The super nanny

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Television series
Original title The super nanny
Super-nanny.jpg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Year (s) 2004-2011
Production
company		 Safe TV
length 45 minutes
Episodes 145 in 7 seasons
Broadcasting
cycle		 weekly (wednesday)
genre Docu-soap , help show
First broadcast September 19, 2004 on RTL Television
occupation

Katharina Saalfrank

Super Nanny was a coaching - TV format radio station RTL in the character of reality TV , in which the graduate teacher Catherine Hall Frank advised families in educational issues.

concept

In each episode, one family was given advice on parenting issues. The Super Nanny visited those involved in their family environment and observed the situation before actively intervening. In particular, she advised parents on questions of upbringing. In the self-portrayal of the program, it said: "With this format, RTL wants to offer help to the families concerned on the one hand, but on the other hand also show the viewer solutions to problems in their own families on the basis of different cases." The consultant Katharina Saalfrank saw herself as a a "translator of the behavior pattern of children with their parents".

In her work for The Super Nanny , Saalfrank said she looked at the family system in its entirety and applied the building blocks of systemic theory . Social work methods were also practiced.

The first step in her work was to create a new perspective for the parents, who can usually only look at their children in a deficit-oriented manner, and to awaken the parents' understanding for the child. The aim was to strengthen the child and, through the direct support of the parents in everyday life, to convey as many positive common experiences as possible between parents and children. One element of the educational work was video analysis, which often showed the parents their own difficult behavior towards the children and was supposed to lead to a confrontation with themselves.

background

The original format Supernanny came from Great Britain and was first broadcast there from 2004 to 2008. There are numerous versions in other countries, each produced by different companies with different nannies.

In Germany, the program was produced by Tresor TV . Since it was first broadcast on September 19, 2004, the German version has been shown, with interruptions, on Wednesdays at 8:15 p.m. In the meantime, attempts have been made to establish the social pedagogue Nadja Lydssan as a second super nanny alongside Saalfrank . After a season in which both appeared alternately, the show continued without Nadja Lydssan.

The NDR media magazine Zapp reported in 2009 that the families for the program were placed by a specialized casting agency and received € 2,000 for participation. A “supernanny” family had already been arranged for various other reality formats beforehand.

On November 26, 2011, RTL announced that no more episodes would be produced. The show was discontinued because Saalfrank did not want to meet the production company's expectations of increasingly incorporating scripted reality, as it interfered too much in her educational work.

The license format was seen as Mission Familie ( AT : Familien in Not ) on Sat.1 from March 26, 2014 , but was not continued after the first season with six episodes. Tresor TV took over the production again.

criticism

Criticism of the show in general

A research project by the Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies at the University of Vienna examined the weaknesses and strengths of the format. Different international formats of the program were considered. The authors of the study saw the potential of the program, among other things, in the fact that it could “promote the acceptance of educational counseling, especially among low-income segments of the population who have little educational resources”.

The behavioral and social scientist Jan-Uwe Rogge criticized, among other things, that there is no diagnosis of child development processes and that inappropriate behavior is generally presented as requiring treatment. The program is superficially reduced to educational techniques, and no value is placed on insight and participation by all those involved. It therefore promotes a tendency towards the "feasibility mania" in education.

The Commission for Youth Media Protection (KJM) of the state media authorities classified the program as very problematic. It cannot be ruled out that individual children may experience stigmatization in the public through the chosen forms of representation, which can lead to negative consequences for them. The commission could not determine a violation of the provisions of the State Treaty on the Protection of Minors in the Media.

The German Child Protection Association criticized that the program suggested that complex parenting problems could be solved within a few days. Furthermore, it was criticized that Katharina Saalfrank almost exclusively addresses the needs of the parents and not those of the children.

According to the news magazine Der Spiegel , the program served " Voyeurism , schadenfreude and know-it-all of the public".

The media scientist Helga Theunert saw a danger in the “support of prejudiced and distorted ideas regarding family life and educational counseling”, the educational scientist Sigrid Tschöpe-Scheffler saw the children depicted as “victims of reality TV”. The child psychologist Wolfgang Bergmann was also critical: In his opinion, children were traumatized, parents were incapacitated and the simplest basic rules of psychology were disregarded. The pedagogue Andrea Schmidt criticized the fact that the viewers were expected to produce staging patterns that the broadcaster would have had with the audience. The format aims at emotionalization, personalization and supposed authenticity and should therefore be classified as affect television . The social environment and other socialization instances are usually hidden, the children are exposed by “pointing” the camera in emotional situations and discriminated against by comments.

Katharina Saalfrank herself regretted the absence of migrant families on the show. There are corresponding applicants, but the broadcasting station RTL does not want to provide the program with subtitles, according to a message from the station to Spiegel Online .

Criticism of individual consequences

After the program was broadcast on May 5, 2010, the Commission for Youth Media Protection (KJM) took action and imposed a fine of 30,000 euros for violating human dignity. In the complained broadcast, a five-year-old girl was beaten several times by her mother in front of the camera without the camera team present intervening.

In episode 77 of the Internet magazine Fernsehkritik-TV , a family described the sequence of the shooting and the consequences of the broadcast on family life. The affected daughter explained that she had been urged by both the TresorTV staff and Katharina Saalfrank personally to provoke her brother until he would use violence. Meanwhile, their mother was absent. At the instruction of the film team, he finally hit the daughter in the face. This was then justified by the fact that the family members were "actors in a film" and that they had to keep contracts. The texts that the family members said were given by editors. In addition, the mother expresses the unproven suspicion that the film team poisoned the family dog ​​in order to obtain particularly emotional film scenes from the announcement of this news. The costs for electricity and water as well as for damage caused by the film team amounted to more than 900 euros and had to be borne by the family. After the filming was completed and the program was broadcast, the family was exposed to personal insults from others, as they viewed the scenes shown as supposedly real. In addition, one of the daughters is still suffering from mental health problems caused by the shooting. RTL contradicted this representation. Saalfrank brought an action against the operator of the magazine before the Cologne Regional Court and demanded that this reporting be omitted.

The episode of September 14, 2011 was examined by the Lower Saxony State Media Authority on suspicion of violations of youth media protection, and the result was passed on to the Commission for Youth Media Protection (KJM) of the state media authorities, which also initiated a formal examination procedure. The episode of the “Super Nanny” violated human dignity after a decision by the KJM . This view was confirmed on July 8, 2014 by the Hanover Administrative Court.

Awards

The English-speaking original supernanny with Jo Frost

The concept of the show comes from Great Britain , where the original Supernanny is produced by Ricochet based in London and Brighton . The first episode of this format, which focuses on British educator and author Jo Frost , was broadcast in July 2004.

In the United States , a competition broke out for the brand name, which was won by the television station ABC in 2005. Since then he has been producing his own episodes - also with Jo Frost - in which American families are introduced instead of British. The inferior competitor Fox has since produced the reality show Nanny 911 with a very similar concept .

In Great Britain the program has been produced since February 2010 under the name Jo Frost: Extreme Parental Guidance .

Precursors of Super Nanny was a British reality program called Little Angels , the 2004 to 2006 of BBC Three was broadcast. Families with common upbringing problems were presented here; a team of experts - Tanya Byron , Stephen Briers, Rachel Morris and Laverne Antrobus - provided advice. The program was nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2005.

Shipment process

The families presented in the program are mostly from the articulate white middle class and almost always include two or more children, mostly of pre-school or elementary school age. Typical behavioral problems of the children the program is about are physical or verbal attacks on siblings or parents, emotional outbursts ( temper tantrums ), the use of vulgar language , excessive demands, excessive media consumption or a lack of cooperation in everyday family life (going to bed, doing household chores ).

Each episode begins with an introduction to the family and their problems in the form of video clips, which are commented on by an off-speaker and by the parents themselves. In the American version, the nanny drives up in her car - modeled after a London taxi - with the registration number SPRNANNY . She greets the family and observes family life for a day. The recordings of the observation day and the coaching are continuously interrupted by incised recordings in which both parents and Frost comment on the event.

The observation day is followed by a discussion with parents , in which Frost confronts the parents with the upbringing errors that they have observed up to then and with them defines the focus of the parent coaching , which is the central theme of this reality show. If the cause of the children's behavior problems is an educational laissez-faire or a counterproductive role model behavior on the part of the parents, rules are first drawn up and the parents are equipped with techniques that are supposed to help enforce these rules (incentives, child time-out on the naughty spot ). If, on the other hand, a lack of organization, lack of quality time or inadequate communication with the children are named as causes, a detailed family schedule is drawn up instead. At the heart of the program are two working periods in which the parents under Frost's direction undergo educational training in their everyday home environment. Between the two training periods, the family is left to their own devices for a few days, but accompanied by a camera. Frost discusses these recordings with the parents and then trains them further. Each episode ends with Frost's farewell and a balance sheet drawn by the parents and possibly also the children.

Education concept and criticism

At the center of Frost's educational coaching are strengthening parental credibility and authority as well as promoting a safe, transparent, loving and peaceful living environment in which children can thrive.

Although the show received mostly positive ratings in Great Britain and the USA, it was also countered there that the advice given was sometimes overly simplistic, that the happy endings of the episodes were possibly questionable and that appearing on the show could harm some children emotionally . Frost's educational philosophy has occasionally been criticized as eclectic and not scientifically founded.

Literature on the show

In May 2005 a companion journal was published, the Official Super Nanny Magazine , with a print run of 200,000 copies, published by Panini Verlag . It deepened the topic of the program and reported on the long-term success of the educational intervention. Due to low sales, the magazine was already discontinued after one issue.

Scientific literature

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Mara Thölkes: From television to anonymous Internet. In: General-Anzeiger Online. January 5, 2006, accessed September 7, 2017 .
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  5. ↑ Caroline Fetscher: "Super Nanny": No more staged misery. In: Zeit Online. November 29, 2011, accessed December 31, 2011 .
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  9. ^ Judith Arnold: The Super Nannies and Their Audiences. In: Medienheft. September 22, 2006, accessed September 27, 2008 .
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  11. ↑ Cordula Diehm: Dick, violent and anti-social. (No longer available online.) In: Landesanstalt für Medien Nordrhein-Westfalen. December 4, 2007, archived from the original on October 5, 2008 ; Retrieved September 27, 2008 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lfm-nrw.de
  12. ^ Deutscher Kinderschutzbund: Statement on the new RTL Reality series the Super Nanny. October 7, 2004, accessed September 27, 2008 .
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  14. ↑ Helga Theunert: Is the "super nanny" really great? (No longer available online.) In: Online family handbook of the State Institute for Early Childhood Education. July 6, 2005, archived from the original on September 14, 2008 ; Retrieved September 27, 2008 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.familienhandbuch.de
  15. ^ Frank Berzbach: Super Nanny and consorts. In: sciencegarden. January 1, 2005, accessed September 27, 2008 .
  16. ↑ Andrea Schmidt: Everything super nanny? For the media staging of education . In: Our youth 60.2008, pp. 392–398
  17. ↑ Thorsten Dörting: "Koch has no idea". In: Spiegel Online. January 17, 2008, accessed September 27, 2008 .
  18. ↑ DWDL.de Retrieved April 15, 2011 http://www.dwdl.de/nachrichten/30915/versto_gegen_menschenwrde_bei_super_nanny/
  19. ^ TV review episode 77
  20. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / fernsehkritik.tv
  21. ↑ TV review episode 101 , (from 36:50)
  22. ↑ "Super Nanny" episode under review for beating September 15, 2011
  23. ↑ http://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/tv/die-super-nanny/haben-verstiess-gegen-menschenwuerde-jugendschutz-25297182.bild.html
  24. ↑ The court dismisses RTL's action. In: sueddeutsche.de. July 8, 2014, accessed May 12, 2018 .
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  32. ↑ Just Televised Supernannies May Be Just a Bit Too Super . In: New York Times , August 2, 2005
  33. ↑ You've been very, very naughty . In: The Guardian , July 22, 2006