Panorama (magazine)

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Television broadcast
Original title panorama
Panorama-Logo.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Year (s) since 1961
Production
company		 Northern German Radio
length 30 minutes
genre Politmagazin
idea Rüdiger Proske
Gert von Paczensky (based on a British template)
Moderation Anja Reschke (since 2001)
First broadcast June 4, 1961 on ARD 2

Panorama is the oldest German political television magazine . It was first broadcast on June 4, 1961 . The magazine is produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk and broadcast every three weeks alternating with monitor and contrasts on Thursdays at 9:45 p.m. on Das Erste . Anja Reschke has moderated it since 2001 .

background

The show was launched in 1961 by Rüdiger Proske , who was then head of the "Current Affairs" department at the time . In terms of format and concept, and on the recommendation of Werner Pleisters , he oriented himself on the British program BBC Panorama , which was first broadcast in 1953 and was very successful in Great Britain.

Panorama was the first political magazine in the Federal Republic and soon became a political issue due to many sensational reports.

Formally, the contributions initially consisted of illustrated articles by the authors, which were in the tradition of newspaper journalism. The images were created by realizers , including Klaus Wildenhahn , who - with the support of editor Kirsten Wedemann - tried out his first experiments with TV reports and began his career as an important television documentarian . Only gradually did the independent format of political reporting on television develop.

The critical reporting was always the reason to take action against Panorama . In 1978, for example, the NDR State Treaty was terminated because of reports from Panorama about the Brokdorf nuclear power plant .

  • In 1962, the police arrested a Panorama team in Geldern who was filming a report about a teacher who had been a concentration camp overseer under the National Socialist regime . In the autumn of that year, employees of the federal government were also outraged by reports from Panorama which, in their opinion, served to "torpedo measures by the federal government". Panorama journalism was accused of being one-sided, "derailed" and similar to the "methods of the National Socialists and Communists before 1933".
  • In 1974 a broadcast took place without direct moderation from the editorial staff around Peter Merseburger . The moderation texts and the explanation of this unusual step before the broadcast were read out in the studio in front of empty moderation tables by the daily announcer Joachim Brauner . The ARD had taken a contribution from the program due to a majority decision of the directors' conference, the editors expressed their protest through the boycott. The contribution came from Alice Schwarzer and dealt with an actual and illegal abortion according to German criminal law . The NDR and Radio Bremen respected the director's decision, but then decided to broadcast the report in their own third joint program. It was introduced by a brief statement from NDR director Martin Neuffer . The Panorama editorial team no longer felt that the program, which was so compulsorily changed in terms of content, was something they wanted to be responsible for and to present to the outside world.
  • In 1978, a report by Stefan Aust accused the then Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg, Hans Filbinger, of having, as a naval staff judge, imposed and signed death sentences on deserted marines in April 1945 shortly before the end of the Second World War . Filbinger initially rejected the allegations and later stated that his judgments and judgments were formally lawful and bound by instructions, but were no longer enforced in several cases. A few weeks later, Filbinger resigned from his post as Prime Minister ( Filbinger affair ).
  • In 1982, during a live broadcast, a documentary contribution made by Stefan Aust, which was supposed to show secret documents from the apartment of the Bavarian State Security Chief Hans Langemann , who had been suspended from duty on suspicion of treason, disappeared . A reconstruction of the contribution was broadcast the next day, but the original has disappeared.
  • In 1988 Oskar Lafontaine's lawyer prevented a critical report just four minutes before the broadcast began.
  • The Barschel letter , discussed in 1988, was questioned shortly afterwards in its authenticity and in 1991 it turned out to be a forgery by the Stasi .
  • In 1998, after a critical report, all telecommunications advertising contracts were withdrawn from ARD , but the boycott only lasted a few months.
  • In 1999 Helmut Kohl's saying became legendary when he said to an obtrusive Panorama reporter: "I have absolutely no intention of doing an interview with you [...] You are from" Panorama "[...] You know, what that means. You have nothing to do with journalism . "
  • In 2002, the suspicion was expressed in Panorama that the then Hamburg Interior Senator and Second Mayor Ronald Schill had consumed cocaine . This was proven solely by the testimony of an anonymous witness who turned out to be mentally ill a little later. The magazine only sent a silent moving image of the witness, whose testimony was repeated by an NDR employee. Schill affirmed that he had never coked and was able to obtain in court that the panorama report was no longer broadcast and the claim that he had coked could no longer be repeated. He was later able to present a hair sample as negative. The rumor of coke, which is still often mentioned in cabarets and tabloids, was confirmed four years later , despite the criticized lack of care in the original research by Panorama .
  • In 2007 Panorama broadcast a report with the title Murder and Torture as Leisure Fun - Killer Games on the Internet , which aroused indignation in the PC gamer scene, as the players of computer games saw themselves as being equated with rapists and neo-Nazis . Among other things, the report showed pictures of games that were not approved for young people in Germany or that had unofficial modifications , without it being pointed out that these modifications were not made by the game manufacturer and that some of them are prohibited in Germany. In addition, anti-constitutional symbols were introduced into the game environment, and sex scenes with characters were incorrectly portrayed as rape by the authors. The in Panorama interviewed -contribution players hit Panorama of having ripped her statements out of context and misleading statements. The online magazine Telepolis pointed out that the report was strongly influenced by the Pan Amp company , which is thus pursuing its own interests: The company's representative, who appears in the report as a “killer game expert”, had already advised Panorama on several Internet issues the Pan Amp itself offers products, namely internet filters.
  • At the end of 2014 Panorama broadcast the article Contact attempt: “Lügenpresse” meets Pegida . After the broadcast, it became public that an interviewee was an undercover RTL reporter. The following note was added to the broadcast page: “One of the interviewees is an undercover RTL reporter, as Panorama only found out after the shooting.” The incident was heavily criticized across Germany and the collaboration between the reporter and RTL ended . The current head of the Panorama editorial team, Volker Steinhoff, commented on the matter as follows: “We don't know what that should be. But one thing is clear to us: It doesn't work! This gives a good argument to those who always shout 'lying press'. After all, he has meanwhile informed us that he works for RTL and, in 2012, also for an NDR regional studio. Which doesn't change the fact that he played the 'normal demonstrator' in front of our camera and thus did the credibility of journalists a disservice. "

The Panorama - Die Reporter format was launched in 2008 and has received multiple awards for its reports on the textile company KiK and Carsten Maschmeyer and the financial services provider AWD . In 2012 Panorama 3 went on the air weekly as a political magazine for NDR television, moderated by Susanne Stichler .

In March 2020 the Panorama authors Nadia Kailouli and Jonas Schreijäg received the Grimme Prize in the "Information and Culture" category. The award-winning documentary SeaWatch3 was a joint production of the funk format STRG_F , Panorama and NDR Dokfilm.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tim Schanetzky : Adenauerzeit (part 4). When the journalists got cheeky. In: Die Zeit No. 44 of October 22, 2009.
  2. ↑ Hans Leyendecker : Kohl and the “Panorama” reporter: “Disappear!” Spiegel Online, May 16, 2003 (originally from the Süddeutsche Zeitung ).
  3. ↑ Panorama No. 695 of March 27, 2008 (transcript)
  4. ↑ Picture: Schill does hair test because of cocaine rumors. In: Hamburger Morgenpost from February 8, 2002.
  5. ↑ Schill report: No evidence of cocaine. In: Welt Online , January 15, 2004.
  6. ^ Jürgen Schmieder: Ronald Schill. Cocaine and hate speech. In: Sueddeutsche.de , March 9, 2008. See Hans Leyendecker : Who is shocked? Schill, the cocaine, the NDR - and an old bill . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 10, 2008, p. 15; and Hans Leyendecker: Ronald Schill. The last rush in Rio. ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2009 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. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 8, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sueddeutsche.de
  7. ^ Thomas Lindemann: Kulturkampf. The unjust crusade against the video games. In: Welt Online , January 14, 2008.
  8. ↑ Bastian Birke: Panorama, "Killerspiele" and the filter company. In: Telepolis , February 28, 2007.
  9. ^ Michael Hanfeld: False Pegida demonstrator. RTL throws reporters out. . In: FAZ of December 21, 2014.
  10. ↑ Volker Steinhoff: RTL incognito at Pegida: This is how you endanger credibility. In: Panorama (magazine). December 20, 2014, accessed January 17, 2015 .
  11. ^ NDR: Grimme Prize for the documentary "SeaWatch3". March 3, 2020, accessed April 26, 2020 .