Children's television

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Children's television is television that specifically addresses the target group of children . This includes both children's series and films , as well as educational children's programs for preschool children ( preschool education program ). There are also special children's TV channels .

History of children's television in Germany

As early as 1953, there was a program for children in the test program of GDR television on Sundays from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. In the GDR, unlike in the West, there was no serious discussion about banning children from watching television. Instead, television as a whole should be developed into a mass medium and programs for children should have its place in it. So there were, among other things, the shows Our Sandman and Master Needle Eye .

With the beginning of the first experimental television programs, programs for children were also integrated into the programs in the Federal Republic of Germany. The Augsburger Puppenkiste was on view from around 1953 . In the same year, the first cartoons such as Kalif Storch and feature films such as Das doppelte Lottchen were shown.

The 1970s developed and brought out for the first time a greater variety of regular children's television series and tried new concepts. The Spielschule (from 1969) and the successor Das feuerrote Spielmobil (1972–1981) from BR for Das Erste , Die Sendung mit der Maus (since 1971) from WDR for Das Erste, Rappelkiste (1973–1984) from ZDF , Sesamstraße (since 1973 on German television in the broadcasting area of NDR , Radio Bremen , SFB , WDR and hr in a German-adapted version) and Kli-Kla-Klawitter (1974–1976) produced and broadcast by ZDF.

Since the beginning of the 1980s, there have been experiments with children in news studios at ZDF. At the same time, with the advent of private television providers in the 1980s, there was increased competition between the individual broadcasters. From 1989 the children's news program logo was broadcast, a 10-minute news program for children aged 9 to 13. On July 5, 1995, the first German-language television station aimed entirely at children went on air. (For details on the children's television channels, see there.)

According to DWDL.de , today's children's television in Germany is considered conservative in an international comparison.

Television consumption by children

In the brochure “Flicker in the Room” published in 2012 by the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ), tips for families on how to deal with children's television consumption are given. Information about the television behavior of children makes it clear what can be problematic and how television consumption in families can be regulated. See also: The Initiative Look!

Research on television consumption by children

The International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television (IZI) examines the media use of children and young people. The IZI database can be used to search for publications on topics related to children's, youth and educational television.

Web links

• Everyday media life of children - dossier key topic of the Federal Agency for Civic Education , last accessed on November 22, 2014.
• Scientific articles on the history of television for children and young people - Internet portal on children's and young people's literature of the University of Bremen , last accessed on March 20, 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Children's television in the GDR , in: Dossier: German TV History East and West, Federal Agency for Civic Education , August 30, 2012, last accessed on July 17, 2014.
2. ↑ Preschool TV: It rattles in the box: The stormy “Sesame Streets” spring is followed by a hot TV preschool autumn. The Bayerischer Rundfunk shows a completely redesigned "Feuerrotes Spielmobil", the ZDF opens a "Rappelkiste". Both early education series are intended to encourage toddlers to “act autonomously” - reason for further cheers and protests. Der Spiegel from October 1, 1973 (PDF, 2 pp., 333kB, archive) .
3. ↑ Silke Burmester: When the dolls learned to fidget. "Sesame Street" turns 40. Its protagonists: outsiders, wild and chaotic. This has shaped: a whole generation. Enthusiasm with some, refusal with Bayern. The time of January 3, 2013 (archive) .
4. ↑ Hans-Dieter Kübler: From a television kindergarten to a multimedia children's portal - 50 years of children's television in the Federal Republic of Germany. International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television (IZI) April 9, 2002 (p. 9).
5. ↑ Hans Dieter Stötzel, Dirk Ulf Erlinger: History of children's television in the Federal Republic of Germany. Development processes and trends. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft Spiess, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-891-66123-1 .
6. ↑ Melchior Schedler: Children's television differently. Drafts for an emancipatory television. DuMont Verlag, 1975, ISBN 3-770-10777-2 .
7. ↑ From the television kindergarten to the multimedia children's portal - 50 years of children's television in the Federal Republic of Germany by Hans-Dieter Kübler, in: TELEVIZION, edition 14/2001/2, last accessed on July 17, 2014.
8. ↑ Trends and topics for kids in 2013 - “Nothing is as conservative here as children's television” by Thomas Lückerath (February 7, 2013), DWDL.de , last accessed on July 17, 2014.
9. ↑ Flicker in the room - A brochure by the BMFSFJ, (PDF; 1.9 MB)
10. ^ The IZI database