Summer slump

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The summer slump is a term used in the mass media , especially the daily press and news agencies , for a time with little news, which is mainly due to the summer break of political institutions and sports leagues, as well as cultural institutions.

Many politicians are on summer vacation; there are less politically relevant events and dates. Sports clubs have no significant games or competitions during this period. The news turnover of the press agencies is therefore falling noticeably. In this time, which is generally low in news, the media then also report on events and people for whom there would otherwise be no airtime and no space in the newspapers, or more often report alleged sensational reports without news value - such as in 2010 local reports pushed via Twitter about a vandal Flower tubs - which may turn out to be newspaper ducks. Also use lobbyists and so-called backbenchers the silly part to bring up this week with their own issues.

The earlier expression “ pickle time” is used with a similar meaning .

Summer potties

Sommerlochtiere is a humorous term for animals that are the subject of news media coverage during the news-poor summer slump. The longest lived and most famous summer looper in the world is the Loch Ness Monster . Typical examples are escaped or abandoned non-native wild animals, which pose a potential danger to humans, sometimes also domestic animals that evade their owners by escaping, or old zoo animals that have died. In some years these curious stories get the highest attention for several days, even weeks. In the summer of 1982, for example, a puma allegedly roamed around in southern Denmark for several weeks (see also the article Alien Big Cats ). The Danish police went on an unsuccessful hunt for the animal. 33 years later, such a puma was sighted again. This time, the German police in the border town of Flensburg near the Friedenshügel district went in search of the animal without success. Further examples of such summer prey animals are the spectacled caiman Sammy (1994), "killer catfish" Kuno (2001), " problem bear " Bruno (2006), the swan Petra (2006 to 2008), the cow Yvonne (2011), the saltwater crocodile Max (2015) ., the dog Flecki (2015), "Problem Stork" Ronny (2016) and a yellow anaconda (2018).

See also

Web links

Wiktionary: Sommerloch  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "The summer slump seems to have reached Twitter too." According to a local report from Münster: Flower tubs become Twitter star , taz, August 5, 2010
  2. ↑ "The summer hole has disappeared - the editor of a Münster local newspaper stuffed it with a broken flower pot.", The flower pot from Neuenkirchen: Shards bring clicks , Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 7, 2010
  3. ↑ "The peak of the summer slump has been reached: A flower pot from the Münsterland makes it an Internet star." Summer slump: the death of a flower pot documented: Twitter community celebrates Kübel as an Internet star , Netzwelt, August 6, 2010
  4. ^ Word of the day: Das Sommerloch , Spiegel Online from July 31, 2008 ( Memento from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
  5. ↑ Godzilla, the summer hole caiman toad
  6. ↑ Yvonne: First cow, then deer, then Torro and finally knocked out
  7. ^ Dpa, Arno Burgi: Saltwater crocodile Max died in the Dresden Zoo. In: focus.de. FOCUS Online, July 6, 2015, accessed on July 10, 2015 : "Visitor Favorite" "
  8. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Predator sighting: A Puma in Flensburg: Almost like 1982 , from: December 9, 2015; accessed on: January 5, 2018
  9. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Flensburg: Unknown animal on tracks leads to large-scale operation , from: December 6, 2015, Die Welt : Big cat strays through Flensburg - police operation , from: December 6, 2015, Der Spiegel : Fahndung in Flensburg Police looked for something mysterious with a helicopter Animal , dated: December 6, 2015; Accessed on: January 5, 2018 as well as: Flensburger Tageblatt : Sharks, octopuses and orcas: Curious animal encounters: What is going on in SH , from: December 21, 2017; Accessed on: January 5, 2018
  10. ↑ Kuno the killer catfish appears. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine . Retrieved August 26, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Why cute animals end up in the summer slump , Walulis, July 3, 2017
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  13. ↑ Stork Ronny annoys a whole village . In: sueddeutsche.de . July 25, 2016, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on March 3, 2019]).
  14. ↑ Yellow anaconda sighted. In: Spiegel Online. Retrieved August 26, 2018 .