Adventure airport
| Television series | |
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| Original title | Adventure airport |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| year | 1990 |
| Production company |
Novafilm television production |
| length | 45 minutes |
| Episodes | 13 in 1 season ( list ) |
| genre | Airport series |
| Director | Werner masts |
| script | Felix Huby |
| production | Otto Meissner |
| music | Stefan Melbinger |
| camera | Klaus Eichhammer |
| cut | Michael Breining |
| First broadcast | September 9, 1990 on Das Erste |
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Adventure Airport is a German television series that ran as the third airport television series on German television in the early 1990s (after the ZDF series Zwischen den Flügen in 1973 and the meeting point airport, which was broadcast on GDR television in 1986 ). Felix Huby wrote the script for the series .
General
With over 12 million viewers, the pilot episode got off to a brilliant start. However, interest in the series waned over time. One can only speculate about the reasons for this; possibly the exciting elements of the series have been exhausted too much. In numerous episodes, for example, there was an airplane hijacking (Mogadishu man, emergency landing, The Long Night) or hostage-taking (Double Game, The Assassination, The Last Flight, Emergency Landing); Other elements of tension were an emergency landing with a crash, a marriage crisis with consequences, smuggling of arms with murder, assault and extortion, forgery of documents, assassination, Arab killers in action, kidnapping.
Critics then even rated the dwindling audience numbers as a flop, but the series was and is very popular with aviation fans. The series was also sold and dubbed in other countries (for example in Spanish ).
Hansjörg Felmy later said that he did not like the uncoordinated collaboration during the shooting; In particular, he found it negative that up to eight authors contributed simultaneously. If he were to get another offer to participate in the series under the same conditions, he would refuse.
Ezard Haußmann later said about his role as airport manager that it seemed tailor-made to him. Quote: "And 'Adventure Airport', which I shot in the West, was perhaps one of the last good TV series from today's perspective."
In the 12 episodes produced, savings were made on special effects. Almost no scene on the plane has a convincing background in the window (only fog).
content
The Adventure Airport series is all about a major German airport, where political intrigues, assassinations as well as arms trafficking and drug smuggling are concentrated. Carsten Wolf, traffic manager and deputy airport manager, and Charly Kapitzki, head of technical services, form a team that masters every challenge. However, Carsten Wolf has a lot of problems to solve not only professionally but also privately - for example the marital crisis with his wife Vera, who feels neglected, not least because of the affair with airport doctor Dr. Hanna Giese, who keeps Wolf up. His son Kai also stabbed Wolf in the back by joining a demonstration group that opposed the important airport expansion.
Dusseldorf Airport
The series was filmed at Düsseldorf Airport . The sometimes complex filming often had to be done after business hours so as not to disrupt regular airport operations. However, the Düsseldorf airport management continuously supported the shooting.
Long before the shooting began, Düsseldorf Airport had to deal with problems relating to the expansion of a new runway. Already in the first Adventure Airport episode it was made clear to the viewer that an expansion of the airport was urgent: a DC-10 slid over the runway after a bird strike in the engine in rainy weather. What this means for airport traffic in Düsseldorf was made clear by Carsten Wolf ( Ezard Haußmann ) in a dialogue with Charly Kapitzki ( Hansjörg Felmy ) when the recovery of the DC-10 was delayed: “Is the recovery finally moving forward? You know what every minute of delay costs? ”“ What can I do that you haven't been providing a second runway for years? ”
In the course of the series, the audience was then shown the dilemma with the environmentalists who are blocking the expansion of the airport. Traffic manager Carsten Wolf stabbed his own son ( Martin May ) in the back by demonstrating with runway opponents.
This topic then found the climax in the story in the episode "Diamond Lady", when a fanatical runway opponent placed a bomb in the airport tower. In reality, however, that never happened.
Guest stars
Numerous German television actors received a guest role in "Adventure Airport" (incomplete selection):
Dieter Eppler (Airport Director Tiedemann), Eberhard Feik (Reiner Brasch), Franz Boehm (Police Chief Bergmann), Rolf Zacher (Brenner), Tilo Prückner (Gustav Kahlke), Dieter Pfaff (private detective Pollack), Heinz Hoenig (Christian Pahr), Ulrike Kriener (Brigitte Pahr), Anja Franke (sister of Brigitte Pahr), Wolf-Dietrich Berg (Operations Manager Kramer), Guido Gagliardi (Giuseppe Gmbiano), Orhan Güner (Hassan Samir), Kostas Papanastasiou (Harras Mouhan), Klaus Mikoleit (Dr. Müller -Holwein), Isolde Barth (Harriet Colby), Axel Pape (Pit), Günther Maria Halmer (Hans Christensen), Barbara Adolph (Iris Christensen), Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger (preacher Niesswitz), Eva Brumby (nun), Dieter Prochnow ( Chief Inspector Kohnke), Roswitha Schreiner (Anja Schneider), Ernst Petry (SEK official Müller), Ralph Herforth (Ulrich Kanowski), Walter Gontermann (Seitz).
Episode list
The series was first broadcast from September 9, 1990 to November 26, 1990 on the German broadcaster ARD.
| No. | Original title | First broadcast |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Double game (part 1) | September 9, 1990 |
| 2 | Double game (part 2) | September 9, 1990 |
| 3 | The coup | September 10, 1990 |
| 4th | The assassination | 17th September 1990 |
| 5 | A suitcase full of dollars | September 24, 1990 |
| 6th | Mogadishu man | October 1, 1990 |
| 7th | White poison | October 8, 1990 |
| 8th | The last flight | October 15, 1990 |
| 9 | Diamond lady | October 22, 1990 |
| 10 | Old friendship | October 29, 1990 |
| 11 | emergency landing | 5th November 1990 |
| 12 | The long night | November 19, 1990 |
| 13 | Rescue flight | November 26, 1990 |
More crew
- Sound: Udo Steinke
- Set designer: Frank Polosek
- Costume: Corinna Dreyer
- Production management: Richard Rasky
- Production management: Klaus Gotthardt
- Editor: Jörn Klamroth ( WDR )
DVD release
The series was released on November 26, 2010 in a complete box with all 13 episodes by in-akustik GmbH & Co. KG on DVD.
Web links
- Adventure Airport in the Internet Movie Database (English)