Neues aus der Anstalt (English: "News from the (Mental) Institute") is a political cabaret program on German television station ZDF, hosted by Urban Priol and Frank-Markus Barwasser, who replaced Georg Schramm.
After the program's surprise cancellation in 2013, it was resurrected in 2014 under the title Die Anstalt, replacing hosts Urban Priol and Frank-Markus Barwasser with Max Uthoff [de] and Claus von Wagner.
[2] Its theme was a fictional psychiatric clinic where Priol acted as the head of medicine,[3] while Schramm portrayed some of his characters as patients.
Similar to Scheibenwischer, Neues aus der Anstalt strove to limit its content to political cabaret and did not feature other kinds of humor, such as stand-up or situational comedy.
[6] Although the ratings were lower than the first episode, they remained good, capturing a 13% market share (2.73 million per show) in its first year[7] and stayed at that level.