Railroad romance
| Television broadcast | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Railroad romance |
| Country of production | Germany |
| Year (s) | since 1991 |
| Production company |
Südwestrundfunk |
| length | 30 minutes |
| Episodes | more than 900 ( list ) |
| Broadcasting cycle |
usually weekly |
| genre | documentation |
| Theme music | Les Brown - Sentimental Journey |
| Moderation | Hagen von Ortloff until the end of 2015 |
| First broadcast | April 7, 1991 on Südwest 3 |
Eisenbahn-Romantik is a TV program by the SWR . Shown railway-related reports, the contents of which extend from reports on modern railway administrations, heritage railways and facilities to articles about model train layouts. Politics and criticism are not left out, the series also addresses route closures, controversial model planning, delayed reconstruction projects or successful local transport concepts. The show was moderated by Hagen von Ortloff from the beginning until 2015 . New episodes from 2016 will be produced without a moderator.
history
The series was started on April 7, 1991 by SDR as a break filler in the third TV program Südwest 3 . Since it was the first series specifically for railroad fans, it was so well received by the audience that the broadcasting time was occasionally extended to half an hour to three quarters of an hour.
From 1994 Eisenbahn-Romantik had a fixed half-hourly slot. Eisenbahnromantik has been broadcast Monday through Friday since 2013. Weekend days and public holidays are excluded. Several times a year there are also one and a half hour and 45 minute programs
After the merger of SDR and SWF to form SWR in 1998, the entire editorial team had to move from Stuttgart to Baden-Baden .
The current average audience rating is around one million viewers.
Broadcast on other channels
Eisenbahn-Romantik is not only broadcast on SWR television , but also appeared regularly in the programs NDR television (Mondays at 1:30 p.m., last August 29, 2016), hr-fernsehen (Mondays and Tuesdays at 2 p.m., most recently 14 January 2014) and MDR television (Saturdays at 3:00 p.m. or 3:30 p.m., later 11:30 a.m. until the end of 2014). Most of the time episodes were broadcast from the archive; At Hessischer Rundfunk, however, it was a repetition of the current program on Mondays (not during the broadcast break in SWR). The broadcasters rbb Fernsehen , SR Fernsehen and 3sat show several episodes at irregular intervals, often as part of themed evenings. Individual episodes are also made available by the station on YouTube .
By train through ...
The ARTE broadcast Mit dem Zug durch ... contains films from the Eisenbahnromantik fundus, which the editors reworked for the broadcast (including without an introduction). Since 2011, ARTE has also been showing recordings by SWR for the first time.
production
Usually the consequences are recorded. The occasional special program Long Night of Railway Romanticism , a version extended to several hours, is broadcast live. This series is no longer broadcast. In addition to the usual presentation of (short) reports, Hagen von Ortloff chats with interesting railroad friends and model railroaders in these special editions in the studio.
The contributions are mostly spoken today by Joachim Jung, who shared this task with Peter Schurr in the earlier episodes.
Since September 25, 2005, the program has been produced and broadcast in 16: 9 format.
Thematic examples
- Sauschwänzlebahn
- Glacier Express (Follows 951–953)
- Train of miracles - from Nice to the Maritime Alps
- Railway repair shop
- The crocodile
- The construction of the Ravenna Bridge
- The Wiehltalbahn and the political problems associated with it
- The high-speed route from Mannheim to Stuttgart
- Stuttgart 21
- Material webs in various countries, e.g. B. in Canada or in the Eastern Bloc
- " Miniature Wonderland " - the world's largest H0 model railroad in the Speicherstadt in Hamburg, various episodes
- The Kruckenberg rail zeppelin and the model railway show MO187 in Bad Driburg
- Pontoon bridge at Speyer over the Rhine
- Salzkammergut local railway
- Every year, the program reports in detail on the model railroad innovations at the Nuremberg Toy Fair .
Theme music and logo
The song Sentimental Journey by Les Brown is always played at the beginning and usually at the end of the show's credits. The steam locomotive 99 633 , a Württemberg Tssd of the Öchsle narrow-gauge railway , can be seen in the opening credits of the program since it was first broadcast in 1991. It is also shown in the program's logo. Since 2016, the 99 788, which is also stationed on the Öchsle, can be seen in the opening credits.
Railroad Romance Club
The Eisenbahn-Romantik-Club was founded for particularly interested fans (including family members for a small surcharge) - with its own magazine and fan shop.
Special trips
On occasion, special trips - mostly with historic trains and steam traction - are organized and carried out at home and abroad. The image material produced in the process then fills the next broadcast (s). For example, journeys lasting one or more days have previously led to the north of the Arctic Circle , to the motherland of all steam engines or through the French, Swiss, Italian and Austrian Alps as well as to the former Eastern Bloc.
Similar broadcasts
A half-hourly and similarly conceived, but monthly magazine broadcast with the same focus on topics with special consideration of central Germany was produced and broadcast by MDR in 99 episodes until December 2009 under the name Bahnzeit . The MDR provides under on small track model railway topics and on narrow gauge narrow-gauge railway lines ground-related issues with special emphasis.
Every month, BR-alpha broadcast the 45-minute program Bahnorama with a focus on Austria, produced and partially moderated by Bob Symes , in the Alpha Austria program window . (Discontinued in 2014)
Bahnwelt TV is internet television for railroad fans and has been putting online a program every month since December 2008 with topics from rail technology, rail nostalgia, travel destinations and model railways.
The full steam series has been part of Telebasel's program in Switzerland since 2006 . Until the end of the station Bahn TV , individual contributions within the series Bahnen der Welt were broadcast. The main focus of Volldampf is in Switzerland.
On Arte , the program Mit dem Zug runs through ... , which is also produced by the Eisenbahn-Romantik editorial staff, usually lasts 45 minutes and is not moderated.
See also
Web links
- Railway romance at SWR
- Railroad Romance Club
- Railway romance on Youtube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hagen's weekly overview, December 21, 2015
- ↑ bahnwelt-tv.de
- ↑ Volldampf - Das Eisenbahn TV Magazin
- ↑ telebasel full steam ( memento of the original from January 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
