When aileen, lena, katharina and david come home from school, the first thing they do is reach for the remote control. TV on – head off. Just come down, relax, let yourself be sprinkled – not having to think about anything anymore. The same programs always flicker across their screens: "berlin tag und nacht" ("berlin day and night"), "families in focus, "the school investigators" and many others have long been part of your everyday life. Up to four hours a day they look into the tubes. "I just need it", says aileen. "I couldn't do without it, it would be a horror", thinks lena.
We are talking about "assi-TV, that is, the morning and afternoon programs of private broadcasters, which are also often "scripted reality" is called. Despite the script, dialogues are mostly improvised, actions and life situations are staged. Lower social classes in particular are often portrayed in a derogatory way, the reality is falsified. Aileen, lena, katharina and david from class 9. The first class of the middle school in kitzingen-iphofen as well as other schools from the district dealt with the theory and showed their own presentations about the negative consequences of "assi-tv" at the youth district meeting yesterday showed.