Neomaniacs
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | neoManiacs |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| year | 2017 |
| Production company |
Hitchon |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Episodes | 3 in 1 season |
| genre | comedy |
| Director | Michael Hilli |
| script | Michael Hilli, Matthias Mettenbörger, Rebecca Rehm, Joseph Bolz , Niki Drozdowski and Ralf Betz |
| production | Matthias Mettenbörger, Sarah Kübler, Roman Beuler |
| music | Vincent Lee |
| camera | Matthias Mettenbörger, Malte Proeckl |
| cut | Michael Hilli, Tino Klein, Daniel Rau |
| German-language first broadcast |
March 30, 2017 on ZDFneo |
| occupation | |
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Neomaniacs , or neoManiacs , is a three-part German miniseries whose framework is interspersed with sketches and which starred YouTube stars like AlexiBexi and Michael Schulte . The series was developed as part of the TVLab 2015 and broadcast on ZDFneo in 2017 . Some clips from neoManiacs have also been published on the series' YouTube channel.
content
The actor Lars Fricke need for an art-house film, the Lord of the Rings -Figur Gollum imitate. On the film set, Lars cannot convince the director or his crew with his acting. He will be given three days to deal with this problem or he will lose his acting job. The actor and his manager Freddy secretly decide that Lars should be admitted to a mental hospital over the weekend as a false patient to learn how to convincingly play the schizophrenic Gollum.
The admission to psychiatry goes smoothly. But already after the first therapy, in which Lars and other patients are anesthetized with electric shocks, doubts arise in him and the actor decides to break off his stay in psychiatry. But nobody believes Lars is only here to prepare for the role. Neither the drug-addicted senior nurse Cordula nor the sinister-looking senior doctor and head of the institution, Dr. Mankow want to buy the story from him. In addition, his manager Freddy dies in a car accident and now Lars is the only one who knows the truth.
To Dr. Lars looks for allies to escape Mankow and the strict regiment of head nurse Cordula. Together with Micha, who can only communicate by singing, and other patients he wants to escape from psychiatry.
Production and broadcast
The four YouTube stars AlexiBexi , Michael Schulte , Lars Fricke and Ooobacht were the winning team of the ZDFneo TVLab 2015 . They competed there as “Team DWING” (for “The Web Is Not Enough”), won the vote and then developed the three-part comedy series neoManiacs together with the director Michael Hilli . The books for the series were written by Michael Hilli, Matthias Mettenbörger, Rebecca Rehm, Joseph Bolz , Niki Drozdowski and Ralf Betz . Michael Hilli, Tino Klein and Daniel Rau were responsible for editing the series. The series was produced by the Mainz agency HitchOn .
ZDFneo showed clips from the comedy series on the YouTube channel of the same name and the first episode on television on March 30, 2017. In addition, a making-of series was shown on YouTube for several weeks , in which recordings and stories from the shooting of the series formed a separate plot.
Episode list
| No. | Original title | First broadcast | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | episode 1 | March 30, 2017 | Michael Hilli | Ralf Betz, Joseph Bolz, Niki Drozdowski, Michael Hilli, Matthias Mettenbörger, Rebecca Rehm |
| 2 | Episode 2 | April 6, 2017 | Michael Hilli | Ralf Betz, Joseph Bolz, Niki Drozdowski, Michael Hilli, Matthias Mettenbörger, Rebecca Rehm |
| 3 | Episode 3 | April 13, 2017 | Michael Hilli | Ralf Betz, Joseph Bolz, Niki Drozdowski, Michael Hilli, Matthias Mettenbörger, Rebecca Rehm |
reception
Axel Weidemann from the FAZ stated the following: “Whatever the case is quoted: bad and therefore popular action films (' Tango and Cash '), series (' Game of Thrones ') and memes. Everything is charged up by sometimes gorgeous cheap slapstick in the style of the eighties and nineties - think of ' The Naked Cannon '. It ignites in his hyperbole when the football maniacs, who pulls a burning cigarette out of a coffee cup to drink from it with relish, tells how people used to play football. Scenic look back: In light beige windbreakers, with long hair, headbands, a broken shin, a gun in hand and of course constantly smoking. Such scenes are worth gold. Unfortunately, Lars Fricke's fellow inmates are moderately original and the flashbacks copied from cartoon comedies such as ' Family Guy ' often lack a sense of timing. But although many jokes are staged to death: Hope dies last. After all, 'neoManiacs' shows that you can exude at least a touch of ' Monty Python ' even in Germany . Or at least from ' Klimbim '. "
Alexander Krei from DWDL.de criticizes the fact that the neoManiacs project is overloaded: “Maybe it's because the creators have set themselves a little too much. Here skits that should work individually on the Internet, there a separate framework for TV - and because that alone is not enough, the producers have also come up with another storyline for the YouTube world. Less would probably have been more, especially since the - new - basic idea sounds very promising on paper. "
Glenn Riedmeier from the film and television series information portal TV Wishlist does not see neoManiacs as a series “in the conventional sense”, but for him it is “more of a wild, fast-paced ride through the limits of taste and humor”. His conclusion: “The sketch format is certainly not for everyone, but anyone who has a vein for anarchic comedy and over-the-top parodies of various TV genres should take a look. 'NeoManiacs' is stylistically reminiscent of productions by the British youth broadcaster BBC three , which are also characterized by surreal and weird content that goes beyond the mainstream. "
In the Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Senta Krasser attested the series had a special sense of humor: "If you are not into headless footballers or pantomime superheroes, you shouldn't laugh on the internet or on television." In addition, she criticizes the fact that the integration of the YouTube stars does not work properly in terms of content, you can see “in the format that the staff was there first, and only then did the idea for the series come along. Not all skits fit into a round whole. "
Web links
- Neomaniacs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Neomaniacs at ZDFneo
- Neomaniacs on Facebook
- Neomaniacs at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Official Youtube-Channel of neoManiacs
- ^ "TVLab" 2015 in ZDFneo: The winning team has been determined
- ↑ Interview with the managing director Sarah Kübler from the agency HitchOn in the Allgemeine Zeitung (Mainz)
- ↑ Information about Neomaniacs on the HitchOn website
- ↑ neoManiacs on the official ZDF website ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Crazy daring - "neoManiacs" on ZDFneo . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Retrieved September 15, 2017.
- ↑ "neoManiacs": Tangled up in the storylines - "TVLab" winner celebrates its premiere . In: DWDL.de . Retrieved September 15, 2017.
- ↑ "neoManiacs": Anarchic ZDFneo-sketch comedy with TVLab winners from today . In: TV wish list . Retrieved September 15, 2017.
- ↑ Breaking into the world of the mad - "neoManiacs" on ZDF Neo . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . Retrieved November 9, 2017.
