Zarah - Wild Years
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Zarah - Wild Years |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| year | 2017 |
| Production company |
Bantry Bay Productions |
| length | about 45 minutes |
| Episodes | 6 in 1 season |
| Broadcasting cycle |
weekly on Thursdays |
| genre | Dramedy |
| Director | Richard Huber |
| script | Eva and Volker A. Zahn |
| production |
Jan Kromschröder , Eva Holtmann |
| music | René Dohmen, Joachim Dürbeck |
| camera | Robert Berghoff |
| First broadcast | September 7, 2017 on ZDF |
| occupation | |
Zarah - Wilde years is in Hamburg playing German television series about a dedicated and headstrong journalist that for those in the early 1970s, women's emancipation and against patriarchal structures of a powerful print magazine - some with hard bandages - fighting. After the first two episodes had been broadcast at prime time on ZDF , the broadcast of the following programs was postponed to ZDFneo at the same time .
background
The series is set in the world of print media in the 1970s: Zarah is set in 1973, when feminism and great journalism were still very distant worlds. “ We have an abortion! “Was the title of the Stern , initiated by Alice Schwarzer , on June 6, 1971, on which 374 women, some of them prominent , declared that they had had an abortion - for which a prison sentence was threatened. On December 8, 1977 z. For example, in the Stern magazine, Ingrid Kolb's cover story “German Chefs - Piglets in the Company”, in which Kolb let eight women speak about sexual harassment in the workplace. The text sparked outrage and led to numerous angry letters to the editor , Bertelsmann boss Reinhard Mohn described the text as "ridiculously primitive ". In addition to Schwarzer and Kolb, producer Jan Kromschröder also named Wibke Bruhns and Peggy Parnass as role models for the profile of the protagonist Zarah Wolf.
The shooting took place in the spring of 2017 in and around Hamburg , the location for the editorial staff of Relevant was a former bank building built in 1870 (coordinates: ⊙ ) on the Zollenbrücke .
action
The well-known journalist Zarah Wolf wants to make a difference in 1973 with Relevant , the weekly magazine with the highest circulation , wants to launch political issues for women and dare to become more feminist. She faces a broad front of incorrigible machos and ignoramuses , but has the more contemporary arguments.
Charisma
After the pilot had been broadcast in prime time on ZDF, the second episode followed two weeks later because of a broadcast for the 2017 federal election . The other episodes were then also broadcast at 9 p.m., albeit on ZDFneo , followed by a repetition in the ZDF night program on the same evening.
reception
Zarah - Wilde Jahre was often referred to in the reviews as the “German answer” to the US series Good Girls Revolt broadcast on Amazon Video , but with less “ glamor and 1970s charm , because the offices at 'Zarah' look pretty nice piefig aus ".
The fact that the critically acclaimed series developed into “a bitter flop” was, in the opinion of Hans Hoff, “in Mainz [...] to a large extent to be responsible for [...] if it ran on Netflix , it would long since be the new hot shit waft through the social networks and are recommended a hundred times, but it just runs on ZDF ”. Also rtv argued the transmitter do "with the new historical series journalists, Zarah 'almost everything right - except for the time slot".
“What 'Zarah' […] is currently doing is taking a thorough look into the bowels of a magazine that pretends to be progressive and at the same time tramples on the dignity of women. The question of double standards and that of the media's self-image point from the golden age of analog print journalism straight to the present of an industry that is struggling to survive by all means. The criticism of the cynical media apparatus here is often packaged in harmless social chatter , similar to Helmut Dietl's ' Kir Royal ', and, incidentally, no less sharply worded. On both sides of the question of equality there would be all sorts of critical points of contact for a second season. "
"In some scenes [...] the impression arises as if the writers and the director Richard Huber (why not a woman?) Do not know exactly what feminism is all about and use the topic to depict clichés and make fun to do - dungarees and vagina explorations included. The first episode is not completely wrong. There are a number of narrative threads and characters that arouse curiosity. In the following episodes the quality also increases, [...] "
“The pace is fast, the dramaturgy is well thought out. […] A comparison with ' Mad Men ' is forbidden… because the plot of the script […] is too cranked , too comedy-driven (a tired caricature is the rock star Tom Stroker in the opening episode) and, above all, too retro- engaged . […] In spite of these objections, it is a further gratifying attempt to make other television that differs categorically from ZDF series such as ' Der Bergdoktor ' or ' Bettys Diagnose '. And you also like to forgive some small clumsiness when the overall result is so brisk, cheerful and stylish. "
“This is the best television entertainment - realistic, truthful & pointedly invented at the same time, it is clever, witty, cool, sexy, has a coherent pace [...] & a gorgeous leading actress. […] 'Zarah - Wild Years' has an unusual concept for local conditions: a primetime series as a historical drama that also writes a piece of German emancipation and media history. The series is based on a well-researched script, in which you can also see in detail that former journalists were at work here. The 'Relevant' employees have, despite all - supposedly clichéd - exaggeration, a real core, and some turn out to be more complex in the course of the action than assumed at first glance. The cast gets by in the smallest roles without any weak points. "
Awards
The series was invited to the Film Festival Cologne 2017 and the INPUT Festival 2018 in Brooklyn and was nominated for the best series at the “Festival De La Creation Audiovisual International” 2018 in Biarritz . Also at the Jupiter Award 2018, the audience award of the magazines TV Spielfilm and Cinema , Zarah - Wilde Jahre was one of the nominees in the category "Best National Series". There was another nomination at the Seoul International Drama Awards 2018, where the series competed for the “Comedy Golden Bird Prize”. Eva and Volker A. Zahn were awarded the Juliane Bartel Media Prize 2018 for their books on the series . The prize awarded by the state government of Lower Saxony honors work that makes a contribution to gender equality on television or radio.
occupation
| role | actor | Main role (season) |
Notes (with instructions for action) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zarah Wolf | Claudia Eisinger | 1.01–1.06 | The well-known journalist wants to make a difference in “Relevant”, the weekly magazine with the highest circulation |
| Hans-Peter Kerckow | Torben Liebrecht | 1.01–1.06 | Editor-in-chief of Relevant , against whose will Zarah Wolf was hired as his deputy |
| Jenny Olsen | Svenja Jung | 1.01–1.06 | Intern Jenny "Big Daddy" Olsen and publisher's daughter who falls in love with Zarah Wolf |
| Frederik Olsen | Uwe Preuss | 1.01–1.06 | Publisher of Relevant |
| Georg Hartwig | Ole doll | 1.01–1.06 | Head of Culture at Relevant |
| Hedda Hartwig | Julia Thurnau | 1.03-1.04 | Wife of Georg Hartwig |
| Wolfgang Schaffelgerber | Jörn Hentschel | 1.01–1.06 | Political boss of Relevant |
| Karin Simonis | Milena thirty | 1.01–1.06 | Editor “Women, Fashion, Lifestyle” at Relevant |
| Brigitte Jansen | Theresa Underberg | 1.01–1.06 | Chief Secretary of H.-P. Kerckow |
| Rudolf Mensing | Martin Horn | 1.01–1.06 | Head of duty at Relevant |
| Tom Balkow | Leon Ullrich | 1.01–1.06 | Head of Graphics at Relevant |
| Bella Hausmann | Katharina Heyer | 1.03 | Diva living in exile in Paris, who has not given an interview to German newspapers for years |
| Irmgard | Ellen Schlootz | 1.01–1.06 | Women's rights activist in the women's forum, who promotes the emancipation of women and is politically active - occasionally, her temper goes through with her |
Episodes
| No. | title | First broadcast | ZDFneo | ZDF | ZDF Mediathek | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total market share | 14–49 years | Total market share | 14–49 years | ||||
| 1.01 | Title & Tits | 7th September 2017 | - | - | 7.5% (2.12 million) | 4.6% (410,000) | August 24, 2017 |
| 1.02 | Germany's cruelest emanze | September 21, 2017 | - | - | 5.7% (1.64 million) | 4.3% (410,000) | 7th September 2017 |
| 1.03 | I peed on his grave | 28th September 2017 | 1.4% (400,000) | 0.3% (30,000) | 8.4% (0.45 million) | September 14, 2017 | |
| 1.04 | A festival of love | 5th October 2017 | 0.7% (210,000) | 0.3% | 5.7% (0.37 million) | September 21, 2017 | |
| 1.05 | Shoot and fuck | October 12, 2017 | 1.1% (320,000) | 0.5% | 7.2% (0.33 million) | 28th September 2017 | |
| 1.06 | Papi is the best | 19th October 2017 | 0.7% (210,000) | 0.9% | (0.24 million) | 5th October 2017 | |
Episode 1 and 2 were each broadcast at 9 p.m. on ZDF , the following episodes ran at the same time on ZDFneo and were repeated on the same evening at 0:45 a.m. (episode 6 at 12:12 a.m.) on ZDF's night program. The episodes were available for viewing via the ZDFmediathek two weeks before the broadcast date .
Web links
- Zarah - Wild years at ZDF
- Zarah - Wilde years in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Zarah - Wild Years in the Online Film Database
- Zarah - Wild Years at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joachim Huber: Journalists are not TV favorites . In: Tagesspiegel . 26th September 2017
- ↑ a b Katharina Riehl: Every stupid gender stereotype served In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . 1st September 2017.
- ↑ a b Hanna Grabbe: Image of the woman . In: Die Zeit , July 5, 2017
- ↑ Bring me a man's ass! . Der Spiegel , September 7, 2017.
- ↑ Jennifer Wilton: Wasn't that already on Amazon? In: Die Welt , September 7, 2017
- ↑ Sarah Stendel: The macho world of the 70s - of all things on ZDF . In: Stern . August 31, 2017
- ↑ Hans Hoff : “Zarah” on ZDF: An avoidable failure . In: dwdl.de . October 8, 2017
- ↑ Csaba Lázár: Strong performance . In: rtv . accessed on October 13, 2017
- ↑ Claudia Schwartz: In front the bare breasts and in the back "Feminism for stupid". In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . 7th September 2017.
- ↑ Sven Sakowitz: In the fight against the Macker. In: the daily newspaper . 7th September 2017.
- ↑ Oliver Junge: The Deputy. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . 7th September 2017.
- ↑ Volker Bergmeister: Series "Zarah - Wild Years" In: Tittelbach.tv . Retrieved September 7, 2017.
- ↑ Film Festival Cologne ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2018 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.
- ↑ FIPA
- ↑ Jupiter Award ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2018 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.
- ↑ https://www.ms.niedersachsen.de/aktuelles/presseinformationen/hochkaraetig--film--und-hoerfunkbeitraege-mit-juliane-bartel-medienpreis-ausgenahm-171401.html
- ↑ Jens Schröder: ZDF newcomers: Solid start for “Das Pubertier”, miserable for journalists' series “Zarah - Wild Years” . In: Meedia . September 8, 2017
- ↑ Robert Meyer: "Puberty" and "Zarah" with sensitive losses . In: Meedia . 22nd September 2017
- ↑ Timo Niemeier: “Pubertier” continues to lose, “Zarah” weakly on ZDFneo . In: DWDL.de . 29th September 2017
- ↑ Timo Niemeier: “Dr. Bruckner ”is not yet a street sweeper at RTLplus . In: DWDL.de . October 6, 2017
- ↑ Manuel Weis: New ZDF series: “Puberty” ends weakly . In: quotenmeter.de . October 13, 2017
- ↑ Uwe Mantel: "Usedom-Krimi" in the first one cracks the 6 million mark . In: dwdl.de . 20th October 2017
