20 years Germany’s Next Top Model – “Money, Baby, Money”

Drama, baby, drama! » Better in the summer fairy tale year 2006, Bruce Darnell could hardly express better than with this entertainment trial, which is not accidentally reminiscent of Donald Trump’s “Drill, Baby, Drill” what “Germany’s Next Top Model” is about. More precisely: not possible. Germany’s next top model. When Heidi Klum once draped 32 women on the Pro Sieben presentation plate, the “girls”, as the women were only called by the Bergisch-Gladbach breeding, were not drilled for the catwalk. No, four years after the premiere of “DSDS” “GNTM” fed the self -marketing industry with “fresh meat”.

A swelling multimillion business that pulls rookies on the assembly line into the flash of lightning, to be degraded to wearers of optical (six -pack, tits, halstattoos) and habitual (bitch, howling, howling, exhibitionism). If the 20th season starts next week, three dozen attractive facades will increase again in the ring of an alleged competition of graceful movements. However, as in the 19 rounds before, hardly a handful of this should have Wikipedia entries that will also be added in 2027-unless they are about the promirable lamps in the reality industry, on which many finalists will probably land from March.

However, as in the 19 rounds before, hardly a handful of it should have Wikipedia entries that will also be supplemented in 2027.

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For the transmitter and draft horse, this is by no means a reason to even become reflexive, even self -critical. Before the restart of his anniversary edition, Pro Sieben prefers “20 years of glamorous photo shoots, catwalks and challenges” of a show that has only half as high quotas compared to 2006, but has twice as many programs. After half of the 40 candidates in 2024 were already men, the format is shared. Or in Heidi’s words – you can only imagine scraps: “Since all these great personalities do not fit into a single Thursday evening, there are only boys on Tuesdays for six weeks!”

Sounds varied, modern, fairer, almost emancipated. And in fact, Klums can be accused of a lot from the market economy abuse of minors to bodyshaming, sadism, misogynia to contempt for human beings, but not a lack of diversity. No longer. At first, Heidi’s girl were brilliantly white, slim slim, pleasing German women with names from A as Anna to O like Ortmann, who also grown to the 14th season in front of purely male juries, the staff has been radically diversified since then.

The third winner Sara Nuru already has dark skin like the first juror Bruce Darnell. But it took until the 13th season until #metoo brought sustainable light into the dark of the misogynistic perfection mechanics. Since then there have not only been more filling, smaller, more mature candidates; Shortly before Corona, a transperson also won in 2021 before the gender border fell completely three years later. At the awarding of the Bavarian television award in Munich, Heidi Klum soon gave up as well as credible to record her wish, “I would have changed the program earlier”.

What sounded insightful, however, contradicted the mindset of an alpha animal in the predator pack showbiz that women only survive with masculine habit. Sincerity is obviously not one of them. When Klum emphasized in the same context that GNTM was “a reality program” without “text” and “storylines”, the opposite complaints of various participants should invalidate this. Above all, a 2022 finalist who accused the show “Manipulation”, even “psychological violence”. Pro seven reacted promptly – and complained of breaking the contractual secret.

However, research by the reporting magazine seems Ctrl F Or the YouTuber Network To confirm that accused the Klum scripted abuse of power. Quasi Harvey Weinstein without penetration. So you don’t have to want to “beat up six varieties shit out of her”, as Roger Willemsen wrote at the start of season four of 2009 to criticize “Germany’s Next Top Model by Heidi Klum” despite all the diversity offensives. A highlight of patriarchal rules of rule in the service is sufficient. Because they do not get better by the fact that exceptionally a woman at the top is enthroned.

In terms of content, Bruce Darnell’s winged word of the “drama, baby, drama” may well rewrite the permanent advertising for products of everyday abundance. In essence, however, it is clum, ironically even the most presented product of a sexist RTL casting by Kniefomler Thomas Gottschalk, about “Money, Baby, Money”. This year with her own daughter Leni as a juror. Donald Trump would be proud of Heidi’s entertainment dynasty.