Literary program (television)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A literary show is a genre of television that is about conversations and reviews of literature.

features

Content and form overlaps and transitions to other genres include film biographies , documentaries , talk shows and film essays . Despite their low production costs, literary programs have remained a domain of public television . To this day, literary figures and literary lovers have reservations about the television and film medium. Criticisms include commercialization, trivialization and subjectivism. On the part of the television broadcasters, the chronically low audience rate of this television format is criticized, so that literary programs are usually only broadcast on late broadcast dates in the third television programs. Proponents of literary programs appreciate the opportunity to be able to form a better judgment about the quality of the works discussed.

The establishment of literary programs led to a profound transformation of the book market. Positive reviews or fierce controversies about a work increase sales by several times the average sales. Not only owner-managed bookstores, but above all book trade groups such as Thalia , Hugendubel and Weltbild base their current range of books on the selection of books discussed in a literary program.

Individual prominent literary critics in the medium of television have developed into a major market power in terms of book sales. In Germany this was mainly Marcel Reich-Ranicki and Elke Heidenreich , in France these were for a long time Bernard Pivot's literary programs Apostrophes and Bouillon de culture . The monthly best list of Südwestrundfunk , which was brought to life in the 1970s by the writer and literary critic Jürgen Lodemann with other colleagues in the literary magazine program, has a lesser but constant influence on reading behavior .

Literature programs (selection)

With Marcel Reich-Ranicki
With Elke Heidenreich
  • Read! (2002 to 2009), ZDF / Internet
Germany
Switzerland
Austria
  • erLesen (2010 -), TW1 / ORF III , book magazine with Heinz Sichrovsky 
France
  • Apostrophes (1975–1990), Antenne 2 , with Bernard Pivot
  • Bouillon de culture (1991 to 2001), Antenne 2, later France 2 , with Bernard Pivot
  • Café littéraire (2008 -), France 2 , with Daniel Picouly
  • La Grande Librairie (2008 -), France 5 , with François Busnel

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. "The literary coffee house" , literaturkritik.de
  2. ^ "Solo" , literaturkritik.de
  3. Christine Richard: "The Internet reviews do us no harm." In: Basler Zeitung , February 9, 2009.
  4. Press release: "" erLesen "- the new book broadcast on TW1." In: TW1 , September 7, 2010.
  5. Manfred Flügge: "The new literary program from France 2." In: Die Welt , September 11, 2008.
  6. page of the broadcast