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Maren Kräumann on Feminist Television

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Brief overview

Maren Kräumann's career is built on reaching a mass audience without ever dumbing it down.

  1. Unplanned moments are what audiences love mostOn Scheibenwischer, Hildebrandt and Bruno Jonas hanging live were the most beautiful moments, and people love you when something goes wrong on stage.
  2. Reach the masses without dumbing them downEisler's core question is her motto: pop songs everyone understands, arranged so they comment on each other and open a new thought.
  3. Follower counts now decide casting150,000 followers is an argument to be cast in films and series; her wife runs the Instagram account that has a little over 80,000.
Executive Summary AI
  • Welcomed on Allesgesagt by Jochen Wegner and Christoph Ahmen with a long list of awards, Maren Kräumann calls the Grimme Ehrenpreis the greatest TV award, one she knew early on she would never get.3:39
  • Born July 19, 1949 in Walsrode to Berlin parents who left Breslau early, she describes a mother who earned her doctorate in Berlin in 1937 beside signs reading pack, bucket, shovel, broom, then you'll find a man faster.23:01
  • Her 1987 series role as a pastor's wife reached 13 million viewers and triggered a huge scandal when the pastor was shown coming back to bed after a funeral, with Swabian pietists foaming; her mother, who despised series, watched with the sound down.43:36
  • The May 1, 1971 demonstration in Paris, one million people marking 100 years of the Commune, politicised her, and two of her closest fellow students later received job bans in Berlin.1:05:00
  • Hans Eisler's question, how do I reach the masses without dumbing them, became the motto of her television work, from the 1994 orgasm sketch written by Simon Borowiak to the reality TV season with Natascha Ochsenknecht and an Instagram account of a little over 80,000 followers.1:16:07
Key Quote
“And it's the same on stage anyway, if you're really hanging or something goes wrong, people love it and they love you also in the moment when something goes wrong.”
— Maren Kräumann12:54
Key Quote
“But I had a clear feeling, I want to go back to Germany, because I'm most at home there in the language.”
— Maren Kräumann59:12
Key Quote
“I wanted to say, the core question at the Eisler Choir or at Hans Eisler was, how do I reach the masses without dumbing them?”
— Maren Kräumann1:16:07