Wild Girls - through Africa on high heels

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Television broadcast
Original title Wild Girls - through Africa on high heels
Country of production Germany
original language German
year 2013
Production
company		 UFA Entertainment
length 45 to 90 minutes
Episodes 7 in 1 season
genre Reality TV
Theme music Madonna - Girl Gone Wild
idea RTL
production RTL
Moderation Andreas Jancke
First broadcast July 10, 2013 on RTL

Wild Girls - Through Africa in high heels was a reality show that was broadcast on RTL in 2013 . The format is an in-house development by RTL. Twelve prominent candidates were exposed in the Namibian desert and lived there with various indigenous peoples, including the Himba tribe .

concept

In the show, the participants had to contest various competitions. In nomination rounds they decided jointly, but through individual votes, who had to leave the competition. The so-called desert queen received a golden high heel at the end of the season . The reality show Reality Queens on Safari , which was broadcast on Pro Sieben on August 22, 2013, was produced according to a similar concept . This is based on the Dutch reality show Echte Meisjes In De Jungle . Sara Kulka won the first season of Wild Girls - Through Africa on high heels .

Off-speaker for the show was William Cohn .

Charisma

The show was broadcast from July 10th to August 21st, 2013, the shooting took place in May 2013 in Namibia. The moderator was Andreas Jancke . Since the first episode in a broadcast at 21:15, the prime-time telecast Mamma Mia could surpass in viewership, broadcast times were exchanged for broadcasting the second series and the result at 20:15 sent. Despite being broadcast at prime time, the second episode clearly lost viewers and market share. The fourth episode was postponed in favor of broadcasting the Audi Cup . With double episodes broadcast from August 14, the series ended earlier than planned. Another season was not produced.

Participants

space Participant Age Known as Left the show Selected with
1 Sara Kulka 23 Model, candidate for Germany's Next Top Model Won August 21, 2013
2 Miriam Balcerek 24 Singer, participant in Up and Away - My International Diary on August 21, 2013
3 Sarah Knappik 26th Model, candidate for Germany's Next Topmodel and I am a star - get me out of here! on August 21, 2013
4th Sophia Wollersheim 25th Model, wife of Bert Wollersheim on August 21, 2013 3 of 4 votes
5 Ingrid Pavic 27 Actress, television presenter, candidate for Big Brother on August 21, 2013 3 out of 5 votes
6th Barbara Engel 60 Author, ex-wife of Bernd Herzsprung , candidate for I am a star - get me out of here! on August 21, 2013 1 of 1 votes
7th Conchita Wurst 24 Drag Queen, singer, (won the ESC in 2014 ) on August 21, 2013 5 out of 7 votes
8th Jinjin Harder 28 Candidate at The Bachelor on August 14, 2013 5 out of 8 votes
9 Jordan Carver 27 Photo model on August 14, 2013 5 out of 7 votes
10 Senna Gammour 33 Pop singer, presenter, member of the band Monrose on August 7, 2013 5 out of 10 votes
11 Fiona Erdmann 24 Model, candidate for Germany's Next Topmodel and I am a star - get me out of here! on July 24, 2013 5 out of 11 votes
12 Squad Loth 40 Pop singer, model, candidate for Big Brother on July 17, 2013 7 out of 11 votes

Remarks:

  1. ↑ a b c The top 3 had to climb a mountain with sandbags. The number of sandbags was determined for each participant based on the number of mistakes in previous games. The placement in this competition resulted in the final placement.
  2. ↑ Engel was elected only by Pavic, as she had previously won a game and therefore had sole voting rights
  3. ↑ Wurst and Carver stood for election and could not cast any votes themselves
  4. ↑ Balcerek was in jail during the vote and could not cast a vote

reception

criticism

Ute Koczy , the development policy spokeswoman for the Greens, criticized RTL in a letter for "having such a program based on cultural clichés played in Namibia of all places" against the background of the crimes in the German colonial era . RTL press spokeswoman Anke Eickmeyer pointed out the concept of Wild Girls aimed at entertainment : “What we hadn't planned was a history documentary, a portrait about Africa or the Himba or a political program about human rights violations - there are enough other formats for that in for whom these issues are better off. ”According to Christian Buß in Spiegel Online, “ with the best will in the world, RTL could not see what would be problematic in invading a protected indigenous people in order to then let loose a few trash trullas on them. ”

According to Thomas M. Blaser in süddeutsche.de , “the genre has reached a new low” with Wild Girls . Most of the female competitors are “starlets from older reality shows who try to showcase some physical advantages”. The audience should “laugh at the women who are all labeled as mindless bitches with their behavior in the Namibian desert.” In contrast to other shows, “the Namibian desert landscape and its inhabitants”, the Himba , are “an integral part of the television spectacle”. "Scantily clad women in high heels" have long been part of the European television entertainment scene, whose "open sexism " and the "denigration of women" are hardly provocative anymore. The “prominent role of the allegedly primitive Himba tribe in this permanent spectacle”, however, is “in a new dimension”. Christian Buß, who sees parallels to the “ Völkerschauen des Deutschen Kaiserreich”, said in Spiegel Online that one cannot blame the “Eurocentric arrogance [...] of the staging”: The broadcaster is more likely to care about the people threatened with extinction and by no means as "primitive as the hustle and bustle of the free-running bosom miracles from German private television breeding."

On October 14, 2013, the Himba participating in the series asked the human rights organization "Earth Peoples" to intervene on their behalf against the RTL TV Reality Show and to stop further publications, as the village was not informed in what light the residents of RTL would be shown. Since no translation was offered, they could not understand the content during filming. According to the Himba, they were promised by RTL to sensitively present their culture in the series and to inform about human rights problems in Namibia.

Odds

According to information from DWDL.de , RTL had problems with its “summer format”, so the media magazine saw the format as “failed”. Due to the bad ratings, RTL even saw itself forced to change the broadcasting slot, but without success. Anke Schäferkordt , managing director of the RTL Group, said, according to Spiegel Online , which describes the program as a “ trash show”, “alarmed about the rate development in your company”. She said in an interview with Manager Magazin : "Of course we are not satisfied with RTL's current market shares."

broadcast date spectator Market share source
total 14 to 49 years 14 to 59 years total 14 to 49 years 14 to 59 years
1 July 10, 2013 2.62 million 1.51 million 9.7% 14.6%
2 17th July 2013 1.91 million 1.17 million 8.0% 13.5%
3 July 24, 2013 1.76 million 1.10 million 6.6% 11.5% 10.1%
4th 7th August 2013 1.82 million 1.09 million 1.35 million 11.9% 9.6%
5/6 August 14, 2013 1.67 million 1.21 million 6.0% 10.0% 8.2%
7 (final) August 21st, 2013 1.79 million 1.08 million 1.37 million 6.7% 11.2% 9.5%

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wild Girls - Through Africa on high heels. UFA , accessed January 13, 2016 .
  2. ^ After "Wild Girls" on RTL: ProSieben counters with "Reality Queens on Safari" Spiegel Online, July 12, 2013, [1] , fernsehserien.de
  3. ↑ http://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/tv/wuestencamp/was-erwartet-uns-und-die-kandidaten-31174516.bild.html
  4. ↑ "Wild Girls" on RTL: Breast miracle in the quota plummeting. In: Spiegel Online . July 18, 2013, accessed June 9, 2018 .
  5. ↑ http://www.quotenmeter.de/n/65420/rtl-verschieben-flops-mama-mia-und-wild-girls
  6. ^ Spiegel Online : Criticism of RTL "Wild Girls": Bad game with colonial clichés
  7. ↑ clock lot from the ex-colony , Süddeutsche.de from July 31, 2013
  8. ↑ RTL Africa Trash "Wild Girls": Die Völkerschau , Spiegel Online from July 11, 2013
  9. ↑ Indigenous peoples Himba community condemn RTL TV series Wild Girls, asking Earth Peoples co-founder Rebecca Sommer for help to intervene on their behalf and stop it . earthpeoples.org. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
  10. ↑ RTL docusoaps continue to fall, Sat.1 can grow , DWDL.de from July 25, 2013
  11. ↑ S end space AC harm "Wild Girls" on RTL , DWDL.de from July 18, 2013
  12. ↑ RTL Group boss Schäferkordt: Of course we are not satisfied , Manager Magazin from July 18, 2013
  13. ↑ http://www.dwdl.de/zahlenzentrale
  14. ↑ http://www.dwdl.de/zahlenzentrale/41621/mama_mia_bricht_ein_wild_girls_starten_besser/
  15. ↑ http://www.dwdl.de/zahlenzentrale/41722/sendeplatzwechsel_schadet_wild_girls_bei_rtl/
  16. ↑ http://www.dwdl.de/zahlenzentrale/41822/rtldokusoaps_fallen_weiter_sat1_kann_legen/
  17. ↑ http://www.dwdl.de/zahlenzentrale/42021/strengste_eltern_trotz_rtlschwaeche_mit_tiefstwert/
  18. ↑ http://www.dwdl.de/zahlenzentrale/42128/wild_girls_am_boden_indiana_jones_trotzt_fussball/
  19. ↑ http://www.dwdl.de/zahlenzentrale/42241/wild_girls_endet_schwach_mauer_start_fuer_mobbing/