Rudi's day show
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Rudi's day show |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 1981-1987 |
| Production company |
Radio Bremen |
| length | 30 minutes |
| Episodes | 39 |
| Broadcasting cycle |
weekly |
| genre | Comedy |
| Moderation | Rudi Carrell |
| First broadcast | October 12, 1981 on German television |
| occupation | |
Rudi's Tagesshow is the title of a comedy broadcast on Radio Bremen from 1981 to 1987, which was moderated by Rudi Carrell .
Emergence
Rudi Carrell had to at churning retired, wanted after a short time but yet again be active on television. He thought the BBC's Not The Nine O'Clock News was an interesting program and discussed a German adaptation with his advisor Leslie Roberts. Not The Nine O'Clock News ran occasionally in seasons of about seven episodes on BBC 2 at 9:00 p.m. since October 1979 , at the same time that BBC 1 was broadcasting the Nine O'Clock News . It was a comedy show with very snappy gags. Carrell did not want to take over the latter, but rather adapt the show to German tastes.
Preliminary work
Carrell began in March 1981, together with two assistants in his office at Radio Bremen, to search programs recorded for gags, often different images on several monitors at the same time. He came at 8:30 a.m. and stayed until 6:00 p.m. A well-documented archive was created so that, for example, pictures of a politician stumbling could be found quickly if one needed something like that. ARD-aktuell particularly supported the project.
team
Since the show was intended to appeal to younger viewers, Carrell had not considered his long-term partner Heinz Eckner .
- Klaus Havenstein
Carrell wanted to work with Peer Augustinski , but he was already bound by contract. Then Klaus Havenstein joined the team, who was even a little older than Heinz Eckner.
- Diether cancer
Diether Krebs was best known to the audience in his role as the main actor's son-in-law in One Heart and One Soul . This series was extremely popular and was the reason Carrell chose Cancer.
- Beatrice Richter
Beatrice Richter stepped in at short notice as a replacement for Barbara Valentin in the cabaret show Scheibenwischer . Carrell then hired her for the daytime show that same evening . Richter found the collaboration with Carrell unbearable and wanted to quit after the first season. Carrell was able to persuade her to participate in the second season.
- Susanne Czepl
Susanne Czepl replaced Beatrice Richter from the third season.
- Guests
Prominent guests played in some editions, for example Nena Carrell's role as speaker and Heiner Geißler Carrell pressed a cake in the face at the replica lectern of the Bundestag.
The broadcast
Rudi's Tagesshow consisted primarily of a news anchor , played by Rudi Carrell himself, who - according to the Tagesschau - read the news from a sheet of paper. The news included a short film clip. But because he couldn't fill thirty minutes of airtime with it, there was still a part that mostly had no current reference, namely skits that appeared as feature films or were played in the studio.
The decoration was not based on the original daily news, everything was designed independently. This also applied to the show's theme song. While Not The Nine O'Clock News was recorded the day before the broadcast, Carrell opted for a live broadcast, which was easy to achieve due to the many pre-produced parts. Carrell's daughter Annemieke was the director. The program was also broadcast by ORF . The broadcast date was on the Monday before the topics of the day , i.e. at 10 p.m.
The first season took place at the time of the Schmidt III cabinet on October 15, 1981, the second already during the Kohl I cabinet , which suited the program because you could make new gags with the new politicians. In particular, Norbert Blüm appeared so often in a season that he appeared in person at the end of the season and "unnoticed" poured a bucket of water over Rudi Carrell's head.
Carrell wanted to quit after two seasons in 1982, but the ARD pushed for further editions due to the immense success. So after a year break, the third season came in 1984 and further seasons in 1985, 1986 and 1987. The program ended in March 1987.
Ayatollah gag
The program of February 15, 1987 on the eighth anniversary of the Iranian revolution caused a scandal of international proportions and death threats when the head of state Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was parodied in a clip . In the fictional excerpt, Khomeini was thrown from the crowd at a rally and rummaged around in it (close-up of the hands in the underwear). Due to the political consequences, Rudi's Tagesshow itself became the subject of the ARD's real Tagesschau .
Immediately after the broadcast, the Iranian ambassador demanded an apology from the federal government . The day after the broadcast of the German Ambassador to the Iranian government was summoned , the Goethe Institute in Tehran was closed and the flights to Germany were canceled.
In an official statement, the federal government distanced itself from the sketch, which was “not approved”, regretted and “considered tasteless”. Death threats were received against Rudi Carrell and his family and he was given temporary personal protection . Carell described the time after the scandal as "the worst week of my life" and apologized for the contribution. Since then, ARD has not broadcast the sketch, neither in repetitions of the show, nor in best-of episodes or cuts.
The end of the series shortly thereafter, according to the biography, had nothing to do with it.
success
In 1982 Carrell received the Golden Europe .
In 1983 Carrell got his second Golden Camera , with the chief spokesman of the Tagesschau, Werner Veigel , giving the laudation.
In 1984, due to the success of Beatrice Richter after her voluntary departure from Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), she and Diether Krebs offered her own series Sketchup , which was just as successful. The audience sometimes laughed so loudly that they were shown it more often because they feared that TV viewers might otherwise mistake it for tape-recorded laughs. The gigantic success of his daily show motivated Carrell to do a big Saturday evening show again, which then resulted in Die verflixte 7 and then the new edition of the Rudi Carrell Show with the subtitle Let yourself be surprised .
While Rudi Carrell switched to RTL Television at the end of the 1990s in order to turn satire into current affairs again in 7 days with comedians he had chosen himself, Norbert Blüm and Beatrice Richter presented a format under the title Rudi's Tagesshow EXTRA in which between old daytime show has always been blasphemed Clips on the case no longer present itself Rudi Carrell and moved here. These special editions were and are being repeated by the regional ARD broadcasters (formerly third parties) to this day on special occasions such as New Year's Eve and on public holidays, which has been criticized by a large part of his fans as tasteless and disrespectful since Carrell's death would rather like a re-broadcast of the original episodes as recognition.
literature
- Jürgen Trimborn : Rudi Carrell. A life for the show. The biography. C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-570-00941-6 .
Web links
- Rudi's daytime show in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Rudi's day show .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h A life for the show , Chapter 9 Time out without a break
- ↑ dpa: 25 years ago: TV off for "Rudi's Tagesshow" . In: Focus . March 7, 2012.
- ↑ Christine Auerbach, Tobias Krone: Böhmermanns predecessor - German satire provokes not for the first time . In: Bayerischer Rundfunk . April 11, 2016.
- ^ Christian Richter: The TV cemetery: Böhmermann's unsuspecting predecessor . In : quotemeter.de . April 28, 2016.