ONLY FANS – DER TRASH TV SALON

Anja Rützel and her guests dissect the state of German trash TV in the Rangfoyer of the Deutsches Theater. The necessary accompanying material is made available to the audience in sound and vision. Because some of the content discussed may be easier to appreciate, there will of course also be drinks.

How real is reality? How do you compose the perfect jungle camp ensemble out of real old stars, claiming celebrities and groping island veterans? How much power does the editing so often reviled by trash TV personnel really have? And what social-psychological lures will the jungle camp presumably use in the upcoming 18th season to keep even I-have-no-TV-at-all people glued to their televisions for two weeks?

Spiegel author Anja Rützel talks about all this and more in the opening edition of her TV Salon with Christiane Ruff, TV producer and head of ITV Studios Germany ( Love Island, The Bachelorette, I'm a Star-get me out of here! ), and Pamela Kretzschmar, who has been responsible for casting the jungle celebrities for many years.

Anja Rützel, 50, is not afraid of the deepest trash TV swamps as an author. "Calm down, it's all funny," is engraved on her keychain, and this advice also describes the perspective with which she looks at the world. For Der Spiegel, she dives into the TV sewage for cultural fool's gold and finds astonishing parallels between the jungle camp and Greek dramas - or between Germanys next Topmodel and Pygmalion. Rützel has written books about the beauty of being alone and about the dogs of famous people, and for the 100-page series of the Reclam publishing house she wrote the standard work on the genre of trash TV.

Christiane Ruff Christiane Ruff started her media career in 1986 as an editorial assistant at Deutsche Welle in Cologne. From 1988 she worked for RTL, then as managing director of Sony Film Productions Germany. There she produced TV series such as Nikola , Ritas Welt , Die Camper , Alles Atze , among others. Since 2014, she has been the managing director of ITV Studios Germany.

Pamela Kretzschmar "Unpredictable, authentic - simply terrific entertainment!" Pamela Kretzschmar is Head of Reality at ITV Studios Germany and her heart beats for reality TV - as a maker as well as a viewer! The Berlin native looks back on many years of experience in the media industry. After working as an executive producer at Endemol for five years, she moved to ITV Studios Germany in 2011. In addition to developing new format ideas, she went on to successfully realize shows such as Ich bin ein Star - Holt mich hier raus! Gefragt- Gejagt, Quizduell and many more. Since 2022, Pamela Kretzschmar has been responsible for the entire reality catalog of ITV Studios Germany as Head of Reality.