Hurray Germany
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Hurray Germany! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 1989-1991 |
| Production company |
Gum Studios GmbH |
| genre | Polit - satire |
| First broadcast | June 19, 1989 on Das Erste |
Hurray Germany is the name of a German political satire -Sendereihe commissioned by the WDR , by 19 June 1989 to 10 May 1991 at the First was seen. The trademark of the program was the rubber dolls manufactured by the Cologne-based company Gum-Studios GmbH , which, as caricatures of politicians and stars, commented on current events in short skits. Stephan Wald and Thomas Freitag and later Hans-Jürgen Schupp contributed the votes . Stefan Lichter and Diether Dehm were among the authors of the series .
The model was the British show Spitting Image of the television station ITV , which has existed since 1984 , where many celebrities were parodied with rough British humor. The characters there became known worldwide in 1986 through the video clip for Land of Confusion (including a doll of US President Ronald Reagan ) from the album Invisible Touch by the pop group Genesis .
In contrast to the British edition, the one-handed clamshell dolls were produced in a size ratio of 1: 1 and cost around 10,000 DM each. According to the producer in charge of the third season, Hugo Göke, a Hurra Deutschland series cost as much as a Tatort production.
From 2003 there was a new edition under the title Hurray Germany - Now all the more! on RTL II , which, however, was less snappy compared to the original series and had less political figures than personalities from the media as puppets.
The French equivalent is called Les Guignols de l'info and has been running since 1988.
Seasons
The first season ran from June 19 to August 21, 1989, every Monday from 10:15 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. The second season in January / February 1990 and from April 5 to May 10, 1991 from 9:45 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. The third and final season ran from July 8 to August 12, 1991 every Monday from 9:40 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
| Season | year | running time | Number of episodes | Airtime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1989 | June 19 - August 21 | 10 episodes | Mondays 10:15 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. |
| 2 | 1990 | January 8th - August 13th | 12 episodes | Mondays 9:45 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. |
| 3 | 1991 | April 5th - August 12th | 12 episodes | Mondays 9:40 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. |
| Special | 1992 | 17th of May | 1 episode | |
| Blah tour | 1992 | September 26th | 1 episode |
Kohl and the gang
Under the name Kohl and the Gang , an allusion to Kool & the Gang and Helmut Kohl , Polydor released an LP and several singles with the makers of Hurra Deutschland :
- Albums
- 1991: Kohldampf
- Singles & EPs
- 1990: He's The Boss
- 1991: Only costs in the east
- 1991: Living In The Sun
In 1998 the Hurra Deutschland Band released the album Bla Bla Bla .
criticism
"Mr. Storch and his dolls houses (...) are strictly forbidden from such majesty insults to German wrens, they never go below the belt, nobody gets hit on the Duodez. With "Hurray Germany" the public satire has found its final form for the nineties: Snappy like a gummy bear, funny like an autopsy and tangy like an oil spill on the Dead Sea. "
literature
- Sven Behrmann: Chapter 4.5.3 Hurray Germany (ARD) . In other words: Political satire on German and French radio . Saarbrücker Contributions to Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies (Volume 20). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-8260-2346-3 , pp. 188-194.
Web links
- Hurray Germany ( Memento from July 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- Hurray Germany in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hurray Germany at fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kohl and the Gang on discogs.com
- ↑ Kohldampf on discogs.com
- ↑ Hurray Germany on discogs.com
- ↑ Bla Bla Bla on discogs.com
- ↑ Peter Stolle: Horrible to bed. Snap-mouth drama on ARD: With “Hurray Germany”, another TV satire failed devastatingly. In: Der Spiegel No. 26/1989, pp. 188–189 ( online version )