Domian

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Television broadcast
Original title Domian
Country of production Germany
original language German
Year (s) 1995-2016
length 60 minutes
Episodes over 3,600
genre Talk radio
production WDR television
Moderation Jürgen Domian
First broadcast April 3, 1995 on WDR television and 1 Live
Jürgen Domian (2008)

Domian was a telephone talk radio broadcast by the radio station 1 Live , which was also broadcast at the same time on WDR television and was broadcast from April 3, 1995 to December 17, 2016. It was moderated by Jürgen Domian .

background

The radio station WDR 1 beamed 1991-1995 weekdays 15-16 clock a tailored youth program called Reef - the breakwater from. On a given topic, initially prepared journalistically by means of reports and expert talks, increasingly calling listeners were included in the course of each program. The exception: From 1993 onwards, journalistic preparation was waived on Fridays, and moderator Jürgen Domian gave the audience the floor from the first minute - without specifying a specific topic. The concept was then as it is now: the callers can talk about anything. This format, called The Hot Number, quickly developed into one of the most popular WDR radio broadcasts.

As part of the conversion from WDR 1 to 1 Live in the spring of 1995, the then artistic director Fritz Pleitgen suggested a new live broadcast with telephone calls from Jürgen Domian. Since the first broadcast on April 2, 1995, Domian was broadcast parallel to the radio broadcast on WDR television, so that callers and viewers could not only perceive the moderator acoustically, but also visually. The concept was influenced by a stay in the USA in the same year that Domian got to know the talk radio, which was successful there, with its bimedial aspects. On the other hand, he named the live broadcast Hello OB van by radio journalist Carmen Thomas as a specific model .

On March 9, 2015, the WDR announced that the program would be discontinued at the end of 2016 at the request of the presenter. The hiring happened due to the moderator's health problems. The WDR will give Jürgen Domian and his show a worthy farewell, said 1-Live program director Jochen Rausch . The last show was broadcast on the night of December 16-17, 2016 and had 380,000 viewers.

Since November 8, 2019, the WDR has been broadcasting the follow-up program entitled Domian live, usually on the last Friday of the month .

profile

Jürgen Domian describes his goal for the respective conversation as "as quickly as possible, without pressuring the caller, his concern to inquire about the most important key data of his story. I can continue to work on this basis: for example, express my opinion, formulate advice or work out a solution together with the caller. [At the end of the interview] no decisive question should remain unanswered ”. He learned the basics of his questioning technique as part of his training at WDR from Hanko Bommert , Professor of Psychology at the University of Münster.

The moderator tries to appear as a private person in the most friendly and authentic atmosphere possible, i. H. also to express personal opinions, to reveal a lot about oneself. Since the callers very often seek advice on their problems, this program can be classified as advisory journalism - with the restriction that some callers are more interested in an opinion platform than advice or simply to present something entertaining.

The show's mascot was a 679 gram white porcelain deer that stood in the background during the show. The deer was given to Domian by a long-time employee, and in 2016 it was auctioned on Ebay for 43,000 euros. The proceeds were earmarked for the palliative care ward of the Cologne University Clinic to help finance a facility in which palliative medicine and hospice are to be merged for the first time in Germany. The buyer, a Swiss doctor, announced in the penultimate broadcast that he would be giving the figure to Domian. After a lengthy telephone conversation with Domian, the buyer rounded the amount up to € 50,000. Domian then bequeathed the deer to the palliative care unit.

Well-known conversations

Some of the conversations were known as special bizarre peculiarities with cult status or sensational and moving conversations and repeatedly reported in the media.

Most notoriety was probably the alleged sexual preference of a 26-year-old caller in 1996, who said on the program that he would regularly model himself a woman from 60 kilograms of minced meat and thus satisfy himself sexually. The conversation was presented in the penultimate broadcast in December 2016 as an homage by a storyteller. The call was made by the metal band Cancer Barrack as an allusion to their song Sex with 60 kg of minced meat .

organization

The program was broadcast until March 23, 2012 from Studio B of the radio station 1 Live in Cologne's Mediapark . After the entire station moved to downtown Cologne (Mörsergasse) in April 2012, Domian was produced in a new studio that was equipped with a new backdrop and modern technical equipment (LED lighting, HD cameras, TriCaster control system). From the first broadcast from there on April 17, 2012, two different cameras and settings were used.

Since the night of April 21, 2009, the program has been broadcast in 16: 9 format ; since the night of May 1st, 2012 in native HD.

Broadcast times were from 1:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Until the end of 2008 on Tuesdays and Thursdays, since the beginning of 2009 only on Wednesdays, the editorial team set a topic. Items on such a themed night ranged from social taboos to social phenomena and even human abysses. On the other days, the callers were allowed to suggest any topic.

One hour before the start of each program, viewers and listeners had the opportunity to contact the Domian editorial team by phone, fax or email in order to be included in the program with their topic. Up to 200 were able to present their concerns in the preliminary interview, and six to ten made it onto the show. The ratings fluctuated between 40,000 and 60,000 viewers and listeners. According to his own statements, Domian had around 18,000 conversations in the first thirteen years. According to Sabine Heinrich , Domian had over 25,000 conversations by the end of 2016 .

Three researchers took the calls and decided during a preliminary talk about putting the caller through to the director. Aside from the proposed topic, there were formal selection criteria: the acoustic quality of the connection had to be acceptable and the caller had to sound sufficiently “fit”, i.e. not sound impaired by intoxicants, tiredness or illness. The researchers connected people in noticeably more severe crises directly with scientifically trained psychologists who belonged to the approximately 25-strong Domian editorial team.

The last hurdle was the so-called realizer . He called those pre-selected by the researchers, held an in-depth discussion and then decided whether the individual caller should be included in the program.

Editorial responsibility was borne by a 1-Live editor who had always taken on this task for years. Unlike the rest of the team, who worked on a weekly basis, the editor was constantly on the show.

The program began with a half-minute musical opening credits that showed Jürgen Domian driving a taxi on television and whose music was adapted to the current 1Live jingles in both media . Then the moderator called up the callers selected by the realizer and spoke to them. These conversations were broadcast. So that the moderator could act as authentically and spontaneously as possible , he only knew the first name and age of the caller before the conversation began.

research

Due to the special nature of this broadcasting concept, Domian has been the subject of research efforts several times, especially in the context of diploma and master's theses (e.g. Schweers 1995 and Krause 2006).

Audience research

The only representative survey of the broadcast's audience so far was carried out by Radiotrend , a project by the WDR Corporate Planning and Media Research department, in September 1996. 1000 people aged 14 and over living in North Rhine-Westphalia were interviewed by telephone . This study was designed to be representative; the results are presented below.

A fifth of those surveyed had heard or seen the talk radio before: younger people more often than older people, more highly educated than less educated, men more often than women. Of these people, one in twenty received the program four to five times a week, one in ten two to three times and one in five once. After evaluating the program on a ten-point scale (zero = "very bad"; ten = "very good"), the result was an average of six points. Women tended to give better ratings than men, younger people tended to give better than older ones, and the less educated better than the highly educated. Five percent of Domian recipients had already called themselves, including no one with a high school diploma or university degree; willingness to call was negatively correlated with education. Half of all respondents definitely ruled out a call of their own.

The recipients were also asked to what extent they agreed with five statements about the assessment. The statement that Domian enables insights into human abysses and fates received particularly frequent approval - namely from three quarters of the respondents. From the perspective of 60 percent, the format offered good entertainment. People with a general higher education entrance qualification or degree mean this less often than people with lower formal education. Around 40 percent said that the program encourages conversation with friends and acquaintances. This approval rate was also achieved by the last two statements: on the one hand, that the program offered a lot of factual information, on the other hand, that Domian put his own problems into perspective.

Results on caller motivation

The study by Schweers from 1995 provides a descriptive answer to the question of why people call Domian and how they evaluate the phone call afterwards. 102 people who called Domian and spoke to the moderator “live on air” were interviewed by telephone. These were standardized interviews lasting 10 to 15 minutes, consisting of 20 mostly closed questions .

In the study, the ratio of men and women was about the same. Three quarters are younger than 35 years, the majority is single, the level of education is “relatively high”. Two thirds come from North Rhine-Westphalia. Although the program can be received in this state on the radio station 1 Live, 90 percent of all respondents follow Domian on television. Three quarters of the respondents stated that they tune into the program at least three times a week, with women and people living alone receiving the program on a daily basis.

The examination of the subjects' motives for reception revealed that almost four fifths wanted to find out something about the fate of other people. This motive was more pronounced among older recipients and recipients living alone, as well as among those with little formal education. The themes of entertainment and information were named by just under three-quarters each. With increasing formal education, the tendency to rate the program as informative and entertaining decreased. Around 60 percent tuned into the program to learn from other people's experiences, with this motif being mentioned in particular by people living alone and the elderly. The stimulation of the imagination as well as the overcoming of loneliness was determined as a motive in a little less than half. Among those who turned on the talk radio so as not to be alone, there were a noticeably large number of people living alone and widowed. The callers were particularly interested in funny, exciting experiences and stories (75 percent) and psychological problems (71 percent). Life's fates (58 percent) and love, relationships (51 percent) follow at a certain distance. Hobbies (38 percent) and sex (36 percent) are relatively far behind.

Before they called Domian, around three quarters of those questioned had never participated in a radio or television program. Nonetheless, just as many callers said they were not shy about this. If there was any shyness, it was mostly because of the fear of being recognized. When asked about the motivation for their call, 23 percent of the test persons said that they wanted to help other people through their contribution and to encourage them. 18 percent were looking for help, specific advice, and 16 percent said they had something important to say. 13 percent of the callers shared their personal experiences on a certain topic, 10 percent wanted to try “what it's like to take part in such a program”. 9 percent wanted to talk to Jürgen Domian, the person, and 7 percent wanted to express themselves. Almost 4 percent had called in response to a previous call from someone else. For only 2 percent of those surveyed, strong interest in a given topic was the reason for the call.

Almost 70 percent of those surveyed stated that their decision to turn to talk radio had something to do with Jürgen Domian. For three quarters of them, the moderator's charisma, perceived as sympathetic, was the reason. When asked which characteristics they ascribe to the moderator, all respondents stated positive characteristics, from tolerance and openness to intelligence and moral courage to a positive attitude towards life. Just under one in five also expressed negative traits such as impatience, and the moderator is sometimes referred to as “too tolerant”.

When talking to Jürgen Domian, 88 percent of the callers felt they were being taken seriously. 74 percent said they were overall satisfied with the conversation. Of the callers who called Domian with the motivation to seek help, over two thirds are satisfied with the advice given by the moderator.

Caller Satisfaction Results

In 2006, the communication scientist Daniel Krause examined the connections between certain motivational attitudes and gratification experiences :

  • Those callers who were looking for media advice were rather disappointed: in retrospect, they regret the hindrance to their urgent flow of conversation due to Jürgen Domian's suggestive and insistent speech techniques. The respective disappointment correlates negatively with the ability to reflect on functional differences between professional advice and talk radio . Krause's study, however, credits the program with the fact that its editorial “networking knowledge” led to the fact that callers were later successfully referred to suitable psychologists.
  • Callers who, without wanting to be “advised”, were more likely to “communicate” something tended to be more satisfied . They too regretted the suggestive and restrictive character of the conversation, but were basically satisfied with the successful spread of their messages. Some of them can distinguish themselves as “fringe group lawyers”, whereby Krause's study cites sexual minorities in particular. However, there were also so-called “fakers” among the callers, whose gratification expresses itself in pride of having “tricked” the moderator with invented stories, for example by pretending to be particularly extravagant sexual preferences.

A paradigm shift began with the program between 2005 and 2010: since then, every caller had to be aware that the conversation no longer has the halfway private, halfway intimate character that was previously guaranteed with the one-time broadcast. The programs could previously also be recorded by private individuals, but not published on the network and commented on there. Since then, it has been possible for callers to be exposed or de-anonymized by anonymous or pseudonymous YouTube users. Since then, the program has also been available at any time during the day.

Special programs

From October 2004 to December 2005 there was a 45-minute Saturday program in which a prominent guest Jürgen Domian and the callers answered questions. This was broadcast on WDR television on Saturday evening around 11:45 p.m. It was repeated on the radio on Tuesday night from 1:00 a.m. to 1:45 a.m. In contrast, the regular programs were not generally repeated.

In July 2007, during the summer break of the radio format, there was a series called Domian on the go, in which Jürgen Domian visited callers of his broadcast at home and listened to their stories. Each program had a transmission time of 30 minutes; three cases were presented during this period. Jürgen Domian himself said: "I find it extremely attractive to get to know some of my acoustic guests personally, to look them in the eye and to talk to them face to face."

Awards

  • Jürgen Domian received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for the program Domian in January 2003
  • 2015 hosted the show with was Special Jury Prize of the Robert Geisendörfer Prize awarded
  • In 2016 Jürgen Domian was awarded the special prize of the WDR 1LIVE Krone 2016 (Germany's largest radio award). The special prize honors outstanding artists and is awarded by the 1-Live editorial team. The moderator was honored on December 1, 2016 in Bochum's Jahrhunderthalle.

Social networks

As of November 11, 2010, the Domian editorial team was registered on Twitter . The Twitter name was initially RedDomian (abbreviation for Redaktion Domian ), on November 24th 2010 she was given the existing Twitter name domian , which she used from then on. During the show itself (from 1 to 2 a.m.) the show editor tweeted under this name. Using the search term #domian, numerous users discussed the current program every evening. #domian made it into the top 10 of Twitter trending topics again and again .

Jürgen Domian has also been logged on to Facebook since April 29, 2011 and occasionally commented on individual calls from the previous program or current social issues. The authorized profile exists alongside others who, however, have no connection with Jürgen Domian or the editorial team.

On March 18, 2013, Facebook deleted several of its posts, as well as other users' comments on gay marriage. Jürgen Domian had been critical of the appearance of the conservative Catholic publicist Martin Lohmann (CDU) on the TV show Günther Jauch . According to Facebook statistics, 1.1 million people read this post. His text on the new Pope Francis also did not meet the guidelines of Facebook, as he was told. On March 19, Facebook Germany finally asked Jürgen Domian to apologize in the form of a letter from Tina Kulow ; however, the deleted content was not restored.

See also

Literature (selection)

  • Daniel Krause : Advice, therapy or just a "show"? Motivations and gratuities from Domian callers , University of Münster, Univ. Diss., 2006 198 pp.
  • Magnus Schweers: The electronic friend, live from one: Domian an empirical study on the motivation and gratification of callers of the WDR Talk-Radios , Dortmund, Univ., Diploma thesis, 1995.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Tim Farin: WDR cult interviewer Domian on craft and responsibility. ABZV , December 14, 2015, archived from the original on December 3, 2016 ; accessed on November 28, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Domian at the end of the show on Facebook
  3. ↑ Jürgen Domian: "We have talked about all the capers of human life". Stern interview on the day of the last broadcast about his future and further career plans. December 16, 2016.
  4. ↑ WDR press release: WDR night talker Jürgen Domian stops on March 9, 2015
  5. ↑ Nice values: "Domian" farewell mobilizes a considerable audience , quotenmeter.de, December 17, 2016
  6. ↑ Special broadcast: Domian live - helpline in the Corona crisis. February 19, 2020, accessed March 25, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Online auction - Domian is auctioning cult stag on Ebay. Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, December 14, 2016, accessed on December 18, 2016 .
  8. ↑ I beg your pardon?!: Donor buys Domian-Hirsch for 43,000 euros - and is giving him away! In: Express.de . ( express.de [accessed December 18, 2016]).
  9. ↑ 1LIVE: Domian talks - The most blatant stories from 21 years! | Whole show | 1LIVE. June 25, 2017. Retrieved September 30, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Domian Mann builds a woman out of 60 kg of minced meat and does it with her. In: YouTube. Retrieved April 24, 2020 .
  11. ↑ FOCUS Online: Those were his five weirdest cases . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed December 18, 2016]).
  12. ^ Gothic , issue 118, autumn 2009, page 119.
  13. ↑ TV show TV total on February 18, 2008
  14. ↑ Daniel Krause: Counseling, therapy or just a "show"? - Motivations and gratuities from Domian callers ( memento from July 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ News about the Domian format on the go on the fansite nachtlager.de
  16. ^ WDR 2 Sunday Questions - The Night: Modern Pastoral Care. WDR , November 1, 2011, archived from the original on June 19, 2013 ; accessed on February 1, 2014 .
  17. ↑ Award ceremony 2015. ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 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. From: robert-geisendoerfer-preis.de , accessed on September 23, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.robert-geisendoerfer-preis.de
  18. ^ Spiegel Online : Church criticism: Facebook deletes posts by Domian from March 19, 2013
  19. ^ Welt Online : Facebook apparently deletes posts by Domian from March 19, 2013
  20. ↑ FR Online : Domian Facebook censorship - Facebook apologizes to Domian on March 19, 2013