Dickie Dick Dickens

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Dickie Dick Dickens is a humorous radio play series by Rolf and Alexandra Becker , the individual episodes of which developed into so-called street sweepers at the time of broadcast . The criminal satire was produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk and Radio Bremen as well as by Schweizer Rundfunk in their own versions. After the radio play series, the books for the individual seasons were created. Radio Bremen produced the first 12 new episodes in 2008/2009.

Authors

In addition to the “Dickie Dick Dickens” novels, Alexandra and Rolf Becker also published other successful crime novels such as “ Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox ” (implemented as a radio play and also filmed). The team of authors wrote television history with scripts for the first German family series “ Familie Schölermann ” (1954–1960). They also worked on the scripts of the crime series " Graf Yoster gives himself the honor " (1967–1976).

content

The story takes place in Chicago in the golden 1920s . Dickie Dick Dickens, a trained pickpocket, most dangerous man Chicago ever made, with a heart of gold and eyes of steel, spent 68% of his life in freedom and 32% in prison. The adventures revolve around Dickie, his girlfriend Effi Marconi, and Dickie's unintentional rise from honest pickpocket to Chicago gang boss. He gets to do with the well-known gang boss Jim Cooper, who is also called "Jim the stubborn" in specialist circles. For a long time he was the king of the underworld - until he ran into Dickie Dick Dickens and - threatened by him with a pistol - swore by his name that he would leave the banana-selling district of Chicago to him. Dickie Dick Dickens wrote the stories down in 1939 in Sing Sing prison in his memoirs, which were translated into 14 languages. In it, he describes each of his adventures with a special final comment.

Radio play productions of the Bavarian Radio

51 episodes were produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk from 1957 to 1960.

Authors Rolf and Alexandra Becker
Director Walter Netzsch
speaker Fritz Wilm Wallenborn and Ernst Seiltgen
music Walter Popper

In 1969, four more episodes were produced by Bavarian Radio.

person speaker role
1st speaker Fritz Wilem Wallenborn
2nd speaker Ernst Seiltgen , 1957–1960; Horst Sachtleben , 1969
Dickie Dick Dickens Carl-Heinz Schroth , 1957-60; Herbert Bötticher , 1969 The most dangerous man the Chicago underworld has ever spat out
Jim Cooper Heinz Leo Fischer Opponent of Dickie Dick Dickens. Also called "Jim the stubborn" in professional circles
Effi Marconi Marlies Schoenau , 1957-59; Ursula Kube , 1960; Helen Vita , 1969 Dickies gangster bride
Grandpa crackle Erik Jelde Dickie's fatherly friend
Bonco Richard Kley , 1957-69; Alfons Teuber , 1960 Dickie's superstitious henchman
Joshua Benedikt Streubguss Fritz Benscher Jeweler, fence, friend and assistant to Dick
Maggie Poltimbrook Ulla Torp The only female whaling captain in the world
Mrs. Shrooshobber Gerta Vandesleben The chairwoman of the Chicago Women's Association
Mummy Tobo Dutch Lore Bronner Greedy pensioner. Their guesthouse serves as a shelter for the Chicago underworld
Lionel McKenzie Hans Leibelt , 1959–1960; Harald Juhnke 1969 A chief inspector
Sergeant Martin Wolfgang Johannes Bekh The noisy assistant to Chief Inspector Lionel McKenzie
Lieutenant Povery Helmut Kindermann Chicago Police officer involved in hunting Dickie
Commissioner Hillbilly Fritz Korn He's the first person to hunt Dickie
Topper Ulrich Beiger A gang boss
Snipper Jonas Bert Hauch Topper's assistant
Admiral Jefferson Harper Robert Naegele , 1969 A gang boss
Alfonso Capelli Sigurd Fitzek , 1969 A gang boss

Short series of the Bavarian Radio from 1976

In 1976, the BR again put on a short series with six one-hour episodes. The first broadcasts took place between March 25 and April 29, 1976. In these, Dickie Dick Dickens is now an elderly gentleman, released from Sing Sing or fled and lives in Europe with his long-term fiancé Effi Marconi. He discovers that he has an adult son named Donald D. Doberman, who is kidnapped. Several adventures follow one another until everyone has what they deserve. The adventures take place mainly in the Mediterranean area (Tangier, Malta, Italy, Greece), where Dickens meets all sorts of strange people, an Italian count, an equally Italian police superintendent, a stingy multi-billionaire from America, a Greek shipowner and his frustrated right-hand man, the "port slavers of Tangier" and so on.

Main title: Dickie Dick Dickens & Co. - Don't bother me - Fifth season

  • 1st episode: The encounter
  • 2nd episode: Baba ben Biba's stories
  • 3rd episode: What's wrong with the Emmerich hut?
  • 4th episode: The Empress's jewelery
  • Episode 5: A bomb never interferes in a crime thriller
  • Episode 6: The delegation from Hong Kong

Speaker among others:

Further radio play productions

Radio Bremen

In 1960 and 1961, Radio Bremen produced its own radio play version with Jürgen Scheller as Dickie Dick Dickens, but the archive tapes disappeared shortly after the original broadcast. After a call by the radio play editorial team at Radio Bremen, 25 episodes of tapes recorded by the listeners could be restored. In 2004 and 2005, Radio Bremen broadcast the complete 2nd and 3rd season again after more than 40 years. The 1st season is still considered lost. From August 2008, the 12 episodes of season 1 were re-produced, and Radio Bremen started broadcasting in May 2009. Jürgen Thormann , narrator of the Bremen original episodes , also speaks in the new production. The late second narrator Klaus Stieringer was replaced by Bastian Pastewka .

Cast of the first season newly produced in 2008/2009:

person speaker
1st speaker Jürgen Thormann
2nd speaker Bastian Pastewka
Dickie Dick Dickens Konstantin Graudus
Jim Cooper Hans Peter Hallwachs
Effi Marconi Susanne Schrader
Grandpa crackle Rolf Nagel
Harry Jens Wawrczeck
Bonco Benjamin Utzerath
Joshua Benedikt Streubguss Wilfried Dziallas
Mummy Tobo Dutch Monty Arnold
Commissioner Hillbilly Hans Peter Korff
Sergeant Martin Lutz Herkenrath
Admiral Jefferson Harper Thomas Roth
Mrs. Edwina Shrewshopper Henning Scherf

Switzerland

In addition, the Swiss radio DRS - directed by Lilian Westphal  - produced another version of Dickie Dick Dickens.

Norway

Dickie Dick Dickens was also produced in Norway . In addition, an additional new episode "Dickie Dick Dickens i Norge" appeared in 1972, but it was written by Paul Skoe.

Sweden

In Sweden , Dickie Dick Dickens was produced by Sveriges Radio from 1966 to 1967, in 36 episodes. The first book was published in 1966.

The Radio Bremen version, the Swiss and Norwegian versions have now also been released on CD.

Publications

Due to the radio play series, Dickie Dick Dickens' adventures have also appeared in other media:

MC

The following MC package is available:

  • Alexandra Becker, Rolf Becker: Dickie Dick Dickens (4 MCs, ISBN 3-89940-351-7 , Der Hoerverlag, 2004)

CD

The following CD packages are available from Rolf and Alexandra Becker:

  • Rolf and Alexandra Becker: Dickie Dick Dickens (5 CDs, ISBN 3-89940-063-1 , der hörverlag, 2004)
  • Rolf and Alexandra Becker: News from Dickie Dick Dickens (6 CDs, ISBN 3-89940-426-2 , der hörverlag, 2004)
  • Rolf and Alexandra Becker: Dickie Dick Dickens the revolutionary hero (6 CDs, ISBN 3-89940-427-0 , der Hörverlag, 2004)
  • Rolf and Alexandra Becker: Dickie Dick Dickens again in the country (2 CDs, ISBN 3-89940-576-5 , der Hörverlag, 2005)
  • Rolf and Alexandra Becker: 2nd season of the Bremen radio play version (7 CDs, ISBN 3-937800-28-X , Gryphon-Verlag, 2005)
  • Rolf and Alexandra Becker: 3rd season of the Bremen radio play version (7 CDs, ISBN 3-937800-53-0 , Gryphon-Verlag, 2006)
  • Rolf and Alexandra Becker: Dickie Dick Dickens 1 DRS production (6 CDs, ISBN 3-85616-250-X , Christoph Merian Verlag, 2005)
  • Rolf and Alexandra Becker: Dickie Dick Dickens 2 - the continuation of DRS production (6 CDs, ISBN 3-85616-255-0 , Christoph Merian Verlag, 2005)

pocketbooks

At the same time as and after the series of radio plays, paperback editions were also published:

  • Dickie Dick Dickens (1959)
  • Dickie gives no heel money (1963)
  • Dickie Dick Dickens versus Chicago (1964)
  • Dickie Dick Dickens Makes Waves (1986)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dickie Dick Dickens - cult radio play. In: www.radiobremen.de. Retrieved November 25, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Kultur.nu: Ficktjuvarnas konung är tillbaka ("The king of pickpockets is back") ( Memento from December 3, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )

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