Marler Group
The Marler Gruppe is a working group of the Marler Adult Education Center " die insel ". This working group discusses the development of television programs and the forms of broadcasting of both public television and private television . The Marler Group has received greater public attention since its involvement as a spectator jury for the Grimme Prize .
history
Soon after the founding of the adult education center in Marl , the two-week “four-zone press review” took place in June 1946 as the first occupation with media content . Since 1951, members of the adult education center have been archiving press releases and creating the sound archive. Bert Donepp , the first director of the adult education center, geared some of the content of the adult education courses to electronic media in order to learn how to use these then new media in a meaningful way. An important goal was the analysis of the effect of television on the views, opinions, prejudices and wishes of the audience. In 1963, Bert Donepp initiated the creation of the Adolf Grimme Prize at the German Adult Education Association , which is one of the most prestigious awards for German television programs today. The granting Grimme Institute is based in Marl. In 1968 interested citizens founded the Marler Group in order to take part in the discussion about the competition entries for the Adolf Grimme Prize.
Participation in the Grimme Prize
As a representative cross-section of the Marl population, the “lay jury”, which consists of 16 to 20 course participants from the Marler group, has been viewing the competition demonstrations of the Adolf Grimme Prize since 1969 and then discusses with television managers, directors , authors and cameramen. The verdict of the Marler Group will be read out at the award ceremony.
Occupation with the television program
When it was founded, the Marler Group primarily viewed and assessed individual programs and classified their importance according to quality, style and message. The ever increasing diversity of programs and channels forced the course participants to develop new course concepts. In today's courses, program sections are analyzed and their tendencies worked out. By illuminating the suggestive dangers of the mass media, training takes place in the conscious handling and targeted use of television.
Youth work
Since 1997 the Marler Group has been supplementing its sessions during the competition for the Grimme Prize with secondary school students. The aim is to introduce students to the conscious use of media content.