The normal madness (series)

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Television series
Original title Of ordinary Madness
Country of production Germany
original language German
year 1979
Production
company		 Balance Film, Munich
length 45 minutes
Episodes 12
genre comedy
Theme music Nerves
idea Helmut Dietl
production Jürgen Dohme
music Jacky Shay
occupation

The normal madness is a German television series that was first broadcast in 12 episodes between 1979 and 1980. Helmut Dietl was the director and screenwriter of most of the episodes .

action

The newly divorced journalist Maximilian Glanz lives and works in Munich , where he is responsible as a suggestion box for answering letters to the editor of a daily newspaper. For some time now, he has actually wanted to write a book entitled “Why is it that the individual does not feel good, although we are all doing so well”, in which he deals with the sensitivities of his fellow human beings. The plot consists of twelve episodes, which are referred to as chapters without further titles.

First chapter

After his divorce date, Maximilian Glanz had a small rear-end collision through which he met the attractive Gloria, who was also recently divorced. The two spend the whole day together and transfer their friends, with whom each actually wanted to celebrate their divorce. Finally, they end up in Maximilian's apartment, where the togetherness is repeatedly disturbed by phone calls and in the end Maximilian's ex-wife is at the door and tries to win him back. At the end of the evening, Gloria fell asleep alone.

second chapter

Maximilian and Gloria have not had any contact since they first met. Since the divorce, Gloria has lived with her friend Aline, an emancipated shopkeeper who keeps her husband as a house slave and who implores Gloria not to enter into a new steady relationship. Maximilian's best friend Lino, die-hard playboy and bachelor, also promotes a free, independent life. At the same time Maximilian has to fend off the advances of his colleague Henni, who wants to impose household chores and togetherness on him. Maximilian and Gloria fluctuate under the influence of their friends between the urge to live out the freedom they regained after their divorce and their mutual attraction. If they meet by chance in a pub, they find each other again.

third chapter

After many nights together, alternately in Maximilian's and Gloria's bed, and some discussions, Gloria decides to move in with Maximilian. This leads to new conflicts. The situation worsens when Gloria has to take all her furniture and belongings from her ex-husband's house. The apartment is now full and has mutated into a stylistic chaos. In addition, Gloria may be pregnant; The decision for or against a child and living together as a family puts the relationship to a great test.

Chapter Four

In Maximilian's bachelor apartment there are no suitable places to retreat, and the couple's different interests seem incompatible. A move is therefore being considered, but opinions also differ about this. While Gloria dreams of a future together in a romantic farmhouse, Maximilian wants an urban environment. The arguments eventually lead to the couple separating. Independently of each other, both start an attempt at reconciliation: Maximilian rents an old farm in Oberprittriching , while Gloria signs a rental contract for a city apartment at the same time. Both rental agreements will be canceled at the end.

Meanwhile, Maximilian fell out with his boss and quit his job at the newspaper. Because he quit his apartment in anticipation of the move, the two of them have to move out hastily at the end of the month.

Fifth chapter

After losing their job and apartment, Maximilian and Gloria found a pension. Money is running out. Maximilian tries in vain to sell his book What is the cause of the fact that the individual does not feel well, although we are all doing so well as a preprint to a men's magazine in which an old friend is in the editorial office. Meanwhile, Gloria happens to meet an old friend again. It's Professor Dr. Asam, the wealthy owner of a private clinic. Much to Maximilian's displeasure, Asam woos Gloria with ambiguous intentions by giving her money, offering her a job and letting her use his city apartment. But she doesn't get involved and sticks to Maximilian. His jealous scene, however, provokes the couple's expulsion from the pension.

Sixth chapter

After being kicked out of the pension, Maximilian and Gloria split up again. Maximilian is temporarily accommodated in a friend's luxury apartment, furnished with expensive works of art, who has traveled to New York for six months with his partner. He plans to finish his book soon; Street surveys with Linos support are to drive the project forward. Although Maximilian has undertaken not to let anyone else into the noble apartment, Gloria moves in with all her things; the two are giving a party for their friends and former spouses. Through Glorias Exmann's mediation, Maximilian found a publisher for his book project.

Seventh chapter

Thanks to the advance that Maximilian receives for his book, the couple can finally afford a new shared apartment. During the renovation and furnishing of the same, all kinds of conflicts arise, which are mainly based on Maximilian's fear of an overly bourgeois and consumer-oriented life. The final deadline for the book manuscript, which Maximilian tries in vain to escape through repression, postponement and flight-like vacation plans, looms overhead. After some back and forth, the apartment is finally furnished and the manuscript was finished just in time.

Eighth chapter

Maximilian and Gloria set off on a trip to the south and, after an engine failure, end up in Cannes , where they stay at a campsite. On the beach in Cannes, they meet a con man who pretends to be a Hollywood producer and promises to bring Maximilian's book to the screen. Gloria sees through the situation and returns to Munich exasperated. The impostor can be put up with by Maximilian until his money has been used up and he returns to Munich by train.

Chapter ninth

After the Cannes adventure, Maximilian and Gloria are completely broke and live in a room to sublet. When the bailiff knocks, the imminent book publication appears as a last resort. But the publisher has to file for bankruptcy, and Maximilian tries in vain for retraining or a new job at the employment office. Finally, he takes on a job at the garbage disposal brokered by the employment office. Meanwhile, Lino and Gloria try to market a manuscript of a play, an early work by Maximilian, found by chance. Lino's current lover, the daughter of a media entrepreneur, initiates a press campaign with a fake “proletarian hero biography” of Maximilian. This makes the cultural scene aware of him and his play is staged.

Chapter ten

Maximilian's play is unexpectedly successful despite initially bad reviews, is performed in several theaters across Germany and provides the long-awaited windfall. Out of sheer distrust of the bank, Maximilian withdrew the entire amount of 62,000 DM at once and kept it in a suitcase. After several attempts to spend or invest the money sensibly, Maximilian ends up in a casino with Lino, where he loses everything again in one evening.

Eleventh chapter

Lino meets Genevieve, the daughter of the brewery owner Bichler, and falls in love with her. Her brothers put detectives on Lino's past life, have a thick dossier put together on his amorous past as a well-known riot in order to prevent the connection with Genevieve and to preserve the reputation of her sister and the brewing dynasty. But Genevieve stands by Lino regardless of his past and intends to marry him. The Bichler family has a number of conditions for this. Lino has to break with his previous Hallodri life, prove himself as managing director of a Bichler restaurant during a one-year engagement period, take the brewer's family's surname at the wedding and submit to a marriage contract that excludes him from all financial claims. Lino, who is really in love for the first time in his life, agrees to everything and stays with Genevieve.

Chapter Twelve

The viewer is led into the future of 2014. As an elderly couple, Maximilian and Gloria still live together. For decades there has been happiness, peace and harmony in the world. This is due to the fact that now all people without exception are used artificial brains. In 1984 Maximilian Glanz, in search of happiness, was the very first person to have such an artificial brain transplanted. A television appearance by the couple is planned to mark the 30th anniversary of the transplantation. Maximilian is now reviewing life over the past decades. Some episodes from it are told in flashbacks: the affairs of the two, the time of their wedding and the successful founding of the opinion research company Opinion Design , which made Maximilian and Gloria rich, but not happier. The couple only found their everlasting happiness after the successful brain transplantation.

background

The directors of the individual episodes alongside Dietl were Franz Geiger , Reinhard Schwabenitzky and Klaus Emmerich . The scriptwriters were Helmut Dietl, Franz Geiger, Patrick Süskind , Michael Braun , Herbert Reinecker and Herbert Rosendorfer .

Guest appearances included Ortrud Beginnen , Walter Bockmayer , Hark Bohm , Ruth Maria Kubitschek , Karl Lieffen , Rolf Olsen , Volker Prechtel , Lambert Hamel , Helen Vita , Irm Hermann , Rose Renée Roth , Richard Münch , Elisabeth Volkmann , Harry Baer , Rolf Zacher , Elma Karlowa , Karl Obermayr , Joachim Hansen , Grit Boettcher , Rudolf Wessely , Michael Habeck , Monika Baumgartner , Georg Marischka , Nikolaus Paryla , Martin Semmelrogge and Hans Stadtmüller .

With the Stenz Lino Gailing, played by Helmut Fischer, the main motif and the main character of Dietl's next project was already created: Two years later, the ten-part TV series Monaco Franze - The Eternal Stenz , with Helmut Fischer in the lead role followed.

A theatrical version of the series cut to 95 minutes was released on March 9, 1979 by Neue Constantin Film in Germany under the title “Der Dredreher” .

literature

  • Helmut Dietl: The completely normal madness (you can live, but you won't let) - in the original version . Albrecht Knaus Verlag, Munich and Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-8135-0834-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ imdb.com: The normal madness