Paul Trimmel

Paul Trimmel
Channel	NDR
active	1970-1986
place	Hamburg
cases	11 (Tatort, 6 guest appearances) 2 (Paul Trimmel)
predecessor	First investigator of the NDR
successor	Stoever
team
KM Höffgen COM loft		(1970–1974) (1971–1982)
Place of investigation ( Hamburg )

Paul Trimmel is the title character in a series of crime novels by Friedhelm Werremeier and at the same time the main character of the first Tatort episodes broadcast in 1970 and ten more episodes. In addition, Trimmel supports the customs investigator Kressin  - portrayed by Sieghardt Rupp  - in the third crime scene episode Kressin and the dead man in the fleet in his investigations in Hamburg.

The film adaptations of the novels were shown with Walter Richter in the leading role in the 1970s and early 1980s on ARD television . The Trimmel crime thriller Exklusiv, which was broadcast in 1969 ! was broadcast again in 1971 as the second Trimmel episode in the Tatort series. The episodes with Commissioner Trimmel had to be discontinued for reasons of age of Walter Richter, who died in 1985. Not all novels were made into films. Therefore the books contain further private and professional details about the Hamburg investigator. In 1971, Der Richter in Weiß Rolf Bossi appeared in a supporting role as a defense attorney. In 1982, a scene in the last Trimmel crime scene, Trimmel and Isolde (episode 141), in which Christiane Krüger was seen unclothed from behind , caused a surprise .

After Richter's death, the NDR, together with Werremeier, decided to film further episodes of Trimmel outside of the crime scene series. As the main actor in the ARD series Paul Trimmel - Chief Inspector , Gerd Kunath played the role of Trimmel. Of the three planned 60-minute episodes, only two episodes were realized because the television audience's expectations could not be met with the production of the series episodes, which obviously associated the role of Paul Trimmel with the person of Walter Richter.

The figure Paul Trimmel

Trimmel was introduced to the series as the Hamburg commissioner and was seen as the chief commissioner from the fourth episode. The characteristics of the figure Trimmel are presented as dominant, challenging, growling, choleric, but caring. In addition, he repeatedly violates service regulations. His wife died during World War II. He lives in the Hamburg-Hamm district . Through one of his cases he got to know the witness Gaby Montag better, who later moved in with him. In the course of his investigations, Trimmel always likes to draw on the psychological expertise of his friend and doctorate, Dr. Lorff back. In his spare time he frequented the first episodes in a local pub called the Old Farmsen Inn in Hamburg-Farmsen-Berne , and later in a pub in the city center.

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Novels

• I sell myself exclusively (1968)
• Taxi to Leipzig (1970)
• The Judge in White (1971)
• Without a landing permit (1971)
• An EKG for Trimmel (1972)
• Expulsion for Trimmel (1972)
• Trimmel opens a barrel (1973)
• Trimmel and the Tulip Thief (1974)
• Treff mit Trimmel , narrative volume (1974)
• Hands up, Mr. Trimmel (1976)
• Trimmel makes a plea (1976)
• Trimmel is afraid of the moon , narrative volume (1977)
• Trimmel and Isolde (1980)
• Trimmel and the Tax Office (1982)
• Trimmel plays on time
• Trimmel and the strange incident
• Trimmel in the spider's web
• Trimmel continues
• Trimmel and the Count

Film adaptations

Television films

First broadcast	title	author	Director	particularities
1969	Exclusive! (Psycho crime)	Friedhelm Werremeier	Peter Schulze-Rohr	In 1971 it was broadcast again as a crime scene episode

Crime scene episodes

case	title	First broadcast	episode	author	Director	particularities
1	Taxi to Leipzig	Nov 29, 1970	1	Friedhelm Werremeier	Peter Schulze-Rohr	Only after the completion of the crime scene rededicated
2	Exclusive	July 11, 1971	9	Friedhelm Werremeier	Peter Schulze-Rohr	Aired back in 1969, subsequently to the 1971 crime scene rededicated
3	AE612 without landing permit	Sep 12 1971	10	Friedhelm Werremeier	Peter Schulze-Rohr	Guest appearance  Wirz
4th	The judge in white	Oct 10, 1971	11	Friedhelm Werremeier	Peter Schulze-Rohr	At 119: 19 minutes, it is exceptionally long
5	Expect the worst	Sep 24 1972	21st	Friedhelm Werremeier	Peter Schulze-Rohr
6th	Expulsion for Trimmel	Aug 19, 1973	32	Friedhelm Werremeier	Peter Schulze-Rohr	Guest appearance  Böck
7th	Poison	Jul 21, 1974	42	Friedhelm Werremeier	Peter Schulze-Rohr	Guest appearance  Finke
8th	Trimmel and the tulip thief	Oct 10, 1976	67	Friedhelm Werremeier	Peter Schulze-Rohr
9	Trimmel makes a plea	27 Mar 1978	86	Friedhelm Werremeier	Peter Schulze-Rohr
10	Hands up, Mr. Trimmel!	0May 4th 1980	112	Friedhelm Werremeier	Carlheinz Caspari
11	Trimmel and Isolde	19 Sep 1982	141	Friedhelm Werremeier	Peter Weck

Paul Trimmel was seen as a guest investigator in the following episodes of the crime scene:

• 003 Kressin and the dead man in the canal
• 008 sheet metal damage
• 012 suspected murder
• 043 Dangerous bedbugs
• 047 The invoice will be submitted later
• 048 Reported as stolen

Paul Trimmel - Chief Inspector

episode	First broadcast	title	author
1	4th September 1985	Who once lies	Wilfried Dotzel
2	August 13, 1986	A bombshell	Wilfried Dotzel
3	no longer produced

literature

• Holger Wacker: The big crime scene book. Movies, facts and characters . Henschel Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89487-353-1 , pp. 12f., 26f., 114-119
• Thomas Radewagen: A German television bull: Trimmel - the “Tatort” star and his media genesis; a comparative study of Werremeier's crime novels and “Tatort” scripts . Preprints zur Medienwissenschaft, Berlin 1985, pp. 130-136

Web links

• All cases of Trimmel . ARD crime scene archive
• Commissioner Trimmel - The Unforgettable . Film and TV Museum Hamburg

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Trimmel series was continued without Walter Richter ( memento from April 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Tatort Fundus.
2. ^ Chief Inspector Paul Trimmel von Friedhelm Werremeier ( Memento from February 11, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) at revonnah.de.
3. ↑ Chief Commissioner Paul Trimmel , at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on February 25, 2017.
4. ↑ From the television dictionary , fernsehserien.de.
5. ↑ Re-broadcast of the feature film from 1969 as a crime scene episode