Neues aus der Anstalt
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Neues aus der Anstalt is a political cabaret
Kabarett
Kabarett is a form of cabaret which developed in Germany from 1901, with the creation of the Überbrettl venue, and that by the Weimar era in the mid 1920s was characterized by political satire and gallows humor...

 program on German television station ZDF
ZDF
Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television broadcaster based in Mainz . It is run as an independent non-profit institution, which was founded by the German federal states . The ZDF is financed by television licence fees called GEZ and advertising revenues...

, hosted by Urban Priol
Urban Priol
Urban Priol is an award-winning German cabaret artist and comedian. He is currently the host of the ZDF show Neues aus der Anstalt.-External links:* - Portrait of Priol in Der Tagesspiegel...

 and Georg Schramm
Georg Schramm
Georg Schramm is a German psychologist and Kabarett artist. He was a host of the Kabarett shows Scheibenwischer and Neues aus der Anstalt.-Biography:...

. Broadcast monthly since 2007, it usually features three guest cabaret artists in addition to the hosts.

History

ZDF has not broadcast a cabaret program since the cancellation of Notizen aus der Provinz
Notizen aus der Provinz
Notizen aus der Provinz was a political cabaret program hosted by Dieter Hildebrandt and broadcast by ZDF from 1973 to 1979...

with Dieter Hildebrandt
Dieter Hildebrandt
Dieter Hildebrandt is a German Kabarett artist.Born in Bunzlau, Lower Silesia, Hildebrandt attended school until he became an assistant for the German Air Force in World War II...

 in 1979, who, as a result, switched to the other German public broadcasting channel, Das Erste
Das Erste
Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen , marketed as Das Erste , is the principal publicly owned television channel in Germany...

, where he founded the Scheibenwischer
Scheibenwischer
Scheibenwischer was the name of a long-running German Kabarett show. It was founded in 1980 by Dieter Hildebrandt and produced by BR / RBB to be broadcast on Das Erste...

.

Neues aus der Anstalt was first broadcast on January 24, 2007 after the heute journal.

About the show

The show is broadcast live from Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

, one Tuesday evening a month. Its theme is a fictional psychiatric clinic where Priol acts as the head of medicine, while Schramm portrays some of his characters as patients. Schramm's pensioner Lothar Dombrowski, acts as the patients' spokesperson. He also appears as the old Hessian
Hesse
Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...

 social democrat
Social Democratic Party of Germany
The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...

 August and the Bundeswehr
Bundeswehr
The Bundeswehr consists of the unified armed forces of Germany and their civil administration and procurement authorities...

 officer Oberstleutnant
Oberstleutnant
Oberstleutnant is a German Army and Air Force rank equal to Lieutenant Colonel, above Major, and below Oberst.There are two paygrade associated to the rank of Oberstleutnant...

Sanftleben.) Up to three guest artists portray other characters, either fellow patients or outside visitors, as well.
Frank-Markus Barwasser in his alter ego Erwin Pelzig is replacing Georg Schramm and his different characters as the co-host of the show.

Similar to the Scheibenwischer, Neues aus der Anstalt strives to limit its content to political cabaret and does not feature other kinds of humor, such as stand-up or situational comedy.
The German word Anstalt (institution) is used for both mental institutions (Irrenanstalt, Nervenheilanstalt) and public broadcasting institutions (Rundfunkanstalt).

Reception

The show surpassed the Scheibenwischer's ratings by over a million viewers in its first broadcast. The second broadcast was less successful though. Ratings fell to the level of Scheibenwischer, although the show attracted a larger number of younger viewers, compared to the usual demographic of ZDF viewers. Although the ratings were lower than the first broadcast, they remained good, capturing a 13% market share (2.73 million per show) in its first year and stayed at that level.

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