Heinz Becker family

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Television series
Original title Heinz Becker family
Country of production GermanyGermany Germany
original language German
Year (s) 1992-2004
Production
company		 West German Broadcasting
Saarland Broadcasting
length 26 to 28 minutes
Episodes 42 in 7 seasons
genre Sitcom
idea Gerd Dudenhöffer
First broadcast March 23, 1992 on West 3

The Heinz Becker family is a German comedy television series directed by Gerd Dudenhöffer and set in southeastern Saarland . It was produced in seven seasons from 1992 to 2004.

content

The series is based on the Saarland character Heinz Becker, who has been embodied by Gerd Dudenhöffer in various stage programs since 1982, and shows the everyday life of his family. This consists of the father Heinz, the mother Hilde and the son Stefan and lives in Bexbach . The Rhenish Franconian dialect is spoken , as is common in the southeastern Saarland (in the area around Bexbach and Homburg ). The main elements of comedy are situation comedy , running gags and slip of the tongue.

characters

  • Heinz Becker ( Gerd Dudenhöffer ) is the head of the family. He is a typical conservative to reactionary philistine and is characterized by his cheeky manner and great cheek, especially towards his wife and son. His standard sentences are: "Im Läwe ned", "Yo, go away" and "You dumbass". Although he is proud of his manual skills and often active as a do-it-yourselfer in and around the house , his clumsiness usually makes it go wrong. He seems to be working; but you don't find out what he does for a living. He is also very involved "in the club", although it is not specified what kind of club it is. An often-quoted joke is the discussion about the handle of the lawnmower. Becker often complains about the waste of taxes in which, for example, he comments on discussions with “And we have to pay it”. With his often cheeky and inappropriate statements, he repeatedly causes embarrassments and scandal in the course of the series. His trademarks are drinking beer (mostly at the kitchen table) and wearing a Batschkapp all the time .
  • Hilde Becker (first season: Marianne Riedel-Weber , second to fourth season: Alice Hoffmann , fifth to seventh season: Sabine Urig ) is Heinz's wife. She is a typical housewife and is characterized above all by her naive-stupid manner - she usually does not really understand what is going on and is almost always inferior to the sarcasm and cheekiness of her husband. She has a sister, called Elsje , who speaks strong Rhineland, lives in Euskirchen and appears in the first season in an episode (played by Margie Kinsky ) in person, but is usually only mentioned in conversations or calls. Elsje has another appearance in the episode "The House Ball" of the fifth season.
  • Stefan Becker (first to fifth season: Gregor Weber , sixth and seventh season: Andreas Gergen ) is the son of the family. Stefan is an only child. He is more intelligent and sensible than his parents and often annoyed by them, but he also does not manage to get away from them, does a lot with them and is also quite lazy and spoiled. In one episode he has a job as a waiter, otherwise you don't find out what he does for a living or whether he is still going to school or studying. In later episodes he temporarily lives with his girlfriend Charlotte in Berlin.
  • Kurt and Roswitha Maier ( Henning Hoffsten and Sigi Siegert ) are friends with the Beckers, who live in the neighborhood and are very similar to the Beckers: Kurt (called Der Maier-Kurt ) is more well-behaved and often a little more simple-minded than Heinz, while Roswitha is like Hilde is a somewhat naive housewife. Both characters appear for the first time in the sixth season; Maier-Kurt was often mentioned before, but was never seen.
  • Jessica Maier ( Anja Clementi ) is the daughter of the Maiers and friends with Stefan. Like her parents, she only appears in seasons 6 and 7.
  • Charlotte ( Mirjam Köfer ) is Stefan's friend from Berlin , who appears for the first time in season 2 and moves to Berlin with him at the end of season 4. She is characterized by her cheeky Berlin snout , which Stefan's father especially doesn't like. After season 5, she no longer appears and is no longer mentioned.

Leading actor and director

Season Heinz Becker Hilde Becker (née Spengler) Stefan Becker Director Year of production
1 Gerd Dudenhöffer Marianne Riedel-Weber Gregor Weber Martin Kliemann 1991
2 Alice Hoffmann Marco Serafini 1992/93
3 1994
4th Rudi Bergmann
and
Gerd Dudenhöffer 		1995
5 Sabine Urig 1998
6th Andreas Gergen 2001
7th 2003

supporting cast

sorted by order of entry

actor Role name Season consequences Years Remarks
Rudiger Weigang various roles 1-7 01-39 1993-2003 u. a. in the roles of Richard Spengler (neighbor), Hermann (regular table colleague) and Eddi (landlord from the corner room)
Mirjam Köfer Charlotte 2-5 07-26 1992-1998 Stefan's girlfriend
Herbert Meurer various roles 2-7 07-41 1992-2004 u. a. Mayor, Sparkasse director, dentist and guest at the house carnival of the Becker family
Gerd Dudenhöffer Herbert Laumann 3-6 14-35 1994-2001 Dudenhoeffer's second role
often appears in a place where Heinz is also currently
Henning Hoffsten Kurt Maier
('Maier-Kurt')		 6-7 31-40 2001-2004 Neighbor of the Beckers, husband of Roswitha, father of Jessica
Sigi Siegert Roswitha Maier 6-7 31-40 2001-2004 Wife of Kurt, mother of Jessica
Anja Clementi Jessica Maier 6-7 31-42 2001-2004 Daughter of Kurt and Roswitha

Episode list

This list contains all episodes of the television series, which includes seven seasons of six episodes each.

episode Season title First broadcast
01 1 The slide evening March 23, 1992
02 1 The new suit March 30, 1992
03 1 The goulash Apr 6, 1992
04 1 The main prize Apr 13, 1992
05 1 The drill Apr 20, 1992
06 1 The vacation trip Apr 27, 1992
07 2 Stefan's birthday Apr 30, 1993
08 2 In the supermarket May 7, 1993
09 2 In the taxi May 14, 1993
10 2 Thirty-eight five May 21, 1993
11 2 In the bar May 28, 1993
12 2 Welcome! The direction 4th June 1993
13 3 Including Heinz June 14, 1994
14th 3 Stefan's job June 21, 1994
15th 3 In the gallery July 12, 1994
16 3 Every year again July 19, 1994
17th 3 The bus ride to Lourdes Aug 9, 1994
18th 3 Fashion show Oct 7, 1994
19th 4th Power failure Jan. 16, 1996
20th 4th Hilde is taking a cure Jan. 23, 1996
21st 4th The first prize Jan. 30, 1996
22nd 4th The car breakdown Feb 6, 1996
23 4th The new kitchen Feb 13, 1996
24 4th Stefan moves out Feb. 20, 1996
25th 5 The Berlin trip 1 May 5, 1998
26th 5 The Berlin trip 2 May 12, 1998
27 5 In the phone booth May 19, 1998
28 5 A new car? May 26, 1998
29 5 The house ball June 2, 1998
30th 5 The course shadow June 9, 1998
31 6th Disappeared without a trace Oct 23, 2001
32 6th Room 112 A Oct 30, 2001
33 6th Beer or wine Nov 6, 2001
34 6th Noise Nov 13, 2001
35 6th Hello! Nov 20, 2001
36 6th What is happening? Dec 18, 2001
37 7th On your hands and knees Feb 6, 2004
38 7th Submerged Feb 13, 2004
39 7th Ex and hopp Feb 20, 2004
40 7th Wrong-way drivers Feb. 27, 2004
41 7th Top right the 4 March 5, 2004
42 7th traffic jam March 12, 2004

meaning

The episode Every Years Again , which caricatures the family Christmas stress, is now an integral part of the Christmas Eve television program of the first and several third programs in Germany - similar to Dinner for One on New Year's Eve .

filming

In 1999, Tach, Herr Dokter! - The Heinz Becker film . The movie fell short of the high expectations, based on the success of the series and Dudenhöffer's live appearances, and was only moderately successful and received mostly bad reviews.

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerd Dudenhöffer The world is getting closer HD recording SWR part 1. In: YouTube. Retrieved July 19, 2016 .
  2. ↑ The episode is listed in the episode list as "4 at the top left". In the end credits of the episode, however, the title "Above Right Die Vier" appears, and the episode itself also speaks of "Above Right Die 4".