The Rohrbach case

Television series
Original title	The Rohrbach case
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
year	1963
length	90 minutes
Episodes	3
genre	Documentary game
Director	Robert Adolf Stemmle
script	Robert Adolf Stemmle
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Anita Höfer : Maria Rohrbach Joachim Boldt : Hermann Rohrbach Harry Riebauer : Dr. horn Paul Glawion : Commissioner Tandler Jürgen Thormann : Hinstorf Eva Christian : Brigitte Roester Hilde Sessak : Anna Jenrich Kurt Buecheler : Dr. Bader Eduard Wandrey : Chairman Hürtinger Hermann Kiessner : Public Prosecutor Dr. tree Klaus Sonnenschein : Detective officer Harry Tagore : Reporter Hiller Agi Prandhoff : Mrs. Falter Günter Glaser : Mr. Falter Wolfgang Spier : Chairman Dr. Karst Klaus Miedel : Assessor Wittig Hans Deppe : Prof. Görner Gerd Duwner : Prof. Wegener Gert Wiedenhofen : Dr. Kricher Walo Lüönd : gatekeeper

The Rohrbach case is a three-part documentary television game that was broadcast on ZDF on May 8, 9 and 10, 1963 from 9:00 p.m. Each episode was 90 minutes long. The producer was Artur Brauner with his Central Cinema Compagnie .

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The Rohrbach case describes in a semi-documentary manner the case of Maria Rohrbach , who was suspected of having killed her husband Hermann Rohrbach and sawing up the body. Although she repeatedly protested her innocence, Maria Rohrbach was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder in a circumstantial trial in 1958 and taken to the Anrath women's prison. It was only after the victim's skull was found in 1959 and this provided new information about the course of events that a retrial was initiated in 1961, which revealed glaring errors in the evidence at the time. Maria Rohrbach was acquitted for lack of evidence, but doubts about her innocence remained.

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Once again, author and director Robert A. Stemmle took up a miscarriage of justice in post-war history, as he did with the scripts for the films Do you confess to Dr. Corda! (1958) and Affaire Blum (1948). In the following years, too, he repeatedly took up the topic of "errors of justice and their consequences", for example in 1964 in The Jakubowski Case - Reconstruction of an Error of Justice and in the early 1970s with the multi-part series Right or Wrong .

Web links

• The case Rohrbach in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Rohrbach case on the crime thriller homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Rohrbach case on the crime thriller website , accessed on May 28, 2016
2. ↑ Detailed information on the Rohrbach case can be found in the Wikipedia article on Maria Rohrbach.