Commitment to Ellrich

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Television series
Original title Commitment to Ellrich
Country of production Germany
original language German
year 2004
Production
company		 Constantin Entertainment
length approx. 23 minutes
Episodes 50 in 1 season
genre Crime series
First broadcast April 19, 2004 on RTL
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Einsatz für Ellrich (working title: Kripo Köln - Einsatz für Ellrich ) is a German television series that was broadcast by RTL in 2004. The pseudo-documentary crime series (crime soap / crime documentary) was shown from April 19 to September 3, 2004, Mondays to Fridays at 5 p.m.

action

In use for Ellrich the Detective Chief Commissioner Ilona Ellrich determined together with her from Kriminaloberkommissar Jürgen Schönewald and Kriminaloberkommissar Martin Scheidt existing team in fictitious cases. Most of the cases are based on capital crimes . The police investigate for the Cologne police . The investigators are supported in their work by Judge Ulrich Wetzel , who also acted as a judge in the court program Das Strafgericht .

background

The format was based on the style of the Sat.1 crime series Niederig und Kuhnt - Commissioners determine and was broadcast on the parallel slot.

Ilona Ellrich, who actually worked as chief detective for the criminal police in Magdeburg and as an expert for the MDR -Afternoon magazine Here from four , was released from the police service for the production of 50 episodes for Ellrich . Her teammates, the chief detective inspectors Jürgen Schönewald ( Düren criminal police ) and Martin Scheidt ( Duisburg criminal police ), were real police officers just like Ellrich .

Backdoor pilot

The new team of investigators was introduced by a backdoor pilot in the television series The Criminal Court . In the episode there on April 19, 2004, Chief Detective Ilona Ellrich appeared.

Crossover

The repeated appearance of Ulrich Wetzel and the backdoor pilot appearance of Ilona Ellrich resulted in multiple crossovers between the television series Das Strafgericht and Einsatz für Ellrich . The two series thus form a series universe .

Broadcasting and audience ratings

The first episode of the television series aired on April 19, 2004.

In the opinion of Thomas Lückerath ( DWDL.de ), the audience ratings were "extremely weak" at the beginning of the broadcast, but increased as the crime series continued to be broadcast. However, neither the channel average nor the level of the parallel Sat.1 series Low and Kuhnt - Commissioners determine could be achieved.

On July 9, 2004, the television broadcaster RTL announced the discontinuation of the television series due to insufficient audience ratings. Use in 4 walls took over the transmission slot for Einsatz für Ellrich .

reception

Michael Reufsteck and Stefan Niggemeier criticized the style of the television series, which resembled well-known models too closely. RTL did not succeed in developing and establishing an independent format.

“Everyone is incredibly cool and rough, as they learned from their fictional television colleagues. […] Since the beginning of the 90s, television in Germany has usually been like this: RTL is making a new format a success, and everyone else is copying it. This time it was Sat.1 that had established the format […], and even the ZDF imitation daily - police officers investigate was on the air faster than the RTL version. "

- The television dictionary

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Carsten Rave: Real investigators with a script. In: rundschau-online.de. www.rundschau-online.de, April 16, 2004, accessed December 30, 2015 .
  2. ↑ UPDATE: New crime documentary on RTL. In: quotenmeter.de. Quotemeter.de , March 11, 2004, accessed December 30, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Thomas Lückerath: RTL: Crimedoku "Einsatz für Ellrich" increases - DWDL.de. In: dwdl.de. DWDL.de, May 6, 2004, accessed December 30, 2015 .
  4. ↑ «Mission for Ellrich» is discontinued. In: quotenmeter.de. Quotemeter.de, July 9, 2004, accessed December 30, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Thomas Lückerath: RTL is backing down: "Einsatz für Ellrich" is over. DWDL.de, July 9, 2004, accessed December 30, 2015 .
  6. ↑ “Mission in four walls” replaces “Mission for Ellrich”. In: quotenmeter.de. Quotemeter.de, July 29, 2004, accessed December 30, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Michael Reufsteck, Stefan Niggemeier: Das Fernsehlexikon. All over 7000 programs from Ally McBeal to the ZDF hit parade . Goldmann, Munich 2005, p. 322 .