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8 unusual facts about ZDF


Friedrich von der Trenck

In 1972 Fritz Umgelter directed a five-part TV series Die merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck, a German–Austrian–French–Italian co-production which was shown the following year on the public channel ZDF.

Leo Kirch

As his company rose to become one of the most important private media companies in the then West Germany, the country's second public broadcaster, ZDF, came to depend on it heavily for films and other programs, partly as a result of companies that appeared to be competing actually being owned by Kirch.

Lou van Burg

When the second German television broadcaster ZDF had launched in 1963, van Burg in the following year became the host of Der goldene Schuss, a game show that quickly reached an immense popularity.

Mongolian National Broadcaster

As well as broadcasting domestically produced materialit also has program exchanges with Russian Public TV, NHK, CNN, ZDF and Deutsche Welle.

Russian government censorship of Chechnya coverage

Many foreign journalists were exposed to pressure from the security forces and the materials were confiscated from TV crews from ZDF and ARD (Germany), APTN (USA), and Rustavi 2 (Georgia).

Tony Holiday

Between 1975 and 1984, Holiday would perform eleven times on the popular German music television program ZDF-Hitparade.

Transparent Factory

The German TV channel ZDF occasionally produces a philosophical panel discussion in the Transparent Factory, "Das philosophische Quartett" (The Philosophical Quartet).

ZDF-Magazin

Gerhard Löwenthal/Helmut Kamphausen/Claus Peter Clausen: Hilferufe von drüben. Eine Dokumentation wider das Vergessen. 3.


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A Jihad for Love

A Jihad for Love is produced by Halal Films, in association with the Sundance Documentary Fund, Channel 4 Television (UK), ZDF (Germany), Arte (France-Germany), Logo (US) and SBS (Australia).

Andrej Zdravič

Zdravič’s works have been screened in over 150 one-man shows and presentations across USA and Europe; in retrospectives at the Anthology Film Archives (NYC), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Cankarjev dom Cultural Centre/ Slovenian Cinematheque (Ljubljana); in over 120 group shows and festivals, among others, in the United Arab Emirates, India, Brazil and Argentina, and broadcast on ARTE, KCET/PBS Los Angeles, ZDF, RAISAT, TV Slovenia - they were seen by more than 3 million viewers.

Andrew Hewitt

For Emmy-nominated film composer Richard Blackford he orchestrated twelve filmscores: Rosamunde Pilcher dramas for ZDF Germany.

Aribert Heim

According to Efraim Zuroff, Rüdiger Heim had - until the publishing of the ZDF research results - constantly denied having any knowledge of the whereabouts of Aribert Heim.

Bella Block

Bella Block is a long-running German detective television series starring Hannelore Hoger, first broadcast in 1994 on ZDF.

Berolina

In 1980s, the "Berolina" music awards was organized, sponsored by the TV networks ARD, ZDF and ORF, and hosted in a television show by Thomas Gottschalk on 27 August 1987 with a total of 15 musicians and bands.

Bregenzer Festspiele

Over April and May 2008, scenes for the 22nd James Bond film Quantum of Solace were filmed on the Seebühne during a performance of Tosca and in June 2008 the German broadcasting corporation ZDF hosted its 2008 European Football Championship live broadcast studio on the floating stage.

Cie. toula limnaios

In 2004 its Beckett trilogy, titled atemzug was produced as a dance film for ZDF/arte.

Dancing with Time

Dancing with Time was produced as film for TV (f.ex.: ARTE and ZDF) and movie-theaters, as DVD and as book by Marion Appelt, with a preface of Renate Schmidt.

Das Geheimnis meiner Familie

It is also aired in 3sat, a network which shared by both German, Austrian and Swiss broadcasters such as ZDF, ARD, ORF and SRG SSR.

Edoardo Montaina

The increasing popularity of his work in the following years is reflected by his client portfolio, which includes global corporations (Ferrari, Finmeccanica, Ford, Fiat, Eni, Enel, Agusta, Fincantieri, Telecom Italia) fashion houses (Roberto Capucci), international advertising agencies (J.W. Thompson, Saatchi & Saatchi, Young & Rubicam) and television networks (SKY, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Mediaset, LA 7, ZDF).

Enzo Sellerio

In 1962 ZDF invited Sellerio, Hiroshi Hamaya and Will McBride to make a film on the German people; Mit offenen Augen was the result.

Fairness Foundation

In 2001, the Fairness Foundation also awarded Fairness Academic Research Prizes to Stefan Machura, Rainer Schadt and Mechthild Iburg, and Fairness Publication Prizes to Milka Pavlicevic (Arte/ZDF) and Margit Zuber.

Films Noirs

Marx Reloaded (in co-production with Medea Film - Irene Höfer for ZDF).

Frank-Markus Barwasser

Currently, he is co-host, with colleague Urban Priol, of the satirical ZDF show Neues aus der Anstalt and host of a talk show for the same channel, "Pelzig hält sich".

Georg Klusemann

He is the protagonist of the personal documentary "Georg" by his daughter Caterina Klusemann, completed in 2008 for Arte/ZDF.

Hape Kerkeling

German broadcaster ZDF started the production of Kerkeling's Ein Mann, ein Fjord! (A Man, A Fjord!) in May 2008, directed by Angelo Colagrossi and written by Kerkeling, Angelo Colagrossi and Angelina Maccarone.

Hellmut Diwald

He also regularly appeared on the ZDF TV show Fragen zur Zeit and was a regular contributor of articles to the newspaper Die Welt.

Hervé Renoh

Renoh's latest film, Jack of Diamonds, an English-language feature-length TV pilot produced by Muse Entertainment (USA/Canada) Gaumont (France) and ZDF (Germany), aired on Showcase and France2 in 2011.

Hisako Matsubara

She had a weekly column at the German newspaper "Die Zeit" and worked on documentaries of the major German TV stations ARD and ZDF.

Jo-Ann Strauss

In 2010, Jo-Ann presented the opening ceremony for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa for the German television network ZDF along with Thomas Gottschalk in a live broadcast from Johannesburg on 10 June.

Karatepe

According to a 2010 ZDF documentary featuring the writer and translator Raoul Schrott, the fortress and surrounding landscape at Karatepe significantly match Homer's descriptions of Troy in the Iliad.

Marcel Reif

Reif has been working for many years in German television as a journalist for sport programms on German broadcasters RTL and ZDF.

Neues aus der Anstalt

Neues aus der Anstalt (sometimes simply referred to as Die Anstalt) was a political cabaret program on German television station ZDF, hosted by Urban Priol and Frank-Markus Barwasser, who replaced Georg Schramm.

ZDF had not broadcast a cabaret program since the cancellation of Notizen aus der Provinz with Dieter Hildebrandt in 1979, who, as a result, switched to the other German public broadcasting channel, Das Erste, where he created the Scheibenwischer.

Nova Meierhenrich

On April 4, 2011 the new ZDF Series Herzflimmern – Die Klinik am See airs for the first time, where she took over the leading part of young MD Marie Egger.

Raw Opium

Produced by Kensington Communications Inc. in association with TVO, Canal D (owned by Astral Media), SCN, CTV Two, ZDF-ARTE, and SBS-TV Australia.

Raya Abirached

Raya also regularly collaborates as a celebrity journalist with several TV stations like Entertainment Tonight in the US, Star TV in Switzerland, ZDF in Germany, ORF in Austria and Telecine in Brazil and is often requested to do generic interviews for major movie studios like Warner Bros., Disney and Paramount.

Sandra Navidi

She has been interviewed on ARD, ZDF, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Bayrischer Rundfunk, n-tv, Arte TV, Deutsches Anlegerfernsehen, CNBC, Fox Business, CCTV China, Phoenix TV China and Voice of America.

Sportschau

The ARD and the second public TV broadcaster ZDF show football matches of the German national football team, DFB-Pokal as well as the FIFA World Cup, the UEFA European Championship, the DTM, wintersports and the Olympic Games in a special edition called Sportschau live.

Stephanie Stumph

Since 1995, Stumph has a role in the ZDF police investigation series Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall playing Christiane Stubbe, the daughter of (her father) Wolfgang Stumph's character.

Tame.it

Tame is mainly used by journalists (e.g. ZDF, ARD, Die Zeit), politicians, PR and marketing experts as well as NGOs.

The Territory of White Deer

The series was screened on Czechoslovak Television, on German ZDF, Super RTL and Kinderkanal and several times on Czech Television as well.

Ulrich Kienzle

In the 2000s (decade), Kienzle hosted a ZDF program on the German political party's campaigns in the run up to the German federal election, 2002, and is contributing to a ZDF magazine on the economy (WISO) since 2003.

From 1993 to 2000, he was one of the "combattants" in the weekly ZDF political magazine Frontal, that always featured a controversial debate between the more leftist Kienzle (usually taking the position of the Social Democratic Party of Germany) and the more rightist Bodo H. Hauser (usually taking the position of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany).

Witta Pohl

She became popular in her role as the mother "Vera Drombusch" in the German TV-series Diese Drombuschs on German broadcaster ZDF.

World System Teletext

WST is used for all teletext services in Europe & Scandinavia, including Ceefax from the BBC and services from Teletext on ITV in the United Kingdom, ZDFtext from ZDF and ARDText from ARD in Germany, and Tekst-TV from NRK in Norway, among many other teletext services offered by other television networks throughout the European continent.


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