
''Dittsche: Das wirklich wahre Leben'' (
English: ''The Really Real Life'') is a German
improvisation comedy television show
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starring
Olli Dittrich and
Jon Flemming Olsen.
Olli Dittrich plays the
unemployed
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Dittsche, who frequents a local fast food diner and converses with the proprietor about current events, drawing heavily on bizarre
tabloid headlines to formulate perplexingly insane theories about their background. Schildkröte (German word for
turtle
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), a bar regular (played by
Franz Jarnach), looks on mostly passively in the background.
The show is unscripted and is broadcast live from a real fast food diner in
Hamburg
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. One special feature of the show is the camera perspective, which changes in a fixed pattern and is digitally processed to mimic surveillance cameras. The show also features many celebrities from German TV and sports, who appear as customers of the diner.
Sources
www.wdr.de
German comedy television series
2004 German television series debuts
2021 German television series endings
2000s German television series
2010s German television series
2020s German television series
Television shows set in Hamburg
German-language television shows
Das Erste original programming
Grimme-Preis for fiction winners
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