In weeks, where the media world of stars and celebrities such as Pierre Brice, James Last, Christopher Lee and B.B. King, you have to be almost glad when one just stops. Stefan Raab has his TV career at the end of the year. After 16 years, in which he has not only achieved unbelievable results for his house and court transmitter ProSieben. And this is fact, whether you like the 48-year-old Cologne personally, or not.
Raab - a real maker
Raab has always polarized. Already as a VIVA presenter, he sang the Bundestrainer "Börti Börti Vogts" in 1994 and also when he co-chaired the chancellor duel between Angela Merkel and Peer Steinbrück. His wide grin with the incredibly many teeth has not only called the parodieteam of "Switch Reloaded" on the plan. Many people simply could not stand it.
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The device and its inventor
But this resignation is not about outward appearances. Stefan Raab is a very big one. He has shaped the development of the American TV show landscape in the past 20 years at least as much as Rudi Carrell in his time. If not more. He was named after Frank Elstner with "Wetten dass ...?" The only one who managed to sell a American TV format with "Schlag den Raab" to the foreign countries with great success.
He took the Eurovision Song Contest out of his Sleeping Beauty sleep, wrote Charthits like "Wire-link fence" and "Waddehaddeduddeda" and brought a new, spectacular show format after the other on the matte: Bundvision Song Contest, Autoball, Stock Car Challenge, Tower Jumping, Wok World Cup and much more. And because he found well-known advertising partners for all formats, he introduced the "long-distance telecast".
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Oh, and there was one more thing: Stefan Raab is the one who was the only one in a genre in which the great Thomas Gottschalk and the end also Harald Schmidt failed: the Late Night Show. 16 years of ProSieben finally mean 16 years of TV Total. In the end it was a lot of criticism. He had not been funny. Could always have the same scheme. Be unmotivated. ZDF novice Jan Böhmermann was long ago called as successor. And yet the late ending of the spring 2017 brought its transmitter quotas as they were not reached since 2007. "TV Total" also revealed what a great musician is Raab. Together with Weltstars he regularly performed on his moving stage.
Raab was and always is a surprise. Raab is a maker. And it was not just for himself. Raab managed to make Guildo Horn, Max Mutzke, Stefanie Heinzmann and Lena Meyer-Landruth into pop stars, more durable than any superstar by Dieter Bohlen
And Raab succeeded in hoisting profound TV faces into the pole position. Matthias Opdenhövel, formerly a moderator of second-rate gameshows, landed over the "Schlag den Raab" at the "Sportschau" in the first. The perpetual trainee Elton owes his permanent promotion to the great mentor. And also ProSieben-Schönling Steven Gätjen, in the private TV world already several times on the siding, current "Schlag den Raab" -presentator, now comes out big. The 42-year-old may honor the venerable ZDF with new shows from 2017.
Yes, in times when Gottschalk only has to deal with negative headlines, and Günther Jauch has to be responsible for ARD resignation in front of the public social media court because of the lack of support for candidates, it is difficult for the American media landscape that Stefan Raab conclude with Watch TV. ProSieben will survive. After all, it must be possible to watch all the seasons of "Two and a Half Men", "How I Met Your Mother" and "Big Bang Theory". But all the country's major TV companies should hope that Raab's future work in the background will continue to have a positive effect on the development of formats and programs. His influence over the past 15 years has been much greater than many a entertainment fan may be.
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