ZDF hit parade

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Television series
Original title ZDF hit parade
Country of production Germany
Year (s) 1969-2000
Production
company		 ZDF
Episodes 368
Broadcasting
cycle		 per month
genre Music show
Moderation
First broadcast January 18, 1969 on ZDF

The ZDF Hit Parade was a music program broadcast by ZDF from Berlin for 32 years . The hit parade was best known for being moderated by Dieter Thomas Heck .

Concept of broadcast

The interpreters came mainly from the field of German pop music . Towards the end of the 1960s, hit music was in competition with other musical trends of the time, such as B. the beat music , already as rather conservative.

The hit parade introduced some innovations for music programs on television, which contributed to giving hit music in the 1970s once again an undreamt-of popularity over the generations. These innovations included, for example, the studio design . In other contemporary programs, such as the German Schlager Festival , this was still heavily oriented towards theater, so that there was a clear distance between the speakers and the audience. In the hit parade, on the other hand, a very modern, factual and functional design was introduced, in which curtains and other theatrical props were completely dispensed with. The grandstands were arranged in the square around the stage so that the audience sat a short distance from the performers. It was not uncommon for a singer to sit in the middle of the audience at the beginning of a song, only to get up and go to the stage (singing).

The rule to sing live (to a half playback ) was also new . The record companies supplied the original instrumental tapes to which the artist sang for the record in the recording studio. In the first studio concept of the hit parade, which was used until the second half of the 1970s, a sound technician sat behind a desk with tape machines and played the appropriate instrumental band for every performance. Towards the end of the respective title, the artist's autograph address was then displayed. To emphasize the live character of the broadcast, an electronic display of the current date and time was located in the middle of the studio.

The course of the program consisted of the presentation of five to eight new titles as well as the five, later three titles (finally - due to time constraints - only one title) that had received the most votes from the last program. After Roy Black had established himself at number 1 in the first broadcasts (voted three times), a title was only allowed to be placed a maximum of twice (from 1985 only once), then he was eliminated so that the hit parade was always up to date. The artists for the new productions were selected by an independent jury, which selected the titles from suggestions from the music industry . From about the mid-1970s to 1988, the new releases of Media Control were determined from sales figures and TV / radio appearances.

Over the years, the pattern of the broadcast changed. Not only the representatives of the German hit took part in the show. The hit parade opened up to other genres of German-language popular music at the end of the 1970s. When the Neue Deutsche Welle became popular a little later , its representatives not only made it into the ZDF hit parade, but also made it into the top spots, making the show interesting for a wider audience. The band Trio , for example, used the condition of live singing for spontaneous actions such as allusions to Dieter Thomas Heck. Also other musicians who fell out of the scheme a little, such as Gottlieb Wendehals , Klaus and Klaus , Miss Menke (despite the ban on wearing a wedding veil during her title Traumboy , she stuck it against the instructions of the during the live broadcast Directors an) or Haindling left lasting impressions in their own way.

It was precisely at this time that the number of prominent bands or interpreters of German-language songs rose who no longer found it necessary to appear in the hit parade, which is increasingly viewed as stuffy. Examples of this were bands like Ideal or DAF . As a result, the hit parade lost its status in the 1980s that it still had in the 1970s. The market share of German-language recordings also generally declined in these years, especially after the demise of the Neue Deutsche Welle. Dieter Thomas Heck's successor Viktor Worms tried to respond to these developments by making changes to the broadcasting concept.

In the beginning, the audience voted for it simply by postcard . But it soon turned out that this system was too easy to manipulate (for example, some performers sent stamped postcards for their fans and fan clubs to vote in order to achieve a position in the hit parade). For the title Baby Dadamda ( Peter Orloff ), 11,037 cards with the same handwriting and the same postmark were received. From then on, viewers could request a voting card from the Hit Parade editorial team by postcard. After receiving it, only one vote could be cast for one performer. In 1982 voting by voting card was abolished and the use of the TED began. This computerized system made it possible for the winner to be announced while the program was still running. Between 1987 and 1991, full playback was used in the charts and English-language titles were also allowed. The TED was also abolished for a short time (between 1987 and 1989) and initially replaced by a betting system where the winner, who correctly picked the top 7 from Media Control, could win a car (until mid-1988). After that, until the end of the Viktor Worms era, only the top 3 from Media Control were shown and you could win another car in the new 4 out of 8 prediction game. With Uwe Hübner , who took over the hit parade from 1990, the TED was reintroduced.

The venue of the ZDF hit parade was the studio of the Berlin Union Film in Oberlandstraße .

Charisma

The hit parade was broadcast for the first time on ZDF on January 18, 1969 at 6:50 p.m. and, after eight issues in 1969, it was presented twelve times a year on Saturday evenings from 1970 onwards.

For the IFA 1973, the ZDF program changed its structure: the newscast today was at 19.00, the charts and many other broadcasts on the 19: 30 laid-pm time slot. In 1978 it was decided to reform the program again and declared Monday to be the day of music on ZDF. As a result, in addition to other music formats, the hit parade changed from its regular place on Saturday evening to Monday evening. This stayed that way for six years until she returned to the old regular place on Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m. in 1984.

When Viktor Worms took over the program, the program was then moved to Wednesday evening and, until it ended in 2000, changed the program slot several times between Thursday, Wednesday and Saturday at different times and lengths (sometimes before 8 p.m. due to a commercial break interrupted).

In some years special editions were also produced, such as B. the hit parade front runners (1975 and 1976) or from 1981 the super hit parade on ZDF and from the end of 1983 the respective hits of the year . After 32 years and 368 episodes, the hit parade was discontinued in 2000; the last edition ran on December 16, 2000 with the special program Hits des Jahres 2000 .

Repetitions

After zdf.kultur had repeated various issues in a loop since 2011 and ended on Saturday, August 1st, 2015 with the last issue ( hits of the year 2000 ), the new one began there from Sunday, August 2nd, 2015 at 6:45 p.m. Chronological broadcast of all editions of the hit parade still in the ZDF archive today. After the first issue from 1969, the obligatory jump to issue no.26 from 1971 was made in order to compensate or compensate for the lack of episodes 2 to 25, which are no longer available in the ZDF archive.

Previously , until its conversion to zdf.kultur on May 6, 2011, only the programs from the 1970s could be seen chronologically on the ZDFtheaterkanal . Each month there was a different edition, which was then shown on several days in the morning and in the afternoon. With the later continuation on zdf.kultur, several episodes were shown per week.

3sat had already stopped repeating the program in September 2009 after almost 25 years. Most recently, the programs of the late 1980s and early 1990s ran sporadically as part of the so-called night owl dates (Thursday to Friday), alternating with other productions. Before that, the ZDF hit parade on 3sat was still part of the program on Friday afternoon, or in the program window of the former cable pilot project ZDF - your music channel there.

The lost consequences

While issue 1 of the show from January 18, 1969 has now appeared on DVD, episodes 2 to 25 from 1969 to 1971 have been destroyed forever. Since many of the titles that were featured in these issues are hardly known today, the presenter Dirk Demkes designed the so-called radio versions for the German internet radio memoryRADIO and started them on the 40th birthday of the show in January 2009 At the end of 2011 all original recordings of the new releases and placed titles from the 24 missing editions of the first three years of the ZDF hit parade from 1969 to 1971 can be heard again, some of which are now very rare. These radio versions were broadcast once a month on memoryRADIO every 40 years, exactly to the day on the date of the first TV broadcast on ZDF. On the show's website there is also a gallery with the single covers of the titles from the respective show.

Moderators

Dieter Thomas Heck

The first moderator was Dieter Thomas Heck , who developed the program together with Truck Branss and Eberhard Klein. Heck was a passionate supporter of German hits and even before the start of the ZDF hit parade at Saarländischer Rundfunk in Saarbrücken, he presented the "Die Deutsche Schlagerparade" broadcast by Europawelle Saar , a radio listener hit parade with exclusively German-language titles. Various interpreters sang their current titles on the ZDF program. The viewers could choose their favorite by postcard, which was allowed to appear again in the following broadcast. The interpreter was allowed to place his song twice in a row, then he was "there three times" and was eliminated.

The end credits spoken by Heck at the end of each program (and not shown in the picture) were characteristic , in which he read the list of those involved in the production and their functions at a very high speed.

After 16 years, Heck gave the show to his first successor: On December 15, 1984, he hosted the last monthly edition and in January 1985 the last annual hit parade (hits of the year '84).

Viktor Worms

In 1985 Viktor Worms took over the moderation of the hit parade. The previous concept of only allowing German-speaking interpreters to take part was canceled in 1987 in order to reach an even broader audience. The only condition was that the title related to Germany; this could affect the production as well as the interpreter. Live singing was also replaced in 1987 by full playback.

Uwe Huebner

In 1990 Uwe Hübner followed as a moderator. The hit parade was again adapted more to the wishes of the Schlager fans. The result was that the audience that had been gained in the late 1980s and were more interested in international songs was lost again, and the original target group of Schlager fans was once again given a platform on German television. In addition, they sang live again from 1992. Hübner moderated the hit parade until it was discontinued in 2000.

Directors

Theme melody

The first title or theme tune was produced in 1968 by James Last on behalf of ZDF. In addition, ZDF initially wanted James Last to play the current winning title of the previous German Schlager competition in a kind of medley before the actual title music. So the first 4 hit parades began accordingly with the winning title of the previous year Harlequin by Swede Siw Malmkvist , who presented her current title Gypsy Wedding in the first issue . From the 5th hit parade onwards, it was the 69 winning title Today so - tomorrow so from Roberto Blanco, who opened the show until the end of the year. Most of the time, however, this lead-in was so long that not much of the original melody could be heard except for the first few notes. For this reason, the ZDF decided to forego this prelude from 1970 and from then on only use the title music from the hit parade. Together with Dieter Thomas Heck, this remained in use for a total of 16 years until December 15, 1984, which makes it the best-known theme tune to this day.

In 1985 and 1986 the piece Connecting Flight by Roland Romanelli from 1982 was used. From 1987 it was the original instrumental version of The Final Countdown by the Swedish band Europe , before it was replaced in 1988 and 1989 by a one-minute composition and production by Dieter Bohlen, the ZDF hit parade recognition melody at GEMA as work no: 2253547 / ISWC: T-800.795.668-6 is managed. From 1990 onwards, when Uwe Hübner took over, another unspecified work of 45 seconds followed, before the last title music of the show was an electronic new version of the very first melody by James Last and the circle was closed again.

Awards

The new hit parade on RTL II

RTL II tried to implement a concept based on the ZDF hit parade in the Saturday evening show Die neue Hitparade (subtitle: We sing in German ). The first edition began, for example, with the original folding clock from Berlin and the comedian Matze Knop in the role of Dieter Thomas Heck. From 2009 to 2011, however, only six issues of this program ran with moderate success, which was also accompanied by a corresponding CD series.

anniversary

On the night of January 19, 2019, on the 50th birthday of the first broadcast on January 18, 1969, ZDFneo broadcast a repeat of the ZDF cult night broadcasts "The best of the 'Hit Parade' - highlights, hits and heck" Part 1 & 2 from 2004 and 2005. In April 2019, eight months after the death of long-time presenter Dieter Thomas Heck , ZDF broadcast a recording of a 150-minute anniversary gala, recorded two weeks earlier in Offenburg, which was moderated by Thomas Gottschalk . The guests included Bernhard Brink , Howard Carpendale , Danyel Gérard , David Hasselhoff , Heino , Michael Holm , Mike Krüger , Markus , Wencke Myhre , Nicole , Matthias Reim , Marianne Rosenberg , Purple Schulz and Bonnie Tyler . The two former hit parade moderators Viktor Worms and Uwe Hübner and the wife of Dieter Thomas Heck, who died on August 23, 2018, Ragnhild Heck.

Not only ZDF, but also some radio stations addressed the 50th birthday of the first hit parade broadcast. Radio Schlagerparadies, for example, devoted itself to the topic in the "Zeitreise Hitparade" program, which is broadcast every two weeks. On the radio platform laut.fm punctually on the 50th birthday a 24-hour station started under the significant name Hitparadio . Here, all of the over 2,500 titles by over 750 performers from the 32-year history of the hit parade are played without moderation in the original versions, some of which have not yet been released on CDs. In addition to the main station, there are also the programs Hitparadio-1 with titles from the era of Dieter Thomas Heck (1969–1984) and Hitparadio-2 with titles from the time of Viktor Worms and Uwe Hübner (1985–2000).

Episodes

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Niehus, Tobias Render, Volker Tackmann: For the 50th anniversary: ​​The ZDF hit parade is back. bild.de, January 14, 2019, accessed on January 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ HÖRZU , No. 3/1969
  3. ↑ ZDF.de
  4. ↑ memoryRADIO
  5. ↑ GEMA - Members - Repertoire Search. Retrieved January 25, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Gottschalk moderates the show for the "Hit Parade" anniversary. In: DWDL.de. Retrieved January 25, 2019 .
  7. ↑ 50 years of the ZDF hit parade. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
  8. ↑ 50 years ZDF hit parade - according to.fm, "Hitparadio" starts! In: smago. January 17, 2019, accessed on January 25, 2019 (German).