THEY UP THERE!

Especially for many teenagers and young people nowadays the topic of politics is rather boring and dull. However, politics is more important than ever nowadays and a growing disinterest of the population in it cannot change existing problems or even coming problems. The YouTube channel “DIE DA OBEN!” has made it its business to report about politics and especially about the events and decisions in the Bundestag. Thus, the channel “DIE DA OBEN!” manages to address exactly the group of people for whom politics is actually a rather boring topic, namely the youth of Germany.

Generally speaking, “DIE DA OBEN!” is a German infotainment and politics channel. It is also important to mention that this channel was called “INFORMR” at the beginning, but was already dealing with the same topic at that time. The channel “DIE DA OBEN!” and their videos are produced and financed by “Hyperbole” on behalf of “funk”.

The main content of the channel “DIE DA OBEN!” is mainly about German and worldwide politics and political topics. The channel describes itself as “contemporary political journalism for the target group under 30,” according to the “funk” website.

The main topics of the channel “DIE DA OBEN!” include information about heated debates in parliament as well as highlights from the center of power.

The channel “DIE DA OBEN!”, at that time still “INFORMR”, was already founded on November 16, 2016. However, as of today, the first video was released on April 04, 2019, for the channel’s changeover to “DIE DA OBEN!”, and was titled: “DIE DA OBEN! // Teaser”. Already this first video gave the viewers at that time and also new viewers of the channel, a view of the topics treated from now on and the main focus of the videos on the channel. It is also important to mention that the channel “INFORMR” was relaunched with “DIE DA OBEN!”, and therefore this supposedly first video was published three years after the channel was founded.

Due to the support and production of “funk” and “Hyperbole”, there is a relatively large team behind the channel “DIE DA OBEN!”. The channel will be hosted by Jan Schippmann, who already hosted the political format “INFORMR” for “funk”, and Aline Abboud, who spent some time as a trainee in the Bundestag and is known from the TV show “ZDF heute”. The special thing about Serviceh hosts and moderators of the channel is that they Serviceh had previous political experience and can now use it well in the format.

Nowadays at least one new video per week appears on the channel “DIE DA OBEN!”, which always revolves around politics or political events from Germany and the world. With their videos, the channel has now managed to attract well over 81,800 subscribers, with a clear upward trend due to the renewed interest of young people.