Totally normal
| Television series | |
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| Original title | Totally normal |
| Country of production | Germany |
| Year (s) | 1989-1991 |
| Production company |
Radio Bremen |
| length | 45 minutes |
| Episodes | 7th |
| genre | Comedy |
| idea | Hape Kerkeling |
| music | Achim Hagemann |
| First broadcast | October 5, 1989 on Das Erste |
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Total Normal was the name of a 7-part comedy series by Hape Kerkeling . The episodes were broadcast on the First from 1989 to 1991 . The program was produced by Radio Bremen and has received many prizes, including the Golden Camera , the Adolf Grimme Prize with silver in 1991 for Hape Kerkeling, the Bronze Rose of Montreux , the Golden Gong and the Bavarian Television Prize .
action
Hape Kerkeling and Achim Hagemann presented absurd game shows, skits, parodies and over-the-top songs in front of a studio audience, including a half-finished "Song for the World" in Esperanto. In addition, own films were shown, such as spontaneous visits to unsuspecting and taken by surprise citizens who suddenly had a television team in the living room while Kerkeling and Hagemann performed the “ Kufstein song ”. Kerkeling gave almost everyone who contributed to the show a Mitropa coffee machine - Mitropa was the fictional sponsor of the show. Although the program was only broadcast irregularly, it received all the major German television awards.
The series
episode 1
- First broadcast: October 5, 1989. (45 min)
- Guests: Mary Roos , Wolfgang Lippert , Claus Hinrich Casdorff
Episode 2
- First broadcast: December 7, 1989. (45 min)
- Guests: Margarethe Schreinemakers , Paul Kuhn , Dagmar Berghoff , Margot and Maria Hellwig , u. a.
- Information about the program: Kerkeling calls Eine Chance für die Liebe and tells a hair-raising story about a couple who have been married for many years and who cannot communicate at all due to their different mother tongues. The program with Erika Berger was previously broadcast live on RTL .
Episode 3
- First broadcast: December 3, 1990.
- Guests: Paul Kuhn , Wilhelm Wieben and Herdis Zernial .
- Information about the broadcast: Kerkeling visited the federal press conference disguised as a reporter and asked for a precise explanation (" Where is the Mark? ") For what his tax payments are used for.
Episode 4
- First broadcast: December 10, 1990. (25 min)
- Guests: Max Schautzer and Herdis Zernial
- Information about the program: Kerkeling attends the Bambi Awards in 1990 and distributes his own "Bambis" to the potential winners in advance.
Episode 5
- First broadcast: December 17, 1990 (25 min)
- Guests: Chris Howland and Wim Thoelke .
- Information about the broadcast: Kerkeling annoys 5 minutes before the Wetten Dass ...? Broadcast moderator Gottschalk, because he supposedly forgot his scarf in the last broadcast. He also asks ZDF program director Penk to accommodate a Mitropa coffee machine in the set. Since the penk doesn't do the job, Kerkeling goes on stage and puts the machine on the coffee table . / Since the TV reruns from 1995 and also on the DVD version, episode 5 has contained Kerkeling's robbery interviews from the SPD party congress, at which Björn Engholm was elected SPD chairman, behind the "We bet what" sketch . However, this congress took place in May 1991: the report was shown for the first time in episode 7 and inserted in episode 5 to - for whatever reason - replace an interview with Phil Collins .
Episode 6
- First broadcast: May 2, 1991 (90 min)
- Guests: Jörg Wontorra , Chris Howland , Gotthilf Fischer , Eberhard Feik , Nina Hagen and Thomas Gottschalk . Musical guests: Michael Bolton and Boy George .
- Information about the broadcast: A sketch of this episode became very well known, in which Kerkeling disguised as Queen Beatrix arrives in a car with a chauffeur in Bellevue Palace of the Federal President's Office in Berlin. Only after several minutes was he asked by the guards present to leave the premises immediately.
Episode 7
- First broadcast: July 4, 1991 (2 × 30 min)
- Guests: Roberto Blanco , Paul Kuhn , Maria Hellwig and Herdis Zernial
- Information about the show: The episode was broadcast as a super special with two consecutive (and actually belonging together) episodes. The program contains the well-known appearance of Kerkeling and Hagemann as Polish musicians, who perform a pseudo-experimental opera solo, which in the outcry Hurz! ends. The audience then discussed the meanings of the text with the alleged artists. A year later, a single was produced from the performance, on which the comments of the audience were repeated.
DVD
Total Normal was released on VHS in 1992/1993. Since November 23, 2011, all episodes have been available on a double DVD and in a Hape Kerkeling box together with Kerkeling's television films Club Las Piranjas , Willi and the Windzors and The Grandma Is Dead .
Web links
- Total Normal in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Info at fernsehserien.de
- Official Total Normal Youtube Channel