Polite paparazzi

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Polite Paparazzi (or Wir polite Paparazzi ) is the name of a German-speaking forum that collects reports of chance encounters with celebrities.

Christian Ankowitsch founded the forum in autumn 1999. Originally, memories of the 1970s were thematized under the heading Alles Bonanza . Contributions to encounters with well-known personalities were later added under the heading Polite Paparazzi . However, it became a real clash between the All - Bonanza -Interessierten and Polite Paparazzi . For this reason, the forum was divided into [www.alles-bonanza.de] and [www.hoefliche-paparazzi.de] in the summer of 2003.

Some of the approximately 600 writers of the Polite Paparazzi were or are themselves well-known cultural workers. For example Tex Rubinowitz , Hermes Phettberg , Wolfgang Herrndorf (whose writing was significantly influenced by the forum), Wolfgang Müller , Felix Kubin , Joachim Lottmann , Murmel Clausen and Kathrin Passig . A large part of the members of the Central Intelligence Agency , a network of journalists, originally met in polite paparazzi .

Selected texts from the forum have now been published in book form, and readings have taken place in the Deutsches Theater , the Schauspielhaus Zurich and the Münchner Kammerspiele , among others . The forum was also the first venue for the fictional characters Supatopcheckerbunny and Hilfscheckerbunny by Ulrike Sterblich (as the author) and Tex Rubinowitz (as the draftsman), who were later the subject of articles in the satirical magazine Titanic , books and lecture series (together with Stese Wagner).

In retrospect, Holm Friebe described the courteous paparazzi in autumn 2013 as “a collecting tank for people with a common interest in clever thoughts and well-crafted sentences [...]. The top rule of the forum is: The written word counts, regardless of the person [...]. This created a happy parallel world in the form of government of the meritocracy : the harder punch line and the more rigorous judgment ruled. "

The forum was nominated for the Grimme Online Award 2004. In October 2005, a hard drive crash caused a large number of posts from July to October of the same year to be lost.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Holm Friebe: The man who fell out of the world . In: Welt Online . September 2, 2013 ( welt.de [accessed February 7, 2016]).
  2. ↑ Literature: And next year the Nobel Prize! In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. July 2, 2006, accessed February 7, 2016 .
  3. ^ DiePresse.com: Mortal and Wagner: Berlin bunnies in Vienna. In: diepresse.com. November 17, 2008, archived from the original on February 7, 2016 .;

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