Viewers laugh at live scenes from Essen

At prime time, RTL is dedicated to the death of Jesus Christ – with Alexander Klaws as the Savior and Thomas Gottschalk as the narrator. The unusual format from the heart of the Ruhr area was not well received by everyone.

Essen in the center of German television, that doesn’t happen every day either. And then on Wednesday evening: At prime time, RTL showed “The Passion” as a TV event in the middle of Essen’s city center – the death and resurrection of Christ caused mockery and mockery on social networks, probably also because of the scenery from the Ruhr area.

RTL had enticed the viewers in the evening with a top-class casserole of stars: the former “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” winner Alexander Klaws mimicked Jesus personally, the Judas who betrayed him was “Bergdoktor” actor Mark Keller.

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And as the narrator of the show, which was produced with great effort, Thomas Gottschalk was engaged. And yet, in social media, it was above all the unusual setting, the main stage in front of Essen Cathedral, that was the dominant theme – and not necessarily exclusively positive, but mostly malicious.

Some Twitter users imagined the planning of the unusual TV event as crazy:

RTL’s decision to play some of the scenes from the Jesus story in the city’s shopping center was also extremely curious. A modern twist that might have been too much of a good thing:

However, the daring idea met with goodwill from some users – or at least respect for actually sending it all like this:

In total, on Wednesday evening – at least on Twitter – the number of users who had a lot of fun with the spectacle predominated, but because of the absurd situation, as these posts show:

The fact that the singer Gil Ofarim, who was accused of defamation by the Leipzig public prosecutor after an alleged anti-Semitism scandal, also appeared on the show, overwhelmed several users:

The program conquered the Twitter trends on the platform in the evening – that means: Nothing was talked about more than “The Passion” on Thursday evening on social media. But is this show really a blessing for RTL? That will show up in the ratings at the latest.

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