Thomas Gottschalk
Moderator becomes “sea rescuer” for satirical magazine “Titanic”
Has relevant experience with the satirical magazine “Titanic”: TV legend Thomas Gottschalk
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The satirical magazine “Titanic” is facing bankruptcy. Star presenter Thomas Gottschalk has now joined the “sea rescue”.
After other celebrities such as Jan Böhmermann (42), Max Goldt (64) and Maren Kroymann (74), Thomas Gottschalk (73) is now also publicly campaigning for the rescue of the financially troubled satirical magazine “Titanic”. In one Interview with “Spiegel” The moderator now demanded “The ‘Titanic’ must not sink” and declared himself an official “member of the sea rescue team”.
“Titanic” facing impending doom
At the beginning of September it was announced that the satirical magazine, which had existed since 1979, was on the verge of bankruptcy. In its own rescue campaign, the newspaper’s editor-in-chief sounded the alarm: In order to save the “Titanic” from impending sinking, 5,000 new subscribers or financial support in other ways would be needed by the end of the year.
On the magazine’s website is currently the following on the problem: “Inflation and rising production costs do not stop at German print satire either. The consequences: financial bottlenecks, a leaky editorial ceiling, still no bonuses for cracking punch lines.” In order to be able to continue without creative losses, you need support.
Satirical magazine caused the “Wetten, dass…?” scandal
Now TV legend Thomas Gottschalk is joining the long line of prominent personalities to support the fundraising campaign for the German satirical institution. The presenter has relevant experience with the magazine. In 1988, “Titanic” managed to get its cult show “Wetten,dass…?” with a simple trick. to torpedo.
To do this, the magazine sent an editor into the race as a betting candidate for the program under the imaginary name “Thomas Rautenberg”. His bet: He could tell the color of crayons just by their taste. After he had actually assigned all the colors correctly with protective glasses over his eyes, the candidate told Gottschalk that he had fallen into a trap. He can’t recognize colors by taste, but is just an “impeccable ‘Titanic’ editor.” A little later it was revealed in the magazine that the editor Bernd Fritz (71) had simply peeked out from under the privacy screen.
“I owe the magazine a lot.”
In Spiegel, Gottschalk made it clear that he took the TV scandal at the time with humor and came out as a big “Titanic” fan. There he said: “The ‘Propanprovost Langenhövel’, who repeatedly haunted the campsites as a pastor in the magazine, was a hero of my late puberty, and the crayon-sucking editor-in-chief of ‘Titanic’ was a co-founder of my world fame. I owe the magazine a lot.”