Dutch media services
ARD is a joint organisation of Germany’s regional public-service broadcasters. It was founded in 1950 in West Germany to represent the common interests of the new, decentralised, post-war broadcasting services – in particular the introduction of a joint television network.
ARD Weltspiegel is a reportage television programme on the German first public TV channel. Its title was modelled on the newspaper Der Weltspiegel. Correspondent reports from ARD’s foreign studios around the world are broadcasted on Sundays at 6.30 pm under the auspices of NDR, WDR, SWR or BR. In addition to the regular programme, the monothematic offshoots Weltspiegel-Reportage, Weltspiegel extra and Weltspiegel-Doku are also broadcasted, sometimes in loose succession.
After more than six years the Dutch authorities start a special parlementerian inquiry to find the truth behind the EL AL plane crash in the Amsterdam Bijlmermeer. Some of the victims just arrive back from Los angeles, where they consulted medical specialist Garth Nicolson to… Read More
Years after the ELAL plane crashing into a high rise block in the Amsterdam Bijlmermeer more and more questions come up. Soon there will be decided on a parliamentary inquiry into the disaster. The way the disaster was handled by the dutch, how and why… Read More
A Visit with the neighbourhood with Dutch Surinam mayor Hannah Belliot, the first migrant mayor of the Netherlands, ends with a steelpan concert on a parking lot. A patrol through the neighbourhood with the police and checking out the nightlife of the Bijlmermeer with social… Read More
The Dutch authorities are discussing linking the computer systems of the police, tax office and the social security department When all this information is linked it is easier to catch or ‘keep out people without a residence permit. The general view is that people that… Read More
In the Netherlands Euthanasia is tolerated, accepted and not so much a taboo as in Germany. When will a law be ready? How is euthanasia carried out in the Netherlands? Why are so many doctors too afraid to report euthansia? Rens Potters is very sick… Read More
Dutch company Koppert is the biggest insect breeder in the world. The company breeds and sells 26 different kinds of predator insects. Literally millions of different insects are growing up in huge, dark and hot rooms. Koppert has insect-farms in France , England , Italy… Read More
A group of entrepreneurs working in the German funeral branch investigate the innovation in the Dutch funeral branch. The group visits Dutch graveyards, a crematorium, a gravestone mason company and a huge funeral trade fair in Utrecht. Activities: propose item idea, research, set up and… Read More
Amsterdam is the most heaviest smeared city in Europe. The density of graffiti is even worse than New York and the quality seems to be world famous. The Amsterdam authorities want to ban graffiti from the city and launches the special project ‘Graffiti Finit’. There… Read More
A reportage about an exhibition on death in society called ‘In the midst of life, we are in death’, in the gallery of the Amsterdam art society ‘Arti et Amicitiae’. Curator Harry Heyink: ‘Obviously death plays a vital role in art, but in this exhibition… Read More
Reportage on the renewal of the the famous ideological Amsterdam high rise block district the Bijlmermeer. The set back of the ideal living of the seventies and the search of a solution for the urban social problems in the nineties. Activities: research, set-up and planning… Read More
Reportage on soft drug tourism in the Netherlands for the ARD background reportage program Weltspiegel. Many Germans visit border cities like Venlo and Arnhem to buy soft drugs. How does this work in practice and how do these cities cope with this phenomenon. Interviews with… Read More