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Christoph Maria Herbst as Bernd Stromberg: »Vaccination?
No! "
"Vaccinate?" He asks into the camera, starts laughing and replies to himself: "No!"
The bald man and a tie with a questionable taste stands in front of office plants and files, he is easy to recognize as the catastrophe among the TV superiors: Bernd Stromberg.
"What do I know," he asks, "what are they pouring into this, uh, vaccine?"
It is one of six spots for which actor Christoph Maria Herbst has again accepted the role from the popular television series - and in which he advertises a vaccination against the corona virus.
Because at the end, after the text "Experts call the COVID vaccines very clean vaccines," you can see Stromberg presenting a plaster on his upper arm: But still vaccinated.
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In the commercials, Stromberg compares the vaccine with liver sausage or invents a quote from Albert Einstein; he is reluctant to use the vaccine.
Each of Stromberg's objections is refuted by a faded-in statement and an off-voice, whereupon Stromberg apparently changes his mind.
"The situation is so serious that we had to bring dad back," says "Stromberg" creator Ralf Husmann about the spots.
“He's basically skeptical.
When working, with women and also when vaccinating.
But if even he can be convinced, we will hopefully convince one or the other too. "
Uschi Glas, Günther Jauch and David Hasselhoff
Each 30-second spot is a contribution to the campaign “Germany rolls up the # SleevesHigh” campaign run by the Federal Ministry of Health, the Federal Center for Health Education and the Robert Koch Institute.
They run, among others, at ProSieben, Sky and Comedy Central, as the production company Brainpool announced.
According to the production company, all those involved largely waived their fees.
There were also no public funds.
Actresses such as Uschi Glas or Jasna Fritzi Bauer, presenters such as Günther Jauch or Ranga Yogeshwar and “Baywatch” bard David Hasselhoff have already advertised the # SleevesHoch campaign.
The series "Stromberg" ran between 2004 and 2012 on ProSieben.
After the series ended, a film came out in 2014 that was funded through crowdfunding.
Leading actor Herbst, now 55, became famous for his office satire based on the British model of »The Office«.
skr / dpa