Notizen aus der Provinz
| Notizen aus der Provinz | |
|---|---|
| Genre | political cabaret |
| Presented by | Dieter Hildebrandt |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Original language(s) | German |
| No. of episodes | 66 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | ZDF |
| Running time | 1973-1979 |
| Release | |
| Original network | ZDF |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | Neues aus der Anstalt (2007) |
Notizen aus der Provinz (German for "news from the province") was a political cabaret program hosted by Dieter Hildebrandt and broadcast by ZDF from 1973 to 1979. After its cancellation, it would be the last such program on the channel until Neues aus der Anstalt premiered in January 2007.
Notizen aus der Provinz was the second attempt to establish a political cabaret show in German television after the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) had tried out a similar concept, Hallo Nachbarn! (based on the BBC show That Was The Week That Was), in 1963. Hildebrandt had previously worked on Rückblende for the NDR in which he featured in the persona of a politics-analysing roofer.
The program was created as a satirical news magazine and as such did not feature an intricate studio decoration. Instead, Hildebrandt — feigning provincial innocence — would sit on a desk and comment on recent events from a satirical perspective, combined with 3-5 minute long clips about the subjects.
The show proved soon to be popular with the audience, receiving an audience rating between 30% and 45%.
Like Hildebrandt's later program, Scheibenwischer, the Notizen were frequently attacked by conservative politicians, most notably by those of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) and the Christian Democratic Union which served only to increase its popularity.
ZDF stopped production and broadcasting of two episodes as their content was deemed too controversial by the channel's bosses:
In 1975, parts of an episode concerning abortion were censored and not broadcast. The censored parts contained the introduction of a fictional new law that would make sterilisation mandatory based on the number of the Personalausweis of men affected. Hildebrandt was awarded the Adolf-Grimme-Preis in 1976 for those parts.
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