Expedition Austria
| Television broadcast | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Expedition Austria |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| year | 2004 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| genre | Reality show |
| First broadcast | July 5, 2004 on ORF 1 |
Expedition Austria is a show produced by the Austrian television broadcaster ORF 1 that was broadcast in the summer of 2004. The Monday live broadcast was moderated by Christian Clerici and Mirjam Weichselbraun . The summary, broadcast several times a day, remained without moderation and was explained or accompanied by Mario Poscharnig as Station Voice .
concept
Eleven candidates were asked to march across Austria on a fictitious straight line . Sometimes it was not allowed to deviate from this line by more than 200 meters; the candidates, accompanied by several camera teams, climbed over mountains and crossed rivers. The television viewers followed the route via the Internet using GPS coordinates and selected a weekly winner every week. The final took place at the Millennium Tower in Vienna . The winner was Michael Weixelbraun from Carinthia, followed by Dominik Haider from Vienna and Christian Teufel from Lower Austria.
There were also numerous television broadcast events in places the candidates marched through. There was a corresponding call-in show on ORF 2's night program on weekdays. With up to 2,000 visitors, these events were a great success. However, the expected audience success of the show itself remained - not least because of the extremely dubious way in which the candidates had to cope with the stages (helicopters flew their luggage after them, their backpacks were mostly empty, the route supposedly within 200 meters wide corridor, the latter was partly not allowed for geographical reasons) -.
Expedition Austria was the last project of the then ORF program developer Tobias Krause , who committed suicide immediately after the show ended.
The Russian music and youth broadcaster MUS-TW acquired the broadcasting rights for all 78 episodes of the Austrian expedition for the fourth quarter of 2005.
Since the show fell short of expectations due to the bad ratings, the ORF stopped the show completely.