeng'scheiten" permanently available via the ARD media library .

Individual evidence

  1. www.mediaculture-online.de ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2014 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. (PDF; 403 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lmz-bw.de
  2. www.swr.de, p. 24
  3. ^ Chronicle of the ARD | New quiz for students from SWF. Retrieved December 7, 2018 .
  4. Heyen, F.-J./Kahlenberg, FP (Ed.): Südwestfunk. Four decades of broadcasting in the southwest. 1st edition. Droste Verlag GmbH, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-7700-0706-9 , p. 147-148 .
  5. www.tagesspiegel.de
  6. Radio reporter Jürgen Graf dies - www.tagesschau.de (tagesschau.de archive)
  7. www.mediaculture-online.de ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2014 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. (PDF; 403 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lmz-bw.de
  8. www.fernsehserien.de
  9. The six Siebeng'scheiten - videos of the show | ARD media library. Retrieved October 25, 2019 .