Reporter (TV series)

Television series
Original title	reporter
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
year	1989
Production ; company	WDR television
length	48 minutes
Episodes	9 in 1 season
genre	Action series
Director	Klaus Emmerich , Hans Noever
script	Horst Vocks , Thomas Wittenburg
music	Irmin Schmidt , Rainer Viertelboeck
First broadcast	April 17, 1989 on Das Erste
occupation
	Main actor: Renan Demirkan : Azade Celik ("Atze"), reporter; Walter Kreye : Pit Wilkens ("PiWi"), photographer; Dietmar Schönherr : Herbst, editor-in-chief; Jürgen Holtz : Struck, head of department; Supporting cast: Heinz Hoenig : Schlueter; Rolf Zacher : Fred; Martin Lüttge : Nielsen; Tilo Prückner : Paulchen; Hanno Pöschl : Lochte; Fritz Müller-Scherz : Charly; Gunter Berger : Dr. Boast; Georg Marischka : publisher Sasse; Michael Schreiner : Hermann; Ilhan Emirli : Erkan;

Reporter is a nine-part TV series on ARD from 1989. It reflects the everyday life of a fictional weekly magazine TNT fighting for the best headlines ; Purchased sensations (allusion to the Stern scandal about the Hitler diaries from 1983) and intrigues included.

Directed by Klaus Emmerich and Hans Noever , the script was provided by Horst Vocks and Thomas Wittenburg . The individual episodes are 48 minutes long.

Roles and performers

The main characters are the young and inexperienced journalist Azade Celik , called Atze ( Renan Demirkan ) at the side of the shrewd photographer Pit Wilkens , called PiWi ( Walter Kreye ) and their joint editor-in-chief Herbst ( Dietmar Schönherr ) - film quote about him: “You are like that narrow-minded, you can look through a keyhole with both eyes at the same time! ”
According to their own admission, when creating this figure, the authors had the former Stern editor Henri Nannen in mind.

In addition, well-known actors such as: Jürgen Holtz ( Struck ), Heinz Hoenig ( Schlueter ), Rolf Zacher ( Fred ), Martin Lüttge ( Nielsen ), Tilo Prückner ( Paulchen ) and Hanno Pöschl ( Lochte ) play in numerous roles .

Prizes and awards

In 1990 Klaus Emmerich , Hans Noever , Walter Kreye , Renan Demirkan and Jürgen Holtz received the Adolf Grimme Prize with silver for the 1st and 2nd episodes of the series .

Episode list

The terrorist
neighbourhood
The brown front
blackmail
The defector
The assassination
The regicide
The German lander
Baby joe

literature

Summer and winter . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1989, pp. 243-246 ( online review).

Web links

Reporters in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Horst Vocks . In: Lexicon of German crime fiction authors