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Der Schwächste fliegt!
Der Schwächste fliegt! is the German version of the game show "The Weakest Link", literally meaning "The Weakest one flies" (colloquial German for: "is thrown out").
It was first broadcast on 19 March 2001, on RTL. The show premiered on weekdays at 15:00 and was hosted by Sonja Zietlow (who was already known for a tough-talking style on her self-titled talk show from previous years). Like the British version, the show pitted
and Keldorfer heard nothing until in 1927 he received an invitation to visit Strauss at his home in Garmisch where Strauss showed him three of a four movement song cycle based on poems from Eichendorff's "Wanderlieder" ("Der Abend" was completed later that year). In this initial version, Strauss had composed an orchestral opening, a depiction of dawn leading to the first line of the poem "Fliegt der erste Morgenstrahl". Keldorfer suggested an alternative opening in which the choir sang a cappella using a verse from Eichendorf's