Ernst Bienzle

Ernst Bienzle
Channel	SDR or SWR (from 1998)
active	1992-2007
place	Stuttgart
Assistants	Günter Gächter
cases	25th
predecessor	Schreitle
successor	Lannert and Bootz
team
Dr. Bernhard Kocher Schober		(1997-2007) (2000-2007)
Place of investigation Stuttgart

Ernst Bienzle , first chief detective in Stuttgart , is a fictional character created by the German writer Felix Huby . Bienzle became known through 25 episodes produced by SDR and SWR and broadcast on the ARD television series Tatort , in which he was played by Dietz-Werner Steck from 1992 to 2007 .

Novels

The first novel (The Atomic War of Weihersbronn) was published in 1977, another 17 have followed so far. The first five novels are available as a new edition with a new title (Bienzle and ...) .

crime scene

From 1992 to 2007, 25 Tatort episodes around Bienzle with Dietz-Werner Steck in the lead role were filmed and broadcast, some of which are based on the novels. Some of the novels were used as the basis for episodes in other television crime series.

There is also a play about Commissioner Bienzle and a total of four radio plays, three of which in the main role were not cast with Steck but with Dieter Eppler , who died in April 2008 .

Eppler himself appeared as a crime scene investigator in the 1970s, namely as Commissioner Liersdahl from Saarbrücken. He also played in various roles in Bienzle crime scenes.

characters

First Detective Chief Inspector Ernst Bienzle is a quiet investigator who is initially almost 40 years old in the novels and then slowly ages. In the Tatort TV episodes, he's between 50 and 60 years old. He watches and shadows his suspects with infinite patience. Bienzle is from Swabia and was born in Dettenhausen near Tübingen . Especially when he is excited or becomes familiar with another Swabian, he quickly falls from the written language into Swabian. His favorite saying is: "Oh, you liabs Herrgöttle von Biberbach , wia hent di d 'Mucka verschissa!" In the early works or editions, Bienzel said instead of "Biberbach" it was still "Biberach", as many Swabians refer to him The city of Biberach .

The inspector likes to clarify delicate situations alone, often leaving only unimportant tasks to colleagues. He works for the most part with his assistant chief detective Günter Gächter ( played by Rüdiger Wandel in the crime scene ), who have traits that are in contrast to Bienzel's nature. Another of Bienzle's assistant, who often appears in the novels, is Haußmann , a young, very zealous detective assistant who, like Gächter, comes from Northern Germany. In the crime scene films he appears as Schober and is played by Dirk Salomon . Bienzle's boss, Police Commissioner Hauser ( embodied by Christian Pätzold in the crime scene ), knows Bienzle from his school days, so that the two of them often talk to each other when no other colleagues are around.

Bienzel's private life often suffers from his workload, and his first marriage to Hanna Bienzle failed because of this (in the first novels). His girlfriend Hannelore Schmiedinger (born December 21, 1957 in Munich, played by Rita Russek in the Tatort episodes ), who Bienzle met in the first novels in connection with a murder case, also left him temporarily for this reason and had one during the separation brief affair with Bienzel's colleague Dr. Bernhard Kocher ( embodied in the crime scene by Klaus Spürkel ), a coroner.

A special hobby of Bienzle is hiking in the Swabian Alb or in the Swabian Forest , which he often does together with Hannelore or alone, in order to get other thoughts during a case or to go through the aspects of the current case again in his mind.

Bienzle at the crime scene

The history of the origin: from 1971 to 1986 Werner Schumacher investigated as Eugen Lutz for the Süddeutscher Rundfunk in a total of 16 crime scene episodes throughout Baden-Württemberg, including several in Stuttgart. In Lutz's last case, his successor Schreitle , portrayed by Horst Michael Neutze , was introduced, who by 1988 solved three more cases on his own. Subsequently, the SDR, like the Bayerischer Rundfunk at the same time (see Batic and Leitmayr ), decided on a comprehensive redesign of its Tatort contribution.

The fictional character Ernst Bienzle by the author Felix Huby was particularly well known in Baden-Württemberg since the 1970s. As an actor, the decision was made for the Stuttgart theater actor Dietz-Werner Steck , who had also played in alternating supporting roles in earlier Tatort productions. The first Bienzle crime scene Bienzle and the Biedermann was broadcast in December 1992. This was followed by 24 more productions by 2007, initially from the Süddeutscher Rundfunk SDR and, after the channel merger, from the SWR. Felix Huby, who had also written a script for Bienzel's predecessors Lutz and Schreitle, contributed a total of 23 scripts. In the summer of 2006, Bienzle and the great love, the last Bienzle crime scene, was filmed on the grounds of the new Baden-Württemberg state fair. It was broadcast on January 7, 2007, as the penultimate Bienzle crime scene, and ended on February 25, 2007 with the previously produced episode Bienzle and His Most Serious Case . With a service period of 15 years and 25 cases, Bienzle is one of the longest-serving crime scene investigators in the history of the film series. In addition, Bienzle is a guest investigator in Palu crime scene No. 478. You have no chance to see.

reception

Bienzel's “trademark” hat and coat have been exhibited in the House of History in Stuttgart since February 2007 . In the same year, actor Dietz-Werner Steck was named honorary commissioner for his services to the reputation of the Baden-Württemberg police. In 2002 he was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit for his acting performance at Tatort. The episode Bienzle and Death in the Vineyard was awarded the Golden Romy 2007 in the Best Screenplay category.

Works with Bienzle

Novels

• 1977: The nuclear war in Weihersbronn , Rowohlt Reinbek Hamburg, ISBN 3-499-42411-8

New edition 2006 as: Bienzle and the Terrorist , Fischer Frankfurt a. M., ISBN 978-3-596-17034-0 .

• 1977: Death in the Tauern Tunnel , Rowohlt Reinbek Hamburg, ISBN 3-499-42422-3

New edition 2006 as: Bienzle and Death in the Tauern Tunnel , Fischer Frankfurt a. M., ISBN 978-3-596-17035-7 .

• 1978: How good that nobody knows ... , Rowohlt Reinbek Hamburg, ISBN 3-499-42446-0

New edition 2006 as: Bienzle and the Puppeteer , Fischer Frankfurt a. M., ISBN 978-3-596-17034-0 .

• 1979: his last will

New edition 2006 as: Bienzle and the false murder

• 1982: It's a shame he's dead

New edition in 2008 as: Bienzle and the old Turk

• 1983: Bienzle pokes in the fog
• 1985: Bienzle and the beautiful Lau
• 1986: Biencel's man in the underground
• 1988: Bienzle and the game of fools
• 1990: Bienzle and the scapegoat
• 1992: Good night, Bienzle

New edition in 2008 as: Bienzle and the Dead in the Park

• 1994: Bienzle and the Biedermann
• 1999: Bienzle and the champion
• 2000: Bienzle and the long anger
• 2001: Bienzle and the latch killer
• 2002: Bienzle in the godfather's realm
• 2005: Bienzle and the last confession
• 2006: Bienzel's worst case
• 2009: Bienzle and the Eternal Child , Fischer Taschenbuch Frankfurt a. Main, ISBN 978-3596184750 .
• 2011: Adieu, Bienzle , Fischer paperback Frankfurt a. Main, ISBN 978-3596191420 .

Crime scene episodes

Felix Huby wrote 23 of the 25 scripts , seven of them together with a partner.

case	title	First broadcast	episode	script	Director	particularities
1	Bienzle and the honest man	0Dec 6, 1992	266	Felix Huby , Peter Adam	Peter Adam
2	Bienzle and the beautiful Lau	28 Mar 1993	273	Felix Huby , Werner Zeindler	Hartmut Griesmayr
3	Bienzle and the game of fools	Jan. 23, 1994	286	Felix Huby	Hartmut Griesmayr	The only case without Chief Detective Günter Gächter
4th	Bienzle and the murder in the park	0May 7, 1995	309	Felix Huby	Dieter Schlotterbeck
5	Bienzle and the wall of fire	Jul 16, 1995	315	Felix Huby	Hartmut Griesmayr
6th	Bienzle and the dream of happiness	29 Sep 1996	342	Felix Huby	Dieter Schlotterbeck
7th	Bienzle and the deep fall	0Jul 6, 1997	365	Felix Huby	Peter F. Bringmann	Hannelore separates from Bienzle for the time being
8th	Bienzle and the champion	23 Aug 1998	394	Felix Huby	Dieter Schlotterbeck	Guest appearances Dariusz Michalczewski and Chris Thompson
9	Bienzle and the confectioner	Aug 15, 1999	419	Felix Huby	Hans-Christoph Blumenberg
10	Bienzle and the blind rage	Nov 14, 1999	427	Felix Huby	Hartmut Griesmayr
11	Bienzle and the man in the dark	26th Mar 2000	439	Martina Brand	Dieter Schlotterbeck
12	Bienzle and the double game	Dec 10, 2000	459	Felix Huby , Joseph Nelson	Hartmut Griesmayr	Golden gong to Günther Maria Halmer
13	Bienzle and the secret witness	0May 6, 2001	469	Felix Huby	Arend Agthe	Guest appearance by Herta Däubler-Gmelin, Federal Minister of Justice
14th	Bienzle and the death scream	0Sep 9 2001	479	Hartmut Griesmayr	Hartmut Griesmayr
15th	Bienzle and the day of vengeance	10 Mar 2002	494	Felix Huby	Konrad Sabrautzky
16	Bienzle and the sweet death	Jul 14, 2002	505	Felix Huby , Zoran Solomun	Arend Agthe
17th	Bienzle and death in the dough	02nd Mar 2003	525	Felix Huby	Hartmut Griesmayr	Guest appearance Ulrich Goll, State Minister of Justice Baden-Württemberg
18th	Bienzle and the taxi murder	0Aug 3, 2003	538	Felix Huby	Hans-Christoph Blumenberg
19th	Bienzle and the stone guest	Jul 25, 2004	571	Felix Huby	Hartmut Griesmayr
20th	Bienzle and the fire devil	0Jan. 2, 2005	584	Felix Huby , Dieter de Lazzer	Arend Agthe
21st	Bienzle and the Sicilian	Jul 24, 2005	603	Felix Huby , Zoram Solomun	Hartmut Griesmayr
22nd	Bienzle and Death in the Market Hall	May 28, 2006	633	Felix Huby	Arend Agthe
23	Bienzle and death in the vineyard	0Oct 1, 2006	641	Felix Huby and Dieter de Lazzer	Jochen Nitsch	Golden Romy for Best Screenplay
24	Bienzle and great love	0Jan. 7, 2007	652	Felix Huby	Hartmut Griesmayr	with journalist Peter Voss in a guest role
25th	Bienzle and his worst case	Feb 25, 2007	657	Felix Huby	Hartmut Griesmayr	Last case of this investigator

Radio plays

• A dead person doesn't listen to the radio (1981)
• Never Go Empty-handed (1982)
• Corpse in Oil or the Dream of Costa Rica (1984, also as CD)
• Bienzle and the Murder on the Neckar (2006)

Play

• Bienzle and the Murder on the Neckar (2006)

Web links

• Ernst Bienzle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Ernst Bienzle in the crime scene fund
• Homepage of Felix Huby
• Soundtrack for the Bienzle – Tatort: Bienzle and the Champion at tatort–fundus.de.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bienzle and the books in tatort–fundus.de. Retrieved March 28, 2013.
2. ↑ Book: Gute Nacht Bienzle in tatort–fundus.de. Retrieved March 28, 2013.
3. ↑ Book: Bienzle and the scapegoat at tatort–fundus.de. Retrieved March 28, 2013.
4. ↑ Read Tatort at tatort–fundus.de. Retrieved March 28, 2013.
5. ↑ The Bienzles Always different and always the same  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Felix Huby at felixhuby.de. Retrieved March 28, 2013.  
6. ↑ Corpse in oil of The Dream of Costa Rica ( Memento of the original from May 30, 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. at hoerspieleipps.net. Retrieved March 28, 2013.