The commissioner

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Television series
Original title The commissioner
The Commissioner Logo.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Year (s) 1968-1975
length 60 minutes
Episodes 97 ( list )
genre Thriller
Theme music Herbert Jarczyk
idea Helmut Ringelmann
Herbert Reinecker
music Herbert Jarczyk
Peter Thomas
Raúl Fernández
Improved Sound Limited
Hans-Martin Majewski
Herrmann Thieme
Erich Ferstl
Hans Hammerschmid
Roland Kovac
Rolf Wilhelm
Can (band)
Heinz Kiessling
First broadcast January 3, 1969 on ZDF
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The Commissioner is the title of a German television crime series with Erik Ode in the title role. It was written by Herbert Reinecker and played in and around Munich .

content

The total of 97 episodes of the series shot in Munich and produced on 35mm film were broadcast for the first time on ZDF from January 3, 1969 to January 30, 1976 . Filming began in the spring of 1968. The first episode, The Knife in the Safe , was the second to be broadcast on television. It is noteworthy that Inspector Keller solved his first case from the bedside. Although the ZDF had already introduced color television in 1967 , the series was produced in black and white until the end .

The series followed almost directly on the older crime series Das Kriminalmuseum , in which Erik Ode was also seen three times as an investigator and which was also produced by Helmut Ringelmann .

In the murder stories staged by directors such as Wolfgang Staudte and Zbyněk Brynych with an experimental camera, the time color is an especially interesting aspect. Many socially disadvantaged areas of the time are also addressed, such as generation conflicts and the gradual emergence of drug use . The change in youth culture ( hippies , Beatschuppen , later discotheques ) was also reflected in the series. Compared to today's television world, the high alcohol and tobacco consumption of the protagonists (and especially the detectives) is striking.

In the first 26 episodes, a woman, the criminal assistant Helga Lauer, was also actively involved in the investigation, while her colleague Rehbein mainly performed classic anteroom tasks.

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further:

  • Emely Reuer as detective assistant Helga Lauer (up to episode 26)
  • Helma Seitz as detective assistant Käthe Rehbein (chen) (except in twenty episodes)
  • Rosemarie Fendel as Franziska Keller, wife of the commissioner (irregularly in early episodes)

Director

Directed in 97 episodes:

Rolf Kästel acted as cameraman for 79 of the 97 episodes . The production designer in charge was Wolf Englert in all 97 episodes .

music

Herbert Jarczyk composed the theme song, after his death in 1968 Peter Thomas provided the background music. The pop music of the time is also used as a musical background. The advertising effectiveness of these inserts did not go unnoticed by the record industry and so performers were specifically marketed in later episodes. B. in episode 60 the Les Humphries Singers . In episode 39 ( When the flowers wore mourning ) the song You live in your world by the pop singer Daisy Door is played several times . In the following three months, more than 500,000 records were sold and made the singer known nationwide.

Others

The Neue Deutsche Welle group The Wirtschaftswunder turned the music for the television series and scraps of conversation into the play Der Kommissar in 1980 .

Guest appearances

Many well-known actors took part in individual episodes, for example Curd Jürgens , Lilli Palmer , Peter van Eyck , Maria Schell , Marianne Hoppe , Will Quadflieg , Elisabeth Flickenschildt , Martin Held , Hellmut Lange , Harald Leipnitz , Rudolf Platte , Hannelore Elsner , Käthe Gold , Charles Regnier , Günter Ungeheuer , Hilde Hildebrand , Hans Caninenberg , Boy Gobert , Walter Sedlmayr , Peter Fricke , Ernst Schröder , Udo Vioff , Peter Pasetti , Horst Frank , René Deltgen , Hansi Jochmann , Maria Becker , Gisela Uhlen , Josef Meinrad , Ruth Drexel , Marianne Koch , Thomas Fritsch , Ruth Maria Kubitschek , Johanna von Koczian , Agnes Fink , Walter Giller , Bernhard Wicki , Johannes Heesters , Heinz Bennent , Arthur Brauss , Curt Bois , Brigitte Horney , Susanne Uhlen , Herbert Fleischmann , Ursula Lingen , Klaus Herm , Peter Vogel , Heinz Reincke , Herbert Bötticher , Klaus Schwarzkopf , Helga Anders , Rose Renée Roth , Peter Chatel , Ellen Umlauf , Karl Walter Diess , Erik a Pluhar , Hanns Ernst Jäger , Diana Körner , Horst Tappert , Harry Meyen , Gaby Dohm , Lukas Ammann , Dunja Rajter , Ruth Leuwerik and Sonja Ziemann .

For young actors, too, participating in an episode was one of the first steps in their careers (e.g. Martin Semmelrogge , Simone Rethel , Monica Bleibtreu , Susanne Uhlen , Raimund Harmstorf , Thomas Ohrner and Sascha Hehn ).

In episode 9 ( Money from dead cashiers , 1969), Siegfried Lowitz , who later becomes television commissioner himself as Der Alte , plays a released bank robber, according to whose method savings banks are robbed. Its future series assistant actors Michael Ande and Jan Hendriks also had major guest roles. In episode 16 (Death of a Witness, 1970), Götz George , the later crime scene inspector Schimanski , appears as a suspected ex-boyfriend of the murdered prostitute. Further appearances of the two: 44, 55 (Lowitz) / 49, 65 (George). Also crime scene inspectors were Klaus Schwarzkopf ( Inspector Finke from Kiel), who in episodes 3 (rats of the big city), 30 (visit to Alberti), 55 (Rudek) and 73 (death of a tramp) were mostly to be found among the suspects was and Klaus Höhne , who was one of the protagonists in episodes 14 (Das Ungeheuer) and 37 (The other side of the street) . From 1971 he played the detective Konrad in the crime scene for the Hessischer Rundfunk.

Horst Tappert , who was added to the ZDF series commissioner as Derrick Erik Ode in 1974 , played an alcohol-dependent photographer in episode 21 and in 1973 in episode 60 (The night in which Basseck died) the manager of a night bar. This is the bar where the Les Humphries Singers performed and sang their hits Mexico and Mama Loo during the homicide investigation .

In episode 55 ( Rudek ), Sky du Mont plays a pimp named Derrick .

Episode list

Withdrawn episodes

Immediately after the episode 82 Traumbilder was broadcast , an innkeeper complained about falling income. The reason is said to have been a dialogue in which a wine wholesaler said that Rotkreuzplatz in Munich was not a good area for a restaurant with French cuisine. Without any legal dispute, the ZDF then decided not to broadcast it again and only broadcast it again when the restaurant no longer existed.

Immediately after episode 83 The Golden Patch was broadcast , Turkish citizens and even the Turkish embassy complained that one of the perpetrators this time was an embassy employee of the Turkish embassy in Vienna. Furthermore, according to production manager Harald Vohwinkel, it was criticized that the Turkish refugees were dressed in rags. The rights holders have since refrained from further broadcasts, but ZDF provides VHS / DVD copies for private use on request.

reception

The commissioner has set standards for German television and for German crime series. “For many of the baby boomer generation , it was the first crime thriller they were allowed to watch on television as schoolchildren. And Erik Ode as Commissioner Herbert Keller was the role model for other stoic investigators such as Derrick and Der Alte, "said Andreas Heimann from the dpa in recognition of the crime series on the 50th anniversary of its first broadcast:" The Commissioner was big cinema in black and white and a street sweeper in the times when a robbery in the Munich crowd made the audience's pulse beat faster. The first episode was called Dead Man in the Rain and began with a slow tracking shot over a man's corpse. Immediately afterwards, Inspector Keller could be seen who was called to action while he was bending over his stamp album in his cozy Munich home. "

“In times of social upheaval, marked by student protests and East-West rapprochement, Inspector Keller remained a calm pole for the audience. Even the perpetrators often saw him as a confessor. He was a moral authority. Also for his assistants, who saw him and of course were used by him. And the gender roles were still clearly distributed [...] ”, so an appreciation on Deutschlandfunk, 40 years after the last episode was broadcast.

" As a kind of grandfather of the nation, the commissioner ensured law and order in times of fundamental social change," explains Hamburg media scientist Professor Joan Bleicher. In many episodes he gave a moral sermon at the end and warned of the dangers of the youth culture of that time: "The punishment of the perpetrators was also a confirmation of the conservative value constellations that were still valid."

“50 years ago, Der Kommissar became a street sweeper and Erik Ode was a style-defining factor. Then came Schimanski, increasingly strange men and finally investigators, ”explained the film critic Tilmann P. Gangloff on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast. "Herbert Keller, embodied by Erik Ode, a paternal civil servant with a clear compass of values ​​and always correctly dressed, was conceived as an alternative to American investigators."

DVD release

After negotiations with rights holders failed to publish the series on DVD-Video , Universum Film GmbH began gradually releasing the series in mid-2010. For legal reasons, episodes 27, 83 and 87 of the 97 episodes are not included in the four “collections”.

  • Collection 1 with episodes 1 - 24 on 7 DVDs was released on June 18, 2010
  • Collection 2 with episodes 25-26, 28-49 on 7 DVDs was released on August 20, 2010
  • Collection 3 with episodes 50 - 73 on 7 DVDs was released on November 5, 2010
  • Collection 4 with episodes 74 - 82, 84 - 86 and 88 - 97 on 6 DVDs was released on February 25, 2011

parody

In 1974, the ORF broadcast an approx. 20-minute parody of the series. Commissar Keller was played by Fritz Muliar . All of the main suspects are named Helmut Kringelmann (similar to the producer of the series, who was called Helmut Ringelmann) and the sentence is repeated several times: "Reinecker writes great texts!"

Awards

  • 2010: Video Champion in the TV National category for the DVD collection 1

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saarbrücker Zeitung: Cult series with Erik Ode: “Der Kommissar” started 50 years ago. Retrieved January 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Hartmut Goege: The Commissioner Erik Ode - confessor and shrewd criminalist. In: Deutschlandfunk. Accessed January 3, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Saarbrücker Zeitung: Cult series with Erik Ode: “Der Kommissar” started 50 years ago. Retrieved January 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff: 50 years of television thrillers: This is how the commissioners changed. In: Augsburger Allgemeine. January 3, 2019, accessed January 3, 2019 .
  5. ↑ The Commissioner on DVD . Freundeskreis The Commissioner. Retrieved February 9, 2011.
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