One will win
Television broadcast | |
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Original title | One will win |
Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
original language | German |
Year (s) | 1964–1966, 1968–1969, 1979–1987, 1998, 2014 |
Production company |
hr , NDR , ORF / SF (1979-87) |
length | 90+ minutes |
Episodes | 82 + 4 |
Broadcasting cycle |
i. d. Usually on Saturdays, 4–9 programs per year |
genre | Game show |
Theme music | Willy Berking |
production | Martin Jente (–1969), Harald Vock (NDR), Günter Andreas Pape (right) |
Moderation |
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First broadcast | January 25, 1964 on German television |
One will win ( EEC ) was a German - the game show that the Hessian Radio and North German Radio , and later in co-production with ORF and SF produced and Saturday evenings was broadcast. It was presented by Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff (89 episodes). Two new editions of the format followed: 1998 with Jörg Kachelmann (3 episodes) and 2014 with Jörg Pilawa (1 episode), both of which no longer achieved the great success of the original and were subsequently quickly discontinued.
concept
Naming
The name One will win was chosen because of its abbreviation EEC, which also stood for the European Economic Community at that time, from which today's European Union emerged . The program was supposed to support the European idea, in that the candidates came from different European countries.
Course of the game
It was a quiz show with eight candidates who always competed in pairs. There were two games, which mostly consisted not only of mere questions, but also involved elaborate set-ups. For example, excerpts from theatrical performances were shown or reproduced architectural monuments were erected to which something could be assigned. The question of which century something came from was also popular. The candidate was able to earn a maximum of three points per round of questions. The losing candidate in one round was eliminated with a consolation prize, which for a while was a small gold bar. If there was a tie, a foam cube decided.
The four winners made it to the semi-finals, in which a woman and a man played together as a team. The pairs were drawn by playing cards. The semifinals consisted of two games. In the first play a film was shown in which Kulenkampff and other actors mostly satirically embodied a famous personality; then the candidates had to answer three questions about the personality. They were allowed to consult before answering. In the second game, known internally as head and hands , a new game was introduced in each broadcast, in which one of the couple's candidates had to prove their skills. The other candidate was asked three general knowledge questions. If he couldn't answer the question, his partner could still get the point through the game of skill. The game became a little more difficult with every question. In the event of a tie, the dice also decided in the semifinals.
In the last round, the two remaining candidates had to sit on a podium one after the other and answer three questions about current world affairs. In the event of a tie, there was a tie question.
Candidates
The candidates came from eight different European countries. You didn't have to be a member of the EEC, Switzerland in particular was almost always represented. Non-European candidates also appeared rarely, e. B. in the broadcast of March 12, 1966 an American. In the case of the non-German-speaking countries, the main cities usually looked for people with sufficient language skills - unlike many other shows, there was no call for applications on the show. A personal interpreter was always available on the show for problem cases, but he usually did not appear, which was also thanks to Kulenkampff's skill.
music
Well-known musicians, preferably from the field of musicals or operettas, performed between the individual play elements during the renovation breaks. In addition, a live orchestra played the theme tune. In the productions of the Hessischer Rundfunk this was the dance orchestra of the Hessischer Rundfunk , in the broadcasts of the 1960s under the direction of Johannes Pütz or Willy Berking , then under Heinz Schönberger . In the productions of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk it was initially the NDR dance and entertainment orchestra under the direction of Alfred home or Rolf Kühn , from 1979 under Dieter Glawischnig . The big bands there played in productions from other broadcasting areas, for example the DRS Big Band under Hans Moeckel in Switzerland or the ORF Big Band in Austria .
particularities
Beginning
At the beginning of each broadcast, Kulenkampff delighted the audience with a five-minute conference on current topics, most of which also referred to the city in which the broadcast was currently a guest.
Assistants
- Uschi Siebert (1964–1969)
- Gabi Kimpfel (1979–1987)
- Leslie Lap (2014)
Film
The feature film (also known as Kulinade ) with Kulenkampff as an actor was always produced quite lavishly and was intended not only to satisfy Kulenkampff's penchant for acting, but also to represent the highlight of the show. This was especially true for the Beatles parody from the show on February 19, 1966, which became extremely well known. In addition to Kulenkampff, Bully Buhlan , Willy Berking and Gerhard Wendland play the Beatles.
Overlay
One feature of One Will Win was its excess length: Kulenkampff regularly exceeded the broadcasting time by at least 30 minutes, with Hessischer Rundfunk initially being credited with broadcasting minutes for its part in the ARD program. At times, however, one round of the semi-finals had to be skipped. In his jovial manner, Kulenkampff often flirted with his overcoat. So it was an obvious pleasure for him when he was able to end his program prematurely on October 13, 1984 "for the second time in 31 years" and asked the ARD with a smile, "... and now think about it, children, what you nine Want to make minutes ”. Since the ARD was not at all prepared for this case, the ARD logo was broadcast for minutes.
Closing scene with butler
Every program up to 1969 ended with the butler "Herr Martin", who handed Kulenkampff a coat, scarf and hat and sarcastically commented on the program that had just run. This butler was Martin Jente , the show's producer. The idea for this came from Kulenkampff himself, he also thought up the texts - EWG should end with a final punch.
This final scene excited both Wim Thoelke and Joachim Fuchsberger so much that they both would have loved to do the same thing. But because they didn't just want to copy it, the degree came to them in a different form: Thoelke finished Drei Mal Neun with Wum as a conversation partner, Joachim Fuchsberger resorted to a trained monkey in Let's go .
With the second season from 1979 onwards, Martin Jente was already retired and it was becoming increasingly difficult for him to play the scene, after which it was finally abandoned entirely.
In the one-time remake of the show in 2014, actor Ben Becker took on the role of butler.
running time
One will win ran from January 25, 1964 to August 6, 1966 on ARD with 26 episodes. After the last broadcast, Kulenkampff took his hat off as a presenter. However, it only took around a year and a half for the show to resume.
From January 13, 1968 until the end of the show again on August 2, 1969, 17 episodes ran. Once again, Kulenkampff said goodbye as the presenter of EWG.
Ten years and two flopped quiz programs (Good evening, neighbors, 1971/72, and Acht nach 8 , 1973) later, after which he had sworn “never to moderate a quiz again”, Kulenkampff returned with EWG. From September 15, 1979 to the final end on November 21, 1987, another 45 episodes ran.
In the last issue of EWG Paul Anka sang a version of My Way rewritten in Kulenkampff . At the end of the program, Kulenkampff advertised a “best of EEC record” with the words “I want to do that too”. Part of the sales price went to the Foundation for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People . With that he has already paid off part of it, if he ever had to be fished out of the sea, said Kulenkampff. He added: "I love sailing so much".
A total of 89 episodes were broadcast, mostly directed by Ekkehard Böhmer , partly Dieter Wendrich .
In 1998 there was a new edition with Jörg Kachelmann , which was discontinued after three episodes. The original remained unmatched, even if a little later pure query quiz programs without images or music experienced a boom, triggered by “ Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? ". The Conference was revived along the lines of American late-night shows with Harald Schmidt .
In 2014, Jörg Pilawa presented a unique new edition of the show as a tribute to Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, who had hosted the first edition of EWG 50 years earlier. The concept was unchanged, but standardized. The preliminary round and the semi-finals each consisted of three rounds and in the final the two remaining candidates each had to answer five open questions. On the occasion of the anniversary, the former assistant Gabi Kimpfel and Kai Joachim Kulenkampff , the son of Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, were guests.
List of ARD broadcasts
Source u. a .: Online archive of Wiener Arbeiter-Zeitung, credits of the original broadcasts, tvprogramme.net, imdb.