Logo
The heute show (written without capital letters) is a German satirical television program on ZDF, broadcast for the first time on May 26, 2009. The presenter is Oliver Welke; head scorer is Morten Kühne.
The heute show is inspired by the American The Daily Show and takes the form of a journal with reports and interviews.
Various correspondents, among whom Martin Sonneborn and Dietrich Hollinderbäumer (alias Ulrich von Heesen) provide journalists, either their sarcastic, or their laconically uninterested contributions, from all over the world, but via the chroma key technique on the spot to be recorded in the studio.
Martina Hill, aka Tina Hausten, is a studio employee who explains various political and economic problems in the studio in an extremely incompetent manner. Hans-Joachim Heist, aka Gernot Hassknecht, has the task of delivering evidence of currentity and thereby becoming aggressive and violent. In addition, regular study programs will also appear in the program; These can be politicians and media figures as well as other comedians.
A recurring part in the heute show is the use of animated characters inspired by the Mainzelmännchen.
For the broadcast of May 14, 2010, Martin Sonneborn interviewed the pharmaceutical lobbyist Peter Schmidt, who communicated that the news material, idest heute journal, would be used. On this, ZDF program director Thomas Bellut forbade the heute show editors to use the terms heute and heute journal.
In 2009, 2010 and 2011 the heute show won the Deutsche Comedypreis. In 2011, a book with the best excerpts from the program also appeared. One of the directors of this program is the Dutchman Rolf Meter, who has been there since the beginning of the program.
wiki
