Red Mountaineers (TV series)

Television series
German title	Red climber
Original title	Red climber
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
year	1967
length	by 26 minutes
Episodes	13 in 1 season
genre	adventure
idea	Willi Urbanek
music	Henry Kaufmann
First broadcast	June 19, 1968 on DFF
occupation
Main actor: Klaus Gehrke : Peter Kmoch Ezard Haussmann : Lothar Jeschke Supporting cast: Paul Berndt : Horst Berg Fritz Diez : Kurt Art Rolf Ripperger : Hauptsturmführer Schwarz Johannes Wieke : Fischer Alexander Papendiek : Shepherd Dieter Bellmann : Günther Marschner Sepp Klose : Egon Kunze Ute Boeden : Inge Sigrid Göhler : Käthe Walter Bechstein : Emil Grimm

Rote Bergsteiger is the first "official" television series of the GDR , which was produced in 1967 by director Willi Urbanek , who also wrote the screenplay with Klaus Rümmler , for the German television network (DFF) .

The series described the anti-fascist efforts of a group of Saxon mountaineers who resisted the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1936 . Red mountaineers were based on real events (see United Climbing Department ). The series became a big hit for the DFF.

Episode list

1. Ascent with risk
2. The castle in the mountains
3. Departure 6:01 p.m.
4. mistrust
5. Daring game
6. Two packs of cigarettes
7. The prisoner in the forest
8. Major manhunt
9. The emergency address
10. Alarm at the border
11. Meeting point department store
12. Find Brunhilde
13. The trap

Additional information

The television series was mainly filmed in black and white at locations around Bad Schandau in Saxon Switzerland . The shooting took about ten months and was accompanied by a large number of now well-known actors. A lot had to be improvised in the series, so that a number of amateur actors as well as extras came into play.

See also

• Tales of That Night , 1st film: Phoenix

literature

• Doris Rosenstein: On the history of the television series in the GDR . DFG Collaborative Research Center 240, Siegen 2001
• Barbara Weinhold: A Trotskyist mountaineering group from Dresden in the resistance against fascism . New isp Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89900-110-9
• Joachim Schindler (Editor): Rote Bergsteiger- On their way in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains Akubiz.de, Pirna 2008,
• Rudolf Hanke: Steep Paths Aufbau-Verlag-Berlin, 1960,

swell

1. ↑ netzwerk-mediatheken.de Entry on the first publication ( memento of the original from October 12, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Renate Hennecke: An evening about the 'red mountaineers' at the German Alpine Association ( Memento from August 6, 2004 in the Internet Archive ), in German-Czech News from October 30, 2002, page 9 ff.