Murder with a view
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Murder with a view |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 2007-2014 |
| Production company |
Pro TV Produktion GmbH |
| length | 50 minutes |
| Episodes | 39 in 3 seasons ( list ) |
| genre | Crime Comedy Series |
| idea | Marie Reiners |
| production | Heike Schwarzbach |
| music | Andreas Schilling |
| First broadcast | January 7, 2008 on Das Erste |
| occupation | |
Murder with a View is a humorous crime series ("Schmunzelkrimi") of the ARD based on an idea by Marie Reiners . It is about a Cologne chief detective who is transferred to the small ( fictional ) village of Hengasch, Liebernich district, in the Eifel . The series was produced by Pro GmbH from Cologne between 2007 and 2014 on behalf of WDR . With an average of 6.52 million viewers and a 20.9 percent market share, Mord mit Aussicht was Germany's most-watched TV series in 2014.
The series ended with the full-length film A Murder with a View , largely due to the departure of the main actor Bjarne Mädel . Even though Mädel later relativized his statement in the Süddeutsche Zeitung that he was getting out of the series because of the loveless handling (the shooting times were shortened from season to season, a creative approach to the concept of the series was not possible), the ARD was able to do it not to create conditions under which success could have continued. The inventor of the series and also the author of the first season, Marie Reiners, showed solidarity with him via Facebook and declared that she had already dropped out after the first season for similar reasons.
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The ambitious chief detective and committed city dweller Sophie Haas is not promoted to head of the Cologne homicide department , as expected , but is transferred to the Eifel village of Hengasch, Liebernich district. Her father Hannes, a retired orthopedist, rents a house there for both of them. In addition to the unfamiliar environment with its sometimes bizarre residents, the cooperation with her colleagues on site, the young police chief Bärbel Schmied and the good-natured police chief Dietmar Schäffer, who has a hard time with his wife Heike's home, initially takes some getting used to. Her predecessor as district manager, the retired Hans Zielonka, whose son Andreas is a commissioner in Koblenz and initially kept an eye on Sophie, repeatedly interferes in her investigative work. After Hannes had a heart attack, it was necessary to hire the Polish nurse Danuta for him, with whom he began a relationship and after a while moved to Krakow . After the wedding of Sophie and the veterinarian Jochen Kauth, the “exile stallion” Jan Schulte, next to Hans Zielonka candidate for mayoral election, enters her life. Dietmar and Heike's everyday life is disrupted by the surprising appearance of Dietmar's mother Irmtraud.
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Sophie Haas was transferred to Hengasch in the Eifel instead of the expected promotion to head of the Cologne homicide squad; there she met the village police officers Dietmar Schäffer and Bärbel Schmied. In the absence of exciting cases, she begins to investigate a decade-old unsolved missing person case of her predecessor Hans Zielonka and, to everyone's surprise, uncovered a criminal case that she resolved. Her father Hannes, meanwhile, rents the old forester's house for the two of them. In the case of a murder at a chapel right on the border between North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, she investigates together with Andreas Zielonka, the son of her predecessor, who works for the criminal police in Koblenz. The two get closer to each other before Andreas surprisingly leaves for a six-month training course in Canada . Soon afterwards, she entered into a relationship with the vet Jochen Kauth, which, however, initially broke up again due to Sophie's lack of commitment. Bärbel Schmied falls in love with the carpenter Mathilde, who also passes Hengasch on the Walz , but soon moves on. For the finale of the first season, Sophie Haas is called to the Cologne Zoo by the supervisor who once transferred her to Hengasch, on the advice of her ex-boyfriend Jens Petzold , who worked there, in order to bring the frigid bear Gustav hostage to a good end. In doing so, she again resolves an old case and convicts her ex-boyfriend. Therefore, she is offered to return to Cologne; Andreas Zielonka should go back to Hengasch for this.
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Hannes Haas suffers a heart attack, after which it becomes impossible that he leaves Sophie his apartment in Cologne to live alone in Hengasch. So she has to keep her position in Hengasch on the spur of the moment; The Polish nurse Danuta is employed to look after her father . Dietmar is confronted with the sudden appearance of his childhood sweetheart Katja, who thus causes a dispute in the Schäffer house, which even outlasts her early departure. Only through a communicative trick does Dietmar Schäffer manage to get his wife Heike back in favor. Later in the season Dietmar himself is suspected of stealing valuables from the fire brigade, especially since Michael Frenken, Barbel's new friend, smuggled the stolen goods into his desk drawer. Frenken is convicted by a recognized bank note. Sophie Haas is hoping for a new relationship from a one-night stand with the golf trainer Gerhard Müller, nicknamed Gérard, before she is called to the golf course the next day, where Müller was poisoned. Some time later she started a new attempt at living together with Jochen Kauth, which culminated in a marriage proposal. Sophie accepts it after some thought; the wedding fails at the end of the season because it turns out in the middle of the ceremony that the registrar is the jewel thief Marilyn, who had escaped Sophie twice. This time, too, she escapes for the time being.
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The jewel thief's chase, which lasts for hours, leads to the capture, while Hannes Haas surprisingly moves to Krakow with Danuta and leaves the forester's house to Sophie and Jochen; However, Jochen would like to distance himself from Sophie for the time being. The mayor Hans Zwanziger kills the town hall trainee Ines because she wanted to blackmail him with knowledge of an illegal building permit he had obtained. As his successor, Zwanziger recommends Jan Schulte, who has just returned from Hengasch, who is planning a large-scale future for Hengasch and others. a. in economic terms, makes it a goal. Hans Zielonka also reports as a candidate, but he is defeated in the election. Dietmar's mother Irmtraud suddenly turns up at Dietmar and Heike's because their own house has become uninhabitable. She caused a lot of turbulence, after a while she moved to Aunt Klärchen, from where she soon returned. She is then quartered with Hans Zielonka, with whom she got along so well from earlier times that Dietmar fears being Zielonka's son. Sophie and Jochen will soon find themselves in relationship status for the third time, even if they do not want to admit this to the outside world or to themselves. Sophie is also courted by the new mayor Jan Schulte, which soon leads to a relationship. After a one-night stand with Timo, Bärbel becomes pregnant and decides to keep the child, but not to continue the relationship with Timo.
Feature film A murder with a view
Charisma
The first season with six episodes was broadcast from January 7 to February 18, 2008 on Mondays at 8:15 p.m. on First . Although the ratings on the broadcast slot were rather disappointing, the series was continued due to the positive response. From May 18, 2010, the previous episodes of the first season were repeated on Tuesday evening in the first and then seven new episodes were broadcast, which were also considered part of the first season in later releases.
Due to the rapidly increasing ratings, which achieved a market share of up to 17.7 percent in the advertising-relevant target group , the broadcaster announced on September 30, 2010 that 13 more episodes had been commissioned. The shooting lasted from June to September 2011 and from February to July 2012. The second season was broadcast from August 28 to December 4, 2012 in the first.
On June 4, 2013, filming began on a third season with 13 new episodes. The broadcast lasted from September 9 to December 16, 2014. In 2013 ORF2 broadcast parts of the series and in 2014 all episodes of the first season. The first season was also broadcast in Italian on Rai 1 under the title Homicide Hills - Un Commissario In Campagna .
In autumn 2016, the entire series was broadcast in Estonia on Eesti Rahvusringhääling (ERR) in the original language with Estonian subtitles.
The shooting of a 90-minute feature film on the series by Jan Schomburg , which was broadcast on the first on December 28, 2015 , ran in Cologne and the surrounding area until December 11, 2014 . It's entitled A Murder with a View .
The first six episodes of the series were released on September 26, 2008 as a three- DVD box from ARD Video . Since November 15, 2010, episodes 7 to 13 have also been available as a three-DVD box and all 13 episodes of the second season are on the market.
Locations
Some of the filming took place in Kallmuth in the Eifel and in the Liedberg district of the city of Korschenbroich ( Rhein-Kreis Neuss ). In Kallmuth, mainly the exterior shots around the police station were filmed, the set of the station was set up in the hall of the community center. The tower of the Kallmuther Church St. Georg can be seen in the opening credits of the series. In the first season, Scheven , a neighboring town of Kallmuth, was repeatedly used for local views from a distance . In the episode Deadly Neighborhood , Hannes Haas stumbles over a flower box in front of the Scheven Church of St. Apollinaris and Agatha . In Liedberg, the scenes first took place in the fictional Aubach inn in the old brewery there.
For reasons of cost, a new shoot in Kallmuth and Liedberg was abandoned from 2010 and instead used older material for the exterior views. All other filming took place in different locations in the Eifel and outside, for example in the area of Düren , Niederdrees , Oberdrees , Bergheim , Rommerskirchen , Bornheim , Hürth , as well as in Altenberg , Overath and Much (all three in the Bergisches Land ). In Rommerskirchen- Nettesheim the scenes around the Hengascher Eifelbank were filmed in the local branch of the Volksbank . The Aubach inn can be discovered in the Bergisches Land, more precisely in Neunkirchen-Seelscheid . Filming took place here regularly at the Röttgen inn .
The building that serves as the Hengasch police station from the second season on is the old school in Bornheim- Hemmerich . The father's house is in Heckhaus , the northernmost district of Much in the Oberbergisches Land . Other films have already been shot at this location. For the third season, filming took place in Dormagen , Gummersbach , Bergisch Gladbach , Leichlingen and Mayschoß , around 35 kilometers southwest of Bonn on the edge of the Ahr Mountains . There was shot in the four-star Hotel Lochmühle .
The Stromberg series has already been filmed in the Walberberg district of Bornheim . The village flair there was also used for murder with a view . The shooting of the radar control in the episode Henghasch was filmed in front of the Dikopshof with the Holy Cross Chapel between Walberberg and Keldenich . For subsequent finger exercises which served Kitzburg in Walberberg as a backdrop.
The Nettersheimer Hof in Nettersheim was used as the location for scenes in the episodes And Eternal The Bluethroat Sings and The Schandbaum . In the series, the Nettersheimer Hof was renamed to the Zwiebelfelder Hof . As a result Blaukehlchen played another scene in Blankenheim - pipe , leaving as Dietmar Schaffer's childhood sweetheart with a bus the fictional Hengasch. The scenes around the Schönfelder nursery were filmed in the Blechhofsiedlung in Dormagen.
The Johanneskapelle in Lindlar - Voßbruch served as a filming location for the Marienkapelle in the fictitious neighboring village Dümpelbach in the episode Marienfeuer .
The Waldhaus Amore brothel in the episode of the same name is actually the swinger club Die Eule in Ratingen - Hösel .
The radio telescope around which the Sun, Murder and Stars series revolves is the Effelsberg radio telescope in Effelsberg , a district of Bad Münstereifel .
The archive of Hengasch in the episode The last curtain is in reality the city archive of Rheinbach ( Rhein-Sieg-Kreis ), especially recognizable from the historical city map of Rheinbach in the background of the scene in the office of Dr. Lender.
Episode list
occupation
| actor | role | Remarks | consequences | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caroline Peters | Sophie Haas | Chief Inspector (Season 3) ; previously chief detective | 1-39 | 2008-2014 |
| Bjarne girl | Dietmar Schaeffer | Police High Commissioner (Season 3) ; previously police chief ( nickname 'bear') | 1-39 | 2008-2014 |
| Meike Droste | Bärbel blacksmith | Police commissioner (season 3), previously police chief | 1-39 | 2008-2014 |
| Michael Hanemann | Hans Zielonka | Chief Detective a. D., predecessor to Sophie's post, candidate for mayor | 1-39 | 2008-2014 |
| Petra Kleinert | Heike Schaeffer | Housewife, wife of Dietmar Schaeffer ( nickname 'Muschi') | 1-39 | 2008-2014 |
| Hans Peter Hallwachs | Dr. Hannes Haas | Doctor (orthopedist) i. R., Sophie's father | 1-27 | 2008-2014 |
| Johann von Bülow | Jan Schulte | Mayor of Hengasch; previously: candidate for mayor;
Partner of Sophie Haas (in season 3) |
28-39 | 2014 |
| actor | role | Remarks | consequences | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max Gertsch | Andreas Zielonka | Son of Hans Zielonka, detective inspector from Koblenz (Rhineland-Palatinate), candidate for Sophie's post several times | 4-6 13-26 |
2008, 2010–2012 |
| Kulla Jossifidis | Mrs. Ziegler | Pensioner from Hengasch | 1-38 | 2008-2014 |
| Patrick Heyn | Dr. Arndt Bechermann | Gynecologist and emergency doctor from Hengasch | 2-35 | 2008-2014 |
| Arnd Klawitter | Dr. Jochen Kauth | Veterinarian, partner and temporary fiancé of Sophie Haas | 3-39 | 2008-2014 |
| Friederike Frerichs | Mrs. Runkelbach | Grocer in Hengasch | 8-39 | 2010-2014 |
| Julia Schmitt | Lydia Aubach | Landlady at the "Aubach" inn | 14-38 | 2012-2014 |
| Karina Krawczyk | Danuta Kosliki | Polish nurse and partner of Dr. Hannes Haas | 15-27 | 2012-2014 |
| Carmen-Maja Antoni | Irmtraud Schaeffer | Mother of Dietmar Schaeffer | 29-39 | 2014 |
criticism
“It is all the more remarkable how the actors managed to turn 'Murder with a View' into an original little quirk in everyday TV life. [...] However, one would like to call out to those responsible for ARD: less fear of rough edges - and more courage for the Eifel, please! "
“The following is remarkable: […] ARD succeeds in producing an extremely entertaining 45 minutes from the subject of boredom, which is only partly due to the fact that actor Bjarne Mädel from his other series Stromberg brought a bit of embarrassing silence with him. And that's the surprise: After the ambitious, but still boring family crime attempts […], Murder with a View is actually very entertaining. [...] an inspired, original, funny and beautifully played series [...] Hopefully it will come more often. "
“Investigating in the Eifel town of Hengasch is no joy. To watch as Commissioner Sophie Haas masters her fate in the blackest corner of North Rhine-Westphalia, yes. The ARD series 'Murder with a View' celebrates a comedy of slow motion. "
“Local color, dazzling figure constellations and great slapstick make 'Mord mit Aussicht' one of the best German series. Neither HBO nor the BBC have anything comparable to offer, and 'Stromberg', on the other hand, is wide-meshed. But you can't overlook the fact that the new season occasionally weakens. Above all, the old attention to detail that made every setting to the hidden object is missing more and more often. "
Awards
- Nomination for the German Television Award 2008 in the category Best Series
- Nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize 2009 in the fiction category
- Jupiter Award 2011 for Best TV Series Germany
- Roland - Film Prize of the crime festival Tatort Eifel 2011
Content bizarre
Running gags
- As a running gag , one sees old Ms. Ziegler again and again, shuffling across the street with her walker at a snail's pace.
- In the case of unclear deaths, Dr. Bechermann, the gynecologist and emergency doctor from Hengasch, was always diagnosed with a ' heart attack '.
- Dietmar Schäffer adds the sentence in almost every episode: “Man, man, man, maybe something is going on here again today!”; mostly in situations where nothing is going on.
Others
- In the series, the dialects typical of the region, the Eifel dialects , are usually dispensed with.
- The fictitious postal address of Sophie Haas and her father, as can be seen in the episode Henghasch , is Jagdweg 4, 56243 Hengasch . In reality, this postcode is not assigned. In episode 8, the address of the police station with police headquarters in Hengasch, Hauptstr. 12, 53947 Hengasch . This postcode is assigned to Nettersheim , southwest of Bad Münstereifel . In episode 15 there is another package - this time again with 56243 as the postcode for Hengasch.
- The forester's house that Hannes Haas rents is the rear house in the district of the same name in Much in the Bergisches Land . Back in 2003, it was the location for the episode Familiar Enemy of the action series Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei , in which the house is inhabited by a psychopath. In the Marie Brand crime series , the forester's house in episode 16 (first broadcast: 2016) is Police Chief Engler's weekend home.
- In some episodes a great gray owl ( boreal owl species, Strix nebulosa) appears, but it does not occur naturally in Central Europe . As a city child, the protagonist seems to be a little afraid of the big bird and often tries to scare it away when she sees it.
- The omnibus that occasionally drives through Hengasch comes from Switzerland . It is a Saurer 3DUK-50 , a vintage car that was actually used as a bus for the PTT , the Swiss Post. In individual episodes, other very old vehicles can also be seen, such as a Ford Granada tournament and, as a private car from Dietmar Schäffer, an Audi 80 , presumably to emphasize the backwoods of the series and its characters. An Opel Blitz fire engine from the 1950s also appears several times.
- Up to episode 6, Sophie Haas' red E30 series BMW convertible has the license plate "K LR 6666", in one scene in the first episode the vehicle suddenly has the license plate "K LR 4444" after a cut. From episode 7 it reads "K HA 1967". In episode 10, the convertible drives in an intermediate scene with the registration number "K LR 6666". In episode 26, the convertible drives up in an opening scene with the license plate “K PR 7205”. In addition, at least four different vehicles are used for turning, recognizable by the different steering wheels. The different taillights of the different models and the differently installed signal horns are also clearly noticeable.
- Bjarne Mädel also plays in the Stromberg series with Christoph Maria Herbst . In episode 3 (finger exercises) , Herbst has a cameo as a doctor: girl runs down the stairs in a hospital, meets the doctor, runs a little further, and both look at each other for a few seconds before girl runs on.
- In episode 11, Sophie Haas and Dietmar Schäffer carry out a speed check on the B 257 . In reality, the B 257 is not far from Bad Münstereifel , which, according to episode 23, is the neighboring area to Hengasch. However, the B 257 is in the east of Bad Münstereifel, the location Kallmuth in the west.
- In episode 21, the plot revolves around a kidnapped baby who is housed in a remote forest house. The same house is also the setting for the film Im Netz (2013), in which Caroline Peters also plays the leading role. Almost the same camera perspectives were used to depict the scene as in the crime episode.
- The plot of episode 27, the first episode of the third season, immediately follows on from episode 26, the last episode of the second season. However, there was about a year between filming. Meike Droste as the actress of Bärbel Schmied had meanwhile let her hair grow long, which at the beginning is only briefly dealt with in the usual laconic manner: At the end of the unsuccessful chase, Bärbel Schmied opens her pigtail, which Dietmar Schäffer pauses and asks: "Why did you?" n Do you have such long hair? "Bärbel Schmied replies:" Well, for the wedding! "Sophie Haas, completely out of breath, reacts again with:" Frau Schmied! - That's great. - But that was close! Man, that was really - that was sooo close! ", With which she has already gone back to action. The change is not mentioned further later.
- The dates of birth of Sophie and Dr. Hannes Haas agree on a document in episode 27 with those of their actors - with the exception of Sophie Haas 'year of birth, which differs by three years from Caroline Peters'.
- In episode 18, the fictitious Hengasch is drawn on a map used in the police station five kilometers east of Bad Münstereifel. In fact, there is only the junction of a country road in the middle of the forest.
- In episode 27, Bärbel shows a map on which the fictional Hengasch, on the other hand, is drawn where the village of Marmagen is actually located, which is also in the Eifel.
- In the first two seasons Dietmar Schäffer is still police chief with three green stars and Bärbel Schmied is still police chief with two stars of the middle police service in green uniforms. Since episode 28, Dietmar Schäffer and Bärbel Schmied have not only been wearing the blue uniforms that have actually been changed, but also epaulets of the upper class. As Chief Commissioner, Schäffer has two silver stars, Schmied one silver star and is a commissioner. There is no explanation in the series for this enormous change in career; in reality it would be completely unthinkable after a year. In addition, a police station in a village in which only three people, but all with the rank of commissioner, work, is also unrealistic (but at the same time correct, since North Rhine-Westphalia no longer has a middle service and all officials have been promoted to the higher service, see official designations of the North Rhine-Westphalia police ).
- The police station is located in the North Rhine-Westphalian part of the Eifel. In some episodes, however, there is always talk of the Koblenz police headquarters , which is responsible for some issues. The Koblenz Presidium , however, is in Rhineland-Palatinate . The (fictitious) police headquarters in Liebernich or Bonn as the closest major city would probably be responsible . The police control from Cochem would also have to come from Rhineland-Palatinate and not from North Rhine-Westphalia, as can be seen from the coat of arms on the uniforms. The policeman introduces himself to the traffic control in Cochem. Follow Waldhaus Amore , Episode 7, Season 2.
- In episode 38, the band Fraktus from the film of the same name is part of the plot, embodied by the actors at the time Jacques Palminger , Rocko Schamoni and Heinz Strunk . This episode is directed by Lars Jessen - just like in the film Fraktus .
- Although he was replaced in his position by Sophie Haas, Hans Zielonka is still called “boss” by Bärbel Schmied and Dietmar Schäffer. In the episode That is called camping… Schäffer says after accidentally taking Sophie Haas by surprise while she is showering to Schmied: “You Bärbel, I have to tell you something. I saw the boss naked. "Then Schmied asks:" The Zielonka? ", Which Schäffer answers with" No, the Haas ", whereupon Schmied is visibly relieved.
- In episode 8, the Hamburg astrophysicist Walter Baade is murdered. There was actually an astrophysicist with this name who worked temporarily in Hamburg and who died in 1960 .
Web links
- Murder with a view in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Murder with a view at Fernsehserien.de
- Murder with a prospect of the first
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Murder with a View" on the Quota Throne. (No longer available online.) In: wochenspiegellive.de. December 17, 2014, archived from the original on December 17, 2014 ; Retrieved December 17, 2014 . 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.
- ^ "The crime scene cleaner" in the NDR. A lot of praise, little money and care. In: sueddeutsche.de. January 6, 2014, accessed January 6, 2014 .
- ↑ Bjarne Mädel puts an end to "Murder with a View". In: dwdl.de. Retrieved January 7, 2014 .
- ↑ Jochen Voss: After two years: “Murder with a View” continues. In: DWDL.de . April 7, 2010. Retrieved July 25, 2010 .
- ↑ Fabian Riedner: As expected: "Murder with a View" will be continued. In : quotemeter.de. October 1, 2010, accessed October 1, 2010 .
- ↑ Jan Schlüter: Start of shooting for "Murder with a View". In : quotemeter.de. June 1, 2011, accessed June 1, 2011 .
- ↑ Start of shooting for the 3rd season of the ARD crime series "Mord mit Aussicht" with Caroline Peters. In: daserste.de. Retrieved September 8, 2013 .
- ↑ Kolkakomissar Sophie Haas
- ↑ Thomas Gehringer: ARD crime thriller "Murder with a view": break with a view. In: tagesspiegel.de. September 16, 2015, accessed September 27, 2015 .
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- ↑ Altbier goulash for the extras. In: Rheinische Post . September 17, 2007, accessed October 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Maria Monreal: ARD crew is shooting an episode in the Mayschosser Lochmühle. In: Bonner General-Anzeiger . December 5, 2012, accessed September 8, 2013 .
- ^ "Murder with a View" at the Blechhof. In: Rheinische Post . August 31, 2013, accessed January 29, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Peter Luley: Crime series "Murder with a View" - More courage for the Eifel, please! In: Spiegel Online . January 7, 2008, accessed July 25, 2010 .
- ↑ Michael Reufsteck: Desolation of joy. In: Fernsehlexikon.de . January 7, 2008, accessed October 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Patrick Bahners: On TV: Murder with a View - No, no? Man, man! In: FAZ.net . May 18, 2010, accessed July 25, 2010 .
- ^ Uwe Ebbinghaus: New season "Murder with a View": Chases with a flock of sheep. In: FAZ.net . September 9, 2014, accessed September 11, 2014 .
- ↑ Nominations for the German Television Prize 2008. In: The German Television Prize. August 16, 2008, accessed December 28, 2015 .
- ^ Film award of the crime festival "Tatort Eifel" 2011. September 25, 2011, accessed on December 28, 2015 .
