Sour Cucumber (Award)

The Saure Gurke media prize was a negative prize that was awarded from 1980 to 2018 as part of the media women’s meeting for a television report produced by a public broadcaster that was particularly misogynistic in the opinion of the participants . The commercial broadcasters were excluded because, according to the committee, they were "out of competition". The award ceremony was discontinued in 2019.

requirements

The award was given to contributions:

• in which women do not appear
• in which women are defined by their body
• which impose over-idealizing role models on the audience

Award winners

1980 to 1989

• 1980: The dispute § 218 (WDR), moderation: Theo M. Loch, editor: Johannes Kaul, discussion participants: Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and Federal Minister of Justice Hans-Jochen Vogel
  • Consolation prizes
    • Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff "for his old-fashioned, charming, no-nonsense management"
    • the editors aspects "for the success of the last few years to keep this cultural program as free from women as possible"
    • the two news programs Tagesschau and heute "for the faithful reproduction of male power in public life"
• 1981: Die Bonner Runde (ZDF), moderation: Johannes Gross
  • Consolation prizes
    • Manfred Sexauer “for his tireless emphasis on female virtues” in the music store
    • Tatort episode cat and mice (SFB), screenplay: Joachim Nottke & Karl-Heinz Knuth, director: Eberhard Itzenplitz
• 1982: Gods in White ...? from the series Die Frau at seine Seiten ( Sender Free Berlin ), written and directed by Host Cierpka
  • Consolation prizes
    • the ARD and ZDF sports editors "for the coherent and concise reporting on the first international women's soccer match BRD: Switzerland"
    • Werner Höfer
• 1983: Abortion on sickness certificate out of line How would you decide? , Book: Alexander Fuhrmann Moderation: Gerd Jauch , Editor: Gerd Jauch ( ZDF )
• 1984: Günther Nenning , moderator of the talk show 3 to 9 ( Radio Bremen )
  • Consolation Prize: Franz Alt (Report Südwestfunk) for his book Love is possible
• 1985: Günther von Lojewski , moderator and editor of the article on abortion in Report Munich (BR)
  • Consolation Prize: Alexander Niemetz (ZDF) for the editorial team of the women's magazine SIE
• 1986: Mike Krüger (presenter) and Jochen Filser (editor) of the show Vier gegen Willi (Bayerischer Rundfunk)
  • Consolation prizes
    • Wolf-Dieter Ebersbach (Südwestfunk) for the "Woman and Car" section in Das Rasthaus
    • Karl Joeressen and Pierre Kandorfer (ZDF) for Die kleine Filmkunde
• 1987: Only for buses (SDR), moderator: Jochen Busse , editor: Günther Herbst
• 1988: Mother is the best (ZDF), moderators: Enrico de Paruta and Ramona Leiß
  • Consolation Prize: WDR for the 7th sense of February 18, 1988. “With a coherent logic, the editorial team has succeeded in depicting the driving inability of women motorists. The tendency towards high heels and lipstick clouds women’s view of parking, threading and starting up on the mountain. "
• 1989: Madrid, Madrid, Madrid ( Hessischer Rundfunk ), moderation: Wolf Hanke, editing: Heiner Schölling
  • Consolation Prize: Money or Love from September 28, 1989, moderation: Jürgen von der Lippe

1990 to 1999

• 1990: Ernst Elitz , editor-in-chief of SDR , for the moderation of Thailand: Child prostitution from the series Weltspiegel
• 1991: Rothenbaumchaussee (WDR / NDR), book: Robert Müller , director: Dietrich Haugk
  • Consolation Prize: Tutti Frutti (rtl plus)
• 1992: heute-journal (ZDF), Jürgen Grahn; Moderation: Peter Voss
• 1993: I still have a suitcase from Berlin ( ZDF ), author: Werner Doye
• 1994: The men from K3 - Made in Hong Kong , book: Harald Vock , director: Dietrich Haugk
• 1995: Fritz Pleitgen for his moderation of With Power to Equality? from the press club series (WDR)
  • Consolation prize: the entertainment editorial team for television wdr, Karin Zahn (editor)
• 1996: On the Disappearance of Fathers (Süddeutscher Rundfunk), script and director: Hartmut Schwenk
• 1997: Tatort episode nightmare , book: Bodo Kirchhoff , director: Bodo Fürneisen
  • Consolation Prize: Goldkinder from the ZDF series 37 Grad , author: Iris Pollatchek, editor: Wolf-Rüdiger Schmidt
• 1998: Report from Afghanistan ( Westdeutscher Rundfunk ) by Armin-Paul Hampel
• 1999: the show Sabine Christiansen

2000 to 2009

• 2000: Klaus Bresser for moderating the presentation of the Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Prize on October 24, 2000 to Gabi Bauer , Maybrit Illner and Sandra Maischberger
• 2001: the television play Paulas Schuld ( ZDF ), screenplay: Hans Ulrich Krause, director: Claudia Garde
• 2002: the show Men - the discriminated gender? from the family time series ( BR ), editor: Gerd Niedermayer, moderation: Wolfgang Binder
• 2003: the heute-journal from September 8th, 2003 with Marietta Slomka and Karin Catal.
• 2004: the documentary Alphorn und Bankgeheimnis (Bayerischer Rundfunk) by author Thomas Hausner and editors Ulrike Leutheusser and Astrid Harms
• 2005: Norddeutsche Rundfunk for its annual work. The NDR's equal opportunities officer, Sabine Knor, sent the award back to the jury as unfounded and described the jury's decision as an “own goal”.
• 2006: ARD for the program The Great Show of Natural Wonders , moderation: Frank Elstner and Ranga Yogeshwar
  • Consolation prize: Waldemar Hartmann for his image of women conveyed in Waldis WM-Club ( ARD )
• 2007: the ZDF cooking show Lafer! Lights! Delicious!
• 2008: Günter Struve , ARD program director
  • Consolation Prize: Carmen Nebel
• 2009: Tatort episode Architecture of a Death from Hessischer Rundfunk
  • Consolation Prize: Bet that ..? -Editing for the November 7, 2009 broadcast

From 2010

• 2010: the NDR for the ARD anniversary broadcast 60 years of ARD - the big birthday show
• 2011: the television film Lügen Have Left Hands ( ZDF ) by Mathias Klatscha (book), Thomas Nennstiel (director), Berit Teschner and Klaus Bassiner (both editors)
  • Consolation award (cucumber warning): ZDFneo for the theme evening Sex Sells - the world of the porn industry on September 17, 2011
• 2012: Tagesschau report of May 16, 2012 on the new French government, which failed to mention “that women make up half of the cabinet in Paris for the first time”.
• 2013: The MDR for the crime scene episode Kalter Engel from Erfurt . An MDR spokesman commented that the award winners probably did not fully understand the corresponding script.
  • Consolation prize (cucumber warning): ZDF advertising film Ballsauber in Sweden for the 2013 European Women's Football Championship
• 2014: SWR Director Christoph Hauser for the World Cup Club on the topic of player women
  • Consolation prize: ZDF correspondent Udo van Kampen for a heute-journal contribution
• 2015: The MDR for the ARD Sportschau contribution by Frank Stuckatz about Sandra Kiriasis
  • Consolation prize: ZDF quiz show The quiz champion for the Germany special
• 2016: Market editor of WDR for the film eMannzipation
• 2017: Claus Kleber for the interview with Maria Furtwängler in heute-journal on July 12, 2017. Kleber refused to accept the award.
• 2018: Interview by ZDF sports reporter Martin Wolff with Angelique Kerber. Wolff responded with an apology.

Web links

• Saure Gurke - Winners 1980-2010 ( Memento from September 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
• Pickle 2018
• Brigitte Reimer (co-initiator of the award): Die Saure Gurke - An unusual success story , contribution to the symposium “Brutal - normal? Glorification of violence and contempt for women in the media ”by the German Women's Council on October 16, 2009

See also

• List of negative prices

Individual evidence

1. ↑ J. Huber: "Saure Gurke für Sexismus: Ausgepreist In: taz of November 14, 2019 ; accessed on July 8, 2020
2. ↑ Media Prize Saure Gurke ( Memento from September 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ The 1999 prize goes to the Sabine Christiansen series. 1999
4. ↑ Spiegel: Excellent Bavarian Radio. November 3, 2002
5. ↑ Spiegel: Saure Gurke for the "heute journal". November 9, 2003
6. ↑ ARD natural wonder show voted the most misogynistic show. October 14, 2006
7. ↑ Tagesschau: Günter Struve receives the "Saure Gurke" ( Memento from September 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ This year the “Saure Gurke” challenge went to a Tatort production by HR
9. ↑ Report on the award of the Sauren Gurke 2010. Retrieved on November 1, 2010 . 
10. ↑ Press release about Saure Gurke 2011. Retrieved on February 16, 2012 . 
11. ↑ 35th Fall Meeting of Media Women. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 20, 2012 ; Retrieved November 12, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ Report on the 2013 sour cucumber award. Accessed November 11, 2013 . 
13. ↑ Focus : Media women etch against sexist MDR “Tatort” , November 10, 2013
14. ↑ Bettina Burkart: Awarding of the negative prize “Saure Gurke” 2017. In: Deutsche Welle . November 18, 2017. Retrieved December 15, 2017 . 
15. ↑ Claus Kleber : In own (sic!) Matter. In: Twitter . December 15, 2017. Retrieved December 15, 2017 . 
16. ↑ J. Huber: "Saure Gurke" for Kerber interview. How sexist is that? In: Der Tagesspiegel from October 28, 2018 ; accessed on December 22, 2018