Ask the Lesch
| Television broadcast | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Ask the Lesch |
| Country of production |
 Germany
|
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 2010-2017 |
| Production company |
ZDFneo |
| length | 15 minutes |
| Episodes | 261 ( list ) |
| Broadcasting cycle |
weekly |
| genre | Science show |
| Moderation | Harald Lesch |
| First broadcast | January 7, 2010 on ZDFneo |
Ask den Lesch was a series on the ZDF documentation channel ZDFneo , in which the astrophysicist Harald Lesch explained topics from various fields of science in a generally understandable form. Until September 1, 2013, the series was called Lesch's Kosmos . In February 2014, the ZDF science magazine Adventure Research was renamed Leschs Kosmos again.
The last episodes were broadcast in December 2017, some of which can still be accessed via the ZDFmediathek . According to ZDF, the format was discontinued for capacity reasons and in favor of the YouTube channel Terra X Lesch & Co , in which Harald Lesch alternates with the moderators Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim and Philip Häusser answering scientific topics and questions.
description
The program was broadcast in the night from Sunday to Monday on ZDF and ZDFneo . After the broadcast, the episodes were available in the ZDFmediathek and were available as a free podcast for about a year .
The broadcast always began and ended with the nightly view of the Great Refractor on the Telegrafenberg in Potsdam, with a bright light shining from the opened telescope dome.
The studio ("The Cosmos") was a white room in which only a few white, black and orange props could be seen. Lesch, too, always wore black shoes, black trousers and an orange sweater with a black shirt underneath.
Almost every broadcast Lesch entered the studio through a door and at the end went through it again, often saying goodbye with the words "Good night and good luck!", A reference to Edward R. Murrow . The end of many programs was rounded off with a quote or saying.
A running gag of the show was that at the beginning Lesch put a fallen or displaced black chair back into its place on the edge of an orange-colored surface. Often an orange cup with coffee was seen together with the chair, from which Lesch repeatedly drank during the course of the program and which he set down on a high table . Another running gag was his vehement underlining that the Americans were on the moon. Another gag was his statement: "Just for fun".
There were often dialogues between Lesch and the cameraman . In most of the episodes this was Benedikt Valerian, who was named by Lesch Benny, otherwise Peter Schmehl as an alternative.
Often there were text overlay with noises, which recorded and illustrated certain figures and facts again. There were also fade-ins that apparently represented critical or humorous thoughts by the cameraman - on behalf of the viewer.
From April 29, 2012, viewers had the opportunity to ask questions on six topics (The thing with space travel; Stars for stargazers; Aliens and extraterrestrials; Our planetary system; Inventions and discoveries; Other things from physics and astrophysics) by email . In some cases, these questions inspired the editors for certain programs. When the subjects were chosen by Lesch himself, he occasionally had a certain Harald L. ask the questions.
Episodes
Trivia
Episode 3 is unusual in two respects: Lesch sits down on the chair at the beginning and says goodbye at the end with “good night”.
In episodes 17, 38, 39, 46, 57, 156 and 160, Lesch does not place the chair on the edge of the mat. In episode 40, the chair is already on the edge of the mat and is covered with barrier tape. In episode 43, the chair lies in individual parts on the mat, as in the 50th episode, in which the chair is supposed to represent the wood of a campfire. Furthermore, in the anniversary episode, a chair that looks the same but is much smaller can be seen on the mat. In episodes 17 and 63 the chair hangs on the sloping window that is part of the fixed furnishings. Instead of the chair, episode 66 shows two vertically hanging rods that represent a shower curtain. In episode 020, the chair is upside down only on its back on the edge of the mat. In episode 73 the chair is completely missing apart from a small piece of wood; presumably there is a conspiracy against the chair on the subject of the program. In episode 106 (with the theme "Apocalypse") the chair does not appear at all. In episode 113, the chair develops a life of its own: Lesch deliberately places it at an angle to the orange surface. A few minutes later - with the next shot - the chair is aligned. In episode 91, Lesch puts the chair on the mat. Shortly afterwards the chair is on the edge of the mat, then Lesch places the chair back on the mat and sits on it. When he gets up again, the chair is back on the edge of the mat shortly afterwards. Now Lesch takes the chair in hand.
In episode 18, Lesch utters the quote "Coincidence is God's pseudonym if he does not want to sign himself". A fade-in refers to Anatole France as the origin (the first name was incorrectly spelled without an E). The quote is actually from Théophile Gautier ; from France comes the statement: "Chance, that is ultimately God".
In episode 51, “6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 t”, ie 6 quadrillion tons, is falsely faded in as the value for the mass of the earth , but in fact it is (approximately) 6 quadrillion kilograms or 6 trillion tons.
As a result, 74 of the value is as the speed of light whose value for falsely "330 000 000 m / s" is displayed, a rule of thumb calculations is generally indicated with 300,000,000 m / s.
In episode 102, Lesch sometimes confuses energy and performance .
In episode 140, Lesch claims that the Internet was invented at CERN , but in fact only the World Wide Web was founded there.
In episode 160, the chair is too small to be placed at the end of the mat.
When a viewer asked how many orange-colored sweaters he had, Lesch answered in episode 156 with the statement that there was only the one he was wearing. However, at the same time a text was faded in, there would be a second one in case Lesch should spill his coffee.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lesch's cosmos becomes Ask Lesch . Retrieved July 29, 2015.
- ↑ Archive: Lesch's Kosmos . ZDF . July 29, 2015. Archived from the original on August 11, 2015. 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. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
- ↑ Ask Lesch . ZDF . April 29, 2012. Archived from the original on December 3, 2016. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 26, 2013.
