Guess what

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Television broadcast
German title Guess what!
Country of production DDR , Germany
Year (s) 1974–1997, 2017
Production
company
Mr. P. GmbH (since 2017)
length approx. 75 minutes
Episodes 111
genre Game show
Moderation
First broadcast August 1974 on GDR 1

Guess what! was a game show on television in the GDR , which was taken over by the MDR after the fall of the Berlin Wall . The subtitle of the show was "Entertainment evening with several strangers", it was one of the first successful quiz shows in the GDR.

In 2017, a new edition of the quiz show with Jochen Schropp was produced, which ran Monday to Friday at 4:15 p.m. on Das Erste .

concept

For guess what , three candidates, labeled X, Y and Z, competed against each other. The aim was to answer questions from various subjects such as everyday life or natural sciences as precisely as possible. The questions could be based on survey results ("What percentage of five-year-olds believe in the rattle stork?"), But also on natural sciences ("How many feet does a millipede have?") Or everyday estimates ("How many square centimeters of skin does a modern bikini cover?" ) are based. In addition, the audience in the hall was asked an estimation question. The one in the audience who came closest to the correct answer with his guess also became a candidate and had to guess the occupations of X, Y and Z.

A special feature of the show was that the audience always came from the same street.

You guess was the first after several failed quiz shows on GDR television that was able to assert itself with the audience and was continued until after the fall of the Wall .

broadcast

Guess you times was produced in the television studios Karl-Marx-Stadt (later Chemnitz ) from 1974 . The first presenter of the show was the university professor Jürgen Marten . His successor was Lutz Hoff from 1983 , with him the program was supplemented by show elements such as performances by musicians or the television ballet . From 1983 to 1985, under pressure from the GDR government, at least one question on the subject of the Soviet Union had to be asked in every broadcast ; this column was dropped after Mikhail Gorbachev was elected General Secretary of the CPSU. After the GDR television was switched off, the Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk took over the show. Lutz Hoff remained the moderator of Guess You Times until it was hired in 1997.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Torsten Wahl: Take a guess (DFF). Candidate X against Y and Z. Berliner Zeitung, February 24, 2003, accessed on April 1, 2016 .
  2. Anita Oschmann: The presenter saved the GDR TV hit “Guess it” well into the reunification period. Berliner Kurier, August 8, 2003, accessed April 1, 2016 .