Dr. Psycho - The bad guys, the cops, my wife and me

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Television series
Original title Dr. Psycho - The bad guys, the cops, my wife and me
Country of production Germany
original language German
Year (s) 2007-2008
Production
company		 Brainpool
length 45 minutes
Episodes 14 in 2 seasons ( list )
genre Comedy , crime thriller
idea Ralf Husmann
production Ralf Husmann , Edda Sonnemann , Eva Tonkel
First broadcast March 26, 2007 on ProSieben
occupation

Dr. Psycho - the evil, the cops, my wife and I is a German-language comedy - thriller - television series . The first season was broadcast between March and May 2007 on the German private broadcaster ProSieben . The second season started on June 24, 2008. A third season is not planned , according to the main actor Christian Ulmen and ProSieben, due to poor audience ratings .

action

The series taking place in Cologne deals with the work of the SoKo for Organized Crime , especially the work of the police psychologist Dr. Max Munzl. He is new to the department and has a hard time with his colleagues, as the SoKo is understaffed, but there is money for a psychologist who, in the eyes of the colleagues, is superfluous.

Characters

Dr. Max Munzl

Dr. Max Munzl is the main character in the series. He is a psychologist and will be transferred from his work in the juvenile prison to the organized crime department. Here he immediately tries to analyze his colleagues and wants to help them with life problems. However, he hardly has his own life under control. His wife Lena wants to separate from him because he is clumsy, confused and forgetful. Despite his unwavering belief that the marriage could still be saved, she divorced him. He starts a relationship with Svenja, who leads anti-aggression courses professionally. After his mother dies, his father moves in with him. His dog goes by the name of Freud , but is accidentally shot during the second season.

Munzl becomes panicked and defenseless before threats and aggressive behavior, whereby his team can always save him from a threatening situation with criminals in time. Nevertheless, in some cases he tries to find out on his own, to be there and to prove success, which some in the team often doubt too early.

Kerstin Winter

Kerstin Winter is the only woman in the department. However, she tries to fit in with her male colleagues more and more through her emphatically masculine behavior. So she pretends to be the tough policewoman without mercy within the department. Nevertheless, Max Munzl finds out very quickly that she is actually much more sensitive and, for example, still owns a teddy bear. She is more open-minded towards Munzl than Hendricks or Kellinghoff. In the second season, she has to deal with the breakup with her boyfriend.

Eddie Stachowiak

Eddie Stachowiak is the youngest colleague in the department. He is judged by his colleagues as not very intelligent and prefers to work with his hands than with his head. At the end of the first season, he becomes engaged to a Polish woman. After the separation, he struggles with constant failures with the opposite sex. In the second season, Eddie often feels like an outsider, as he is suspected by the others of having taken bribes. However, he always tries to make the good police officers. He seeks psychological advice from Max, who repeatedly encourages him to keep going and not to give up when the SoKo troop has conflicts. Eddie has a mentally challenged twin brother named Martin who was born ten minutes before him.

Victor Kellinghoff

Victor Kellinghoff is the fourth person in the SoKo team. He obviously has a drinking problem, with Max being the only one to bring it up. At the beginning of the second season, however, he begins to tackle this problem. He also joins a religious community and speaks of God more and more often during the missions. But he is put to the test when he shoots someone during an operation. He is quite cynical and is very reserved towards Munzl.

Horst Hendricks

Horst Hendricks is the head of the team and mainly responsible for Kerstin, Eddie and Victor. He has no direct authority over Max Munzl, as he is assigned to another department under Kriminalrat Hasse. He is extremely skeptical of Munzl and considers his psychological strategies to be nonsense. Hendricks initially sees little use in his team for a psychologist and basically relies on tough tactics against criminals. When deployments are successful, however, he is usually surprised by Munzl's plans himself.

The head of the team is divorced from his wife and has a problem with his only daughter wanting to marry another woman. Therefore, he often appears stressed and reacts irritably in many situations. The series thrives, among other things, on conflicts between his instructions and the sometimes conflicting instructions from Max Munzl.

Trivia

resonance

This feature estimates Dr. Apparently very psycho . The series was mostly praised by public criticism.

  • Quotenmeter.de was done on 23 March 2007 of the series: " " Dr. Psycho »is an extremely successful and cheerful crime comedy, which stands out very positively from the comedy pulp currently being produced and broadcast from Germany. "
  • The FAZ was full of praise on March 24, 2007. “ Christian Ulmen is a brilliant improvisation comedian. In the new crime series “Dr. Psycho “ [...] as a police psychologist he proves how funny he can interpret finished scripts. "
  • In the following issue on March 25, 2007, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung wrote in the same praise above all about Ulm's acting.
  • The world wrote a consistently positive review after the first episode was broadcast. After that there were “always moments with polished slogans. Most of them came from the mouth of the main character, perfectly cast with Christian Ulmen. "
  • On March 26, 2007, the taz wrote about Ulmen: “This is someone who dares something.” And that in the course of the series he would take a noticeable development into the right actor.
  • On March 26, 2007, the Süddeutsche Zeitung described Munzl as “ Columbo in young: idiotic, dilapidated, sloppy .” According to critic Senta Krasser, the cast, text, direction and even the lead-in (time slot) fit .
  • Christian Buß wrote for Spiegel Online on March 25, 2007 (in contradiction to the praise in the Spiegel print edition, see below): “ Starting tomorrow, the actually gifted non-actor Christian Ulmen will stumble through a new pro-seven series with […] psychological truisms . [...] In “Dr. Psycho “but neither the slapstick nor the action works. "
  • Der Spiegel wrote in its printed edition No. 14 of April 2, 2007 on page 106: "The actor Christian Ulmen is a gift from the entertainer heaven". Dr. Psycho is "great anarchic fun".
  • Medien Handbuch.de , a portal for mass media , IT , communication and culture , describes the first episode as “a mixture of bizarre and intelligent to coarse humor with a good portion of action that has never been seen before in the German TV landscape. “The script, casting and actors are praised as“ great ”.
  • On May 7, 2007, the Tagesspiegel published a full-page fan letter to the main actor under the heading “Dear Christian Ulmen…”. Ulmen remembered "in his best moments of Heinz Erhardt" and the extension of Dr. Psycho is the longed-for hope for a "good television program".

Awards

In addition, Dr. Psycho was nominated in 2007 in the sitcom category for the Rose d'Or international television award and for the 2008 German television award in the best series category .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DWDL - out for "Dr. Psycho “: No new season planned
  2. ↑ quotenmeter.de
  3. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
  4. ↑ the world
  5. ↑ taz
  6. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung
  7. ^ Spiegel Online
  8. ↑ The daily mirror
  9. ↑ Winner of the Adolf Grimme Prize ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grimme-institut.de
  10. ↑ Nominations for the German Television Prize 2008