- 7 Tage - 7 Köpfe
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show_name = Sieben Tage, sieben Köpfe
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show_name_2 = 7 Tage, 7 Köpfe
genre =Comedy / Documentary
creator =
director =Dieter Zeihner
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presenter =Atze Schröder
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country = flag|Germany
language = German
num_seasons = unknown
num_episodes = 21
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producer =Burkhard Bergermann
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editor =Gabi Mensching
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cinematography =Günther Adlmüller
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network = RTL
picture_format =Color
audio_format = Mono
first_run = flag|Germany
first_aired =29 November ,1996
last_aired =30 December ,2005
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website = http://www.7tage-7köpfe.de
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imdb_id = 0137323
tv_com_id =7 Tage - 7 Köpfe ("Sieben Tage - Sieben Köpfe", lit. "Seven days - seven heads") was a German
comedy show of thetelevision station RTL Television and featured a humorous retrospective of the past week. The show was hosted byJochen Busse .From
February 23 ,1996 the show was recorded every Friday in the afternoon to be broadcast in the evening, normally at 10:15 pm, on RTL. OnJune 2 ,2005 it was announced that the show was to be discontinued at the end of 2005 due to declining audience ratings amongst other things. OnDecember 30 ,2005 the last show entitled "Das große Finale" ("The Grand Finale") was broadcast.The Show
Concept
In the show the most recent topics of the last seven days were reviewed humorously by seven celebrities.
The regular staff consisted of moderator
Jochen Busse and five celebrities. Each week, a new guest from the field ofcabaret orcomedy was added to fill the seventh seat.After a short topic introduction by Busse, each celebrity commented on the topic with a joke or a sketch. Also the dynamic between the celebrities and the guests was beneficial to the success of the show.
However, it has meanwhile become known that each contribution of the celebrities was normally prewritten by a team of
ghostwriter s and was rehearsed before the recording, as is common practice in many "comedy" shows.Staff
The regular staff consisted of
Mike Krüger ,Kalle Pohl ,Gaby Köster ,Bernd Stelter andOliver Welke , who took the seat ofRudi Carrell in 2002. Carrell however still appeared oncamera at special events and produced the show.In the beginning the staff consisted of
Karl Dall ,Bärbel Schäfer ,Hellmuth Karasek ,Milena Preradovic and celebrities from entertainment and politics likeGregor Gysi ,Jürgen Möllemann ,Friedrich Nowottny orMarcel Reif .Carrell died in2006 oflung cancer at the age of 71 in his sanctuary inLower Saxony .Guests
The seventh seat and sometimes even one or two regulars' seats were given to another celebrity from comedy or politics each week. Thus over 70 different celebrities were guests on the show, among them
Michael Mittermeier ,Ingo Appelt , Mario Barth,Django Asül ,Dieter Nuhr ,Atze Schröder ,Piet Klocke ,Stefan Raab ,Hans Werner Olm ,Willy Astor ,Ingo Oschmann ,Bernhard Hoëcker ,Hennes Bender ,Anka Zink , Dr. Eckart von Hirschhausen,Ludger Stratmann ,Thomas Hermanns ,Ina Müller andOliver Pocher .In the final show
Harald Schmidt appeared in the last five minutes of the show as a guest. Schmidt often ridiculed the show in his own show - for which he "apologized" in the show - and was one of the greatest critics of the show. Nevertheless he agreed to this guest appearance because of his paragon and fatherly friendRudi Carrell , who was already so ill at this time that he only poured a glass of water over Harald Schmidt on his final appearance without saying a word.Running gags
Over time, some things on the show evolved into
running gag s. For exampleRudi Carrell always made jokes aboutMike Krüger 's nose, who in turn made jokes about the Dutch and their caravans and about Carrell's age.Kalle Pohl was the victim of jokes aboutdwarfism ,Bernd Stelter about fat people,Oliver Welke about baldness,Jochen Busse about ironing creases andGaby Köster had to suffer jokes about women.Other running gags were the "terrible childhood" of Mike Krüger. This gag alway began with:"Ja, Sie wissen alle...ich hatte eine (Oooohhh!)..fürchterliche Kindheit."/"Well, you all know it...I had a (Audience: Oooohhh!)..terrible childhood." Running gags of Kalle Pohl were his pretendes stunning success with women (Ja, ich als Frauentyp..."/"Well, me as a woman's hero..."), his "cousin Hein Spack" (Vetter Hein Spack) who is always angry ("Ey wat is los, dumm Sau?!"Ey what's the matter, dumb sow?!") or his "aunt Mimi" (Tante Mimi) who is always complaining. Gaby Köster made such a running gag with her "grandma Finchen" (Oma Finchen) who is also perpetually nagging.
Jochen Busse always greeted the audience "in seiner gewohnt liebenswürdigen Art" (in his distinctly amicable way) and finished each show with: "Bleiben Sie uns gewogen" (Keep us in good remembrance). The recent shows each ended with a "surprise".
Awards
The format was awarded prizes several times. The show received television and viewer awards like the "
Golden Lion " and the "Bambi".In 2004 the special prize of the
Deutscher Comedypreis (German Comedy Prize) was awarded to "7 Tage - 7 Köpfe", since the show had been on RTL for 250 shows and set benchmarks in German television comedy.References
"This article was translated from its equivalent on German Wikipedia."
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German television comedy External links
* [http://www.rtl.de/comedy/comedy_7tage-7koepfe.php Homepage of 7 Tage, 7 Köpfe bei RTL in German]
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