The public prosecutor has the floor

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Television broadcast
Original title The public prosecutor has the floor
Country of production GDR (1990/1991: FRG )
original language German
Year (s) 1965-1991
Episodes 140 ( list )
genre Detective film
idea Kathe Riemann
music Karl-Heinz Schröder
Peter Gotthardt
(standard title)
First broadcast October 21, 1965 on DFF

The prosecutor has the floor was a television game series of the German television station or the television of the GDR, which was produced from 1965 to 1991.

Emergence

While the crime genre boomed very strongly on television in the Federal Republic of Germany during the 1960s, it remained rather underrepresented on television in the GDR . Until the early 1960s, the DFF ( Deutscher Fernsehfunk ) only released crime series that dealt with crimes from the West. Only rarely did they locate the origins of their crimes in the GDR. In July 1963, the dramaturge Käthe Riemann was asked to design a program based on the model of the West German series Das Fernsehgericht meets . The judiciary decree and the associated new penal system should be in the foreground . Riemann was finished at the end of the year. Your idea stood out from both the intended format and the current crime fiction standards. There were no investigator figures in the series. Each film focused entirely on the history of a crime or misdemeanor and shed light on the perpetrator's social environment, whose act was thus related to its social condition.

The first episode of The Public Prosecutor ran on October 21, 1965 under the title Serious inventor seeks partner . From the point of view of those responsible, the series had several functions. On the one hand, they wanted to fight crime with artistic means and strengthen the legal awareness of GDR citizens. On the other hand, the audience's need for exciting entertainment should also be met. The public prosecutor… was the first row to deal with crimes and offenses committed by GDR citizens. Only two episodes dealt with cases whose causes originated in the Federal Republic of Germany.

The success of the show inspired the radio of the GDR to start an analog radio play series from 1973 under the title of facts , for which a total of 40 radio plays were created.

Building the episodes

The eponymous and special element of the series were the appearances of the public prosecutor Dr. Peter Przybylski . After short introductory words at the beginning of the program, the story of the game followed, at the end of which the treated act or the discovery of the deeds followed. At the end of the broadcast, he commented on the deeds and the circumstances that had led to her. He also named the judgment announced and pointed to moral factors from a socialist point of view.

To introduce the new TV series on October 21, 1965, Peter Przybylski, Public Prosecutor at the GDR Public Prosecutor, addressed the television viewers with the following words before the first episode, Serious Inventors Seeks Partners , was broadcast :

Good evening my women and men!
Please allow me a few words to help you understand this series.
We will not show you any crime novels, but rather we would like to acquaint you with the problems of people who have violated binding rules of social coexistence for everyone and have come into conflict with our laws. To this end, we have selected criminal cases that have recently been heard in the courts of our republic. Of course, we had to change the names of the people involved and we were also forced to streamline the individual cases.
Why can a person of socialist society become a criminal? Crime in our republic has long since ceased to be something legal. And the fight against criminal offenses is no longer a matter for the public prosecutor or judge alone. More and more people take part in the education of the lawbreaker: brigades, house communities, collectives. But we still have egoism, envy, greed and dishonesty. Crime feeds on such backward thinking and living habits.
Ladies and gentlemen, our series of programs is intended to do a little bit to better identify the causes and conditions of criminal offenses and to eliminate them more quickly. Because the crime is not something that individuals have inherited from their ancestors, it is not an individual fall into sin, but always and everywhere a social phenomenon. Therefore, every crime raises, every crime raises not only the question of the guilt of the perpetrator, but also that of the responsibility of society.

In today's repetitions, the public prosecutor's appearances are mostly cut out and replaced by simple tablets that explain the conviction of the perpetrator. Alternatively, the original comments by Dr. Peter Przybylski has published on more than 120 films on the Internet.

Criticism of the state should not arise. The 1979 episode Risk could not be shown until the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was created on the proposal of the public prosecutor and addressed an escape from the GDR . When selecting the offenses, care was taken to ensure that the official crime statistics of the GDR were complied with. Mainly smaller offenses such as robbery , marriage fraud , drunk driving or embezzlement were discussed. The reason why violent crimes were rarely mentioned was that homicides were extremely rare and unavoidable.

Scripts designed for the public prosecutor that dealt with violent crimes were mostly added to the police call series. There were rarely any deaths from the prosecutor himself. The 100th Hubertus Hunt case (1985) ended in a jealousy .

Many other films in the series presented social problems. This included, as with "Polizeiruf", the explosive field of alcoholism .

An important aspect of the series was also the reintegration of offenders into society. They were mostly portrayed as actually well-meaning people who wanted to start a new life, but relapsed due to instability and the influence of others.

End of row

When the political turning point in 1989–1990 came, the future of German television was also uncertain. The two crime series continued until its closure (late 1991). Nevertheless, the very high quotas of the public prosecutor's line during the GDR era quickly fell drastically. Spectators particularly complained about the continued presence of the public prosecutor, who was shaped by socialist ideals. After the discussion led by moderator Jutta Pawlowsky on the episode Hallo Partner (February 18, 1990), numerous viewers responded who continued to hear Dr. Peter Przybylski, who only made his last appearance in Robert and his sisters (March 25, 1990).

The then DFF director Thomas Steinke , who also became the first head of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , decided to discontinue the series. Only a few of the existing materials were implemented. The public prosecutor's comments have now been replaced by live discussions or writing tablets. The episode Hallo Partner (1990) dealt for the first time with drugs , kisses and blows from the same year with violence against children within the family.

The last film ran on July 28, 1991 and was appropriately titled Until the Bitter End . This was another case of manslaughter.

Originally intended for the public prosecutor's series and officially announced on August 8, 1991 in the television service, the title Lord Hansi (working title: “Der Lord” / “Hans im Glück”) was also used. Due to the (subsequent) decision to end the series with the episode Until the bitter end , this film was then - without the usual opening credits - broadcast on October 27, 1991 by the DFF as a " crime comedy ".

Repetitions

In contrast to the police call 110 , the public prosecutor did not survive the fall of the Berlin Wall. The series comprises 140 episodes. In addition, three titles are known that either did not receive a broadcast release or were broadcast separately outside the television series or after the end of the DFF by the MDR (see end of the episode overview). While the police calls from the GDR are repeated extremely often, public prosecutor films can only be seen sporadically. At least the format does not disappear completely into oblivion. In 1999, the culture broadcaster 3sat started a series of new broadcasts on its crime rerun on late Sunday evening, but ended these after 1 ½ months, as the demand for the West German classic Der Kommissar turned out to be greater.

Since then there have been longer repetitions at MDR. The broadcasters SFB , later ORB , since the final merger, RBB , each showed three films of the series on television evenings, otherwise also sporadically individual episodes. The two films mentioned, which deal with murder cases, were also shown on the occasion of birthdays at the weekly crime scene , on which only Tatort and Police Call 110 crime stories are otherwise broadcast. After the end of the most recent repetition on the MDR on March 20, 2013, the HR has been re-broadcasting for the first time since June 10, 2013 - starting with episode 140 and descending once a week. The MDR also regularly shows the episodes of the series.

The prosecutor has the floor to follow

Others

In 1987 the public prosecutor made a small crossover with the police call : In the film Himmelblau or Hans im Glück (118th episode, first broadcast November 29, 1987), Andreas Schmidt-Schaller appeared as Lieutenant Grawe, who at the time was one of the investigators of the police call was.

Web links

Individual references / sources

  1. ↑ Public prosecutor's lexicon  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Transcript from the series Serious Inventor Seeks Partners, October 21, 1965, DFF1@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.polizeiruf110-lexikon.de  
  2. ↑ The prosecutor has the word repeat appointments at fernsehserien.de. Retrieved May 6, 2014.