The dream-producer – Südwestpresse

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Wolfgang Rademann wrote television history: the producer of the ZDF “dream ship” and the “Black Forest Clinic” has attracted millions in front of the TV. Yesterday he died at the age of 81 years

Much derided, and loved it hot. <- - magnific popup core js file!>: The perfect world was and is perhaps more than ever a valuable commodity in the entertainment industry. Few they could bring so perfect in German living rooms as Wolfgang Rademann. The Berliner, inventor of the “Black Forest Clinic” and the “dream ship” had expressed a dream, or rather -. A dreams-producer

As the ZDF yesterday announced that the big television man in Berlin at the age of 81 years died, it was something simple: “Wolfgang Rademann is the man who stands behind many great spectator success in German television history.”

But what were the successes. Over 500 productions he has realized. Yet his remarkable career began small. After an apprenticeship as a typesetter at the East Berlin “Night Express” He was a local reporter. He fled in 1958 in the West and wrote as a journalist for the “star” and the “B.Z.”. He also presented dance music radio shows together

It was not long until the “entertainment fuzzy”, as he later once a “mirror” called itself, contact with the big stars of the time tied. In 1962 he joined a promotional contract with Caterina Valente, later, he was press officer of Pierre Brice and Peter Alexander. As ZDF Vienna crooner offered a show Rademann 1969 their producer. The “Peter Alexander Show” broke records. The first edition saw 27 million people. And far from being stood in a time when television in each room. 26 more editions followed.

successes were also programs like the Wenche Myhre Show. There were also formats with TV stars such as Harald Juhnke and Grit Boettcher (“Grumpy Old Men”) and Günther Pfitzmann (“Laughing again”). The man apparently had an absolute sense of the need for entertainment in German living rooms

Most -. Also younger viewers – Rademann will be remembered as the inventor of the “dream ship” and the “Black Forest Clinic” in memory. From 1981 on he sent the ZDF holiday steamer across the seas. Way of job crises and problems. And the ship sails, and drives, and drives – until today. More than 500 actors were on board. Only: The trades Rademann, the holiday dreams free house offered, never himself went on vacation. The “Frankfurter Allgemeine” he revealed once dryly: “I can not suffer holiday vacation is totally boring..” He needed excitement and stress.

The “Bunte” he told that his office, the Berlin Hotel Kempinski was that he possessed no driver’s license and he always sign contracts with a handshake. An appointment would last with him never longer than 60 minutes: “Zack, Zack, Zack, then comes the next.” Rademann, the Restless

It is no surprise that he ended up the next hit only four years after the “dreamboat” -Start:. Up to 28 million viewers sobbing in the dramas on the operating table of the “Black Forest Clinic” were served. These were monstrous 60 percent market share. Until 1989, 70 episodes were broadcast. Sascha Hehn, Gaby Dohm, klausjürgen wussow were stars. The series sparked a wave of physician series of

To the reason for the huge success of the “Black Forest Clinic” he said because even sober. “. This is an inexplicable phenomenon” And the reproach of triviality only: “I’m not getting paid by critics but by the spectators.” Rademann, which was said a real “Berlin snout” is, the ZDF and remained true to yourself always. He knew what he was doing. The dreams producer who sold the spectators wanderlust and homesickness and always detachable Happy-end problems, apparently was iron hard realist: when he was asked after the tsunami in 2005, why he did not just turn in the Maldives because of the floods, he said: “That will not do You have news and fiction separate, since we can now turn any Heile Welt movie. (…).”

The Quotenkönig coined decades television and was always right with its projects – however had to recognize early on that the great age of “campfire entertainment” passes. Already on his 70th birthday, he said the “FAZ” almost wistfully: “The seven million viewers who today provoke tears of joy when television producers, can a television producers, who had 27 million, no longer make so happy.”

Wolfgang Rademann, of approximately 40 years had a long distance relationship with actress Ruth Maria Kubitschek (84), has been honored with many awards. Including two “Golden Camera” and four “Bambi”. The last kid he received in November last year for his lifetime achievements. At that time he asked to be excused because of illness. He was after a serious fall in the clinic. Then he showed how the “Bunte” reported optimistic “My concern is getting better every day. (…) I’m sure in a few weeks I’m fit again and it speaks no longer a man of them.”

Just this once the great entertainer was wrong.

Quotes by Rademann

to World War II “The war has left the biggest mark. The air raids, the bombs … I still have great difficulties to leave a plate of food or throw away. Since the destruction of food sitting in the bone from the time when you had nothing. “

For Traumschiff recipe ” It must be laugh what. There must be something to cry. There must be some beautiful love story for Mama. This is crucial. “

to review ” If I write a good review get in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, I have done something wrong. ” eb

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