A case for two
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | A case for two |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 1981-2013 |
| Production company |
Odeon TV |
| length | 60 minutes |
| Episodes | 300 in 31 seasons ( list ) |
| genre | Crime series |
| idea | Karl-Heinz Willschrei and Georg Althammer (1981–2012) |
| production | Klaus Laudi |
| music | Klaus Doldinger |
| First broadcast | September 11, 1981 on ZDF |
| occupation | |
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A case for two is a crime series on ZDF and SRF . The series was first broadcast on September 11, 1981 with a 75-minute pilot episode. The protagonists are a lawyer and a private detective.
The detective, Josef Matula , was played by Claus Theo Gärtner from episode 1 to episode 300 in 2013 . The lawyer switched from Günter Strack (until 1988) to Rainer Hunold (until 1997) over a shorter period with Mathias Herrmann (until 2000) and finally to Paul Frielinghaus , who worked for the last 118 episodes. The series was discontinued with the 300th episode, which ran on March 22, 2013 on ORF 2 and on March 29, 2013 on ZDF .
Subsequently, a series of the same name was commissioned by ZDF. Since 2014, actors Wanja Mues have played private detective Leo Oswald and Antoine Monot, Jr., lawyer Benjamin “Benni” Hornberg in the crime series Ein Fall für Zwei.
On April 14, 2017 at 9:15 p.m., a newly produced, 90-minute crime special with Josef Matula, entitled Matula, was broadcast on ZDF, which is based on the events of the first series and on March 30, 2018 with another 90-minute crime special under the name Matula - The Shadow of the Mountain was continued. The second sequel, Matula - Death on Mallorca, followed on April 19, 2019 .
Roles and actors
The main character of the television series set in Frankfurt am Main and the surrounding area was the private detective Josef Matula ( Claus Theo Gärtner ), who mostly worked successfully for clients of a lawyer who was the second main character of the series. Often Matula had to look for the real murderer so that an innocent prisoner could be exonerated and justice brought to victory.
Josef Matula ( Claus Theo Gärtner )
At the beginning of the series, Josef Matula (episode: The Big Sister ) is still chief police officer, but has to answer to the court for preventing punishment and quits the service to avoid disciplinary proceedings. So he comes with his first lawyer, Dr. Renz, who offers him a job as a detective. In the court he also mentions his full name Hermann Josef Matula for the first time and claims to be 31 years old and born in Oberhausen. Further biographical details can be found in the episode Dawn (Part 3): "... born on March 18, 1949, single, Catholic, living in Frankfurt, Goetheweg 14." The year of his departure from the police is also specified here as 1981. In inheriting and dying (Part 1), Matula mentions that his father died in the last days of World War II (which is inconsistent with Matula's date of birth), his mother died of cancer in 1969, and he has no siblings. However, he (then strangely enough) has a niece named Andrea who appears in episode 75 Bloody Roses .
Despite mostly successful investigative work, Matulas is permanently short of money - he keeps asking his clients for advances, generous expense allowances and so on - a kind of running gag . In the episode Blind Hatred , he even briefly took a job as a gas station attendant. Up to episode 60 Caesar's booty , Matula smokes (also again in episode 182 Tomorrow , in which he lights a cigarette because of the shock of Dr. Voss' death). In addition to his special attraction to women and his sportiness - even with advancing age - Matula is usually very rough and often out and about in lower milieus. Due to his police training, however, he can talk elaborately about the cases just like the lawyers.
Still, since Matula often breaks the law, he is arrested many times and breaks out of prison several times, but in the end it is essentially his innocence that is revealed. In some episodes he owns a weapon (or uses objects lying on the spot) to defend himself. He tends to mess with the wrong people and is therefore repeatedly beaten, injured or threatened with a gun. His occupational risk includes being knocked down from behind while sniffing or being temporarily switched off in some other way. Chases, (rare) stunts and rescuing his lawyer at the last second are part of his part in the series.
Matula usually lives in a large one-room apartment with a kitchen and bathroom that can be locked with a sliding door. There is also a pool table in the apartment, because Matula is a passionate game of pool . There he often plays with his lawyers, some of whom he befriends. His apartment is badly damaged in the final episode, Last Words .
Since a series cannot be reinvented over a long period of time, Gärtner played a decisive role in the character over time, so that many of Gärtner's character traits were incorporated. The car that Matula drives was often Gärtner's car at the same time. What Matula will do in the future is not clearly explained in the series.
In episode 5 The Blind Spot of the remake of A Case for Two , Matula made a guest appearance when he met the new detective Oswald at a gas station.
In 2017 and 2018, the offshoot films Matula and Matula - The Shadow of the Mountain were shown on Good Friday . The third offshoot Matula followed on Good Friday 2019 - Death in Mallorca .
Matula is one of the most famous and popular German television faces. On January 13, 2001 Claus Theo Gärtner was awarded the rank of honorary commissioner for this role by Bavaria.
lawyers
Over the course of the series, Matula worked with four lawyers: Dr. Dieter Renz, Dr. Rainer Franck, Dr. Johannes Voss, Dr. Markus Lessing.
Dr. Dieter Renz ( Günter Strack ), episodes 1–60, 1981–1988
Dr. Renz is an experienced and much sought-after lawyer in Hesse. He is a perfectionist and takes his job very seriously. This also leads to the divorce from his wife (Episode 3: The House in France ). He doesn't seem to have had a relationship since then. During his student days, however, he had more contact with women, including Birgit Weißenborn (episode 3). Dr. Renz is also portrayed as a gourmet; he is a gifted hobby cook, wine lover and likes to visit fine restaurants. In his spare time he plays golf.
Dr. Over the years, Renz drives three different cars, first a Daimler-Benz / 8, then an Opel Senator with the license plate F-CD 300 and a Mercedes S-Class of type W126 with F-SR 99.
In episode 60, Dr. Renz victim of a plot and taken into custody. At the end of the episode, he retires, which he spends in Tuscany with his student lover Ana Susković.
In the feature film Matula from 2017, Matula baptizes the terrier who accompanies him through the case, Dr. Renz in memory of his first employer.
Dr. Rainer Franck ( Rainer Hunold ), episodes 61–149, 1988–1997
Dr. Franck first appears in episode 60 when Dr. Renz needs a defense attorney for himself. Franck takes over the secretary and the office of Renz, whose address, Nibelungenplatz 3, is later learned of Martin's death . He shares his love for motorcycling and billiards with Matula. The first time they meet, they clash because Franck Matula has unhitched his girlfriend. However, they quickly become a good team. With the 60th episode, Umba - Dr. Franck's dog - up, a golden retriever, which was represented by at least two dogs.
Dr. Johannes Voss ( Mathias Herrmann ), episodes 150–182, 1997–2000
After Dr. Franck gets a teaching position in Berlin and accepts it, his protégé Dr. Johannes Voss his office. Voss had to represent Franck in episode 149 The Couple when Franck was in the hospital. Although Voss prefers to box, he shows in episode 175 Dirty Laundry that he can play pool too. After a while, they both get together and work well together.
For the first time, this team corresponds to the original concept of the series: a young, dynamic lawyer and an older, gnarled detective.
In episode 182 Tomorrow You're Dead , Voss is shot by the killer Jochen Brenner (played by Ralf Richter ). Voss' client was the father of a young girl who was murdered by Jochen Brenner. Matula in turn whistled this to the police, so that Brenner is now out for revenge on Matula. Jochen Brenner is convicted, the public prosecutor in the trial against him is Dr. Lessing. However, Brenner manages to escape using a weapon that was smuggled into him, and when attempting to aim at Matula while trying to escape, he meets Dr. Voss. He succumbs to the consequences of the gunshot wound before the emergency doctor arrives. After the funeral of Dr. Voss' succeeds Matula and Dr. Lessing tries to track down Brenner, and when Brenner tries to shoot Matula, Dr. Lessing shot with Matula's gun.
Dr. Voss temporarily studied with the public prosecutor Dr. Lessing, who will succeed him as a lawyer after his death.
Dr. Markus Lessing ( Paul Frielinghaus ), episodes 183–300, 2000–2013
Dr. Lessing was born in Darmstadt, studied law in Bonn and Frankfurt (temporarily with Dr. Voss, where they met from) and also did his doctorate in the latter city. He loves music and plays the cello. After the death of his wife in 1995, he was left with his daughter Sonja, who is studying in London. She appears in the episodes Eric's Death and Eye for an Eye , played by two different actresses. Like Matula, Lessing doesn't think much of service regulations and occasionally breaks the rules to investigate cases. He promptly takes over the firm from Dr. Voss, although he is initially inexperienced as a freelance lawyer because he previously worked as a public prosecutor. Instead of Markus, he is often called Mark by Matula and others.
In episode 292 Murder in the Call Center , Dr. Lessing does not appear, but the viewer learns through a phone call between Dr. Lessing and Christin that Dr. Lessing is in hospital due to a bicycle accident. For the injured Dr. Lessing jumps in his nephew Felix Lessing played by Ludwig Blochberger , who was supposed to start an internship with his uncle as a law student, but then has to take over the mandate for him.
At the end of the last episode 300 Last Words , Dr. Lessing went to South America to become a cattle farmer.
Secretary to the lawyers
Helga Sommer ( Renate Kohn )
The only other continuous actress besides Matula up to episode 257 is Renate Kohn as Helga Sommer, who is there from episode 24, Chemistry of a Murder , but only receives a surname in episode 118 Fatal Profit (namely Bachmann, with whom she spoke to a colleague of Dr. Franck introduces Dr. Winter), which is changed (by mistake) in episode 182 Tomorrow You're Dead .
Helga is the secretary and soul of the law firm. She worked one after the other for all four lawyers until ZDF announced in October 2008 that she would no longer be represented in the series and would be retired. According to the ZDF, they wanted to bring a breath of fresh air into the format.
Kristin Wernstedt ( Caroline Grothgar )
Kristin Wernstedt takes the place of Helga for the first time on December 5, 2008 in episode 257 Merciless Vengeance . Wernstedt is the secretary until the end.
Commissioners and prosecutors
The role names and actors of the investigating police commissioners and prosecutors changed constantly within the series. The actors Hans Martin Stier , Christian Pätzold and Hans Georg Panczak had the most frequent assignments as commissioners ; the public prosecutor was often Dietrich Hollinderbäumer . Only in the Lessing era were there recurring commissioner figures, B. Commissioner Allberg (portrayed by Thomas Anzenhofer ), Commissioner Scharnow ( Thomas Bestvater ), Commissioner Enders ( Christian Koerner ) and Commissioner Wrobel ( Thomas Balou Martin ).
concept
The series was conceived by Karl-Heinz Willschrei and Georg Althammer as an alternative to classic crime series, which usually have detective inspectors as the main characters - the heroes are forced to use completely different investigative methods because they have no state authority , but only a customer mandate. With the handwritten confirmation on a restaurant bill - "100 episodes okay, CTG" - Claus Theo Gärtner accepted the role offer from producer Georg Althammer. The writing of the scripts usually took several months. The costs for the script were between 12,000 and 15,000 euros per episode.
In the original series concept, the figure of the lawyer was designed as young and dynamic, that of the detective as "old and gnarled". This was dropped at the time and the roles were instead filled with the young Claus Theo Gärtner and the older Günter Strack. A curiosity was that the original concept became a reality over the decades.
The main plot in all cases took place in Frankfurt am Main. Apart from a few pictures that showed Frankfurt, the locations were the general Rhine-Main area , but preferably Wiesbaden and the surrounding area, due to the proximity to the transmitter. A frequent location for filming was what was then the Center Nibelungenplatz (now City Gate ) in the north end of Frankfurt , as the lawyer had his fictitious office in this building. The panoramic view of the Frankfurt skyline , always shown in the episodes, was a distinguishing feature of the series.
In the first few episodes, Dr. Renz very close to the Schauspielhaus and the Frankfurt Opera and later in the Intercontinental Hotel, also in Frankfurt, with the high-rise buildings changing regularly for the outdoor shots. The interior shots of Dr. Renz were always shot in the Intercontinental Hotel Frankfurt - albeit in different rooms / suites at the beginning. Dr. Franck was up to and including episode 109 ("Death in the Elevator") in an office building at Walter-Kolb-Strasse 9-11 in Frankfurt, which was used for both the indoor and outdoor shots. From episode 110 (“Opportunity Makes Murderer”) his office was in what was then the Nibelungenplatz Office Center (now City Gate ), which was used as a location until the end .
Shortening and changing the episodes
As part of a redesign of the Friday program on ZDF, the new episodes of the series and the repetitions were shortened by around five minutes of action. In addition, the credits were replaced by advertising films . The total running time of the episodes on ZDF was therefore around 55 minutes. Since 2008 there has been a change in film style with rapid cuts. In addition, the title melody was modernized every time the lawyer changed, twice in the Lessing era (the updated version differed only slightly from the first Lessing version). In the new edition with the complete change of actors, the beginning of the familiar melody is quoted, but the composition and style is completely different than before.
End of series
At the end of October 2011, Claus Theo Gärtner and Paul Frielinghaus announced that they would no longer play in the series after filming the 300th episode. After leaving, Gärtner plans to take a year-long trip through America. “I thought to myself, after 30 years, I deserved a longer break,” he said, but left open the possibility of going back on afterwards if he should be asked. As one of the longest-serving ZDF investigators, Matula also finally surpassed Stephan Derrick (played by Horst Tappert ), who had 281 episodes of Derrick . According to ZDF, Claus Theo Gärtner completed around 3,200 days of filming for the series, so that adds up to almost nine years.
Episode list
Episodes with lawyer Dr. Renz and Matula
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1.1 | The big sister | September 11, 1981 | Wolfgang Storch | Karl Heinz Willschrei |
| 2 | 1.2 | Fox hunting | September 25, 1981 | Reinhard Schwabenitzky | Plym Pahl , Enno Hollrath |
| 3 | 1.3 | The house in France | 23rd October. 1981 | Hans-Jürgen Tögel | Karl Heinz Willschrei |
| 4th | 1.4 | Death friends | November 20, 1981 | Michael Braun | Karl Heinz Willschrei |
| 5 | 1.5 | The Heritage | 18th December 1981 | Ludwig Cremer | Karl Heinz Willschrei |
| 6th | 2.1 | Arson | January 29, 1982 | Peter Weck | Werner Doering |
| 7th | 2.2 | rabies | March 12, 1982 | Theo Mezger | Karl Heinz Willschrei |
| 8th | 2.3 | The hunter as a hare | April 30, 1982 | Peter Weck | Herbert Rosendorfer |
| 9 | 2.4 | Scratches in the paint | June 11, 1982 | Wolfgang Storch | Peter Hemmer |
| 10 | 2.5 | overtime | July 23, 1982 | Wolfgang Luderer | Irene Rodrian |
| 11 | 2.6 | Old pistols | August 27, 1982 | Peter Weck | Irene Rodrian |
| 12 | 2.7 | War of nerves | September 24, 1982 | Peter Weck | Enno Hollrath |
| 13 | 2.8 | partner | October 22, 1982 | Michael Lähn | Peter Hemmer |
| 14th | 3.1 | twilight | January 28, 1983 | Eugene York | Peter Hemmer |
| 15th | 3.2 | The victim | March 11, 1983 | Michael Lähn | Karl Heinz Willschrei |
| 16 | 3.3 | Mr. Pankraz, please! | April 8, 1983 | Eugene York | Wolfgang Mühlbauer |
| 17th | 3.4 | The witness | May 6, 1983 | Hans-Jürgen Tögel | Karl Heinz Willschrei |
| 18th | 3.5 | Deadly square | September 23, 1983 | Theo Mezger | Manfred D. Lisson |
| 19th | 3.6 | Dashed the bill | October 21, 1983 | Theo Mezger | Karl Heinz Willschrei |
| 20th | 3.7 | The great anger of the little paschirbe | November 18, 1983 | Michael Lähn | Horst Bosetzky |
| 21st | 4.1 | Dead capital | January 24, 1984 | Michael Meyer | Hans-G. Michel |
| 22nd | 4.2 | At your own risk | March 16, 1984 | Michael Mackenroth | Peter Hemmer |
| 23 | 4.3 | Eleven years later | May 18, 1984 | Michael Meyer | Karl Heinz Willschrei |
| 24 | 4.4 | Chemistry of a murder | June 22, 1984 | Eugene York | Karl Heinz Willschrei |
| 25th | 4.5 | The lost night | August 24, 1984 | Kaspar Heidelbach | Karl Heinz Willschrei |
| 26th | 4.6 | Carrot and Stick | September 28, 1984 | Bernd Fischerauer | Karl Heinz Willschrei |
| 27 | 4.7 | Dawn (1) | November 16, 1984 | Michael Mackenroth | Karl Heinz Willschrei |
| 28 | 4.8 | Dawn (2) | November 18, 1984 | Michael Mackenroth | Karl Heinz Willschrei |
| 29 | 4.9 | Dawn (3) | November 20, 1984 | Michael Mackenroth | Karl Heinz Willschrei |
| 30th | 4.10 | Always trouble with Ado | December 21, 1984 | Ilse Hofmann | Karl Heinz Willschrei |
| 31 | 5.1 | The loser | January 25, 1985 | Pete Ariel | Detlef Mueller |
| 32 | 5.2 | Six correct ones | March 8, 1985 | Michael Meyer | Karl-Heinz Sieber |
| 33 | 5.3 | Escape money | May 24, 1985 | Kaspar Heidelbach | Peter Hemmer |
| 34 | 5.4 | Black numbers | 20th September 1985 | Michael Mackenroth | Detlef Mueller |
| 35 | 5.5 | Little Red Riding Hood | October 18, 1985 | Michael Mackenroth | Karl Heinz Willschrei |
| 36 | 5.6 | Blood ties | November 15, 1985 | Bernd Fischerauer | Karl Heinz Willschrei |
| 37 | 5.7 | Divorce in white | December 20, 1985 | Pete Ariel | Peter Hemmer |
| 38 | 6.1 | Inherit and Die (1) | February 14, 1986 | Bernd Fischerauer | Karl Heinz Willschrei |
| 39 | 6.2 | Inherit and Die (2) | February 16, 1986 | Bernd Fischerauer | Karl Heinz Willschrei |
| 40 | 6.3 | Date of death | March 14, 1986 | Claus Peter Witt | Detlef Mueller |
| 41 | 6.4 | Schwind is careful | May 2, 1986 | Michael Mackenroth | Claus Bender |
| 42 | 6.5 | DEATH | July 11, 1986 | Kaspar Heidelbach | Karl Heinz Willschrei |
| 43 | 6.6 | A surefire tip | September 19, 1986 | Kaspar Heidelbach | Detlef Mueller |
| 44 | 6.7 | Blind hatred | 17th October 1986 | Bernd Fischerauer | Daniel J. Christiany |
| 45 | 6.8 | countdown | November 21, 1986 | Bernd Fischerauer | Peter Hemmer |
| 46 | 6.9 | Fasold's dream | December 19, 1986 | Hartmut Griesmayr | Peter Zingler |
| 47 | 7.1 | Zorek has to shoot | January 23, 1987 | Michael Mackenroth | Detlef Mueller |
| 48 | 7.2 | payday | March 6, 1987 | Detlef Rönfeldt | Wolfgang Mühlbauer |
| 49 | 7.3 | Crime time | April 10, 1987 | Michael Mackenroth | Karl Heinz Willschrei |
| 50 | 7.4 | Sometime… | May 22, 1987 | Michael Meyer | Detlef Mueller |
| 51 | 7.5 | Worthless alibi | July 31, 1987 | Michael Mackenroth | Detlef Mueller |
| 52 | 7.6 | Beyond death… | September 25, 1987 | Detlef Rönfeldt | Detlef Mueller |
| 53 | 7.7 | ... sentenced to death | October 23, 1987 | Hartmut Griesmayr | Marran Gosov , Kerstin Specht |
| 54 | 7.8 | Life sentence for a dead person | November 20, 1987 | Michael Mackenroth | Peter Hemmer |
| 55 | 7.9 | Ayla | 18th December 1987 | Wolfgang F. Henschel | Klaus Bädekerl |
| 56 | 8.1 | Shortly after Ankara | January 29, 1988 | Hartmut Griesmayr | Peter Zingler |
| 57 | 8.2 | Who sows violence ... | March 11, 1988 | Michael Meyer | Theo Regnier |
| 58 | 8.3 | Deadly reconciliation | April 15, 1988 | Michael Meyer | Sylvia Ulrich |
| 59 | 8.4 | The only chance | April 27, 1988 | Jörg Grünler | nn |
| 60 | 8.5 | Caesar's booty | 2nd September 1988 | Michael Mackenroth | Karl Heinz Willschrei |
Episodes with lawyer Dr. Franck and Matula
| episode | title | First broadcast |
|---|---|---|
| 61 | The Kramm file | September 16, 1988 |
| 62 | You only live once | September 30, 1988 |
| 63 | Old love | October 14, 1988 |
| 64 | The man in the photo | November 18, 1988 |
| 65 | Potassium cyanide | February 17, 1989 |
| 66 | 70,000 bar | March 10, 1989 |
| 67 | Thursday, last act | March 31, 1989 |
| 68 | blood | April 21, 1989 |
| 69 | Death in a sleeping bag | May 19, 1989 |
| 70 | The receipt | June 16, 1989 |
| 71 | Remorse | September 22, 1989 |
| 72 | Fling | November 10, 1989 |
| 73 | The key | December 8, 1989 |
| 74 | Red Friday | January 26, 1990 |
| 75 | Bloody roses | February 23, 1990 |
| 76 | Brother hatred | March 23, 1990 |
| 77 | The second man | May 11, 1990 |
| 78 | Deadly error | June 29, 1990 |
| 79 | boomerang | August 10, 1990 |
| 80 | Madonna | September 28, 1990 |
| 81 | Black sheep | October 26, 1990 |
| 82 | Bloody gold | November 23, 1990 |
| 83 | Fatherly love | December 21, 1990 |
| 84 | Snow waltz | January 25, 1991 |
| 85 | Spin course | March 1, 1991 |
| 86 | Bounty | April 12, 1991 |
| 87 | Freezing | May 24, 1991 |
| 88 | Helen's secrets | 5th July 1991 |
| 89 | Hanna's last love | July 26, 1991 |
| 90 | The sins of the fathers | August 16, 1991 |
| 91 | Blade shot | September 27, 1991 |
| 92 | Death free home | November 15, 1991 |
| 93 | Film tear | December 13, 1991 |
| 94 | Silence is money | January 3, 1992 |
| 95 | Harder than glass | January 31, 1992 |
| 96 | Death game | March 13, 1992 |
| 97 | Money does not expire | May 1, 1992 |
| 98 | Signs of life | July 10, 1992 |
| 99 | Bills play black | July 31, 1992 |
| 100 | Buyable gentlemen | September 11, 1992 |
| 101 | greed | 2nd October 1992 |
| 102 | The assassination | October 30, 1992 |
| 103 | Cowards don't kill | November 27, 1992 |
| 104 | jealousy | January 8, 1993 |
| 105 | A hell of a good idea | 19th February 1993 |
| 106 | revenge | March 26, 1993 |
| 107 | Man behind curtain | April 30, 1993 |
| 108 | A strange witness | May 21, 1993 |
| 109 | Death in the elevator | July 23, 1993 |
| 110 | Opportunity makes murder | August 27, 1993 |
| 111 | A ticket to heaven | 17th September 1993 |
| 112 | Martin's death | October 22, 1993 |
| 113 | rude awakening | November 19, 1993 |
| 114 | Who breaks loyalty | January 28, 1994 |
| 115 | The real wealth | February 18, 1994 |
| 116 | Death of an artist | March 18, 1994 |
| 117 | The winner | April 1, 1994 |
| 118 | Deadly profit | July 1, 1994 |
| 119 | The strange heart | July 29, 1994 |
| 120 | Shot in the heart | August 19, 1994 |
| 121 | A surefire deal | September 23, 1994 |
| 122 | The final presentation | November 4, 1994 |
| 123 | Hot money | December 23, 1994 |
| 124 | Murder friends | January 27, 1995 |
| 125 | Little brother | April 14, 1995 |
| 126 | Abysses | May 12, 1995 |
| 127 | White land | June 9, 1995 |
| 128 | bankruptcy | June 30, 1995 |
| 129 | Feelings of murder | July 28, 1995 |
| 130 | An open account | September 1, 1995 |
| 131 | A decent killer | October 20, 1995 |
| 132 | Death in the motel | November 24, 1995 |
| 133 | Deadly buying frenzy | December 22, 1995 |
| 134 | Lousy tricks | January 26, 1996 |
| 135 | An angel of death | March 1, 1996 |
| 136 | Deadly farewell | April 19, 1996 |
| 137 | The bait | May 24, 1996 |
| 138 | Judge murder | 2nd August 1996 |
| 139 | Built on sand | August 30, 1996 |
| 140 | Way out murder | October 18, 1996 |
| 141 | Bad blood | November 1, 1996 |
| 142 | heart pain | November 22, 1996 |
| 143 | Deadly legacy | December 27, 1996 |
| 144 | Up to the blood | January 24, 1997 |
| 145 | False accomplices | February 14, 1997 |
| 146 | The California dream | March 7, 1997 |
| 147 | Cold departure | April 11, 1997 |
| 148 | All for one | May 9, 1997 |
| 149 | The couple | June 13, 1997 |
Episodes with lawyer Dr. Voss and Matula
| episode | title | First broadcast |
|---|---|---|
| 150 | Deadly interest | September 19, 1997 |
| 151 | Bet on the wrong horse | October 10, 1997 |
| 152 | Only one night | November 14, 1997 |
| 153 | End of a delusion | November 28, 1997 |
| 154 | Only victory counts | January 2, 1998 |
| 155 | The last installment | January 30, 1998 |
| 156 | Scary business | March 13, 1998 |
| 157 | Rendezvous with death | April 10, 1998 |
| 158 | Loaded and sold | April 24, 1998 |
| 159 | Goal of desire | May 15, 1998 |
| 160 | Bad cards | May 29, 1998 |
| 161 | Wrong partner | August 14, 1998 |
| 162 | Favor of the hour | 4th September 1998 |
| 163 | go to hell | October 2, 1998 |
| 164 | Death of a bodyguard | November 6, 1998 |
| 165 | From nail to nail | February 5, 1999 |
| 166 | Caught cold | March 19, 1999 |
| 167 | Bloody notes | April 30, 1999 |
| 168 | black money | May 14, 1999 |
| 169 | Terror from the beyond | June 18, 1999 |
| 170 | The second death | July 9, 1999 |
| 171 | Death of a hacker | October 8, 1999 |
| 172 | Malpractice | October 29, 1999 |
| 173 | Boiled | November 26, 1999 |
| 174 | Love-hate relationship | February 4, 2000 |
| 175 | Dirty laundry | March 10, 2000 |
| 176 | Drowned dreams | April 21, 2000 |
| 177 | Quick money | June 9, 2000 |
| 178 | Game, sentence and murder | September 22, 2000 |
| 179 | Blowing snow | October 13, 2000 |
| 180 | Bloody deposit | November 10, 2000 |
| 181 | God is my witness | December 8, 2000 |
| 182 | You're dead tomorrow | December 22, 2000 |
Episodes with lawyer Dr. Lessing and Matula
| episode | title | First broadcast |
|---|---|---|
| 183 | The lost father | January 5, 2001 |
| 184 | KO girls | February 2, 2001 |
| 185 | Deadly test | March 2, 2001 |
| 186 | Deadly snapshots | May 11, 2001 |
| 187 | Code Mira | June 22, 2001 |
| 188 | Death of a model | August 10, 2001 |
| 189 | School end | August 31, 2001 |
| 190 | The laugh of the Buddha | September 28, 2001 |
| 191 | Forbidden feelings | October 11, 2001 |
| 192 | Lonely wolf | November 16, 2001 |
| 193 | Hunting fever | December 14, 2001 |
| 194 | A shameful plan | February 1, 2002 |
| 195 | In a coma | March 15, 2002 |
| 196 | Condemned to be silent | April 12, 2002 |
| 197 | Penthouse with corpse | May 17, 2002 |
| 198 | Murderous debt | September 27, 2002 |
| 199 | Right in the heart | October 25, 2002 |
| 200 | nightmares | December 13, 2002 |
| 201 | Foreign feathers | January 10, 2003 |
| 202 | Brake failure | February 21, 2003 |
| 203 | The man who dies twice | March 7, 2003 |
| 204 | Eric's death | March 14, 2003 |
| 205 | Hit the wall | July 18, 2003 |
| 206 | Which was to be proved | July 25, 2003 |
| 207 | The prosecutor | November 14, 2003 |
| 208 | Among friends | November 21, 2003 |
| 209 | Double homicide | November 28, 2003 |
| 210 | Death of the doctor's wife | January 2, 2004 |
| 211 | Murder for love | January 9, 2004 |
| 212 | doppelganger | January 16, 2004 |
| 213 | Ticket to the afterlife | January 23, 2004 |
| 214 | Death and the stars | January 30, 2004 |
| 215 | Secondary business | February 6, 2004 |
| 216 | Bad cards for Grabowski | September 3, 2004 |
| 217 | Double game | September 10, 2004 |
| 218 | gigolo | September 17, 2004 |
| 219 | Career at any cost | September 24, 2004 |
| 220 | Deadly company party | October 1, 2004 |
| 221 | eye to eye | January 7, 2005 |
| 222 | Death in the skyscraper | January 14, 2005 |
| 223 | Romance in black | January 21, 2005 |
| 224 | graffiti | January 28, 2005 |
| 225 | Deadly connection | February 11, 2005 |
| 226 | Jewels | February 18, 2005 |
| 227 | The last chance | October 14, 2005 |
| 228 | The beautiful dead one | October 21, 2005 |
| 229 | The power of love | October 28, 2005 |
| 230 | Broken dreams | November 4, 2005 |
| 231 | The stolen life | November 11, 2005 |
| 232 | Death of an accountant | November 25, 2005 |
| 233 | Wholesale market feud | January 6, 2006 |
| 234 | Perfect mistake | January 13, 2006 |
| 235 | One-two | January 20, 2006 |
| 236 | Death and the Maiden | January 27, 2006 |
| 237 | Role reversal | February 3, 2006 |
| 238 | Bloody love greetings | September 15, 2006 |
| 239 | Fear of death | September 22, 2006 |
| 240 | The lost Son | September 29, 2006 |
| 241 | An ice cold business | October 6, 2006 |
| 242 | Everlasting friendship | October 13, 2006 |
| 243 | Murder in the zoo | January 26, 2007 |
| 244 | Law and justice | February 2, 2007 |
| 245 | A matter of trust | February 9, 2007 |
| 246 | Blood brothers | April 13, 2007 |
| 247 | Dirty hands | May 4, 2007 |
| 248 | Murder in the museum | June 1, 2007 |
| 249 | Deadly Obsession | September 7, 2007 |
| 250 | Out of control | October 5, 2007 |
| 251 | Where friendship ends | November 2, 2007 |
| 252 | Rip cord | December 7, 2007 |
| 253 | Bitter realization | April 4, 2008 |
| 254 | Murderous fakes | April 11, 2008 |
| 255 | A fatal decision | April 18, 2008 |
| 256 | A matter of honor | April 25, 2008 |
| 257 | Merciless revenge | December 5, 2008 |
| 258 | Broken dreams | December 12, 2008 |
| 259 | Wrong track | December 19, 2008 |
| 260 | Heirs wanted | February 5, 2009 |
| 261 | The circumstantial trap | February 13, 2009 |
| 262 | Death in the vineyard | February 20, 2009 |
| 263 | Devilish shadow | February 27, 2009 |
| 264 | The ultimatum | June 5, 2009 |
| 265 | Deadly affair | June 12, 2009 |
| 266 | Cold anger | June 19, 2009 |
| 267 | Scorpio in the third house | November 20, 2009 |
| 268 | The pain of love | November 27, 2009 |
| 269 | Murderous ambition | 4th December 2009 |
| 270 | The whiz kid | December 10, 2009 |
| 271 | Small satellite | December 18, 2009 |
| 272 | Negative pressure | May 14, 2010 |
| 273 | Between the lines | May 21, 2010 |
| 274 | Perpetrator and victim | May 28, 2010 |
| 275 | Broken dreams | June 4th 2010 |
| 276 | Skeletons in the closet | December 10, 2010 |
| 277 | Nice shine | December 17, 2010 |
| 278 | Deadly story | January 7, 2011 |
| 279 | Dark shadows | January 14, 2011 |
| 280 | Everything but love | January 21, 2011 |
| 281 | The Matula case | December 9, 2011 |
| 282 | Koala in the snow | December 16, 2011 |
| 283 | fate | December 23, 2011 |
| 284 | loss | December 30, 2011 |
| 285 | Love blind | April 20, 2012 |
| 286 | Deadly greed | April 27, 2012 |
| 287 | Death run | May 4, 2012 |
| 288 | A million in small bills | May 11, 2012 |
| 289 | Death in the ring | November 23, 2012 |
| 290 | The hiding place | November 30, 2012 |
| 291 | Ripped off | December 7, 2012 |
| 292 | Murder in the call center | December 14, 2012 |
| 293 | Murder in the Taunus | December 21, 2012 |
| 294 | Frankfurt superstar | December 28, 2012 |
| 295 | Incognito | February 15, 2013 |
| 296 | Blind date | February 22, 2013 |
| 297 | Under the linden tree | 1st of March 2013 |
| 298 | Adam's sin | March 8, 2013 |
| 299 | Die more beautifully | 15 March 2013 |
| 300 | last words | March 22, 2013 (ORF 2, Austria); March 26, 2013 (SRF 1, Switzerland); March 29, 2013 (ZDF, Germany) |
Furnishing
- Matula's first "company vehicle" was Gärtner's private vehicle, a white Alfa Romeo Giulia Nuova Super 1600 , which he changed in 1986 for a white Audi 90 Quattro. In 1987 he was still on the road in just a few episodes in an Audi 80 , which was then newly launched . He then drove the current mid-size sedan from Alfa Romeo, always in silver metallic paint; they were the models Alfa Romeo Giulietta , Alfa Romeo 75 , Alfa Romeo 155 , Alfa Romeo 156 and Alfa Romeo 159 .
- Dr. In the first episodes, Renz drives a Mercedes-Benz / 8 , later an Opel Senator A2 and finally a long-wheelbase version of the Mercedes S-Class . His previous car will then be used in the next episodes by different people in the plot, until he finally has irreparable accident damage.
- All lawyers have the same chairs in their offices, one office chair and two visitor chairs from the Softpad version from the Aluminum Group series, designed by Charles Eames .
- Since the filming locations were partly outside of Frankfurt, local vehicles were equipped with Frankfurt license plates to maintain an authentic film set . Gärtner later reported in an interview that he was once stopped by the police while on a private trip with a movie car and 40 fake license plates in the trunk (as well as two sawed off shotguns from the prop).
reception
- The series was sold in over 50 countries.
- In 2004, the Anajo group used motifs from the theme music for their title I bring you out here .
- In the ZDF series Lerchenberg was Sascha Hehn presented as Matulas successor. In the second episode of the series, the opening credits of Ein Fall für Zwei with Sascha Hehn can be seen.
Guest appearances
- In episode 281, The Matula case , which was broadcast on December 9, 2011, the former State Secretary and government spokesman for Hesse, Dirk Metz , had a guest role.
Web links
- A Case for Two at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A case for two at Fernsehserien.de
- List of episodes with season notation at episodeworld.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of episodes at episodeworld.com
- ↑ Matula speaks “last words” in “A Case for Two”: Will you miss him? , derStandard.at of March 22, 2013
- ^ Matula, the public service punk , Zeit Online from March 28, 2013
- ↑ Detective Matula returns , serieslyAWESOME.tv from February 15, 2017
- ↑ Press kit: Matula - The shadow of the mountain: ZDF press portal. In: presseportal.zdf.de. March 30, 2018. Retrieved November 17, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Famous Detectives.Retrieved April 20, 2014
- ↑ Profile of Matula on www.ein-fall-fuer-zwei.tl Retrieved on August 25, 2014
- ↑ a b c d Matula at www.umbra.de Retrieved on April 20, 2014
- ↑ A case for two - Matula knock me out on www.tagesspiegel.de. Accessed April 20, 2014
- ↑ a b Matula un der Alfa Romeo on www.faz.net Retrieved on April 20, 2014
- ↑ Contents. In: zdf.de. March 31, 2017, accessed April 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Matula: The shadow of the mountain
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Dieter Renz.Retrieved August 25, 2014
- ↑ Episode 32 "Six Correct" (Minute 38:52. Accessed August 5, 2020
- ↑ Episode 38 "Inheriting and Dying (1)" (Minute 57:01. Retrieved on August 5, 2020
- ↑ Plot Caesar's booty on Odeon film. Retrieved on April 20, 2014 ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Dr. Rainer Franck.Retrieved August 25, 2014
- ↑ a b Dr. Johannes Voss.Retrieved August 25, 2015
- ↑ Death of Dr. Voss. Retrieved August 25, 2014
- ↑ Description of the episode Tomorrow you are dead at Kino.de
- ↑ Description of episode 182 on umbra.de
- ↑ a b Markus Lessing Retrieved August 25, 2014
- ↑ a b Helga Sommer.Retrieved August 25, 2014
- ^ Thomas Anzenhofer filmography. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
- ↑ TV authors. sueddeutsche.de November 6, 2007
- ↑ See, for example, the article on the shortening of the Friday thriller ( memento of the original from September 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the television magazine Die Linse
- ↑ A case for two: Matula-Aus after 300 episodes (diepresse.com) accessed on November 30, 2011
- ↑ Matula and his cars. Auto, Motor und Sport, accessed November 9, 2015 .
- ↑ tagesspiegel.de
- ↑ bild.de
