RTL donation marathon

Group picture, 2014

The RTL Spendenmarathon has been an annual fundraising campaign run by the private television broadcaster RTL since 1996 .

History and description

The RTL donation marathon has been held annually since November 26, 1996. It is the longest charity program on German television, with a duration of more than 24 hours. In the 20th anniversary year 2015, the donation marathon was held for the first time over a period of more than 30 hours. The show has been moderated by Wolfram Kons , who is also RTL's general director for charity , since it started . In recent years, the donation show and other campaigns raised a total of more than 170 million  euros (as of November 2018). All proceeds go to the non-profit foundation “RTL Foundation - We Help Children eV”. For the time of the RTL donation marathon, RTL is changing its entire program for one day. Around the clock, the donation studio is switched once an hour so that the selected children's aid projects for which funds are collected can be presented. Wolfram Kons also welcomes prominent volunteer project sponsors live in the studio and the interim status of the fundraising campaign is presented.

The entire broadcast is transmitted from a special studio with an attached call center , in which the donors can call and also take part in the auctions running at the same time . To support these auctions, celebrities are invited annually to hand over personal items so that they can be auctioned. The proceeds from the auctions also go to the foundation. The auctions have been handled via the United Charity charity auction platform since 2016 .

Since the year 2000, a special program Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? - Celebrity special is broadcast, in which only celebrities play and donate their winnings to the “RTL - We help children” foundation.

Partners and sponsors

The RTL donation marathon is supported by sponsors such as Ford (2002–2007), Volkswagen (2008–2015), Vodafone (has been providing the call center and handling the hotline since 2006 ), Netto Marken-Discount (has been providing the printed children's motif shopping bag since 2014 ), Bofrost (with the sale of the family calendar), Sparda-Bank West eG, Lions Club and many others.

Donation sums

year	donate
	DM	Euro
1996	04,829,929.00	02,469,503.48
1997	05,004,855.00	02,558,941.73
1998	06,398,916.00	03,271,713.80
1999	06,560,000.00	03,354,074.74
2000	08,475,827.00	04,333,621.53
2001	10,752,487.00	05,497,659.31
2002		05,706,867.00
2003		04,538,879.00
2004		04,206,071.00
2005		04,597,049.00
2006		05,154,760.00
2007		05,484,957.00
2008		07,140,000.00
2009		07,300,000.00
2010		07,941,389.00
2011		08,501,738.00
2012		08,827,419.00
2013		07,826,339.00
2014		07,674,556.00
2015		010,068,215.00
2016		07,828,397.00
2017		09,188,527.00
2018		08,604,481.00
2019		010,868,729.00
Total in €	142,093,158.59

In total, more than 170 million euros have been collected since the start of the fundraising marathon in 1996 (as of November 2018). The different amount comes from donations outside of the annual donation show.

Prominent project sponsors

In order to accompany the respective foundation projects, celebrities from culture and politics volunteer as sponsors every year . In the past few years these have included:

• 1996: Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Michael Schumacher , Pelé , Howard Carpendale , Plácido Domingo and Ute-Henriette Ohoven .
• 1997: Alexander Kwaśniewski, Ute-Henriette Ohoven , Uschi Glas , Henry Maske , Hans Meiser and Peter Scholl-Latour .
• 1998: Ute-Henriette Ohoven , Rosi Mittermaier , Danièle Thoma, Christiane Herzog , Geert Müller-Gerbes and Oliver Bierhoff .
• 1999: Birgit Schrowange , Danièle Thoma, Katja Burkard , Hans Meiser , Barbara Eligmann and Henry Maske .
• 2000: Dieter Thoma , Stefan Effenberg , Gaby Köster , Steffi Graf , Henry Maske and Norbert Blüm .
• 2001: Sven Ottke , Barbara Becker , Katarina Witt , Nena , Christina Rau and Peter Kloeppel .
• 2002: Katja Burkard , Sasha , Silvia von Schweden , Hannes Jaenicke , Bernd Stelter , Ulrike von der Groeben and Maria Furtwängler .
• 2003: Markus Lanz , Liz Mohn , Cosma Shiva Hagen , Dieter Bohlen , Nadja Auermann and Antonia Rados .
• 2004: Nazan Eckes , Yvonne Catterfeld , Katja Burkard , Vitali Klitschko , Wladimir Klitschko , Susanne Kronzucker and Reinhold Messner .
• 2005: Steffi Graf , Pierre Brice , Eva Luise Köhler , Jürgen Klinsmann and Frauke Ludowig .
• 2006: Nazan Eckes , Hannelore Elsner , Maria Furtwängler , Henry Maske , Katia Saalfrank and Shakira .
• 2007: Peter Kloeppel , Anke Engelke , Hannes Jaenicke , Jörg Knör , Eva Padberg and Boris Becker .
• 2008: Annie Lennox , Franziska van Almsick , Birgit Schrowange , Madeleine von Schweden , Ilka Eßmüller and Inka Bause .
• 2009: Philipp Lahm , Christian Rach , Susan Sideropoulos , Ricky Martin , Miriam Pielhau and Vera Int-Veen .
• 2010: Nico Rosberg , Sylvie van der Vaart , Bettina Zimmermann , Eckart von Hirschhausen , Xavier Naidoo , Katja Burkard and Atze Schröder .
• 2011: Bettina Wulff , Michael Mittermeier , Jana Ina Zarrella , Andrea Berg , Janine Steeger , Lukas Podolski , Alfred Biolek and Sandra Thier .
• 2012: Shakira , Christine Neubauer , Magdalena Brzeska , Bülent Ceylan , Manuel Neuer , Mario Barth , Matthias Sammer and Annett Möller .
• 2013: Til Schweiger , Guido Maria Kretschmer , Steffen Hallaschka , Judith and Axel Milberg , Rosi Mittermaier , Borussia Mönchengladbach , Barbara Wussow and Daniela Schadt .
• 2014: Thomas Müller , Günter Wallraff , Uschi Glas , Motsi Mabuse , Christopher Posch , Wolfgang Niedecken , Ulrike von der Groeben , Borussia Mönchengladbach , Oliver Kahn and Ben Stiller .
• 2015: Pope Franziskus , Til Schweiger , Mario Götze , Joachim Löw , Malala Yousafzai , Alexander Klaws , Maxi Biewer , Lena Gercke .
• 2016: Annette Frier , Sarah Connor , Elena Bruhn , Auma Obama , Dieter Nuhr , Silvia von Schweden , Lars Riedel , Jutta Speidel .
• 2017: Mirja Boes , The BossHoss , Jorge González , Mats Hummels , Senta Berger , Laura Wontorra , Toni Kroos .
• 2018: Julian Draxler , Peter Kloeppel , Wincent Weiss , Ann-Kathrin Kramer , Harald Krassnitzer , Jasmin Wagner , Valentina and Cheyenne Pahde .
• 2019: Franziska Knuppe , Victoria Swarovski , Beatrice Egli , Heino , Matthias Steiner , Elke Büdenbender and Andreas von Thien .

Selection of previous projects

1996

• Workshops for 130 Chernobyl victims in Minsk
• Prostheses for Sarajevo's mine children
• Dormitory for 40 street children in Rio de Janeiro
• Help for street girls in Cape Town
• Street children learn Puebla for life
• Promotion of handicapped children through toys in Berlin

1997

• Expansion of a school for the blind in Saigon
• Doctor, equipment and therapy for outcast orphans in the children's home in Dzourkovo in Bulgaria
• Complete conversion of an old hospital into a special needs school for the Oberlinverein in Potsdam
• Multipurpose hall for the Christophorus School in Erfurt
• Help for self-help for street children in Ethiopia

1998

• Help for street children in the poor district of Recife in Brazil
• Support for the construction of a cystic fibrosis - day clinic in Berlin
• Support a program of the University Hospital of Debrecen against infant mortality
• Support for the Sagarmatha Eye Hospital in Lahan
• Support for the renovation and equipping of an evening school as well as the establishment of four craft workshops in Dhaka

1999

• New airlift for children with heart disease in Berlin
• Reconstruction of the school in Gölcük
• Reconstruction of the school in Glogovac
• Funding for the Olpe children's hospice

2000

• Rehabilitation center for young offenders in Florencio Varela
• Youth meeting in the Cologne suburb of Am Donewald
• Training center for 100 street children in Villupuram
• New gym for a school for the disabled in Dessau
• Assault offers for traumatized children of the Kosovo war

2001

• Training center for former child slaves in Poipet
• Foster families for children with AIDS in Romania
• New construction of a handicapped-accessible riding hall for the St. Lukas Home in Papenburg
• Parental home for the Clinic for Children and Adolescent Medicine Cottbus
• 60 houses for AIDS orphans in the Luweero district in Uganda
• Children's village for 2000 AIDS orphans near Johannesburg in South Africa

2002

• Rehabilitation center for disabled children in the slums of Calcutta
• Improved care in the Jena children's clinic
• Handicapped accessible new building for the Lemgoer Topehlen school in Lemgo
• Operating theater and patient room for cataracts in Zimbabwe
• A reception center for street children in St. Petersburg
• New crèche for Friedrichstadt

2003

• Re-establishment of a children's clinic in Baghdad
• New home for street children and orphans in Ukraine
• Construction of a kindergarten and school in Gambia

2004

• Construction of “transit homes” for kidnapped girls in Nepal
• Home for abused and neglected children in Pinswang
• Establishment of a new home for street children in Romania
• Psychological care for traumatized children in Beslan
• Training center for orphans in Rwanda
• Center for Eating Disorders at the Berlin Charité

2005

• Elevators for wheelchair users in the Stephanus School in Berlin-Weißensee
• Center for growth issues in Bremen
• Children's Hospital in Sri Lanka

2006

• Primary school for 200 children in Colombia
• Day center for children at risk in Klaipėda
• Leisure and recreation facility for needy children in Brandenburg am Beetzsee
• Training center for slum children in Cebu
• School for children at risk of addiction in Berlin-Pankow
• Construction of a primary school in Malawi

2007

• Renovation of a children's home in Senaki
• Support of the Nestwärme eV association
• Houses for Tibetan refugee children
• Renovation of the Lituhi Health Center
• Boarding school for girls with leprosy near Kolkata

2008

• Construction of a health station in Mozambique
• Expansion of a contact point for abused and neglected children in Cape Town
• Center for AIDS and tuberculosis children in the Cape Town suburb of Vrygrond
• RTL children's homes in Braunschweig , Wolfsburg , Gifhorn and Salzgitter
• Caritas facilities for socially disadvantaged children in Berlin , Leipzig , Stuttgart , Munich and Cologne

2009

• Violence prevention projects in schools
• Construction of a school for needy children in Na Nai
• RTL children's home Arche in Berlin-Friedrichshain
• Support of nine facilities of the children's aid organization Children for a better World
• Summer camp for disadvantaged children in Germany

2010

• Reconstruction of a destroyed orphanage in Haiti
• Construction of a primary school in Burundi
• Construction of a children's hospital in Ghana
• Promotion of the existing RTL children's homes in the Wolfsburg - Braunschweig region
• Establishment of an RTL children's home in Mannheim
• Construction of an RTL children's home in Nuremberg
• Project: More hospital clowns for sick children in German hospitals
• Meeting place for disabled children in the Bergstrasse region

2011

• Aid program against child labor in eight mines in the Center-Nord region
• Development of four youth centers and 40 youth clubs in Kenya , Tanzania , Uganda and Ethiopia
• Establishment of an RTL children's home in Warsaw
• Construction of a center for severely disabled children in Krefeld
• Establishment of a protection center for abused and abused girls in Kenya
• Building houses for AIDS orphans in Cape Town

2012

• Support of the fit-4-future campaign
• Construction of an RTL children's home in Gelsenkirchen
• Construction of a school for refugee children in the Colombian port city of Cartagena
• Construction of an eye clinic in Togo
• Construction of a school for visually impaired children in Chile

2013

• Eye ambulance for Bulawayo
• Expansion of a children's home in Lesotho
• Project: 3 x 1 makes you strong!
• Project: futOUR summer camps

2014

• Improvement of the care situation for autistic children in Nuremberg
• Construction of the Burgholz children's hospice
• Project: brotZeit
• Construction of a center for visually impaired and multiply disabled children in Zambia

2015

• Help for traumatized refugee children
• Construction of a secondary school for girls in the Bekaa plain in eastern Lebanon
• Improving health and education for visually impaired children in the Republic of Ivory Coast
• Support of the MITsprach funding program

2016

• Construction of three training centers for parents in La Paz and El Alto
• Renovation and expansion of the Hopital Ophthalmologique St. André de Tinré in Benin
• Construction of an educational facility in Kenya
• Construction of a house with 48 apartments for socially disadvantaged families

2017

• Construction of an RTL children's home in Gröpelingen
• Improvement of medical care for seriously ill children at Orotta Hospital in Asmara
• Renovation and expansion of the Nankhali Primary School in Malawi
• Construction of a children's eye clinic in Sierra Leone

2018

• Expansion of the eye clinic in Kumba
• Construction of a new therapy center for children with disabilities in Peru
• Reconstruction of the children's and youth hospice in Central Germany in Tambach-Dietharz
• Financing of a central contact point in Hamburg for victims of abuse
• Expansion of the Ederhof rehabilitation center
• Construction of Elli's Eyeland , a first point of contact for children's eye cancer in Meerbusch

Web links

Commons : RTL Spendenmarathon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• RTL donation marathon at RTL.de
• Official website of the RTL Foundation - We Help Children eV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ RTL donation marathon: 30 hours of XXL charity program with Wolfram Kons for the anniversary! In: RTL.de. November 20, 2015, accessed November 24, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} 8,604,481 euros in donations at the 23rd RTL donation marathon with Wolfram Kons. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. November 24, 2018, accessed November 24, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Partners and sponsors. In: RTL.de. November 16, 2009, accessed November 23, 2019 . 
4. ^ The partners of the RTL donation marathons. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 23, 2019 . 
5. ^ RTL - We help children: annual reports and balance sheets. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
6. ↑ All sponsors and projects of the RTL donation marathon. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 23, 2019 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} The godparents and projects 1996. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b} The godparents and projects 1997. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
9. ↑ ^{a b} The godparents and projects 1998. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
10. ↑ ^{a b} The godparents and projects 1999. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
11. ↑ ^{a b} The godparents and projects 2000. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
12. ↑ ^{a b} The godparents and projects 2001. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
13. ↑ ^{a b} The sponsors and projects 2002. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
14. ↑ ^{a b} The sponsors and projects 2003. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
15. ↑ ^{a b} The godparents and projects 2004. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
16. ↑ ^{a b} The sponsors and projects 2005. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
17. ↑ ^{a b} The sponsors and projects 2006. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
18. ↑ ^{a b} The godparents and projects 2007. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
19. ↑ ^{a b} The sponsors and projects 2008. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
20. ↑ ^{a b} The godparents and projects 2009. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
21. ↑ ^{a b} The godparents and projects 2010. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
22. ↑ ^{a b} The sponsors and projects 2011. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
23. ↑ ^{a b} The sponsors and projects 2012. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
24. ↑ ^{a b} The sponsors and projects 2013. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
25. ↑ ^{a b} The sponsors and projects 2014. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
26. ↑ ^{a b} The sponsors and projects 2015. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
27. ↑ ^{a b} The sponsors and projects 2016. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
28. ↑ ^{a b} The godparents and projects 2017. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 24, 2019 . 
29. ↑ ^{a b} The sponsors and projects 2018. In: WirhelfenKinder.RTL.de. Retrieved November 24, 2019 .