Marriage ring free!
| Television broadcast | |
|---|---|
| German title | Marriage ring free! |
| Country of production | GDR |
| Year (s) | 1958-1959 |
| Episodes | 5 |
| Broadcasting cycle |
bi-monthly |
| genre | Game show |
| idea | Wolfgang Reichardt Günter Kersten |
| Moderation | Wolfgang Reichardt |
| First broadcast | October 18, 1958 |
Marriage ring free! was a Saturday evening show on television in the GDR and, in addition to hopping, was one of the first quiz and game shows on the subject of relationships and partnership in the country. Marriage ring free! was one of the most popular show formats of the time.
broadcast
With the motto “pre-marital exam”, Ehe-Ring released! unmarried young couples against each other. Various competitions, knowledge and skill games were played in four game rounds. The winning couple in the final won a complete living room as the main prize.
Showmaster Wolfgang Reichardt, who moderated the game show See - Guess - Laugh from 1955 to 1957 , developed the concept for Ehe-Ring frei! together with the editor Günter Kersten. All episodes were broadcast live with audience members from the “Wilhelm Pieck” culture palace in Bitterfeld .
Others
In an episode of Marriage Ring Free! the puppeteer Heinz Schröder , who became famous in the 1960s for his “fairytale forest” dolls like Pittiplatsch, Buddelflink or Mr. Fuchs, had one of his first appearances in front of a live audience. Schröder played the hand puppet "Fritzchen", a giant baby that was pushed onto the stage by the moderator and asked the candidates quiz questions. Schröder himself was in a specially made stroller during the performance, which he could move independently and from which only the head of the doll could be seen.
literature
- Michael Reufsteck , Stefan Niggemeier : The television lexicon . All over 7000 programs from Ally McBeal to the ZDF hit parade. Goldmann Verlag , Munich 2005, ISBN 3-442-30124-6 , p. 313 .
- Uwe Breitenborn: How did the bear laugh? Systematics, functionality and thematic segmentation of entertaining non-fictional program forms in German television until 1969. Weißensee Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-934479-99-5 , p. 236–238 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
- Marriage ring free! at fernsehserien.de
Remarks
- ↑ Schrö t er erroneously written in some records .
- ↑ The production manager of the show at that time, Karl-Heinz Krause, wrote in his memoirs that it was not one of the first , but the first live appearance by Heinz Schröder.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Claudia Dittmar: Feindliches Fernsehen - GDR television and its strategies in dealing with West German television . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-8394-1434-7 , pp. 151 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ A b Hans Müncheberg: A transmitter for Germany? - Conception and reality of German television broadcasting . HeRaS Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8476-1291-9 , pp. 150 ( limited preview in Google Book search).