Jan Böhmermann does the gossip press! Frogs bark after two beers! And: Scandal – the ZDF Magazin Royale is not satire at all, but investigative journalism! The TV review.
Jan Böhmermann promises it “yellow on blue”: “Today I will transform this pathetic program on Friday evening on ZDF into an international media group. We’re getting really big today. ”That’s an announcement, especially since the ascription“ pathetic ”in the context of his ZDF Magazin Royale from the mouth of the satirist who is most likely not struggling with a self-esteem complex sounds a tiny bit like flirtatiousness.
Week after week, as you can imagine with a little glee, they tremble before Jan Böhmermann calls their name after the mostly lazy minutes of warm-up: Whether Frontex, German interior ministers, influencers or Saxon Nazis – so really good they mostly do not get away with it. Also or precisely because “Böhmi” has long made fun of combining investigative journalism with acidic ridicule.
Jan Böhmermann illuminates the world of the gossip press in ZDF Magazin
Well, sometimes Jan Böhmermann throws a little sand in our eyes despite all the artistic freedom, calls the chronicler duty. But that evening, that is anticipated, there is a clapping clap. Because, and thus the common thread on the part of Mr. B. from B. rolled out: “Research is so important.” beat – that (even Böhmer) has to be achieved first.
Time to get to the bottom of the compatibility of basic journalistic rules, clean research and sensational press (Jan Böhmermann: “These gossip papers spent more time at the hairdresser’s last year than all of us together”). Or rather the question: “All these unbelievable, exclusive stories, these shock news, these secrets, this research – how do they actually know all of this?”
Jan Böhmermann on ZDF with “Deep Dive into the media world of the last century”
Dear Jan Böhmermann: Why so skeptical? Philip Welte, Head of National Media Brands at Hubert Burda Medien, finally says in the clip: “We actually guarantee the truth of what we transport. So: That is a guaranteed quality of the information. ”And yet“ Böhmi ”insists:“ Why does he emphasize so conspicuously that his newspapers are guaranteed to tell the truth? ”And asks a daring question in the room:“ All of these, many different ones colorful booklets at the kiosk, which all look somehow the same – is there something wrong with them?
And so Jan Böhmermann starts his “deep dive into the media world of the last century.” The satirist pronounces his verdict even before the actual start of his amusing show trial: “Today we are talking about the business with the gossip magazines. About the press that lies. “Yes, the press that lies. Böhmermann does not want to call the colorful journalism “lying press”, however, because this term is ultimately burdened by, quote, “this fascist” (fade-in Björn Höcke), “who“ copied ”this term from this fascist” (fade-in Goebbels).
Jan Böhmermann: “Shameless, dirty stepbrother of serious quality journalism”
Instead, Jan Böhmermann calls the, original sound, “shameless, dirty stepbrother of serious quality journalism” rather “quantity journalism”. A concept that is welcome to join the vocabulary common to all of us. After all, according to Böhmermann, the media workers of certain publishers went over “dead bodies – or at least over coma patients – of course always with a guarantee of truth” for circulation and sales.
Jan Böhmermann sees it a little differently with the “guarantee of truth”: “Lurid headlines to completely boring facts, a little bit of truth, inflated so much to the greatest possible scandal headline that it is barely legally allowed.” That, according to the satirist, is “The core of the business model”. But dear Mr. Böhmermann, isn’t that a little tough? Not? Do you have any evidence of this? He has.
Headline title page “The New”: “Prince William – 38th birthday shock! Will he never see his loved ones again? “Text in the booklet:” Prince William sometimes wears glasses. “Headline title page” Freizeit Spass “:” Helene Fischer – From the dream. The bitter truth about her friend Thomas. ”Text in the booklet:“ He actually wanted to be an artistic gymnast, but at 1.90 meters he was too tall. ”Jan Böhmermann’s judgment at this point no longer seems that harsh.
Jan Böhmermann on ZDF about the gossip press: “Lies and false claims are factored in”
Couldn’t it all just be a little quirky? Already some kind of analog clickbait somewhere, but not dangerous? Or as Böhmermann puts it: “You could just say now that nobody believes that anyway. And above all: nobody will buy that anyway. Those are just jokes that you bring your grandmother to the geriatric ward after a femoral neck fracture. “But people buy them. Böhmermann names the number of half a million “Freizeit Revue” booklets sold – weekly. Overall, the number of German gossip magazines sold would be over three million copies a week.
“ZDF Magazin Royale” with Jan Böhmermann
“The lies of the gossip press”, ZDF, from Friday, April 16, from 11 pm. On the net: ZDF media library.
Mats Schönauer from “Übermedien.de” finds this questionable from time to time. He considers the “power” of gossip magazines to be underestimated. The “print character of these issues” continues to exude great authority. Many people believed, so Schönauer: “If it’s in the newspaper, then it can’t be wrong at all.” Interesting way of thinking. Did you know frogs bark after two beers? Prove me wrong!
The names of the many magazines are also very cute. Böhmermann names so many titles from the “Bauer-Verlag” (selection: “Das Neue”, “Das Neue Blatt”, “Neue Post”, “Prima Freizeit”, “Freizeit Woche”, “Woche Today”, “Schöne Woche” “) That the image of two cubes almost imposes itself, which contribute decisively to the creation of this title. What is less funny is the fact that, according to Jan Böhmermann, some publishers would simply factor in legal trouble due to lies and false claims. Rephrased his reproach is: lying is worth it.
ZDF Magazin Royale: Jan Böhmermann and the lost journalistic honor
Since 2005, for example, six interviews with the Hollywood actress Sandra Bullock have appeared in the “Leisure Week”. Only, according to Böhmermann: “But there is a tiny catch: Sandra Bullock never spoke to the ‘Freizeit Woche’.” In this context, the Austrian newspaper “Der Standard” reported in September 2018 that the “Freizeit Week ”to that same Ms. Bullock. “Übermedien.de” knows a possible cause: the freelancer who, well, “conducted” the “interview”, just “took over from an English colleague”. OK. And further? “However, you could neither say which colleague that was, nor when or where the interview should have taken place.”
| broadcast | ZDF Magazine Royale |
| Hashtag of the week | #Leisure magazine |
| Moderator | Jan Böhmermann |
| Channel | ZDF |
| output | 04/16/2021 |
This freelancer did not submit any other evidence either. Why not? Jan Böhmermann plays it off: “The employee has just moved and has not yet unpacked her boxes. That’s why she didn’t find the documents. ”Jan Böhmermann:“ Who doesn’t know it? You lose something all the time. Key, his memory, his journalistic honor, or all the evidence for six interviews with an Oscar winner. ”This is how journalism works. Not.
Announcement in ZDF Magazin Royale: Jan Böhmermann brings gossip magazine to kiosk
As a result, Jan Böhmermann is now bringing out his own gossip sheet. “No joke” and “First edition 500,000 pieces”. Now at the kiosk: The “Freizeit Magazin Royale”. “Böhmi” promises: “There are no stories in here about Prince Harry or Helene Fischer or Michael Schumacher. But only quality tragedies, shock news and horror diagnoses about the makers of Bauer, Burda, Funke, Klambt or Alles Gute. Finally read really cool stories about people who would prefer to stay hidden. “
How good that I haven’t set foot in my basement for months and have absolutely no idea where the key to my domestic catacombs is. Otherwise I would still be in the position of having to dig out a receipt from one of my moving boxes, which have been sealed for eternity. For the fact that frogs have confirmed to me in an exclusive interview that they can even bark the alphabet after the fourth beer. Backward. In Welsh. Don’t you believe me? (Mirko Schmid)
