Chief Inspector Marek (TV series)

Television series
German title	Chief Inspector Marek
Original title	Chief Inspector Marek
Country of production	Austria
original language	German
Year (s)	1963 - 1970
length	80 minutes
Episodes	8th
genre	Thriller
idea	Friedrich Redl , Florian Kalbeck , Fritz Eckhardt
production	ORF
music	Norbert Pawlicki , Kurt Werner
First broadcast	3rd October 1963
occupation
Chief Inspector Viktor Marek: Fritz Eckhardt District inspector Otto Wirz: Kurt Jaggberg Office employee Franzi: Elisabeth Rusa (episode 1–2) Criminal Inspector Rudi Berntner: Albert Rolant (episode 2–8) Contract employee Susi Wodak: Lieselotte Plauensteiner (episode 3–8)

Oberinspektor Marek was an Austrian crime series that was broadcast on Austrian television by ORF from 1963 to 1970.

content

The individual episodes take place in Police Station 24 of the Vienna Criminal Police and tell of cases in which Chief Inspector Marek and his team are investigating.

The series originally came from Friedrich Redl, the last four episodes then wrote the main actor Fritz Eckhardt . The individual episodes were recorded in a studio, which contributed to the chamber play-like character of the series. In addition to Fritz Eckhardt as Viktor Marek in the leading role, Kurt Jaggberg played the role of district inspector Otto Wirz from the start. From 1971 the series was continued as an Austrian contribution to the Tatort series until 1983 , with Eckhardt continuing to write the scripts for the episodes.

In 1987, four years after the last Marek crime scene, the character appeared as a guest role in the ORF crime scene episode " The Last Mord ", also written by Eckhardt . Another five years later, in 1992, Eckhardt investigated one last time as Marek in the crime thriller "Mord im Wald", which, however, was produced and broadcast as a single piece.

consequences

• Subpoena

A woman dies from exhaust fumes in her car. Her husband and sister-in-law are suspicious. Through questioning, Chief Inspector Marek gets to the bottom of the real cause.

• Interrogation

A young girl is seriously injured by gas poisoning in her lover's apartment. Everything looks like a suicide attempt, but Marek doesn't believe in it and lures the perpetrator into a trap.

• acquittal

A man is charged with the murder of his wife, but is acquitted. Inspector Wirz, who temporarily took over the executive chair, does not believe in his innocence. But then Marek comes back from vacation.

• Deadly accident

Chief Inspector Marek is reprimanded for investigating suicide as murder. When he and his people investigate a man's fatal accident, they realize that the case is more complex than it first appears.

• Girl murder

A girl falls dead from a sports car . The girl didn't have the best reputation - and what has the Gaiter butcher's shop to do with the case? For Inspector Marek, that's where the investigation begins.

• In a single day

A kidnapping - a dead child and a general manager who makes a sizable inheritance. Chief Inspector Marek has to clear everything up in one day.

• Simple double murder

Marek has a corpse exhumed because it is supposed to be murder. Maria, the mistress of General Manager Kern, is the main suspect, and Marek is soon on the right track.

• Perfect murder

Fery Preis, a comrade in the war of Marek, loses his wife under strange circumstances. But the autopsy does not help. Marek is still not defeated.

Films within the series Tatort

episode	title	Channel	First broadcast	script	Director
12	Suspected murder	ORF	0Nov 7, 1971	Fritz Eckhardt	Walter Davy
23	The velvet trap	ORF	Nov 12, 1972	Fritz Eckhardt	Walter Davy
35	Femicide	ORF	0Dec 9, 1973	Fritz Eckhardt	Fritz Eckhardt
44	Murder in the Ministry	ORF	Oct 13, 1974	Fritz Eckhardt	Fritz Eckhardt
55	Vacation murder	ORF	28 Sep 1975	Fritz Eckhardt	Peter Weck
66	Advertisement murder	ORF	Sep 12 1976	Fritz Eckhardt	Peter Weck
79	The forgotten murder	ORF	Sep 11 1977	Fritz Eckhardt	Peter Patzak
92	Murder in the hospital	ORF	0Oct 8, 1978	Fritz Eckhardt	Michael Kehlmann
105	Murder in the Grand Hotel	ORF	Oct 21, 1979	Fritz Eckhardt	Georg Lhotsky
117	Murder in installments	ORF	Oct 19, 1980	Fritz Eckhardt	Georg Lhotsky
129	Murder in the Opera	ORF	Oct 18, 1981	Fritz Eckhardt	Wolfgang luck
142	Homicide squad	ORF	Oct 17, 1982	Fritz Eckhardt	Jochen Bauer
150	Murder in the subway (as senior inspector a. D.)	ORF	Sep 18 1983	Fritz Eckhardt	Kurt Junek
199	The last murder (guest role as senior inspector a. D.)	ORF	Nov 29, 1987	Fritz Eckhardt	Kurt Junek

See also : List of crime scene episodes

Single film

• Murder in the Forest (1992)

Marek emigrated to New Zealand after his retirement. But when he wins the lottery, he returns to Austria to invest the money there, and is involved in the investigation into a murder case.

Crossover

• Der Kommissar , Episode 28 (1970): Three dead travel to Vienna

Marek and Inspector Keller interviewed a witness who spent a night in a hotel with three middle-aged men from Munich, two of whom were murdered in Munich and the third received death threats. (The row around Chief Inspector Marek was only later integrated into the Tatort series .)

DVD release

The series Oberinspektor Marek was published on October 26, 2009 on ARD-Video in the series Straßenfeger.

Web links

• Inspector Marek in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Chief Inspector Marek on tatort-fundus.de
• Chief Inspector Marek on krimiserien.heimat.eu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information on 'Murder in the Forest' on tatort-fundus.de