Volunteer Fire Brigade (TV series)
| Television series | |
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| German title | Volunteer firefighter |
| Country of production | Germany |
| year | 1976 |
| Production company |
Telefilm Saar |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Episodes | 13 in 1 season |
| Director | Wolfgang Storch |
| script | Wolfgang Storch, Wolfgang Kirchner , Emil Zalud |
| camera | Wolfgang Storch |
| occupation | |
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Freiwillige Feuerwehr is a German television series from 1976. The series was produced by Telefilm Saar GmbH under the direction of Wolfgang Storch . 13 episodes were filmed and broadcast on Tuesdays between March 16 and June 8, 1976 in the regional program of ARD .
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The series takes place in the Lower Franconian town of Karlstadt . The individual episodes always have a person from the volunteer fire brigade as the main narrative person. Short episodes from the respective private life as well as current events and missions are presented from the perspective of the narrating character. The episodes often begin with a short scene in which the person is introduced and the end of a storyline is shown, followed by a description of how this situation came about. However, some episodes are linear and have no flashbacks.
Episodes
Cable fire
dated March 16, 1976
The narrator is Eduard Ziegelmeier, the chairman of the fire brigade association . The volunteer fire brigade Karlstadt expects a guest delegation from a friendly fire brigade from France. Commandant Anton Blehle and Eduard Ziegelmeier have both prepared a speech for the guests from Saint-Brice and get into an argument about who should give his speech. Ultimately, District Fire Councilor Egbert gave a speech on behalf of the mayor. During a subsequent tour of the delegation through the local cement plant , a deflagration and a cable fire occurred in the plant. The guests and their companions save themselves on the roof of the plant and are rescued from there by helicopter.
Bath in winter
dated March 23, 1976
The narrator is firefighter Gerd Priesnitz. He is currently in a difficult professional situation because his employer has become insolvent and he has to bring this news to his colleagues. After a fire brigade exercise at Rieneck Castle , however, he was initially persuaded to come along for a meal instead of going straight to his colleagues. Here Gerd and the teaching sister Eva Schäffler get closer. But because another comrade also has an eye on her, an argument ensues and Eva and Gerd leave the castle. As they talk to each other on the banks of the Main , Eva's unsecured car rolls into the river, and the two of them get wet while trying to stop the vehicle. You will be taken in by a local resident and can bathe there and get fresh clothes. While the firefighters recover the car, the two of them look in love into a future together.
Go it alone
dated March 30, 1976
The narrator is fire brigade commander Anton Blehle. On the way back from a discussion with his wife Susanne, who has left him because she feels neglected, Anton sees a fire starting in a plastic parts factory. Since the factory is abandoned on Saturday, he starts the extinguishing work alone until the Karlstadt fire brigade arrives and extinguishes the fire with him. An article about Blehle appears in the newspaper, in which he is portrayed as a hero and traded as a promising candidate for mayor. Anton then confronts Eduard Ziegelmeier, who tried to persuade him to become mayor and who also launched the newspaper article. He rejects him and announces that he wants more time for his wife, who has returned to him.
Got stuck
dated April 6, 1976
The narrator is Paco Gomez, a Spanish truck driver from Offenbach . At the beginning of the episode, a heavy pile-up occurs on a slippery road with several injuries and deaths. When Paco arrives at the scene of the accident behind a curve in his tanker truck, he cannot stop in time and instead steers his truck away from the road and away from the scene of the accident. The vehicle overturns and catches fire, Paco can save himself slightly injured. However, his passenger, who jumped out of the truck, is seriously injured and later dies in the hospital. Paco is initially arrested, but later released when it is discovered that his actions have averted an even greater catastrophe. He finds accommodation in the dining room of fireman Paul Hörmann, where he meets his daughter Marlis. He received a job offer from his comrade Albert Dankwort in his stonemasonry in Karlstadt, where he ended up becoming a member of the volunteer fire brigade.
Blind alarm
dated April 13, 1976
The narrator is firefighter Gerd Priesnitz. Gerd and Eva get married, she is now pregnant and is expecting their first child. Boarding school student Alexander, with whom Gerd is friends, sings for her at the wedding. After dinner, however, he is sent away by Eva's mother, although he should have stayed longer. He is so angry about this that he sets off a false fire alarm in the boarding school. As a result, he shows himself jealous of Eva, whom he accuses of taking away his friend Gerd. When his mother announced that he would visit him at boarding school, he ran away and threatened to jump into the depths of Dieter Wenzel's quarry. Gerd arrives and can pull him away from the edge. Gerd and Eva postpone their planned honeymoon for a few days, when they return from it, Alexander is no longer at boarding school. Gerd and Eva never hear from him again.
First aid
dated April 20, 1976
The narrative figure is firefighter and machinist Albert Dankwort. The volunteer fire brigade is alerted about a fire in the garbage dump. On site, in addition to the fire, they find an accident car with an injured passenger, and there is no trace of the driver. After the woman - Clara Bender - is released from the hospital, Albert offers her to stay with him until she knows what to do next. Albert's wife is not very enthusiastic about the idea and accuses him of being too gullible and allowing himself to be exploited. However, she goes along with it, even if she remains suspicious of Clara. Albert gets Clara a job as a waitress in the Klingenmühle excursion restaurant through Eduard Ziegelmeier's contacts and also drives her to the job interview. However, the driver of the accident vehicle, Ludwig Peeck, appears on site. He proves to be the operator of the Atlantik-Bar in Frankfurt , where Clara worked as a hostess . Peeck takes Clara back to Frankfurt and Albert stays behind with the feeling that he has been taken advantage of.
The slap
dated April 27, 1976
The narrative figure is fireman Paul Hörmann. The innkeeper has just returned from a commanders course in Würzburg . When he learns that Paco, who has since become friends with Hörmann's eighteen-year-old daughter Marlis, has invited her to a home vacation in Spain in his absence, he angrily confronts Paco and Albert Dankwort, for whom Paco still works. He asks Paco to keep his hands off his daughter. During the dispute, there is a fire brigade alarm and the Karlstädter Wehr drives to a fire on a farm in the neighboring municipality of Burgdorf. Paul takes over the management of the Karlstadt vehicles. On arrival at the scene, Alois Vogt, the commander of the Burgdorf volunteer fire brigade, and Paul have a dispute about the command and control team, which leads to Paul being slapped by Vogt. There is a court of honor over the incident, in which Alois Vogt is to be deposed as commander of the Burgdorfer Wehr. At the same time, the relationship between Marlis and Paco comes under pressure because Paul forbids contact. On the day of the trial, Alois Vogt goes to Paul's restaurant, where they both get drunk and make up. You both miss the court date. Marlis and Paco are also reconciled and try to plan a future together.
Use of oil
dated May 4, 1976
The narrative figure is fireman Fritz Rapp, an eighteen-year-old high-voltage electrician . Fritz is upset about his father, who refuses him to take part in the course to become a boat operator for the K-boat , although he has already been accepted as a participant and has taken a week of unpaid leave. Instead, Rapp's father asks Fritz to help him in his father's heating company while on vacation. Meanwhile there is a major alarm for the fire brigade and the THW because of a large amount of oil pollution on the Main. While the emergency services are fighting the oil pollution and looking for the source of the oil, the oil trader Koehler worries that he could come under suspicion of being the cause. Rapp's father is now talking to Anton Blehle and asks him not to disclose the cause after the investigation. The fear of being the cause himself caused him a huge flood of orders, and everyone would benefit from well-maintained heating systems. If he also made sure that Fritz was relieved early so that he could help him more often in the business, he would be positive about participating in the course at a later date. In the meantime, workers from Köhler discover that the oil in the Main comes from a leaky tank on the oil trader's premises. They begin to remove the traces of what Fritz's friend Brigitte, who works there as a secretary, sees. When Fritz von Blehle is released and sent home, he gets into an argument with his father and decides to move out at home. Brigitte tells him what she learned at work. However, Fritz does not tell his fellow fire fighters anything about it. Instead, he plans his future independent life with Brigitte.
House ball
dated May 11, 1976
The narrative figure is Paul Hörmann. Business is not doing well and the guest numbers in his economy are falling. Regulars include his comrades Anton Blehle and Gerd Priesnitz, who regularly come to play canasta with their wives Susanne and Eva . The women are planning Mardi Gras with their husbands and do not want to attend the Hörmann carnival house ball again this year. Instead, they rave about visiting a newly opened dance hall. Anton and Gerd get into trouble about it. Fritz Rapp, who meanwhile has a job in Mr. Höglmüller's electrical company, speaks to Paul about the fire protection aspect in the new restaurant, which he believes has been neglected . He should have a look at it, so that the work done by the Höglmüller company is not in vain. Paul visits Ms. Kluge, the new operator of the restaurant, and draws her attention to numerous fire protection deficiencies. This feels attacked and has no understanding. District Fire Councilor Egert also insists on compliance with fire protection regulations as a prerequisite for opening. All comrades and their wives are at Hörmann's house ball on Mardi Gras. However, Susanne and Eva kidnap their husbands to another restaurant after midnight. Fritz Rapp comes into Paul's dining room and wants to start a fight because his boss has meanwhile dismissed him without notice. He gave the reason for the constant fire brigade operations, but let it through between the lines that Ms. Kluge had complained that Rapp had told her about it and made the opening impossible for her. Paul can calm him down and drinks to camaraderie with him.
Fire in the monastery
dated May 18, 1976
The narrative figure is fireman Dieter Wenzel, who is also a music teacher at the boarding school in Karlstadt. Because of stress at work, Wenzel increasingly retreats to the monastery after work to play the organ, including this evening. Brother Paul feels sick and therefore gives Dieter the key to the church during his tour so that he can lock it when he's finished. Dieter turns off all devices and leaves the church. Later that evening, Dieter, depressed, leaves Hörmann's restaurant where he is sitting with his comrades because he feels that he has not been understood. He also does not notice that the fire brigade is alerted about a fire in the monastery. While the fire brigade is busy extinguishing the fire, Chief Criminal Investigator Siems is already starting to determine the cause of the fire. The electrical installation on the organ quickly becomes suspected of having caused a fire. Dieter Wenzel is suspected of not having switched off the manual heating correctly. He himself begins to doubt whether he has switched everything off correctly. After the extinguishing work is finished, the manual heater and switch are found, but this does not provide any evidence of the heating and the switch as a possible cause of the fire. Dieter states that he now has to live with this uncertainty.
Stuck
dated May 25, 1976
The narrative character is fireman Walter Schinhammer. Schinhammer works as a commercial clerk in Eduard Ziegelmeier's brewery and is dissatisfied with his professional prospects and the way he is treated. This also has an impact on his private life with his girlfriend Christine. He can't cope with her independent nature and is jealous of her teacher at the interpreting school, with whom he thinks she spends too much time. Christine can convince him, however, that she only loves him, but does not necessarily want to stay in Karlstadt. The two make up. In a practice run, Schinhammer was allowed to drive the LF 8 for the first time on Ziegelmeier's initiative and remained behind the other vehicles. While trying to take a shortcut, he gets the vehicle stuck in the mud on a dirt road . The comrades have to free the vehicle first and arrive at the scene much later than the other vehicles. Ziegelmeier is angry, confronts Schinhammer and doesn't want him to drive the LF 8 anymore. The latter defends himself and is supported by Blehle so that he can drive the vehicle back. In the credits, Schinhammer states that he has been treated with significantly more respect by Ziegelmeier since that day.
Miscalculation
dated June 1, 1976
The narrative figure is Eduard Ziegelmeier. Brick factory owner Fritz Jägersberg asks his entrepreneur friend Ziegelmeier for help with the demolition of an old, ailing brick chimney. He would like to make it available to the fire brigade as a training object in order to save the costs of the necessary demolition. Anton Blehle is also present at the conversation as the fire brigade commander and rejects the request as too unfamiliar to the fire brigade. Ziegelmeier visited Jägersberg the next day to talk to him about ways in which he could be helped with the demolition. However, as the brickworks owner is not present, Ziegelmeier begins to visit the brickworks on his own. Here he surprises a gang of thieves who have met in the disused building to plan a robbery. The thieves overpower Ziegelmeier and tie him and Mrs. Jägersberg, who is in the brickyard's house. Schinhammer, who also appears in the brickworks looking for Ziegelmeier, is also captured. While Ms. Jägersberg can flee and inform the police, the trio of criminals are planning their escape. Schinhammer is sent outside to arrange for an escape vehicle to be made available to the police who have since arrived. On the way out, one of the policemen recognizes one of the gang members, but the thieves escape with their hostage Ziegelmeier in his car. On a forest path they leave him tied up in his car to continue the escape in their own vehicle. Finally, you see Ziegelmeier in an interview with journalists and learn that the hostage-takers were caught by the police.
Suddenly and unexpected
dated June 8, 1976
Fireman Günther Lutz is the narrative figure. The student has had his license for some time , and since then hardly any time for the fire department. On a glider flight with his girlfriend Monika, he sees a fire on the ground and reports this via radio. The Karlstadt fire brigade moves out without him and arrives at the house of the Meier family, which is in full fire . While the extinguishing work begins at the same time, Fritz Rapp and Gerd Priesnitz rescue the woman of the house with breathing protection . Rapp notices a propane bottle in the burning kitchen. When they are out of the house, Rapp tries desperately to take off his mask to warn the others about the bottle. Priesnitz, who thinks Rapp is having trouble, rushes to him. When the bottle explodes, both are affected. While Rapp is seriously injured, Priesnitz is killed. Lutz, who has meanwhile arrived at the scene in civilian clothes, accompanies Rapp to the hospital. He promises Rapp, who makes serious accusations and sees himself as guilty, to inform Eva Priesnitz. Lutz delivers the news of his death, although Blehle wanted to do so as commandant. During Gerd Priesnitz's funeral, Lutz is not present, but spends time with his girlfriend Monika. This caused additional displeasure among his comrades in the fire service, so that it was decided to exclude him from the fire service due to his unreliability. In the credits, Lutz is back in the glider, where he says he feels most comfortable, and regrets having to return to the ground at all.
Trivia
- In the opening credits, the fire brigade drives through the upper gate of the old Karlstadt city fortifications. This is no longer passable today. Numerous other old buildings and monuments in the city are shown in the individual episodes.
- As a result slopes remained the doctor wearing at the accident site, performed by emergency physicians Peter Sefrin , on his white coat the inscription DOCTOR, where the letter Z mirror was written.
- For the fire in the monastery that followed, the Karlstadt monastery , which was supposed to be demolished for cost reasons, was made available and burned down as part of the filming. This was approved by the city and the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments , although the Bavarian Monument Protection Act had already come into force a year earlier. The city's new town hall stands at this point today.
Web links
- Volunteer Fire Department in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- One of the few fire service series
- Volunteer fire brigade on fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Voluntary fire brigade broadcast date chronicle on fernsehserien.de
- ↑ The Capuchins in Karlstadt? Convent fire for the television camera at the House of Bavarian History
- ↑ Tickling the soul out of the house in Main-Post from January 3, 2013