Price of the offended viewers

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The Media Prize of the Offended Viewers was a negative prize awarded by the network of critical television viewers by Augustus Hofmann , which honored "outstanding insolence on the part of an individual television producer or an institution responsible for programming". The prize was awarded by Hofmanns Verlag. The annual award ceremony at the Frankfurt Book Fair received regular media coverage thanks to Augustus Hofmann's press work.

The prize, which was awarded from 1989 to 2008, was understood as a reminder to treat television viewers more humanely. Every television viewer had the opportunity to vote via online voting. The trophy is called the watchdog and looks like a fish. Karl Dall , Die Sendung mit der Maus and Oliver Pocher were the only winners who also received the award. It is not known why the prize is no longer awarded.

Award winners

year Award winners Reason
1989 Wim Thoelke Because he had asked his audience; "You, you, are in my heart" to sing and the whole thing with the words: "The audience has to be moved from time to time" commented.
1990 ARD and ZDF For their slogan “At ARD and ZDF you sit in the front row.” You should leave it to the viewers themselves where they want to sit. In addition, the first row is not the best.
1991 The program with the mouse Because their broadcasting slot is often taken up by programs for adults - and an adult program has never been canceled in Germany in favor of a children's program.
1992 Linda de Mol Because she let herself be doubled on a stunt and claimed the opposite.
1993 Karl Dall Because of misogynistic sayings. In his show Jux und Dallerei , Dall said to Federal Labor Minister Norbert Blüm: "We can both shoot the young women!"
1994 Helmut Thoma For the creation of the term “Kukident” for viewers over the age of 50 and for his plans to reduce the proportion of those over 50 in RTL ratings.
1996 Marijke Amado Because they turn children into "sex objects".
1997 Margarethe Schreinemakers Because she offered “ healers ” and “ shamans ” a platform and, for example, promised over-the-counter recovery via remote control in her program Schreinemakers TV (RTL).
1998 today For broadcasting images of the violent killing of a person. The 7 pm broadcast on August 27, 1998 showed how soldiers in the Congo Civil War threw a defending man into the river and shot him from above.
1999 Ottfried Fischer For discrimination against older viewers . In the fourth episode of his program, Fischer discriminated against older viewers with the comment "Mallorca is the 17th state and this is where Germany's pensioners spend their last winter".
2000 Jürgen Möllemann Because he canceled a political talk show due to strategic election discussions, but instead visited the Big Brother container.
2001 Gloria von Thurn and Taxis For the comment on the ARD program Friedman : “Africa does not have problems because of a lack of contraception. People die of AIDS because they chuckle too much. The black likes to chuckle. "
2002 Johannes B. Kerner For misconduct in reporting on the rampage in Erfurt . Kerner rushed to the scene of the crime on the day of the Erfurt school massacre. From an eleven-year-old (who had just been confronted with the corpse of a teacher), he wanted to find out what he had seen in Gutenberg-Gymnasium : “Now you are eleven years old, and we don't want to ask an eleven-year-old to be you has big thoughts, so to speak, in a big context, but when you say you've given yourself some thought, which ones were they? "
2003 Helmut Kohl For his statement on the CDU donation affair to a reporter for the Panorama program : “I am collecting the money in order to have the money I need to now conduct a major investigation into traitors to the fatherland and deniers of German unity . For example with certain machinations of the ARD ".
2004 Ruth Moschner , Oliver Welke and Gaby Köster For the bad manners that have become common on television .
2005 The super nanny Katharina Saalfrank For violating the dignity of children by performing in extreme situations.
2006 Harald Schmidt For criticizing his colleagues without naming them. Literally: “Even the worst pipes that steal mankind's time keep popping up.” And further: “Tell me someone who has finally disappeared in the last ten years. There is no. Otherwise, if they are not eating small children, they are indestructible. ”Schmidt was obliged to pass the prize on to“ the worst TV whistle (s) ”or to keep it himself.
2007 The organization office of the German Television Prize For the purchase of fans for the award ceremony 2006 in Cologne-Ossendorf .
2008 Oliver Pocher For his appearance at the celebration of the German national team at the Brandenburg Gate after their defeat in the final of the 2008 European Football Championship against Spain, where he hunched over the stage in a monkey walk with the words: “How are the Spaniards? That's how the Spaniards go, the Spaniards go like that. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.telekwatsch.de/siegerliste.html ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Steffen Grimberg: Abyss of treason . taz.de , May 17, 2003, accessed July 18, 2017.
  3. ↑ Pocher receives the "Offended Viewers Prize". In: Welt Online. October 6, 2008, accessed October 7, 2008 .

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