Big Brother Germany (Season 1)

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seriesname = Big Brother
series = Season 1 (2000)
next = Big Brother Germany (Season 2)
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hm11 = Jana
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hm12 = Thomas
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legendwinner = Winner
legendrunner = Runner Up
legendevic = Evicted
legendwalk = WalkedThe original season of Big Brother Germany started on 28 February, 2000 and lasted 102 days until 9 June, 2000 on RTL 2.

eason Summary

Being the first adapatation of the original show with the same name that was aired six months earlier in the Netherlands. Never experienced with such a format, german public remained doubtful until the start and german politics even tried to forbid to air the show.
However, after being a few weeks on air, the show proved to be a massive ratings hit with german audience and macedonian contestant Zlatko Trpkovski immediatly went on to become a love-hate character for his clueless way of speaking and not knowing who William Shakespeare was. He went on to survive his first nomination however when he was nominated against Jürgen, his best friend in the house, he was evicted. On his way out of the house he was witnissed by reportly 3.000 people outside of the house with cheers and was celebrated as being the winner. However in the same night the audience was shouting "Manu raus!" ("Get Manu out!") targeting Manuela, one of Zlatkos major threats in the house and after the remaining housemates were able to hear the reactions one of the basic rules (no contact to the outside world) were broken.
Manuela was the next person to be evicted while Zlatko started to build a career upon his new founded fame. Although not really being a talented singer, he recorded a single which went straight to no. 1 of the german single charts and even got his own show named "Zlatkos Welt (Zlatko's World)" on RTL 2. He eventually recorded a duett named "Großer Bruder (Big Brother)" with his buddy Jürgen, while that one was still a contestant on the show and therefor clueless about starting his own singing career, which topped the charts as well and was even a bigger success than Zlatkos debut single and the theme of the first season "Leb! (Live!)", the first no. 1 hit by the Big Brother franchise. Several contestants of the show tried to break into music business however none of them made any huge impact (mostly because of obvious lack of talent, quesionable lyrics and low profil productions) and none of their fames lasted longer than to the end of the year.
The show was on its peak when german celebrity Verona Feldbusch entered the house for one night in the second half of the show. [ [http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,75936,00.html "Big Brother": Verona Feldbusch als Überraschungsgast - Panorama - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten:] Over 70% of the german audience witnessed her entry on screen. Feldbusch would eventually made a second entry to the house in the second season of the show and was followed by several minor celebrities in the next seasons.
Being the hands down favorite to win, Jürgen was beaten in a very close vote by east-german John Milzwho remained quite throughout the entire series and was known as rarely having arguments with his fellow housemates. Being tatooed and pierced, he appeared like a rough rocker on first sight but proved to be a rather soft and caring father with very liberal views. From the prize money he bought a car for his girlfriend and mother of his daughter saying "she had to do the work during my stay". Later it became public that John was cheaten by her during the show.
The first season of Big Brother is mostly considered as "the birth of reality television" in germany had a huge impact on german Television which saw several similar formats making their way to the screens in the next months and years, however the success of Big Brother was never beaten by any other show and the viewers tend to say that the first has been the only real Big Brother season due to the contestants never expecting such a success and being their own throughout the show.

Housemates

Entered on Day 1:
*Alex Jolig, 37 from Bonn
*Andrea Singh, 32 from Cologne
*Despina Eftimescu, 29 from Munich (originally from Romania
*Jana Orban, 24 from Kamp-Lintfort
*John Milz, 26 from Potsdam
*Jürgen Milski, 36 from Cologne
*Kerstin Linz, 26 from Berlin
*Manuela Schick, 23 from Hamburg
*Thomas Hendrick, 23 from Iserlohn
*Zlatko Trpkovski, 24 from Nattheim (originally from Macedonia)Replacement contestants:
*Jona Klein, 20 from Hückeswagen (replacement for Despina)
*Sabrina Lange, 32 from Cologne (replacement for Jona)
*Verena Malta, 28 from Cologne (replacement for Kerstin)

Nominations Table

References

ee Also

*Main Article about the show

External Links

* [http://www.worldofbigbrother.com/Ger/1.html Housemate pictures, Nominations and Evictions]
* [http://bbfun.de/alle-big-brother-bewohner.php All profiles if the housemates season 1] (german)