« Look into my eyes, little one! » In a double pack – Diepresse.com

It was once the evening bell, today it is the telly that prompted us to do together. In the case in question to the evening news in ORF to listen devotedly. The « ZIB 1 » duo Tarek Leitner and Nadja Bernhard informs and comments on factual, serious and professional. Both moderators are attractive, authentic and are part of what ORF has to offer. However, what you can’t do anything for is the theatrical to the strange direction of the « ZiB 1 ». For all other programs, a speaker is sufficient, here there are two who are constantly observing users during the transmission.

This double conférence reminds me of our grandmother’s birthday, in which my brother and I, both even toddlers, had to say a poem in a duet. Each of us interlinks a half sentence and the two texts. In the « ZIB 1 » duo Tarek Leitner and Nadja Bernhard, the last sentence ends either with « Nadja! » Or with « Tarek! », While the viewer turns off the eye contact at the same time. As: « … President Trump threatened with punitive tariffs, Tarek! » Or « Chancellor candidate Kickl is for migration stop, Nadja! » At the same time, it is announced that the two speakers are with each other – yes, who would have thought?

It is as often in the theater today: the actors are great and the direction is abnormal, but at ORF, however, rather pathetic with a slight breeze of involuntary comedy. Especially the overture of the « ZiB 1 », which begins with the sounds of the squeaky-shaped Danube waltz. The speaker duo is somewhat lost in a huge hall, here both show in full body format. They greet us well, then march up to their seats on the podium and we spectators are now fixed by four eyes. An eye pair for moderation is already sufficient in every other news program, not here.

Slaughterhouse with wolf

Less than two hours later, the « ZIB 2 » moderates only a single speaker, as is the normal case with television. At ORF this is with Dr. Armin Wolf A singular stroke of luck, because his interviews have maximum information and entertainment! Since he interrogated his voluntary victims of the conversation razor and literally dismembered, the « Zib 2 » could also be called « slaughterhouse ». Based on the Bavarian Radio of the same name, in which cabaret artists tend to turn their victims through the sausage.

As a blatant counterplay for this « who dances with the wolf » show, that is, « to the Wolf Traut » show, the Ladys of Lotto Education present themselves at a much more modest intellectual level. Nevertheless, your appearance in ORF is even announced by photo with the balls in your hands in a large daily newspaper every time a major event. Although their own contribution is limited to two things: the performance of exclusive clothing fashion and the loud reading of the number from the current lucky ball. Which the viewers have long been able to read themselves.

Wouldn’t the news speakers not earn a comparable announcement in the print media?

Past the viewer

In the bizarre « four-eye » show « Zib 1 », as I said, we are constantly fixed by two pairs of eyes. On the other hand, according to the ORF house rule, the victims of the survey are not allowed. They should not look at us, but only to the questioner, who is not visible on the screen. So the respondent looks and speaks past us viewers and out of the picture. Only cabaret artists and other stage professionals ignore this ORF imperative. You still turn your face to us, with a meaningful smile about senseless TV rituals.

The legendary Casablanca Salter « Look in my eyes, little one! » reveals a phenomenon of sensory physiology, which determines all our social life. Of the three communication means face, sound and smell, the two latter are separated topographically as far as the transmitter and recipient is concerned. As is well known, our mouth and our ears are created for the sound. As with the smell; For the Met as a transmitter, our armpit welding gland is the responsible organ as a recipient.

« I can’t smell you » points to our evolutionary past and luckily there is no smell TV because fragrances owed. Our monetary ancestors were macro mates, they could smell better than we, which we have become an eye animal in the course of phylogenesis, while dogs, for example, primarily perceive the world as nasal animals. What is the world view for us is the world smelling for dogs. Her nose is ten times sharper than man smell organ.

Aug ‘in Aug’

As far as seeing is concerned, the transmitter and recipient are the same organ. Aug ‘in Aug’ can become a « bad look » or « a laughing and a crying eye ». « They fixed myself, I ask them to duel, » said it was not so long ago and newborns were literally veiled to protect them from the supposedly fatal eyes of strangers. In the animal kingdom, yellow rings are around the eye that increase the signal effect, just as often as black eye strips that the visual organ hide visually. Eye spots on the wings of butterflies and « false faces » on the rear end of caterpillars are threatening signals against predators. For us humans, eyes are our most important communication organs, from the tentical wink to avert the eyes to prevent aggression. In reciprocal eye contact, we even speak of « eye language » because this sensory organ has an eye -binding expression.

The viewing of the viewer may be the intention of the ORF if not only an eye pair in « Zib 1 », but four eyes are visually captivated at the same time. According to the motto « Double keeps better » to emphasize the top position of « ZiB 1 » in the main evening program. Included with all of his theatrical to funny accompanying staging. « Time in the picture » as a picture in view of how this is the case in the psychologically sophisticated advertising graphic of our time. With an eye dummy that shine like the sun to stimulate buying, whether toothpaste, hair growth or tablets against flatulence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe has put it in a nutshell: « Wer the eye of the sun, the sun cannot see it. » And you can’t have enough of it, the philosophy of ORF seems to be. So now « Tarek » and « Nadja » as a double pack and feast for the eyes.

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