End times (web series)

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Television broadcast
Original title End time
Country of production Austria
original language German
Year (s) since 2015
length 15 minutes
Episodes 7 in 1 season
genre Cultural
precariat realism , low-tech sci-fi
Theme music Nino from Vienna "It's always about finishing"
Rio Reiser "A cuckoo on a tree"
production Jan Groos,
Anna Groos
First broadcast October 10, 2015
occupation
  • Jan Groos as Daniel
  • Christina Reichsthaler as Valerie
  • Christoph Harringer as Harald
  • Isabella Jeschke as Veronique
  • Martin Vischer as an adult Max
  • Fynn Richter as Max, the child
  • Nicola Schößler as Alina
  • Martin Hemmer as Konrad
  • Rainer Doppler as a banker
  • Peter F. Herdina as Franz
  • Elisabeth von Samsonow as a collector
  • Jakob Lena Knebl as Dunja
  • Ines Kratzmüller as Bernadette

Endzeit is an Austrian web series by the siblings Anna & Jan Groos from 2015. It is described by the creators as a mixture of cultural precarious realism and low-tech sci-fi. After the premiere of the pilot at the Diagonale (film festival) in 2015 and a screening at the Kino unter Sternen , the first season of the series has been available free of charge on the official website since October 10, 2015. As the first web series ever, the entire first season of Endzeit was presented at the Max Ophüls Preis 2016 film festival . Endzeit was shown again in 2016 at the Diagonale (film festival), this time with the entire first season. Further presentations in the cinema took place as part of the Lichter Filmfest and the YOUKI Filmfest. At the indie series festival "Die Seriale", Endzeit was named "Best Series" 2016.

content

Endzeit is about Daniel, a young family man and artist in the creative precariat, who inherits a cellar full of emergency utensils from his uncle. Annoyed by the art market, Daniel comes up with the idea of ​​auctioning off the uncle's hoarded supplies as disaster emergency kits for everyone on the Internet. Spurred on by the enormous demand, Daniel developed a business model that took into account his statement "Fear is a growing market", www.Endzeit.at was born. Gradually, however, Daniel realizes that the external success of this company foundation cannot fulfill his desire for meaningfulness and so begins a creeping process of exaggeration. What about the real life in the wrong one? And isn't the real disaster what we call "normal"? In order to ask himself these and other questions, Daniel #aufzuenewelten!

reporting

Endzeit was positively discussed in various media. Markus Keuschnigg from FM4 said that Endzeit was "far better than ninety percent of Austrian films". Martin Mühl from The Gap (magazine) considers Endzeit to be "absolutely successful" and Deutschlandradio Kultur states: "Endzeit shows us the potential the genre has for us too." Further online reporting can be found among others. a. at Profil (magazine) and Die Zeit .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Josefine Schummeck: Imagine it's capitalism and nobody goes there. In: Zeit-Online , October 15, 2015. Retrieved on November 7, 2015.
  2. ↑ Watchguide: End time at the diagonal In: Watchguide
  3. ↑ Program: End times at the cinema under the stars In: Cinema under the stars
  4. ↑ Seriale: End time with the Seriale In: Seriale
  5. ↑ Markus Keuschnigg: Kulturprekariatsrealismus In: FM4 , November 28, 2015. Accessed April 23, 2016
  6. ↑ Martin Mühl: Uncomfortable Situations In: The Gap , November 15, 2015. Accessed April 23, 2016
  7. ↑ Compressor: The Austrian web series Endzeit In: Deutschlandradio Kultur , April 5, 2016. Accessed April 23, 2016
  8. ↑ Philip Dulle & Ines Holzmüller: TV Spring: You shouldn't miss these series In: Profile Online , April 8, 2016. Accessed April 23, 2016.

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