Kottan determined
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| Original title | Kottan determined |
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| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German / Viennese |
| Year (s) | 1976-1983 |
| length | 60-90 minutes |
| Episodes | 19 in 6 seasons |
| genre | Crime, satire |
| idea | Helmut Zenker , Peter Patzak |
| First broadcast | August 8, 1976 on ORF FS 1 |
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Kottan determined is a satirical detective - television series from Austria , the consequences of which were created in 1976 to 1983rd
History of origin
In 1974 Helmut Zenker wrote the first crime story about the Viennese police major Adolf Kottan. This story was produced as a radio play by the ORF regional studio Niederösterreich and the SWF and broadcast in the spring of 1976. In the same year, the ORF also produced a television game (Hartlgasse 16a) , which aroused controversy about the way in which police work was portrayed, especially from the police union.
The staging and the performance of the actors were praised and so a whole series was finally tackled. The satirical element already predominated in the first episodes, still in the sense of a criticism of everyday police work - in contrast to the later phases of the series, which primarily emphasized slapstick elements. After the broadcast of the first episode on August 8, 1976, hundreds of calls were made to ORF customer service. Peter Patzak directed all episodes . From 1980 Kottan was determined to be broadcast on ZDF .
main characters
Major Adolf Kottan, initially played by Peter Vogel (episodes 1 and 2) , later by Franz Buchrieser (episodes 3 to 5) and Lukas Resetarits (episodes 6 to 19), investigated for the Vienna Security Office. Kottan lives with his wife Ilse and (from episode 8) his mother, who enjoys reading crime novels and developing theories about the perfect murder. Kottan is mostly lazy and always rude to his overzealous assistant Schrammel ( Curth Anatol Tichy ), who likes to portray himself as a model police officer, but does not understand Kottan's Viennese shame .
Schrammel believes that he can educate himself further by reading crime novels, and particularly appreciates the Mike Hammer novels by Mickey Spillane , but cannot always keep up with his colleagues intellectually.
Paul Schremser ( Walter Davy ), who lost a leg as a result of amputation, was later appointed head of the department and was therefore preferred to Kottan, who was at the time conducting investigations abroad. Kottan initially uses him as an assistant, but is much friendlier to him than to Schrammel. Schremser sometimes uses his crutch as a machine gun or to bring down fugitives. When the three of them are not busy professionally, they make music together as "Kottan's band" in the films of the 1980s.
Police President Alfred Pilch (episodes 3–6, played by Harald von Koeppelle), then Heribert Pilch (episodes 7–19, played by Kurt Weinzierl ) is constantly worried about the reputation of the police. His biggest enemies are houseflies in the first episodes , and he falls out of the window several times while hunting them. Later he often struggled with a coffee machine set up by Major Kottan. Over time, Pilch takes on more and more of the features of a mentally ill person.
From the Vienna-Mitte episode, the corpses are often found by sandler Erwin Drballa ( Carlo Böhm ), who comes into contact with Kottan in a wide variety of ways.
Episodes
1: Hartlgasse 16a
The pensioner Gertrude Klenner is found dead in her apartment at Hartlgasse 16a. She was stabbed with a screwdriver and, as the autopsy reveals, had sexual intercourse shortly before she died. Kottan begins the investigation. It is found that Ms. Klenner did not only live on her pension: She was the owner of two houses and rented apartments to guest workers. If someone couldn't pay the rent, she had the debt settled with charity. Of course, Kottan's suspicion immediately falls on the guest workers, whom he questions rather rudely, accompanied by Schrammel. Schremser is following a different lead. Kottan's colleague found the phone numbers of two investment advisors in the dead man's notebook, and one of them also lives at Hartlgasse 16a. In fact, he embezzled and gambled away large amounts of money from Ms. Klenner. The murder happened when Frau Klenner demanded an account of the money. He also kills a music student living in the same house who watches him ransack the pensioner's apartment. When Schremser puts pressure on him, he confesses the deeds.
2: The birthday
Kottan is celebrating his 45th birthday with colleagues, despite the dead of winter in his holiday home on the Danube. The joy is somewhat clouded, because his daughter Sissi abuses the holiday home as a love nest and a dead person is found nearby. Kottan, Schremser and Schrammel interfere with no competence in the investigation of the Lower Austrian criminal investigation agency. They quickly find a suspect: the young woman's fiancé, a soldier who had an argument with her the night before. Unfortunately, it turns out that Kottan's daughter, of all people, was the reason for this argument. She has a relationship with the soldier. Shortly afterwards, however, another dead woman is found in the alluvial forest, so the suspicion must be dropped. A drunk railway worker who had spent a night in the nearby inn with the second victim is also out of the question as a perpetrator. With a trick in which Kottan's wife and the Lower Austrian colleague act as bait, the officers can catch the murderer: It is the limited son ( Michael Schottenberg ) of the landlady ( Erni Mangold ), who was regularly in front of the guest rooms as a tensioner. He had lost his nerve and killed his second victim after the latter presented him with the truth about the first murder.
3: Vienna center
Insurance agent Gerald Horvath was shot dead on the platform of the “Wien Mitte” express train station. Nobody saw the perpetrator. After all, it is quickly discovered that a sniper apparently shot at Horvath from an attic from a few hundred meters away. Horvath's wife and her lover are suspicious, because they would benefit from the multi-million dollar life insurance that the deceased has taken out. However, then banknotes that Horvath had with him are identified as loot from a bank robbery. In fact, the man can be seen well on the bank's surveillance videos - as can his two accomplices, who are now also suspect. However, one of the two is shot a little later on the same platform. Kottan tracks down and arrests bank robber # 3, but the man has an alibi. But the alibis of Mrs. Horvath and her lover burst. It turns out that the capable shooter Horvath killed her own husband and wanted to cast suspicion on his accomplice. Kottan's policy of never taking out loans is confirmed when he finds out that the loot was only used by the bank robbers to repay debts they had incurred due to the high demands of their wives.
4: Night petrol station
A gas station is robbed twice in the same night. The second time the young gas station attendant Harald Eppler is killed. Kottan follows several leads. For example, Rudi, Harald's brother, would have a motive: jealousy. Lissi, his friend, had turned to Harald. On the other hand, Harald was a drug addict and could have had trouble with his dealers. Eventually it turns out that the first raid was just fake. Harald had made common cause with the robber because he needed money for a motorcycle. Then the prostitute Gabi is found dead. Rudi turns himself in to the police and admits that he has got rid of the murder weapon. He found her in his car, but he's not the culprit. In Kottan's office he sees a photo of the crime scene. When he tells Lissi that the dead man is holding a thumbs up, she suspects who the murderer is: a colleague from vocational school who is also known as “Number One”. Lissi confronts him with the truth, Kottan secretly listens. “Number One” also had money problems, but he needed the money for Gabi, who could have given away the motive.
5: threatening letters
Mrs. Komarek ( Maria Englstorfer ) is an old widow who lives in an allotment garden on the outskirts. One day she receives an anonymous threatening letter. Somebody seems to want her to get out of the neighborhood. She looks for Head of Department Pilch, who passes the matter on to Kottan. The suspicion falls on her neighbor, Mr. Reithmayr ( Walter Kohut ), because a bizarre neighborhood war has been raging between him and Mrs. Komarek for years; Reithmayr also has a criminal record for a robbery. When a second threatening letter arrives and Ms. Komarek's garden gnomes are beheaded, Kottan no longer believes in a prank. A Sandler finds Reithmayr's wife Ingrid slain in a shed - her husband is also a suspect for this act, because it is known that he has beaten her several times. It also emerges that she had a boyfriend. Finally, in Reithmayr's house you can find an iron pipe (the murder weapon) and the utensils with which the threatening letters were made. That makes it clear, Reithmayr is arrested. Kottan doesn't feel comfortable about it, but he has no idea that he is right. Mrs. Komarek is behind everything; she wants revenge on everyone who feels badly treated her. She wrote the threatening letters herself.
6: robbers and gendarmes
Two henchmen of the crook boss Horrak rob a post office and kidnap the employee Pribil as a hostage. You drive to a hut on the outskirts of Vienna. There comes a surprising turn: Albert Zartl, one of the two robbers, lets his friend Stebich be tied up by the hostage, then ties up the employee himself and disappears. Horrak still comes away empty-handed: there are only newspapers in the pocket that Zartl delivers to him and in which the money should be. The tied up can break free later, but Stebich only when Pribil has already told the police about him. Kottan receives the case because his colleagues from the robbery department are all sick. Stebich escapes him, but Kottan recognizes him as one of Horrak's men and is now investigating his old enemy. As a result, he becomes so annoying to the gangster that he puts the hit man Cerny on Kottan. The badge in his breast pocket saved the major from death. On Horrak's order, Cerny eliminates Zartl, whom Pribil had previously identified in the police picture files. A little later, Sandler Drballa also found Stebich, drifting to death in a canal. Kottan discovers that Pribil has tipped Horrak that so much money is kept in the post office. In fact, Pribil ran away with the booty (after watching the bags being exchanged and later killing Stebich). In the end, none of this is of any use to him, because Kottan's team can arrest Pribil in the hut on the outskirts of the city - he was unable to go abroad due to lack of a passport.
7: The promotion
The loan shark Mayringer is attacked. The perpetrator, a pimp by the name of Leopold Formanek ( Tilo Prückner ), is well informed that money and valuables can be found in Mayringer's apartment, because the usurer was a customer of Formanek's girlfriend. A scuffle breaks out, Mayringer falls, Formanek flees. He is seen by Mayringer's private secretary Hruby and the neighbor Merkel. The next day Mayringer is found dead. Was it an unfortunate fall - or murder? Hruby recognizes the perpetrator and blackmails Formanek, who believes that Mayringer's neighbor is the blackmailer and threatens him. The neighbor promptly runs to the police and puts Kottan on Formanek's trail. However, he has fled to Lanzarote, and since there is no extradition agreement, Kottan has to follow him and somehow get him to return to Austria. He succeeds in doing this, taking advantage of the fact that Formanek had to leave the prey at home. Formanek is arrested at the airport, but Kottan doesn't think he's the killer. He taps on the neighbor and sets a trap for them. Kottan is right: Merkel found Mayringer unconscious, exchanged the valuable pictures in his apartment for fakes and killed Mayringer. But Kottan can't really look forward to his success. He had applied for the vacant post of Head of Department (Pilch has been promoted to Chief of Police), but Schremser had applied and been promoted during his trip to Lanzarote.
8: So long, Kottan
An anonymous caller tells Kottan the time and place of a murder that is yet to be committed. The crime scene should be the Jörgerbad . Although Kottan and Schremser are watching the bathroom, the murderer can strike. Kottan cannot prevent the next two murders, which have also been announced in advance. At least he finds the same photo with a group photo in the apartments of two victims. So the victims must have known each other. A little later, the button shop owner Helmut Gassner, one of the people pictured, reports because he fears that he will be the next victim. Gassner and his friends ruined a certain Nussbaum playing cards at the time - with organized card games. Finally, the murderer places a newspaper ad describing the next crime scene. The description fits exactly on Kottan's living room. Kottan wants to expect the murderer at home, but Gassner lures him into another apartment. Gassner, who has apparently gone mad, is the culprit. He murdered his cronies out of envy, because, unlike them, he was unable to make anything out of the money he won. Now he wants to crown his deeds with the murder of Kottan, but Kottan's mother brings down the culprit with a targeted blow.
9: The division
Ferdinand Breiner is found strangled in an apartment that he has given his lover, the prostitute Elvira Markl. But she is not suspicious, but the newspaper seller Milan Gajic. He had reason to hate Breiner, because he was responsible for assigning the stands to the sellers. He paid dearly for good stands, and since Gajic did not want to pay, he was given a place where he could not earn anything. The Bulgarian lives cramped in a shabby shack with some other guest workers. However, some time later, Gajic is also found dead. It is supposed to look like suicide (the dead man even has a suicide note with him), but Kottan learns from Elvira, with whom he becomes friends, that Gajic could not have been the murderer because he was with her in a hotel at the time of the crime. She suspects that Breiner's deputy Sperber might have something to do with the matter. Kottan uses a bluff to get Sparhawk to confess to both murders. Sparrowhawk also wanted to get the cream and get Breiner out of the way.
10: Kansas City
Josef Tamek and Herbert Maroltinger are rivals on the speedway racetrack. Tamek is chronically unsuccessful, the arrogant Maroltinger can afford the better machines and always wins. One day the two men sitting in the same car are shot at, nobody is hit. Kottan has to find out which of the two was the actual target. Eventually Tamek is left by his wife, Herma. She has a relationship with Maroltinger. When Tamek is shot dead in a race, the suspicion naturally falls on Tamek, especially since he actually owns a rifle, which must be the murder weapon. Schrammel investigates on his own and finds out that Maroltinger's mechanic also has a motive. He is the brother of the big-cocked racing driver, and Maroltinger has taken his wife out of him too. Schrammel confronts the man and squeezes a confession out of him.
11: The kidnapping
Rudolf Horrak is released from prison for good conduct. He immediately begins a campaign of revenge against Kottan, but all assassinations fail. Kottan's new assignment is to protect the unsuccessful singer Robert Weller ( Stefan Weber ), who was threatened with kidnapping. After Weller's appearance, the kidnapping still takes place. A ransom of two million is required, which is actually paid. Kottan, who was supposed to be watching the delivery, is being led by the nose and unable to prevent the ransom payment. Pilch is angry, pulls Kottan off the case and even threatens disciplinary action. But Kottan has long since figured out everything. The kidnapping was staged and achieved the desired effect that Wellers records and concerts are suddenly in great demand. Kottan confronts Weller, but promises to keep the matter secret - on the condition that Weller helps him win the upcoming singing competition between Kottan's band and Heribert Pilch. No sooner said than done : Kottan's band wins the show chance by being pushed.
12: home visits
Things are not going well for Kottan: his wife has temporarily separated from him (she is interested in Pilch, of all places), he is sitting on 10,000 unsold records and his Austria tour, for which he even took unpaid vacation, was a flop. Kottan investigates in the "better circles": The rich workshop and gas station owner Bertalan was shot in the apartment of his lover. She had previously left him because of the pimp Johann Engelhard and fell to her death some time later from the window of a brothel. A fitter from Bertalan's workshop, whom he had fired, would also have a motive for murder. Since Kottan has to follow several leads and is embarrassed by Engelhard, Pilch provides him with a new assistant: the legendary FBI agent Lemmy Caution ( Eddie Constantine ). Kottan smuggles his old friend Elvira Markl into the brothel and in this way finds out that Bertalan's daughter was one of the call girls. He confronts the family and learns the truth: the son is the perpetrator. He wanted to give his sister's customers a lesson and didn't expect to find his father.
In this episode, Franz Buchrieser, the second Kottan actor, plays the pimp Engelhard, who, when he meets Kottan, boasts of having once been to the police himself.
13: Feel like you
A bizarre series of murders gives Kottan more headaches than the upcoming divorce (he is reconciled with his wife anyway): The perpetrator seems to be a particularly ruthless animal rights activist; in any case, he kills his victims by treating them just as they treat animals have done: a jockey is chased to death, a fisherman is literally hooked, and so on. On the spur of the moment, Kottan launched a bogus newspaper report alleging that he had tortured a guinea pig to death. But initially he only attracts Horrak, who is still after him. Mother Kottan puts the crook out of action with a few courageous blows. Now the murderer also appears, he has disguised himself as Schrammel. Lemmy Caution saves Kottan and unmasked the monster: It's King Kong ! Pilch is so excited about this success that he awards medals to Mother Kottan, Lemmy Caution and himself. Kottan, Schremser and Schrammel get nothing, because they only did their normal work.
14: Genius and Chance
Hubert Benz, groundskeeper of a tennis club, is murdered. The deceased is known to the police under the name Erich Jokostra - he used to be a gun dealer, but then got out of the business and went into hiding. The trail leads to Rudolf Wasservogel, who is also called the "Kaiser". Wasservogel is the boss of Vienna's underworld, and Kottan may be making a huge mistake by messing with him. Wasservogel is planning a big coup. The police are supposed to be distracted by a bomb attack, so that his people can rob a bank in peace. Kottan thwarted the robbery because he happened to be in the bank in question to take out a loan. The emperor is now battered, but not defeated. Pilch is happy, but Kottan is in trouble because his mother, wife and Elvira have found out that he has a girlfriend.
15: The President's Ducks
Two drivers give each other a wild chase, push each other off the road and then attack each other. One of the drivers, a certain Mr. Zaruba, is killed with a board. Pilch takes matters into his own hands, because one of the two cars was his car. Kottan's not quite there anyway. His wife has recently appeared as a singer in a nightclub, and he fears that it will become a mockery of his colleagues. Then anonymously sent photos arrive at the Presidium that document the course of events. While Pilch mistakenly arrests a witness depicted on it, Kottan follows the right lead. The murderer is the lover of Zaruba's wife, but in truth he was interested in her sister, with whom Zaruba had a relationship.
16: Smokey and Baby and Bear
Kottan's marital crisis comes to life again when Elvira seeks refuge with him because she feels threatened by her former pimp (called "Bear"). While Pilch is setting up a special department with Schrammel to catch a serial offender, Kottan is investigating a Super 8 film that was leaked to him. It shows a murder. In fact, both cases are wrong: the victims of the alleged serial offender got in each other's way in failed attacks on Kottan, and the murder was set to blackmail a savings bank employee who is also a district councilor. Water bird gives up the hunt for Kottan and commits Harakiri . Horrak turns "Bear" into an icicle (the attack was of course meant for Kottan), after which he is caught by Kottan and Schremser.
17: My hobby: murder
Six single women have already disappeared in Vienna after responding to a personal ad. The corpse of a seventh woman is only given to Erwin Drballa because the perpetrator could not do anything with her. He is a taxidermist and works on a set with stuffed women. Kottan flies out of the apartment because his wife has seen him with Elvira (she is now with Schrammel), but Ilse makes herself available as a decoy and answers newspaper advertisements. In fact, she falls into the trap of the murderer, but exchanges the poisoned dessert with which he wanted to kill her, so that he becomes his own and at the same time the last victim. Despite this success, Kottan is suspended. Pilch has a plot with Wasservogel Jr. for this purpose. forged; A weapon was slipped under the major, with which various crimes have been committed.
18: The emperor sends soldiers
Pilch and Schrammel have the upper hand: Kottan has been suspended. He's also sitting on the street because his wife threw him out of the apartment. He is not very successful in his new job as a private detective because the man he was supposed to be observing is murdered. Kottan suspects Water Bird Jr., who promptly puts some killers on him, because the suspicion is correct. Kottan knows nothing about this, otherwise he could save himself the trouble of freeing Horrak and commissioning his own murder. Pilch also comes Wasservogel Jr. and finally asks Kottan for help. He manages to use a trick to put Wasservogel's fingerprints on the murder weapon so that the new emperor of the underworld can be arrested.
19: Mabuse returns
This time Drballa does not find a body, only a hand. Pilch believes some boy's prank when it is discovered that the hand is made of beef. A little later, various high-ranking politicians and other important personalities from Vienna are kidnapped again and again. No demands are made and the abductees soon reappear seemingly unharmed. The interior minister personally instructs Pilch to look into the matter and prevent panic. Pilch needs Kottan's help for this, and he even offers him to return to the police force. However, Kottan refuses. He prefers to be a street musician and responds to a job advertisement with which a certain Dr. Buesam is looking for a servant. Kottan introduces himself and is hired immediately. He learns that the real name of the doctor is Mabuse and that this super criminal is in the process of filling all key positions in the city with copied people who are supposed to act as his mindless puppets. So Mabuse is behind the kidnappings. The copies are made of beef, are invulnerable, only need a little chlorinated tap water every few hours to live, but can be recognized by a black spot on the cheek. Mabuse keeps the originals in his laboratory.
Kottan pretends to be a willing henchman and calls Pilch, whom Mabuse promptly also wants to copy. Kottan can prevent this in Mabuse's absence and explains to the police chief how to proceed; he is supposed to have the water turned off in the whole city. He paints a black spot on Pilch's cheek so that it can be seen as a copy. The plan is working; all human copies will quickly turn to dust without water. Meanwhile, Mabuse is distracted by Elvira and then arrested by Kottan. However, the clever major keeps some copies of himself alive with hoarded water; these should do all the annoying tasks for him in the future. What he intends to do remains his secret ...
background
The series is characterized by numerous running gags . One of them is that in several episodes another road user crashes into the open driver's door of Kottan's company car. Is Kottan as " Inspector addressed," he replies, "Inspector's kaan!" ( "Inspector there is no") because it the rank Major clothed and the detective corps are no inspectors of the Austrian police. At the time this series was written, the official title of inspector was actually not in use, even if the title was and is always used as a salutation for a police officer in the population. In addition, it is disrespectful for Kottan to be addressed as an inspector, since as an officer he belongs to a higher employment group.
With each of the three actors of Major Kottan, the figure was naturally drawn a little differently. "Ur-Kottan" Peter Vogel played him as an extremely unappealing contemporary, a classic Viennese " grumbler " who is xenophobic and bullies his secretary. Franz Buchrieser's Kottan, on the other hand, is a largely correct man with pronounced moral principles, for whom "not always only foreigners are suspect". In the portrayal of Lukas Resetarits , the major develops into a rather windy character who not only betrays his own wife several times, but also has no qualms about manipulating professional situations for his personal benefit (see The Kidnapping) .
" Harry Lime Jr." appears in several episodes , a man completely dressed in white who lives in Vienna's sewer system. The third man is also reading Ms. Kottan, when Lukas Resetarits gives Kottan's appearance in the third cast and looks at the photos in the living room cupboard with the faces of his two predecessors with his wife.
Mother Kottan is no ordinary elderly lady; she is very interested in criminology and meticulously collects investigative errors from the police. In her opinion, the book that belongs in every household is not the Bible, but the volume The Greatest Crimes in Human History .
The underexposed policeman Schreyvogel ( Franz Suhrada , in earlier episodes as "Dworschak") is always on the scene at the crime scene or as a support . The underworld greats Horrak ( Ernst Konarek ) and Rudolf Wasservogel ( Leon Askin ) try in vain to kill Kottan in some episodes.
Real Austrian media (mostly) do not appear in Kottan . The TV program is shaped by a TV announcer (played by the actual announcer Chris Lohner ), who occasionally comments on the program, addresses the viewers and repeatedly makes bizarre messages - for example, in the episode Wien Mitte she quits at the supposedly popular request of the audience the repetition of a ten-minute picture disturbance or they knock on the screen from the inside at the end of the broadcast in order to wake the remaining (but nodded) viewers to the subsequent direct broadcast from the Parisian cabaret Crazy Horse , but then to be greeted with a smug "Des ity" to say goodbye to the night.
If Major Kottan gets another Kronen Zeitung in the episode The Birthday on the Corner, the later episodes no longer contain any actually published newspapers; instead there is the “Österreichische Einheitszeitung” (ÖEZ). In Wien Mitte Schremser reads a Greek newspaper and in the same episode as in the night gas station he reads an Iranian newspaper and Kottan reads Pravda .
The "Kottan" characters played by book giants and Resetarits watch several excerpts from older Kottan episodes on television and get upset about how disrespectful the police work is on television; or they call the broadcaster and complain about the broadcast of "this absolute mess". In fact, the stations had received similar audience reactions when it first aired, especially on the first few episodes, when the satirical character of the series was not yet so clear. The climax of excitement marked by the broadcast of the episode 's birthday in June 1977, a parliamentary inquiry in the Austrian National Council by the People's Party -Abgeordneten Walter Suppan to the then Social Democratic Party - Interior Minister Erwin Lanc "whether he shared the view that the TV movie was likely to reduce the reputation of the executive and to undermine the trust of the population in the executive. "
Some actors appeared several times in the course of the series and as different characters in supporting roles. In addition to Ernst Konarek ( threatening letters with Franz Buchrieser as the innkeeper for the first time , later as Lukas Resetarits' criminal archenemy "Horrak"), Maria Englstorfer , Luise Prasser, Hanno Pöschl , Erni Mangold , Maria Bill , Michael Schottenberg and Hans are among them Kraemmer . The record holder in this category is András (Andreas) Gönczöl from Hungary, who after his Kottan debut in the third episode in Wien Mitte (as a suspicious fireclay factory owner Herbert Newerkla) was in front of the camera for four more episodes.
At the beginning of the series, Rudolf Knor portrayed Sissi Kottan's friend Gerhard Bösmüller over several episodes, until he and her disappeared from the plot after episode 6. In episode 17 he returned as a murderous taxidermist.
During the first broadcast of Kansas City in 1981 on German television, the following ticker ran across the screen in the first third of the episode: “Unknown flying object landed near Duisburg. Special report following this broadcast. ”It was a joke by Patzak and Zenker, based on HG Wells ' War of the Worlds . The city of Duisburg was chosen because of the great popularity of the then crime scene commissioner Schimanski , who, as is well known, solved his cases there. The Kottan broadcast was followed by the ZDF news, in which such an incident was not mentioned. But afterwards there were many reactions from German viewers who called the police and partially paralyzed the telephone networks. This was followed by a complaint to the ORF and an apology from the broadcaster.
The series was shown in Germany first in the third programs and later on ZDF. In the 1990s, individual episodes ran on RTL 2 and ProSieben .
1985 received Helmut Zenker and Peter Patzak for subsequent Smoky Bear and Baby and the Adolf Grimme Prize in bronze.
Lukas Resetarits, Curth Anatol Tichy (as "Major Schrammel") and Davy himself can be seen in guest roles with clear references in the Austrian TV series Familie Merian , in which Walter Davy (actor of "Schremser") acted as screenwriter and director See Kottan determined .
cinemamovies
1981: The world belongs to the able
In 1981 a movie was made under the title The Tüchtigen Belongs To The World, based on the novel Danger of Fire by Helmut Zenker. It was created as a co-production between the USA and Austria . In this film, Franz Buchrieser played the role of Kottan and Lukas Resetarits that of a little cheater whose daughter got into shady circles and participated in a porn film. The American Frank Gorshin , known as Riddler from the Batman television series of the 1960s, plays a professional killer from the USA who is hired to eliminate a pesky witness in Vienna. He unexpectedly gets into trouble. Kottan investigates in political circles and tracks down a scandal that is vaguely reminiscent of the AKH scandal (the real discoverer, Alfred Worm , appears in one scene as a journalist). In the end, Kottan has to realize that his most important witness apparently committed suicide in his prison cell by running his head against the wall.
In contrast to the TV series, The World Belongs to The Tough People is a film with significantly less fuss and many melancholy undertones. In addition, Zenker and Patzak show Austria, shaken by the political scandals of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Bibiana Zeller, who appears as Kottan's wife in the television series, is a politician who is one of the killer's clients.
2010: Rien ne va plus
In June 2010, the shooting of Kottan began : Rien ne va plus , directed by Peter Patzak with Lukas Resetarits as Kottan, the script was by Jan Zenker. The film was released on December 3, 2010 in Austria and on June 2, 2011 in Germany.
music
The music for the first two episodes (Hartlgasse 16a, The Birthday) comes from Georg Danzer . In later episodes, oldies from the 1950s, 60s and 70s are used, for example by Elvis Presley or the Beatles . The pieces often make satirical references to the plot of an episode. For example, a scene in which Police President Pilch dragged the hated coffee machine up the hill of a garbage dump was highlighted with the Beatles song The Fool on the Hill .
The series also features titles from the Rolling Stones (If You Need Me, Waiting on a Friend), the Kinks (The Village Green Preservation Society), AC / DC ( Highway to Hell ), Bob Dylan ( Knockin 'on Heaven's Door ), Randy Newman (Short People), Queen (All Dead, All Dead, We Will Rock You ) and Roxy Music (In the Midnight Hour) , but also pieces from the NDW , such as Eisbär von Grauzone .
Kottan's Chapel
The fictional series band Kottan's Kapelle recorded the song Rusty Wings in 1984 together with the Austrian football idol Hans Krankl and actually landed a hit with it.
In 1988 the ORF broadcast two programs with excerpts from the Kottan films: Kottan's Kapelle - a criminal revue from 1978 to 1984 and Mehr aus Kottan's Kapelle - a criminal revue from 1978 to 1984, newly conducted by Peter Patzak .
theatre
On April 15, 2009, the play Kottan had determined - Rabengasse 3a - A gruesome folk play in the Vienna Rabenhof Theater Premiere. The sons Helmut Zenker, Jan and Tibor Zenker adapted the first Kottan TV episode Hartlgasse 16a for the stage version directed by Thomas Gratzer . Kottan was played by Reinhard Nowak , Schrammel by Rudi Roubinek ; Dany Sigel , Doris Schretzmayer and Roman Gregory also played in other roles . The music came from Kilo (Markus Urban, Florian Bogner). The piece was recorded and broadcast in 2012 under the direction of Peter Schröder , repeated on ORF III in August 2015.
Kottan had identified the play as a co-production of the Rabenhof Theater, the Vereinigte Bühnen Bozen and the stage in Hof St. Pölten . The puppet musical premiered in the 2016/17 season. Based on an idea by Helmut Zenker, Jan and Tibor Zenker created the stage version of the play, as they did in 2009, with Thomas Gratzer again directing. Christian Dolezal was seen as Kottan , Nikolaus Habjan and Manuela Linshalm acted as puppeteers, and the music was by Kyrre Kvam.
comics
The comic book series published by the screenplay publisher started in 2010 with Kottan determined: So long, Kottan, followed by Kottan determined: The division in 2011, Kottan determined: From humans and other animals, Kottan determined: Kansas City (both 2013), Kottan determined : A festival for Heribert , Kottan determined: Burli (both 2014) and 2016 as an ebook Kottan determined: Kidnapping based on the texts of Helmut Zenker and his sons Jan and Tibor Zenker. Kottan comic strips have been appearing regularly in the Wiener Bezirksblatt since February 2012 . The drawings for the booklets as well as for the comic strips come from the illustrator, comic artist and painter Reinhard Trinkler .
Exhibitions
- Is everything fine, Officer? Knatterton, Kottan, Emil and other detectives. Caricature Museum Krems , April 6 to November 16, 2014
literature
- Jan and Tibor Zenker: Inspector gives can. "Kottan determined" by Helmut Zenker , Ueberreuter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8000-7584-3 .
- Tibor Zenker: On the occasion of Helmut Zenker's 60th birthday , January 9, 2009 (accessed on May 2, 2010). In: Official Kottan website determined . About Helmut Zenker; Background to the Kottan .
- Dieter Gölsdorf: Kottan Mania. A guide through the madness of the cult series "Kottan determined" by Peter Patzak and Helmut Zenker. Panama Publications, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 3-936732-05-1 .
- Helmut Zenker: Kottan is investigating - Hartlgasse 16a. The screenplay publisher, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-90247111-5 .
- Helmut Zenker: Kottan determined - the birthday. The screenplay publisher, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-90247112-3 .
- Helmut Zenker: Kottan determined - Wien Mitte. The screenplay publisher, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-90247113-1 .
- Helmut Zenker: Kottan is investigating - risk of gunshots. The screenplay publisher, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-90247116-6 .
- Margit and Helmut Zenker: Kottan investigates - night's sleep. Heyne, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-02693-4 .
- Helmut Zenker: Kottan investigates - stories from the Vienna Woods. Piper, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-492-15540-5 .
Web links
- Official Kottan website investigates
- Kottan investigates filming locations then and now
- Kottan determined in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Major Kottan - the cult Kieberer celebrates its 85th birthday , Ö1 Leporello , January 23, 2017
swell
- ↑ a b orf.at: An "anal program" like Schiller
- ↑ according to the repetition on Ö1 on February 3, 2007
- ↑ Lukas Zimmer: An "anal program" as by Schiller , orf.at , August 7, 2016
- ↑ Reinhold Reiterer: Kottan determined. From annoyance to cult , Kleine Zeitung , August 5, 2016
- ↑ filmography of Birgit Mach Alissa. IMDb. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
- ^ Filmography by Rudolf Knor. IMDb. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
- ↑ According to IMDb
- ↑ Helmut Zenker: Kottan determined: Smokey and Baby and Bear (screenplay - episode 16). Der Drehbuchverlag, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-99042-932-7 , p. 45 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated June 3, 2009 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.
- ↑ ORF III: Kottan determined - Rabengasse 3a , accessed on June 17, 2018
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 2, 2017 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.
- ↑ http://www.reinhard-trinkler.de.tl/Die--g-Kottan-g-_Comichefte.htm
- ↑ http://www.reinhard-trinkler.de.tl/Die--g-Kottan-g-_Comicstrips.htm
- ^ Announcement on the exhibition ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 5, 2014
