The crime museum

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Television series
Original title The crime museum
The Crime Museum Logo 001.PNG
Country of production Germany
original language German
Year (s) 1963-1970
Production
company		 Intertel Television
length 60 to 75 minutes
Episodes 41 ( list )
genre Detective film
production Helmut Ringelmann
music Martin Böttcher (title music + 5 episodes)
First broadcast April 4, 1963 on ZDF

The Kriminalmuseum is the title of a German television crime series , the total of 41 episodes of which were produced between 1963 and 1970 and broadcast for the first time. The series is considered the first crime series in the evening program of ZDF , which was only on the air for four days when the first episode was broadcast. The films were produced by Intertel Television GmbH, whose managing director until 1968 was Helmut Ringelmann . The 60 to 75 minute long episodes with changing actors are based on real events according to the credits. The series, which was successful to the last, and the consequences of which achieved audience ratings between 45 and 60 percent, was discontinued in 1968 and replaced by Der Kommissar . In 1969 and 1970 two more episodes were broadcast outside of the actual series.

background

The series Das Kriminalmuseum consists of self-contained, independent films with the solution of the case in the respective episode. According to the credits, these are authentic cases with changed names of people and places, which is clearly based on the series Stahlnetz , which has been produced by NDR since 1958 .

The opening credits of the individual episodes begin with a tracking shot through a crime museum, which ends with one of the exhibits, the story of which is then told. In addition, a voice from the off explains, among other things, that it is one of those crime museums that is supposed to show young judicial and police officers how modern forensics get silent witnesses to speak. The introductory text was spoken by Reinhard Glemnitz and changed slightly over the years. In contrast to Stahlnetz, the voiceover is limited to the opening credits. From the third episode on, the credits include the note “after a case from criminal history” , which was later changed to “freely designed according to the criminal investigation records” .

Although the television series was extremely popular to the end and achieved high ratings, it was discontinued in late 1968. The then ZDF program director Joseph Viehöver was later accused of having taken successful Intertel productions such as Das Kriminalmuseum or Die fifth Kolonne out of the program in order to help his friend Helmut Ringelmann . He left Intertel in 1968 and founded Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion, which was then commissioned to produce the follow-up series Der Kommissar .

actor

Each episode features different investigators whose work is at the heart of the plot. Accordingly, these were cast with well-known actors, including Paul Dahlke , René Deltgen , Heinz Engelmann , Alexander Kerst , Kurt Meisel , Günther Neutze , Werner Peters , Günter Pfitzmann , Alfred Schieske , Günther Ungeheuer , Wolfgang Völz or Heinz Weiss .

Well-known actors were also hired to perform other roles, such as Ivan Desny , Hannelore Elsner , Gustav Fröhlich , Jan Hendriks , Wolfgang Kieling , Paul Klinger , Ruth Maria Kubitschek , Helmuth Lohner , Hubert von Meyerinck , Günther Neutze , Eva Pflug , Wolfgang Preiss , Dunja Rajter , Franz Schafheitlin , Hannelore Schroth , Erik Schumann , Rudolf Schündler , Karel Štěpánek , Horst Tappert , Gisela Uhlen , Christian Wolff or Hans Zesch-Ballot , Jean-Pierre Zola . The prominent guest roles contributed significantly to the success of the series and were later also part of the trademark of Helmut Ringelmann's productions in Der Kommissar , Derrick and Der Alte .

Some actors appeared in multiple episodes, with some playing both investigators and other roles. Erik Ode , who embodied the investigator in three episodes, was so convincing, according to director Erich Neureuther , that he was therefore offered the role of Commissioner Keller in the follow-up series The Commissioner . The actors Reinhard Glemnitz , Günther Schramm , Emely Reuer and Rosemarie Fendel , who later became part of the commissioner team , have also appeared in episodes of Das Kriminalmuseum .

Young actors such as Jürgen Draeger , Horst Janson , Monika Peitsch and Werner Pochath , for whom Das Kriminalmuseum marked an important career step , also played in the series . In addition, actors from the comic role subject played again and again, including Klaus Dahlen , Franz Muxeneder , Kurt Schmidtchen , Walter Sedlmayr and Ralf Wolter .

Production staff

In contrast to the model Stahlnetz and the follow-up series Der Kommissar , several authors were hired for Das Kriminalmuseum who, in addition to the changing actors, contributed to the variety within the series. A total of nine and thus most of the scripts were written by Bruno Hampel . The directors most frequently used were Helmuth Ashley (13 episodes), Wolfgang Becker (7 episodes) and Theodor Grädler (4 episodes). Franz Xaver Lederle and Manfred Ensinger acted as cameramen for eight episodes each . Responsible production designers were mostly Wolf Englert (15 episodes) and Max Mellin (12 episodes).

music

Martin Böttcher, 2002, composer of the theme song

The title melody was written by the composer Martin Böttcher . He composed the complete music for five individual episodes. In contrast to the other four episodes, the music for the episode Der Scheck was recorded in stereo; the main theme from it was reused in the crime series Pfarrer Braun , to which Böttcher also contributed the music. The illustration and closing music for the remaining episodes of Das Kriminalmuseum came from the pen of other, partly well-known film composers: Horst Dempwolff , Erich Ferstl , Erwin Halletz , Hans Hammerschmid , Herbert Jarczyk , Roland Kovac , Hans-Martin Majewski , Hermann Thieme and Eugen Thomass .

consequences

The series Das Kriminalmuseum comprises a total of 41 episodes that were produced between 1963 and 1970. The regular broadcasting slot was on Thursdays at 9 p.m. until 1964, on Tuesdays from 1965 and on Fridays at 8 p.m. from 1966. This was the first time that ZDF began to establish Friday evening as a date for television thrillers. In August 1968, the last episode was broadcast under the series title Das Kriminalmuseum . The first broadcast of the episode The Trace Leads to Amsterdam , completed in 1967, took place in 1969 under the title Accomplices , but with a new opening credits and without reference to Das Kriminalmuseum . The postponement took place because the real case of the so-called Dominas gang was not yet closed in 1967.

The 41st and last episode is the TV film Who is ringing for TV time from 1970. This was produced under the working title The Clothesline for The Criminal Museum. The first broadcast was then also without reference to the television series.

For a long time there were rumors that the television film Die Tauben by Gerd Oelschlegel, first shown in 1969, was also part of the series. This has since been refuted, especially since it is a production by Bavaria Atelier GmbH . The film is included in the bonus material for the 2010 DVD release, which contains all 41 episodes of Das Kriminalmuseum .

media

DVDs

  • Street sweeper 21: The crime museum (episodes 1 to 16) . Studio Hamburg Distribution & Marketing GmbH. 2010.
  • Street sweeper 22: The crime museum (episodes 17 to 29) . Studio Hamburg Distribution & Marketing GmbH. 2010.
  • Street sweeper 23: The crime museum (episodes 30 to 40, including “Who rings the bell while it's TV time”, bonus film: “The pigeons”) . Studio Hamburg Distribution & Marketing GmbH. 2010.

Soundtrack

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Under the carpet . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 1970 ( online ).