Terra X: Germany from above

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Television broadcast
Original title Terra X : Germany from above
Country of production Germany
original language German
Year (s) since 2010
length 45 minutes
Episodes 12 or 14 in 4+ seasons
genre documentation
Theme music Steve Jablonsky : Autobots
idea Petra Höfer and Freddie Röckenhaus
production ZDF
music Boris Salchow
Moderation Voiceover: Leon Boden
First broadcast May 23, 2010 on ZDF
One of the locations: the Frankfurt skyline
The big star in Berlin with the victory column

Germany from Above is a Terra-X documentary series. The ZDF series by Petra Höfer and Freddie Röckenhaus , which largely depicts Germany's geography with aerial photographs (the so-called “aerials”), was broadcast for the first time in 2010. The respective seasons are divided according to the themes of city, country and river.

The series had an average of five million viewers during the first season. Germany from above was nominated for the German Television Award 2010 in the category “Best Reportage” and for the Grimme Award 2011. In 2011 the series received the special prize of the German Camera Prize .

The title song comes from Steve Jablonsky's album for the first Transformers film and is called "The Autobots Arrival to Earth". All seasons are moderated from off by the voice actor Leon Boden .

Content and production

The production of the individual seasons took one year each. The bird's eye view was taken with the help of helicopters , ultralight and powered aircraft . The first season aired in May 2010 and the second season started in May 2011.

After the success of the first season, four extended episodes with unsent material were produced for ZDFneo in 2010 : Stadt I + II and Land I + II.

The first season shows u. a. the development and growth of Berlin from 1800 during industrialization to the city of 4 million inhabitants around 1920, the sights of Berlin , the Theresienwiese in Munich during the Oktoberfest , the emergence of Dortmund at the intersection of two trading routes in the Middle Ages , the skyline of Frankfurt and accompanies two parachutists jumping from a skyscraper, the Limes , Munich and Frankfurt am Main airports , the most important waterways , the Wadden Sea UNESCO World Heritage Site , the port and warehouse district of Hamburg .

The second season shows u. a. historic planned cities such as Karlsruhe , Mannheim and Freudenstadt , the rebuilt old town and Frauenkirche in Dresden and accompanies a zeppelin on its flight over Frankfurt am Main .

A similar documentary called Britain from Above aired on the BBC in 2008 . The Dutch broadcasting organization VPRO has been broadcasting the documentary “Nederland van boven” since December 2011, based on the same model .

On June 7, 2012, the cinema version Germany started from above . This is not structured according to city / country / river, but leads chronologically through the individual months of the year. Directed by Freddie Röckenhaus and Petra Höfer .

In 2016, the 60-minute special episode "A Winter Tale" was broadcast with winter footage from the country.

Episodes

episode Episode title First broadcast Channel D odds
season 1
1 city May 23, 2010 ZDF
1.1 City I. November 6, 2010 ZDFneo
1.2 City II November 6, 2010 ZDFneo
2 country May 30, 2010 ZDF
2.1 Country I. November 6, 2010 ZDFneo
2.2 Country II November 6, 2010 ZDFneo
3 flow June 6, 2010 ZDF
season 2
4th city May 15, 2011 ZDF 4.63 million
5 country May 17, 2011 ZDFneo
6th flow May 18, 2011 ZDFneo
season 3
7th city May 18, 2013 ZDFneo
8th country May 25, 2013 ZDFneo
9 flow 1st June 2013 ZDFneo
Season 4
10 city 17th May 2015 ZDF
11 country May 24, 2015 ZDF
12 flow May 31, 2015 ZDF
Special consequences
13 A winterstory December 24, 2016 ZDFneo

Publications

DVD

  • Season 1 was released on March 25, 2011
  • Season 2 was released on July 15, 2011
  • Season 1 & 2 was released on August 5, 2011
  • “Germany from Above - The Cinema” was released on December 7, 2012
  • Season 3 was released on July 5, 2013
  • Season 4 was released on November 20, 2015

Blu-ray

  • Season 1 & 2 was released on August 19, 2011
  • “Germany from Above - The Cinema” was released on December 7, 2012
  • Season 3 was released on July 5, 2013
  • Seasons 1-3 appeared on October 4, 2013
  • Season 4 was released on November 20, 2015

Awards

continuation

The series was continued with the two-part documentary "Germany from Below". The first broadcast took place on May 17 and 24, 2014 on ZDFneo.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. German Camera Prize for Terra X: Germany from Above
  2. Episode guide at fernsehserien.de (German)
  3. ↑ A brilliant start for "Deutschland von oben 2", May 16, 2011 (German)
  4. Terra X - Germany from above June 1, 2013 (German)
  5. Terra X - Germany from above 2, June 2, 2013 (German)
  6. Terra X - Germany from above 1 & 2, July 8, 2013
  7. Germany from above - the movie
  8. Terra X - Germany from above 3, June 2, 2013 (German)
  9. Terra X - Germany from above 4, November 20, 2015 (German)
  10. Terra X - Germany from above Seasons 1 & 2
  11. Germany from above - the movie
  12. Terra X - Germany from above, Season 3
  13. Terra X - Germany from above, seasons 1–3
  14. Terra X - Germany from above 4, November 20, 2015 (German)
  15. Terra X - Germany from below (last visited on May 21, 2014)