Royal Bavarian District Court

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Television series
Original title Royal Bavarian District Court
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany
original language German
Year (s) 1969-1972
Production
company		 ZDF
Episodes 53 in 2 seasons
genre Court broadcast / home series
Theme music District Court Lander or in the end credits District Court Polka
idea Georg Lohmeier
music Raimund Rosenberger , Pepi Scherfler
First broadcast January 13, 1969 on ZDF
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The Royal Bavarian District Court is a 53-part TV series by ZDF that was created between 1969 and 1972 and describes court scenes in a district court in the fictional Lower Bavarian town of Geisbach with the other communities of Kirchenzell and Dürling in 1911/1912.

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The first 26 episodes were broadcast from January 1969. A second season of also 26 episodes started in October 1970 with great success. The last episode aired in January 1972.

The cases are mostly original and idealize "the good old days" of the Kingdom of Bavaria before 1914 under the reign of Prince Regent Luitpold . The author Georg Lohmeier himself was a proponent of the reintroduction of the monarchy in Bavaria. A special trademark of the series is the magistrate August Stierhammer (in the episode The Pain and suffering he is called Benedikt Stiersdorfer), who sometimes uses strange and cunning methods of litigation. He was played by Hans Baur .

After it was first broadcast on ZDF, the series was repeated several times at irregular intervals and still appears now and then on Bavarian television .

All the outdoor shots were taken in Upper Bavaria in the Rupertiwinkel , mostly in what is now the Berchtesgadener Land district . The first scene of the opening credits shows a shot of Teisendorf . The author Lohmeier can be seen briefly in the opening credits as a pastor in front of the collegiate church in Laufen . The cattle market was shot at Rupertusplatz in Laufen . The district court building shown in the opening credits does not exist as such, it is the town hall of the Salzach town of Tittmoning with the market square. In the background, at 00:40 of the opening credits, a car that is not removed can be seen.

The text of the opening credits, spoken by Gustl Bayrhammer , reads: “It was a lovely time, the good old days before 14th. At that time, His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, an art-loving monarch, ruled because the king was melancholy. The beer was still dark, the people were typical, the boys dashing, the dirndls demure and the dignitaries a bit elegant and a bit casual. A lot of things were still okay back then. Because the gendarmerie ensured order and tranquility and the royal district court ensured justice. ”The opening credits are accompanied by the melody of the district court lander .

The action of the court scenes follows a recurring scheme. After initial excitement and boiling emotions in the dock and in the auditorium, everything dissolves in favor of a "spin" under the strict, sometimes winking negotiation of the experienced chairman. Usually after one or the other vertigo has been exposed. Immediately afterwards you get along again, everything was not meant to be so bad and the minds have long since calmed down again.

Often the bailiff has to visit the economist, landowner and brewery owner Joseph Fäustl in his restaurant to ask him for a testimony in court. He usually meets the stout, old economist over a sumptuous and beery sausage or roast breakfast. Sometimes some of the local dignitaries keep him company. The long, lean and always hungry bailiff is then often given a snack and beer and stays seated while the economist comfortably lounges into the courthouse - or sometimes not. If he appears in court, it is usually as a “ deus ex machina ”: His witness contribution then acts as the key to an amicable settlement of the dispute.

The end credits begin with a close-up of Pepi Scherfler as tuba player in the brass band during his solo at the entrance to the district court polka he composed , which accompanies the end credits musically. Then the distinctive voice of Gustl Bayrhammer can be heard again. Then he says: “Life goes on, whether acquittal or imprisonment, even in the good old days - and our old advice never sent anyone to the guillotin ... A lovely time, despite the incidents - human. And that's why these scenes keep coming back - in the Royal Bavarian District Court. ”This voice-over always accompanies the same carefully choreographed dance scene in a beer garden. This is followed - with a cut - a look at the table of the above-mentioned dignitaries, who comment on the outcome of the process together with the respective process participants in a conciliatory manner. The scheme thus follows the classic comedy , in which all participants have to be reconciled with each other at the end.

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Other, recurring people:

After each episode, Pepi Scherfler ( tuba player ) and his musicians play the popular district court polka.

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1st season (1969):

  1. The Pfarrgockel (with Gustl Bayrhammer , Erni Singerl and Eva Vaitl )
  2. Beer riot (with Maxl Graf , Max Grießer , Karl Obermayr and Fritz Straßner )
  3. Die Drud (with Margot Mahler )
  4. Night watchman (with Ludwig Schmid-Wildy , Ursula Herion , Fritz Straßner and Olf Fischer )
  5. The fountain maker (with Maxl Graf , Hans Stadtmüller and Karl Tischlinger )
  6. The forest and the trees (with Fritz Straßner )
  7. The Marksteinrucker (with Christa Berndl , Max Grießer , Fritz Straßner and - as Freimel Senior - Ernst Barthels )
  8. The love letter writer (with Rolf Castell , Max Grießer and Alfred Pongratz )
  9. Marriage (with Maxl Graf , Willy Harlander and Franziska Stömmer )
  10. The tax officer (with Veronika Fitz and Ursula Herion )
  11. Compensation for pain and suffering (with Veronika Fitz , Willy Schultes and Ludwig Schmid-Wildy )
  12. The right to drive (with Maxl Graf , Ludwig Wühr , Hans Stadtmüller and Fritz Straßner )
  13. Der Leichenbitter (with Franz Helminger and Rosl Mayr )
  14. The atheist (with Max Grießer , Willy Harlander and Rosl Mayr )
  15. The patron (with Alfred Pongratz , Erni Singerl and Karl Tischlinger )
  16. Der Wildschütz (with Maxl Graf , Harry Hardt and Willy Schultes )
  17. Die Polizeistund '(with Ludwig Schmid-Wildy , Veronika Fitz and Willy Harlander )
  18. The assault (with Monika Dahlberg , Harry Hardt , Maxl Graf , Karl Obermayr and Alfred Pongratz )
  19. The Miser (with Enzi Fuchs , Karl Obermayr and Fritz Straßner )
  20. Concordia (with Ludwig Schmid-Wildy , Max Grießer and Willy Harlander )
  21. The old Burgl (with Elfie Pertramer , Fritz Straßner and Adolf Ziegler )
  22. The legal error (with Franziska Stömmer and Karl Tischlinger )
  23. The kidnapping (with Veronika Fitz , Max Grießer and Ludwig Schmid-Wildy )
  24. Riot (with Maxl Graf and Karl Obermayr )
  25. The Parasite (with Ernst Barthels and Ludwig Schmid-Wildy )
  26. The electric (with Gustl Bayrhammer , Willy Schultes , Iris Mayer and Franziska Stömmer )

2nd season (1970/71):

  1. The collision (with Rolf Castell , Harry Hardt , Karl Tischlinger , Max Grießer , Katharina de Bruyn and Veronika Fitz )
  2. The apiary (with Gustl Bayrhammer , Willy Schultes , Sepp Rist , Eva Vaitl and - as the "madwoman" - Georg Lehn )
  3. The conscientious one (with Beppo Brem , Ludwig Schmid-Wildy and Erni Singerl )
  4. The five (with Beppo Brem , Maxl Graf and Hans Stadtmüller )
  5. The broken beer mug (with Rolf Castell , Katharina de Bruyn , Ludwig Schmid-Wildy and - in the final scene - Georg Lohmeier )
  6. Der Rosstäuscher (with Michl Lang , Gerd Fitz , Hans Stadtmüller , Katharina de Bruyn , Amsi Kern and Ludwig Schmid-Wildy )
  7. The poisoning (with Willy Schultes , Gustl Bayrhammer , Bernd Helfrich and Kathi Leitner )
  8. The ladies' circle (with Adolf Ziegler , Katharina de Bruyn , Ruth Kappelsberger , Marianne Lindner , Karl Tischlinger , Michl Lang and Max Grießer )
  9. The trumpet (with Willy Harlander and Eva Vaitl )
  10. The anonymous letter (with Rolf Castell , Ludwig Schmid-Wildy , Katharina de Bruyn and Fritz Straßner )
  11. The joke (with Gustl Bayrhammer , Maxl Graf and Franziska Stömmer )
  12. The thief and his brides (with Katharina de Bruyn , Willy Schultes and Karl Tischlinger )
  13. The stolen ox and the confessional secret (with Beppo Brem , Christiane Blumhoff , Adolf Ziegler and - as the defendant - Wolfi Fischer )
  14. The Ghost (with Ernst Barthels , Karl Obermayr and Alfred Pongratz )
  15. The Haberer and their insults (with Gustl Bayrhammer , Karl Obermayr and Maxl Graf )
  16. The three holy girls (with Franz Muxeneder , Erna Waßmer , Willy Schultes and Annemarie Wendl )
  17. The wedding loader (with Gustl Bayrhammer , Elisabeth Biebl , Franz Helminger , Rosl Mayr , Karl Obermayr and Max Grießer )
  18. The new maid (with Gustl Bayrhammer , Christiane Blumhoff , Veronika Fitz and Bernd Helfrich )
  19. The mistake or Babette's admirer (with Rolf Castell , Bernd Helfrich and Fritz Straßner )
  20. The identity (with Max Grießer , Willy Harlander and Margot Mahler )
  21. The syringe master (with Gustl Bayrhammer , Maxl Graf and Hans Stadtmüller )
  22. Der Erbonkel (with Gerd Fitz , Veronika Fitz and Erni Singerl )
  23. The cattle theft (with Max Grießer , Franz Helminger and Rosl Mayr )
  24. The Bierpantscher (with Rolf Castell , Peter Steiner , Willy Harlander and Maria Hellwig )
  25. The engine driver (with Max Grießer , Karl Tischlinger , Luise Deschauer , Ludwig Wühr and Helmut Alimonta )
  26. The poacher (with Maxl Graf , Harry Hardt and Peter Steiner )

3rd season (1972):

  1. The Firecracker (with Gustl Bayrhammer , Max Grießer and Franz Helminger )

Radio series

In 1984, several years after the television series, the Royal Bavarian District Court was reissued, this time on the 1st radio program of the Bavarian Radio . The advice was spoken in the radio series by Rolf Castell , the public prosecutor by Thomas Reiner and the sergeant by Günther Heysek . Michael Peter directed the film .

Trivia

Hans Baur had already played the role of a Bavarian magistrate - in a very similar way - in 1959 in the first comedy nobility episode The Broken Kruag .

DVD

All episodes are available on DVD (as of December 2015), the order on the DVDs differs from the list above.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Lohmeier: Foreword to the Royal Bavarian District Court , Ehrenwirth, Munich 1969.
  2. ↑ Bavarian cult series. Retrieved January 19, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Long anniversary night with many classics. In: br.de. September 12, 2019, accessed October 21, 2019 .