1. An apparatus for automatically detecting an event in sensor data, the apparatus comprising: a recording device for recording the sensor data; a feature identification device for automatically identifying a prescribed set of features of the sensor data in the sensor data recorded; a rating acquisition device for acquiring a respective rating for each of the features from the prescribed set of features, the respective rating relating to the event to be detected and is formed on a basis of a set of rating criteria, the set of rating criteria being based on at least one input interactively provided by a human expert for rating each of the features; a detection device for automatically detecting the event to be detected by means of the features identified by said feature identification device on a basis of acquired ratings for the prescribed set of features, said detection device determining a probability value for each of a plurality of individual sections of the sensor data from the acquired ratings of the features; a display device for showing the human expert a profile over time of the probability value of the individual sections of the sensor data; and a threshold value acquisition device for acquiring, for at least one of the features from the set of features, a threshold value formed on a basis of the set of rating criteria and to exclude from a detection of the feature that is to be detected those excerpts from the sensor data recorded for which the at least one feature is below a prescribed threshold value.