Bergkristall holiday home

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Ferienheim Bergkristall is a six-part comedy series on television in the GDR , which ran from 1983 to 1987 on New Year's Eve at 8 p.m. in the first program. The last episode was  broadcast two days before New Year's Eve 1989 - due to Hans-Joachim Preil's illness - after a one-year break.

action

The focus is on the completely stressed home manager Helmut Oberpichler ( Willi Scholz ), who in his opinion always has everything under control, and Alois Wachtel ( Alfred Müller ), who actually works as a postman at Deutsche Post, but has lost his heart to the holiday home. The guests, especially Charlotte Luise Heimbold ( Brigitte Krause ), who brings her husband Erwin Heimbold ( Werner Senftleben ) to despair in four episodes with her "dangerous" hobbies (tobogganing, ice skating, mountaineering and knitting) , contribute to the whole situation at. Other roles were the photographer Miss Fitzmann ( Margitta Lüder-Preil ), the ski instructor and masseur Hans Günther Koch ( Joachim Kaps ) and his later wife Susanne Pieper ( Marita Gerasch ).

background

Several GDR stars appeared in guest roles in the Bergkristall holiday home under their names, such as Dagmar Frederic , Peter Borgelt , Margot Ebert with husband Wilfried Ortmann and Peter Wieland .

The scripts for the roughly 90-minute episodes were written by Hans-Joachim Preil , who played the last three episodes as head waiter Hugo Stieglitz himself and mostly directed it himself. 1985 and 1986 Eberhard Schäfer was a director. Preil had already written the screenplay for the Schwank Tolle Tage in 1969 , which also takes place in a holiday home on New Year's Eve, and in which he himself participated.

The first five episodes were performed in front of an audience in the Kulturhaus Zinnowitz , the sixth in Bitterfeld and recorded for television. The series was very popular and was repeated several times. It followed the Maxe Baumann series broadcast from 1976 to 1982 . At the same time, the comedy series Three Lovely Sisters was created .

Sequels

Hannes Hahnemann and Theresa Scholze wrote the comedy Maxe Baumann becomes hotel director in 2006 and in 2007, loosely based on Hans-Joachim Preil, Bergkristall holiday home - guests, crooks and ghosts . Both were not recorded for television.

Episode overview

episode title First broadcast Director script
1. New Year's Eve is canceled December 31, 1983 Hans-Joachim Preil Hans Joachim Preil
2. Make a little steam December 31, 1984 Hans-Joachim Preil Hans Joachim Preil
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3. A case for Alois December 31, 1985 Eberhard Schäfer Hans Joachim Preil
4th That's for having children December 31, 1986 Eberhard Schäfer Hans Joachim Preil
5. Such a theater December 31, 1987 Eberhard Schäfer Hans Joachim Preil
6th May makes everything new December 29, 1989 Hans-Joachim Preil Hans Joachim Preil

Books and DVDs

  • Hans-Joachim Preil: "Ferienheim Bergkristall" (New Year's Eve is canceled) ISBN 3-548-24139-5 (Ullstein-Taschenbuch, Berlin 1997)
  • Hans-Joachim Preil: "Ferienheim Bergkristall - Weibergeschichten"  ISBN 3-548-24357-6 (Ullstein-Taschenbuch, Berlin 1998)
  • The complete series was released as a 3-DVD box

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