Death of a student
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Death of a student |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1981 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claus Peter Witt |
| script | Robert Stromberger |
| production | ZDF |
| camera | Rudolf Körösi, Ursula Körösi |
| occupation | |
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Tod einer Schülers is a six-part television series produced by ZDF in 1980 that deals with the suicide of the fictional high school graduate Claus Wagner ( Till Topf ). She was awarded the Golden Camera in 1981. The direction was directed by Claus Peter Witt and the script was written by Robert Stromberger . Each episode begins with the film sequence of the suicide of the student and then deals with the suicide incident from different perspectives (criminal police, parents, teacher, classmate, girlfriend, Wagner himself). After the end of each episode, the theologian Klaus-Peter Jörns spoke an epilogue for about five minutes, which reflected and classified the plot.
Stromberger was honored with the Adolf Grimme Prize for the series in 1983 .
Episodes
| episode | title | First broadcast |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The missing motive | January 18, 1981 |
| 2 | The parents | January 25, 1981 |
| 3 | The teachers | 1st February 1981 |
| 4th | The class mates | February 8, 1981 |
| 5 | The girlfriend | February 16, 1981 |
| 6th | Claus Wagner | February 22, 1981 |
Aftermath
Some parent associations accused the series of seducing suicidal people to imitate. According to a study evaluated by the Central Institute for Mental Health in Mannheim over a period of 70 days after the first broadcast, the suicide frequency in the railway area among 15- to 19-year-old male adolescents rose by 175% (see Werther effect ), after the second broadcast one and a half years later 115%, which is due to the lower number of viewers. Subsequently, the ZDF commissioned two further studies, which came to the conclusion that a connection between the television series and the frequent suicides of male adolescents could not be proven.
After the series had been banned from video publication for almost 30 years for fear of school suicides, it was finally released on August 7, 2009 and released on DVD by ZDF.
literature
- Didi Benoit, Wilfried Hoffer: Death of a pupil: TV series in 6 parts directed by Claus Peter Witt / Robert Stromberger . With a 4-part documentary “Take your life”. Orig. Edition, 2nd edition Goldmann, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-442-03950-9 (192 p., Numerous illustrations)
Web links
- Death of a student in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Reufsteck, Stefan Niggemeier: Das Fernsehlexikon . Goldmann, Munich 2005
- ↑ deutsches-filmhaus.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Suizidprophylaxe , No. 70, 1992, p. 19
- ↑ bpb.de ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2009 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. Federal Agency for Civic Education , footnote 10
- ↑ fernsehlexikon.de
- ^ Suizidprophylaxe , No. 70, p. 21
- ↑ fernsehlexikon.de
