Eleven 99

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Elf99 was a youth broadcast on GDR television , named after the former postcode 1199, the seat of GDR television in the Berlin-Adlershof district . The youth program elf99 was invented in 1989 in order to react to usage and perception patterns that had developed partly as a result of the influence of western television . For the first time in the history of GDR television, the program route pursued an "alternative program policy" with which the GDR government hoped to win back young people who had turned away from the GDR and its television. After the reunification and peaceful revolution in the GDR, Elf99 was broadcast on various German channels until it was discontinued on March 26, 1994.

Logo of Elf 99 -
With the change to RTL, the colors of the logo also changed accordingly to the CD colors of RTL.

history

The program was broadcast for the first time on September 1, 1989 at 3:45 p.m. on the second channel of GDR television. The two-hour programs with the subtitle Youth Afternoon included a mix of news , sports reports and music videos as well as an episode of a television series. It all started with the TV version of Dirty Dancing , which was broadcast there in German for the first time. Later, in addition to the expansion of the Friday broadcast with an additional edition on Tuesday afternoon (since October 31, 1989), other series followed, such as Der Schatz im All , Ferdy , Fame - Der Weg zum Ruhm , Süß und Sauer and TV 101 . Since the technology of GDR television was out of date, new technology was made available especially for Elf 99, which was otherwise only imported from abroad for state visits or similar events. Another novelty was that Elf was allowed to write 99 own current television news reports; Until then, this was only allowed to the editorial team of the current camera .

Because of the high popularity of the regular program, other programs followed, such as Elf 99 - The Sunday Film on Sunday Afternoon. In addition, the music program Countdown on the Dutch broadcaster Veronica , hosted by Wessel van Diepen , was broadcast on Thursdays - the program was simultaneously translated into German.

Eberhard Aurich in an interview with reporters from Elf 99

The magazine achieved a great response in the months of change with its critical articles and its special programs, the Elf 99 Special , with previously unthinkable articles about the GDR leadership. The Elf99 team with the moderator Jan Carpentier was allowed to visit the Wandlitz forest settlement , the Baltic island of Vilm , which was used as a holiday home by the GDR Council of Ministers, and the Feliks Dzierzynski Stasi guard regiment ( News from Felix - News from the gray area , December 6, 1989) to visit.

Politburo member Harry Tisch was a guest on an elf99 program and he was openly asked to resign. Tisch resigned from office shortly afterwards.

With the presentation of the Bambi Media Prize in December 1989, Elf 99 was particularly honored. After the two GDR television stations were merged into one program in December 1990, Elf99 initially retained its traditional broadcasting slots.

Change to RTL after the turn

Elf99 was introduced to the public in the old federal states on February 8, 1991 with a special edition entitled The disturbance system in the afternoon program of the ARD . The moderators of this program, which was supposed to mark the beginning of an unrealized continuation of the magazine on ARD, were Thomas Riedel , Ines Krüger and Ingo Dubinski . The broadcast began at 3:20 p.m. and ended at 4:30 p.m. - at this time the regular Elf 99 program began in the DFF .

With the dissolution of the DFF on December 31, 1991 the end of the program seemed to have come. Neither the MDR nor the ORB - both of the DFF's successors - showed any interest in continuing the broadcast. The private broadcaster RTL plus , which enjoyed great popularity in the broadcasting area of ​​the former GDR and wanted to consolidate it, seized the opportunity and took over the program. Already on January 6, 1992, Elf 99 was able to continue broadcasting as a 45-minute program on a new slot, working days at 6 p.m. However, the broadcast slot was very unfavorable, the program could only be received by viewers who received the RTL channel via satellite. Most of the cable network viewers, but especially those who were able to receive RTL via the house antenna, instead saw RTL's regional programs . The transmission time of 45 minutes instead of around two hours was not without effects on the character of the program. Two commercial breaks reduced the airtime even further.

Renaming and setting

Extensive reports and exuberant conversations, as they still shaped the image of the program in the DFF times, were hardly possible in the shortened broadcasting time. Rather, the program gave the impression that, in addition to the playing of four music videos per issue, the short messages in the Elf-99 style and the two commercial breaks, it consisted of filling with rather unimportant topics. Therefore, the popularity of the show dwindled relatively quickly, which is why RTL took the show out of the program on September 10, 1993 and passed it on to VOX , where it began broadcasting on November 15, 1993. The poor slot in the early afternoon and the poor reception of the station, which was only active for six months at the time, caused viewer interest in Elf 99 to shrink even further. Finally, the time slot was set to Saturday afternoon and in March 1994 it was decided to rename it to Saturday . In fact, only one issue ran under the new name, on March 26, 1994. Because in March 1994, all the shareholders of the station VOX had terminated their holdings and questioned the financing of program operations beyond March 31. In addition to several programs, Elf 99 / Saturday fell victim to the VOX crisis. A restart on another transmitter did not take place.

Moderators

Moderators from the very beginning were Jan Carpentier , Ingo Dubinski , Victoria Herrmann and Angela Fritzsch . Ines Krüger , Steffen Twardowski , Marcel Obua and Thomas Riedel followed later . Anja Kling moderated the girls' magazine Paula within the youth program . When switching to RTL, only Victoria Herrmann, Ines Krüger, Steffen Twardowski and Thomas Riedel remained.

See also

round . (Youth broadcast on GDR television)

literature

Thomas Schuhbauer : upheaval in television, television in upheaval. The role of GDR television in the revolution and in the process of German unification 1989–1990 using the example of the youth magazine Elf99. Logos Berlin 2001. ISBN 978-389722658-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Hans-Jörg Stiehler : Life without Westfernsehen: Studies on media effects and media use in the Dresden region in the 1980s: Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2001. P. 15.
  2. ^ "Elf99" The reversible magazine. Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb).
  3. ^ "Elf99" The reversible magazine. Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb).
  4. FF thereby No. 5/1991, program part of Friday February 8, 1991, p. 56