Lions Den (series)
| Television series | |
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| German title | Lions den |
| Country of production | Germany |
| Year (s) | 1989-1992 |
| length | about 60 minutes |
| Episodes | 32 in 3 seasons ( list ) |
| genre | drama |
| Director | Rainer Wolffhardt |
| idea | Willy Purucker |
| music |
Walter Traub Pasadena Roof Orchestra , Peter Sandloff |
| cut | Karin Fischer , Constance Hillesheim , Andrea Härtl |
| First broadcast | November 14, 1989 on Das Erste |
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Löwengrube is a family and crime series by the author Willy Purucker and the director Rainer Wolffhardt for television, which follows the fate of two Munich families over generations from the end of the 19th century to the 1950s in 32 episodes lasting about one hour .
From radio to television
The series has its origins in a radio play series entitled The Grandauers and their time , which ran from 1979 to 1985 on Bayerischer Rundfunk and traces the fate of the same families as the television series. The radio play series ends with the end of the war in 1945. Further planned radio play episodes were no longer produced because the main actor Karl Obermayr , who played Ludwig Grandauer and his son Benno Grandauer in the radio play series, died. Benno Grandauer is now called Karl Grandauer in the television series in honor of Karl Obermayer. Some radio play episodes were not adopted for the filmed episodes. First, the "Lion's Pit" begins with the wedding of Ludwig and Agnes (episode 3 of the radio series: "Marriage"), and some episodes from the 1920s did not fit the department in which Karl Grandauer was on duty, namely the murder department, because it was This was about cases that had fraud as their content.
The TV series
The television series was shot from 1987 to 1991. The 13 episodes of the first season ran from November 14, 1989 to February 1990 for the first time on television. The 13 episodes of the second season were first broadcast in 1991, the 6 episodes of the third season were first seen on television from October to November 1992.
The screenwriter was Willy Purucker and the director was Rainer Wolffhardt . The task was to show the great events in the history of Germany in the first half of the 20th century from the point of view of the normal, so-called little people . For this purpose, certain political and ideological positions were assigned to individual figures in order to transfer the disputes and developments in "big politics" into the experiences of the Grandauer family and their surroundings. For example, Adolf Grandauer is a staunch National Socialist, Karl Grandauer largely corresponds to the cliché of the “German civil servant”, Adelgunde Soleder plays the role of the naive, half-educated housemaid and Kurt Soleder that of the youthful rebel who revolts against any kind of authority.
particularities
- The name of the series goes back to the address of the former police station in Munich: Löwengrube 1 , where the advertising office of the Munich police headquarters is still today .
- The actress Sandra White died during the filming. Her death was built into the series.
- Numerous historical figures appear as marginal figures: Karl Scharnagl , the former Lord Mayor of Munich; Heinrich Himmler as a student; Adolf Hitler , who registers with the police and is later brought to the "Lions' Den" as a putschist ; Rosa Luxemburg gives a speech in Munich; Father Rupert Mayer as a prisoner; and there is even a whole episode of Georg Elser's attempted assassination.
- Franziska Stömmer (Adelgunde Soleder), Peter Pius Irl (caretaker Uhl) and Joachim Wichmann (father Kampensi) took on the roles they had already spoken in The Grandauers and their time in the television series. Numerous speakers for the radio series came back in other roles. Gerd Anthoff played the bailiff Deinlein in the television series, and he spoke to Adolf Grandauer in the radio series.
- In keeping with the era of the episodes, the British Pasadena Roof Orchestra was won over to record the soundtrack.
- What is striking is the ambiguity of many episode titles, which can be related to at least two of the three different levels of action: the private life of the Grandauers, current criminal cases and the political situation. For example, “Umzüge” alludes both to the Grandauers' private change of residence and to the march in the context of the Hitler coups; “Bedroom stories” refers to the lively love life of a young woman, which becomes a motive for murder, and at the same time it alludes to quarrels between the Grandauers about the purchase of a new marriage bed; “Inheritance” refers to both the private inheritance that the Grandauers received from the deceased bailiff Grüner and the heavy inheritance that the German population assumed after the collapse of the Third Reich.
- After 32 episodes, the Löwengrube had arrived in the 1954 series, when the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation decided to end it. Director Rainer Wolffhardt would have liked to have extended the story into the 1970s and regretted the end.
Awards
In 1991 the series was awarded the Bavarian Television Prize. In 1992 Willy Purucker , Rainer Wolffhardt , Jörg Hube and Christine Neubauer received the Adolf Grimme Prize in gold for this.
Episode list
season 1
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast D |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Charivari | November 14, 1989 |
| 2 | 2 | Abysses | 1989 |
| 3 | 3 | Gentlemen driver | 1989 |
| 4th | 4th | Changing of the guard | 1989 |
| 5 | 5 | Homecoming | 1989 |
| 6th | 6th | Consequences | December 1989 |
| 7th | 7th | Hen party | January 1990 |
| 8th | 8th | Removals | 1990 |
| 9 | 9 | Bedroom stories | 1990 |
| 10 | 10 | Emergency police | 1990 |
| 11 | 11 | Sweep | 1990 |
| 12 | 12 | Popular will | 1990 |
| 13 | 13 | Beginning of spring | February 1990 |
| Plot season 1, episodes 1 to 13 |
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Spring 1897: Agnes and the village gendarme Ludwig Grandauer celebrate their wedding in a village between Munich and Tölz. It's a humble celebration held in an inn. The couple already has a three-year-old son, little Karli. The peddler Eccell, who is in the area now, adds a little music to the party. Mr. Gantner, a wealthy Munich resident who happens to be attending the celebration, clashes with the peddler because he feels attacked by his singing. The next day Gantner disappeared without a trace. Eccell is immediately suspected. He has a charivari that Gantner's wife says belongs to her husband. Even with the use of force, Eccell sticks to having found the silver chain. The suspect is transferred to Munich. Years later, Grandauer found a pocket watch with the initials “FG” on a dead man, which the investigations showed that he had bought in a pawn shop . Grandauer, who never believed that the peddler had anything to do with Gantner's disappearance, falls on deaf ears with his superiors again, but can finally solve the case: old Thannhäuser (spelling name Schober) and his son killed Gantner. They wanted to extort money from the wealthy man with the lie that he had impregnated Schober's daughter Ernie, with whom he had a relationship. When Gantner refused, they killed him, robbed him and buried him. The charivari that he had previously lost on the forest path was found by the peddler. For him, however, the solution to the case comes too late, he is dead, allegedly he has hung himself. Actors : Jörg Hube : Ludwig Grandauer, Sandra White : Agnes Grandauer, Gerd Fitz : Rudolf Grüner, Fred Stillkrauth : Lederer, Gundi Ellert : Franzi Gaßner (née Reschreiter, used Fuchs), Gerhart Lippert : Herr Gaßner, Willy Harlander : landlord , Bert Breit : Eccell, Rolf Castell : Dr. Muggenthaler: Norbert Gastell : District Administrator Gareis, Marie Bardischewski : Ms. Gschmeißner, Willi Röbke : Baierl, Elisabeth Karg : Ms. Gantner, Rüdiger Hacker : Mr. Gantner, Angelika Sedlmeier : Ernie Schober (Thannhäuser daughter), Thomas Obster : Fleischer Schober (Thannhäuser) , Michael Sattler , Christian Mader : Karli Grandauer, Julia Gaßner : Luise Grandauer, Thomas Klietsch : Adi Grandauer, Andreas Zappe : Metzger-Willy, Andreas Gepfert : Lichtl-Biwi, Veronika Faber
May 1909: Ludwig Grandauer is now chief detective. His son Karli is afraid to confess to his parents that his bike has been stolen because he would have to admit that he was with friends in the Panoptikum . In order to raise money for a new bike, one of his friends suggests that he take pictures of a scantily clad girl, which is profitable. The fact that Karli is completing an apprenticeship at the Gaßner photo shop makes things easier. With two of his companions, the boy forces a girl friend to present himself accordingly in front of the camera. When they want to sell the well-made pictures, the boys cause an accident with their friend's bike and are caught by a policeman who also discovers the telltale pictures that landed on the street. However, Karli is lucky, his mother takes care of the matter for him. Ludwig Grandauer has to deal with the case of Dr. grapple with Almond, who committed suicide. It turns out that Dr. of almond by his wife in the act had been caught. In an interrogation, the widow explains that she wanted a divorce from her husband and even offered him, without success, to take the blame if necessary so as not to harm him professionally. As further investigations show, the "fine lady" has hired a detective. One has Dr. von Mandel then put a light girl in bed and the detective documented the "adultery" so to speak. “Such a lady,” says Grandauer, “puts a bottle of beer in her husband's bed to get rid of him”. Actors : as before and Gottfried Drexler : colleague Ringseis, Ludwig Wühr : Pedell, Ursula Soremba : Fräulein Nieröse, Cornelia Corba : widow, Pavel Fieber : Mr. Hajek
Winter 1910: Wurm, an animal stuffer , is discovered dead in a ditch. It looks like a car hit him. When Grandauer and his superior Grüner go to the man's dirty dwelling, the men discover a hammer with traces of blood there. It turns out that Wurms' journeyman Pötzinger, who lives in poor circumstances, struck him with a hammer. Both had a dispute over the journeyman's wages, which Wurm hadn't paid him for two months. However, Pötzinger has to look after his wife and children. It is more difficult to determine the driver of the vehicle that Wurm hit. After Grandauer quickly identified the car, however, he has problems with the presumed driver of the vehicle, a general. He resides in the most elegant hotel in town and treats Grandauer from above. The alleged General von Hagen has an adventurous biography that is not free from rumors. Even in this case, the man who is well connected in higher society knows how to talk himself out of it. In his private life, Grandauer is very worried about his wife Agnes, who has been diagnosed with tuberculosis . Daughter Luise takes care of the mother who keeps the bed at home. With a heavy heart, Grandauer tells his three children that the mother will have to go to the hospital as soon as a bed is free there. He warns her not to tell her mother about it for the time being, without realizing that Agnes has long known how things are going. Whether she will get well again is in God's hands. Shortly before Christmas, Ludwig Grandauer accompanied his wife to the hospital with his daughter Luise. Actors : see episode 1 and Walter Reichelt : General, Gertrud Schustereder : Baroness, Heinz-Josef Braun : Pötzinger, Regina Söltl : Mrs. Pötzinger, Hermann Becher : Heldwein, Gendarme and Thomas Rau
March 1914: The move into the new police headquarters, the Löwengrube, is due. Getting used to the long-awaited new building continues. Ludwig Grandauer's enthusiasm is also limited, also because his new colleague Dannenberg, a former high school student and from a wealthy family, whose behavior he perceives as presumptuous, gives him trouble. The Austrian Adolf Hitler , a painter, registers at the residents' registration office as a new resident of Munich on the grounds that he feels like a German. Grandauer's younger son Adi also said a former classmate named Heinrich Himmler about Grandauer: “Nice Bürscherl”, and Rosa Luxemburg gives a political speech in the Kindlkeller in Munich . Grandauer has lost his wife Agnes, who could not withstand tuberculosis. She was only 42 years old. His eldest son Karl has since been drafted . In June 1914, Grandauer visited the grave of his wife with daughter Luise and son Adi, who had been dead for a year. The Lichtl-Biwi, a friend of Karli's who was also drafted, is on home leave and visits the Grandauer family, with whom he always had a special relationship. Since Grandauer's superior, Grüner, has invited the family to a trip to a forest farm in the Isar Valley, Biwi can join the trip at Luise's request. A love story announces itself between Luise and Biwi. In the midst of the cheerful mood, the innkeeper announced that an assassination attempt had just been carried out on the Austrian heir to the throne, Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie . Both are dead. Shortly afterwards, the First World War breaks out. To the relief of the Grandauers, Karli receives a letter from the field post which ends with the words to put a few of his flowers on Mama’s grave. But the Grandauers also received bad news: The Lichtl-Biwi fell on the first day of the war. Actors : see episode 1 (from this episode the role of Luise Grandauer is played by Sandra White, that of Adi by Andreas Hufnagl and that of Biwi by Peter Weiß ) and Jonas Vischer : Holzinger, Georg Einerdinger : house servant, Britta Fischer : Stühler, Secretary of the police chief, Erna Waßmer : Mrs. Grüner and Reinhold Lampe , Egon Biscan
Winter 1918: Germany lost the war . When Karl Grandauer returns home, his home is completely different from the one he left at the time. His father died unexpectedly and complete strangers live in the former family apartment. The city offers a neglected picture. Karl's younger brother Adi is in Berlin and his sister Luise has married the master baker Max Kreitmeier. After all, she is so happy to have her brother back with her that she offers Karl a room in which he can stay for the time being. Prime Minister Kurt Eisner tries to maintain the republic he has proclaimed, but riots are increasing in the streets. Karl is lucky in that he finds work as a photo lab technician for the police. He also met a young woman whom he met again while shopping in the Soleder music store, where he wanted to buy a present. A closer contact between Traudl Soleder and him, however, prevents their father, because in his eyes Karl is not suitable for his Traudl. Then Kurt Eisner is murdered and riots break out, as a result of which Grandauer, together with Commissioner Grüner and a class of police students, fall into the hands of Red Army soldiers who take the men hostage. Grüner finds out that 22 hostages are to be shot immediately. Surprisingly, however, all the men are then released with the terse remark that the matter is settled. Actors : see episode 1 (from this episode the role of the eldest son Karl is played by Jörg Hube , since the role Ludwig Grandauer has died) Werner Rom : Max Kreitmeier, Christine Neubauer : Traudl Soleder, Walter Fitz : August Soleder, Christoph Krix : Toni Schöpf, Sepp Schauer : Master butcher and Paula Braend , Franz Rampelmann , Eberhard Peiker , Alfons Scharf , Walter Diehl , Winfried Hübner , Michael Vogtmann , Klaus Stiglmeier , Helmfried von Lüttichau
Autumn 1920: Chief Inspector Grüner, Karl Grandauer and Lederer have to solve the murder of a young woman who is found with a sign around her neck that reads: "You shameful betrayed your fatherland - you were judged by a black hand!" The dead person is Anna Kiesgruber, a housemaid who was employed by the Soleder family. Initial investigations lead Grandauer, who is now working for the homicide squad, to the Soleders, which is good news for him as he also meets Traudl, the daughter of the house, again after more than a year and a half. The investigators learn a lot from the desperately poor parents and the friend of the murdered woman, who has returned blind from the war, which could point to the possible perpetrators. An oil stain discovered at the crime scene allows conclusions to be drawn about the vehicle used by the perpetrators. As it turns out, it belongs to a print shop owner who also acts as a supporter of voluntary corps and vigilante groups. When the officers follow this lead, Chief Inspector Grüner is made clear by his superior that there are more important things to do. This also spurs Grüner and his employees on to advance their investigations. For example, Grüner and Grandauer interrogate two students with a national conviction who borrowed the vehicle overnight, which makes them urgently suspect. However, the two young men can muster various witnesses, such as a group of men who enjoy drinking. When another student in the corps, a certain Linhard, comes into view of the officials, he disappears abroad, so to speak, overnight. He was hastily issued a passport by the police headquarters. Grüner is so disappointed with this approach that he is determined to draw professional conclusions. Karl Grandauer got closer to Traudl Soleder during a visit to the Oktoberfest . Shortly afterwards she introduces him to her parents. Her brother Kurt takes this as an opportunity to start the wedding march on the piano . Actors : see episode 1 (from this episode Adolf (Adi) Grandauer is played by Alexander Duda ) and Franziska Stömmer : Adelgunde Soleder, Kurt Soleder: Michael Lerchenberg , Konrad von Beust , Siegfried Fetscher , Herrmann Hummel , Hans-Jörg Tarantik , Andreas Borcherding
May 1923: Traudl Soleder and Karl Grandauer want to get married. The inflation ensures that both the wedding dress as the suit for the groom are almost prohibitively expensive. A minor problem for the Soleders, as Traudl's friend is making a dress for her. The equipment for Karl is more difficult. It was a coincidence that Karl was almost caught in the luxury limousine of his childhood friend Metzger-Willy. Karl is amazed when he gets out of the vehicle, dressed in piqué. After the two of them started talking and Karl has revealed his worries, Willy explains to him that he can lend him a matching cut and shoes because he works as an outfitter in the film industry. A promise that he at Polterabend redeem. The black and white shoes don't appeal to Grandauer at all. While he is still examining them, Willy disappears completely unexpectedly from his comfortable home for Karl and with him Karl's coat and, much worse, his badge. Willy is supposed to sell stolen goods in his apartment . The preparations for the big festival continue nonetheless. The political disputes between Max Kreitmeier's journeyman Toni Schöpf, who leans towards communism , and Karl's brother Adolf, with his strict nationalistic stance, cannot change this either. At the Soleders, the pastor is involved in the preparations, which he particularly likes from a culinary point of view. Neither the pastor nor his family noticed that Traudl's father, August, almost collapsed under the news he received from the bankruptcy administrator and kept to himself. August Soleder disappears nowhere to be found, which means that the wedding between Traudl Soleder and Karl Grandauer cannot and will not take place on the other day. Actors : see episode 1 (from this episode onwards, Metzger-Willy is played by Erich Hallhuber ) and Gisela Freudenberg : Sara Kempensi, Hermann Wächter : pastor, Anton Feichtner : Mayerl, Josef Thalmeier : criminal investigation officer |
season 2
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast D |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14th | 1 | Bartholomew Night | 1991 |
| 15th | 2 | Insidiousness | 1991 |
| 16 | 3 | thaw | 1991 |
| 17th | 4th | Changes | 1991 |
| 18th | 5 | Violent offender | 1991 |
| 19th | 6th | Summer retreat | 1991 |
| 20th | 7th | providence | 1991 |
| 21st | 8th | Defense force decomposition | 1991 |
| 22nd | 9 | Pheasant hunting | 1991 |
| 23 | 10 | heritage | 1991 |
| 24 | 11 | Billing | 1991 |
| 25th | 12 | Radio silence | 1991 |
| 26th | 13 | Bounty | 1991 |
season 3
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | First broadcast D |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 1 | Milk caramels | October 1992 |
| 28 | 2 | Tiger gang | October 1992 |
| 29 | 3 | Mothers | October 1992 |
| 30th | 4th | Barmaid | November 1992 |
| 31 | 5 | innocence | November 1992 |
| 32 | 6th | farewell | November 1992 |
See also
- The Grandauers and their time
- In the Lions' Den - a drama by Felix Mitterer
literature
- Rolf Ulrici: Willy Purucker's lion's den. The Grandauers and their time 1897-1933 , Munich 1989, ISBN 3-485-00594-0
Web links
- Lions Den on the BR website
- Löwengrube - Review of the series by Harald Kloth
- Lion's Den in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Karl-Otto Saur: Willy Purucker has died. In: süddeutsche.de , February 9, 2015.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Zehentmeier: Beginnings in Funk. In: br.de , April 8, 2016. Accessed December 30, 2016.
- ↑ Michael Kubitza: "The Purucker and his time." In: br.de, February 9, 2015. Accessed December 30, 2016.
- ↑ Josef Grübl: Strong as a lion . In: sueddeutsche.de . August 25, 2017, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed August 26, 2017]).