Print (web series)
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | pressure |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | Since 2018 |
| Production company |
Bantry Bay Productions |
| length | 11–35 ( radio ) 18–36 ( ZDFneo ) minutes |
| Episodes | 40+ (funk) 38+ (ZDFneo) in 4+ seasons ( list ) |
| genre | Youth series |
| Director |
Pola Beck Jano Ben Chaabane Tom Lass Chris Miera Barbara Ott Luzie Loose |
| idea | Julie Andem |
| script |
Alexander Lindh Janna Nandzik Jano Ben Chaabane Julia Penner Moritz Klausing Jonas Lindt Sandra Stöckmann Toks grains Jasmina Wesolowski |
| production |
Lasse Scharpen Jan Kromschröder Eva Kaesgen Edgar Derzian |
| camera | Johannes Louis Juan Sarmiento Tobias Koppe Anne Bolick Jonas Schmager Johannes Praus |
| Initial release | March 23, 2018 on funk |
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Pressure is a German youth - web and TV series about the life and the problems of young people. It is the German adaptation of the Norwegian original series Skam . The successful format has already been adapted in numerous countries such as France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and the USA. The online media service funk , which is aimed at a young target group between the ages of 14 and 29, has been publishing the series via the social media platform YouTube since March 2018 . The series was nominated for both the 55th Grimme Prize 2019 and the 56th Grimme Prize 2020 in the Children & Youth category.
Concept and content
Druck tells of the life around the young women Hanna, Mia, Kiki, Amira and Sam at the Barnim-Gymnasium in Berlin and deals with everyday and current topics such as friendship, love and the search for one's own identity. Each season treats a previously introduced character as the main character and tells the story from their point of view.
The series is published by funk in a previously unfamiliar way. While the entire episodes mostly go online on Fridays, individual pieces from these episodes are made available as clips during the week. At the beginning of the clips, which have no uniform running times, striking yellow lettering is displayed, which describes the time being told, i.e. the day of the week and the time. The viewers can also follow the characters on Instagram and learn more about the plot. In addition, WhatsApp -Chats the figures put online.
The first season is about Hanna and started on March 19, 2018 with the first clips from the student's life. After Hanna has teased her best friend's partner, she suddenly finds herself without friends at school and is attacked and marginalized by her former clique. The relationship with her boyfriend Jonas also suffers as a result. Hanna finally finds a stop with a new group of friends.
The second season deals with Mia, a close friend of Hanna. Mia is a feminist and therefore thinks very little of the arrogant Alexander Hardenberg, who exercises a bad influence on her friend Kiki. After Mia asks Alex to end her relationship with Kiki, she gets to know another side of Alex and slowly develops feelings for him, which in turn endangers the friendship with Kiki. The first clips for the second season were released on December 17, 2018.
The third season tells for the first time about the emotional world of the male characters. While the clique around the new main character Matteo prepares for the Abitur, friendships, sex and the first great love confuse them. The first single clip for the third season was released on March 9, 2019.
The fourth season is about Amira Mahmood. For the devout Muslim , religion is the most important thing in life. But when she falls in love for the first time, new questions arise that shake her previous world. The first episode of the fourth season shows the characters' graduation ceremony and was released between June 8th and 14th, 2019. The second episode followed with a one-month break with its first clip on July 27th, 2019.
Another season was announced on December 24, 2019 for summer 2020. On August 10, 2020 it was announced that the season would start on September 20, 2020 with Nora Machwitz as the new main character.
Episode list
The list given here corresponds to the frequency of publication on funk.net and YouTube.
season 1
The first season comprises ten episodes, the relationship between Hanna, the main character of the season, and her boyfriend Jonas is the focus.
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast in Germany | length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | love is everything | 23 March 2018 | 18 min. |
| 2 | 2 | We all together | March 30, 2018 | 14 min. |
| 3 | 3 | Friends | April 6, 2018 | 13 min. |
| 4th | 4th | The party is over | April 20, 2018 | 11 min. |
| 5 | 5 | anticipation | April 27, 2018 | 18 min. |
| 6th | 6th | Fuck you! | 4th May 2018 | 18 min. |
| 7th | 7th | Once a bitch, always a bitch! | 18th May 2018 | 23 min. |
| 8th | 8th | Bloody threat | May 25, 2018 | 25 min. |
| 9 | 9 | Crashes | June 1, 2018 | 19 min. |
| 10 | 10 | Party heroes | June 8, 2018 | 30 min. |
season 2
The second season consists of ten episodes and has Mia Winter as the new main character.
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast in Germany | length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 1 | Boys suck | December 21, 2018 | 22 min. |
| 12 | 2 | Breasts, Fatshaming & Cocoa | December 28, 2018 | 27 min. |
| 13 | 3 | Break up with her !!! | 4th January 2019 | 23 min. |
| 14th | 4th | The most beautiful woman in the world | January 11, 2019 | 33 min. |
| 15th | 5 | The Abi Chaker Clan | January 25, 2019 | 28 min. |
| 16 | 6th | Perfectly Wrong | 1st February 2019 | 22 min. |
| 17th | 7th | Panic heart | February 8, 2019 | 30 min. |
| 18th | 8th | Ghost girl | 15th February 2019 | 18 min. |
| 19th | 9 | No fear! #Me too | February 22, 2019 | 34 min. |
| 20th | 10 | Do you love me? | 1st March 2019 | 30 min. |
season 3
The third season comprises ten episodes and has Matteo Florenzi as the new main character.
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast in Germany | length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21st | 1 | Just run away! | 15th March 2019 | 21 min. |
| 22nd | 2 | Joints & Sandwiches | March 22, 2019 | 23 min. |
| 23 | 3 | Neon butterflies | 29th March 2019 | 21 min. |
| 24 | 4th | Under water | 5th April 2019 | 21 min. |
| 25th | 5 | I am not gay | April 12, 2019 | 20 min. |
| 26th | 6th | The most important thing in life | 19th April 2019 | 25 min. |
| 27 | 7th | Together or alone? | April 26, 2019 | 26 min. |
| 28 | 8th | Outing | 3rd May 2019 | 21 min. |
| 29 | 9 | love | May 10, 2019 | 22 min. |
| 30th | 10 | Our time is now | 17th May 2019 | 23 min. |
Season 4
The fourth season consists of ten episodes and treats Amira Mahmood as the new main character. The first episode of the fourth season was unusually released over a month before the remaining nine episodes of the season. Due to the character of the real-time narration of the series, this deviation from the otherwise usual weekly publication cycle for the series served to be able to tell the protagonists' graduation ceremony. The symbolic transition between the main characters of season 3 and season 4 also took place.
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast in Germany | length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 1 | The prom! | June 14, 2019 | 21 min. |
| 32 | 2 | The woman with the cold look | 26th July 2019 | 17 min. |
| 33 | 3 | Palpitations | 2nd August 2019 | 22 min. |
| 34 | 4th | The first date | August 9, 2019 | 29 min. |
| 35 | 5 | Broken hearts | 16th August 2019 | 24 min. |
| 36 | 6th | escalation | 23 August 2019 | 25 min. |
| 37 | 7th | You are who you are | August 30, 2019 | 22 min. |
| 38 | 8th | In love | September 6, 2019 | 30 min. |
| 39 | 9 | Listen to your heart! | 13th September 2019 | 33 min. |
| 40 | 10 | Everything is love | 22nd September 2019 | 35 min. |
Season 5
On December 24, 2019, a fifth season was announced for summer 2020. On April 12, it was confirmed that this is a new generation, with Nora Machwitz in the foreground.
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast in Germany | length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 1 | September 25, 2020 | TBA |
reception
Awards
- Grimme Prize
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German camera award
- 2020 : Nomination for episode 29 - Love in the TV film / series category for Johannes Praus
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German television award
- 2020 : Nomination in the category Best Drama Series
Reviews
The series generally generated a positive image from the start. Within two years, the series' YouTube account had around 80 million views.
Nora Voit from Zeit Online describes the narrative form of the series using short clips in real time as "radically contemporary" and sees the subtext of the scenes so elegantly embedded that no young person would have to experience the attempt to depict his real life as cringy , i.e. extremely uncomfortable. When in print, adolescents are likely to be Muslim, of color or gay - without being permanently morally illuminated.
The series expert Vanessa Schneider of the youth channel BR Puls thinks that it is good for the series to have broken away from the script of the Norwegian original, because according to director Pola Beck not all the storylines can be transferred one-to-one from Norway to Germany: “Smoking weed is for example Nothing special here in Germany, the young people have access to it. In Norway it's a huge thing that the main character's boyfriend starts smoking weed. It would be ridiculous to say here in Germany: Oh God, my friend smokes! They would say what's going on with you, is that now an educational measure? ”Since a coherent, cross-media series universe is created by simultaneously playing all channels, the production is also particularly demanding compared to normal series.
At Deutschlandfunk Kultur , Yannic Hannebohn wishes that there would have been a series like this when he was at school. Print films the problems of Generation Z and negotiates conflicts such as: “Does he love me?”, “Will I pass the Abitur?” But also zeitgeist, such as: “Is it okay to install the Grindr app, on which gay people can date ? ”,“ What do I do if my best friend is starving to lose a few pounds? ”Working with visual elements and selected pop music also comment on many scenes better than the dialogues of the young people.
At Spiegel Online Elisa von Hof writes that "Druck" did so much right than almost any other German series for young people. "It feels like the story is real," said a comment that was also true. Instead of convulsive "YOLOs" and a bit of "chilling out", the format - always sensitive and differentiated - deals with feminism, sexual and gender identities and racism. The fact that "Druck" traced the world of today's youth so well can be seen in every pop-cultural reference, in every hoodie, in every pair of worn-out vans, in "Bares for Rares", which the characters watch by the way and which is really a hit among teenagers be, and in the wonderful soundtrack. It is terrific that diversity is taken into account in a youth series and that different bodies and origins, religions, milieus and family constellations are shown naturally without always addressing them.
Web links
- Website at ZDF.de
- Website at funk.net
- Website at Bantry Bay Productions
- Print in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Printed by Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grimme Prize: Nominations - 55th Grimme Prize 2019. January 17, 2019, accessed on January 17, 2019 .
- ↑ 56th Grimme Prize 2020 Print (Season 4) (Bantry Bay Productions for funk / ZDFneo) on grimme-preis.de, accessed on April 10, 2020
- ↑ “PRINT” Season 3: Start date and first trailer published. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
- ↑ "PRINT" on the website of the producer, Bantry Bay Productions GmbH. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Serienfuchs.de: New “pressure” episodes confirmed: new start or 5th season? Retrieved March 10, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c PRINT - Season 4 - YouTube. Retrieved September 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Serienfuchs.de: New “pressure” episodes confirmed: new start or 5th season? Retrieved March 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Grimme Prize: Nominations - 55th Grimme Prize 2019. January 17, 2019, accessed on January 17, 2019 .
- ↑ 56th Grimme Prize 2020 Print (Season 4) (Bantry Bay Productions for funk / ZDFneo) on grimme-preis.de, accessed on April 10, 2020
- ↑ German Camera Prize: Nominations - 30th German Camera Prize 2020. March 2, 2020, accessed on March 2, 2020 .
- ↑ German Television Prize: Nominations - German Television Prize 2020. June 4, 2020, accessed on June 7, 2020 .
- ↑ PRINT - The series on youtube.com, accessed April 10, 2020
- ↑ Nora Voit: Print: Maximum spoiled, radically contemporary. Zeit Online , March 20, 2019, accessed April 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Vanessa Schneider: Series // "DRUCK": Like real friends, only on the screen. BR Puls , June 18, 2019, accessed April 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Yannic Hannebohn: cult youth series "pressure": Kiki, Hanna and the others. Deutschlandfunk Kultur , May 20, 2019, accessed April 10, 2020 .
- ^ Elisa von Hof: Grandiose TV youth format "Druck": Jugend frei. Spiegel Online , September 29, 2019, accessed April 10, 2020 .