The 26th season of “Love Stories and Marriage Matters” starts today on ORF. Nina Horowitz has been conducting the interviews since 2020. This year there is also a 90-year-old candidate.
You can think what you want regarding this show – it is successful. Apparently, there’s an undiminished interest among viewers in watching people openly reveal their past or hoped-for love life as the camera pans across the living room. An average of 931,000 people saw “Love Stories and Marriage Matters” last year. In one episode there were even more than a million. All voyeurs?
Not necessarily. Nina Horowitz, who took over the show in 2020 from the late Elizabeth T. Spira, tries not to exploit the private situation and carefully investigates. If any. Where they should not do this will be discussed in advance. “You don’t have to reveal everything,” she says. Nevertheless, it is “brave” to take part. If someone does not want to open up, then he is wrong with the “love stories”. “Because that’s what the viewers are waiting for.” For a third of the candidates, it pays off: They find someone and fall in love.
