TV Tip: Einstein Junior – The smartest kids in Germany

Summer time is cucumber time on TV. Now, RTL is trying a new game show for children

Casting and televised games abound on German television. The new four-part show "Einstein Junior – Germany's smartest kids" starts this Saturday (8:15 pm) on RTL.

In the new game, Köpfchen is in demand: as much as possible awake children between 8 and 12 years old face each other in a big tournament. They are either masters of arithmetic or have a huge amount of skill – and, of course, spellbinding them can not easily deceive them.

The mini-Einstein have a series of challenges every turn that defies all their intelligence. It is knowledge, speed, skills, but also team work. For example, they must make a complete set of cards in the right order, calculate increasingly difficult equations in their heads, answer detailed questions on city maps or spell complicated words in seconds. In each of the three preliminary rounds, smart kids fight for as many points as possible to reach the final.

There, the two best teams play against each other and have to master the complicated logic and arithmetic under enormous time pressure. In three levels, children should solve as many tasks as possible in just three minutes. Each child can earn money for his team, who moves into a jackpot. This can in turn be increased in the final show and paid as a training grant for the future. The show is an adaptation of the American format "Genius Junior" with presenter Neil Patrick Harris, who, however, has not had much success in the United States.

The new family show is moderated by the comedian Max Giermann (42). Here is exactly what suits him best: He slips into the role of famous characters during the show. For example, as Judge "Let's Dance" Jorge Gonzalez, the imitator explains how to spell correctly. In the appearance of Donald Trump, Markus Lanz and Karl Lagerfeld, Giermann lets these gentlemen take root in mathematics and Albert Einstein receives an introduction in social media.

Giermann is a familiar television face – it's like that he's regularly seen in the comedy "Sketch History" (ZDF) as Klaus Kinski and in the satirical show "Extra 3" (Das Erste) as Sigmar Gabriel and Donald Trump. In addition, he sat on the jury of two seasons of the casting show "Die Puppenstars" (RTL).

The comedian went on his own reluctant admission to school and wanted to be a cook rather than a child. "As a student, I quickly forgot everything because I only learned about it for the exam," said Giermann of the German news agency. "In the performance of extremely interested and curious children, I realized that I am really a couch potato in terms of brain jogging.I do not know when I understood something in my mind the last time "Well, the kids in the series might be able to help.