Tauber and Obermaier

Tauber and Obermaier
Channel	BR
active	2001 - 2009
place	Munich
cases	20 Tauber 17 Obermaier
predecessor	Silvia Jansen
successor	Ulrike Steiger
team
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Place of investigation Munich

The chief detective Jürgen Tauber , played by Edgar Selge , and Jo "Josephine" Obermaier , played by Michaela May , are fictional people from the ARD crime series Polizeiruf 110 , who from 2001 to 2009 identified a total of 17 cases.

background

The investigation and shooting locations were Munich and its surroundings.

characters

Edgar Selge alias Jürgen Tauber

Michaela May alias Jo Obermaier

Jürgen Tauber

Chief Detective Jürgen Tauber, played by Edgar Selge, initially investigated four cases on the side of Silvia Jansen ( Gaby Dohm ). From 2001 to 2009 he formed an investigator duo with Jo Obermaier (Michaela May). He takes a determined approach to his investigation. Tauber thinks particularly about the psyche of an offender. Despite his missing arm, he is accepted by his colleagues, but later bullied because of his homosexuality , which in the end leads to his voluntary resignation.

Jo Obermaier

Chief Inspector Jo “Josephine” Obermaier, played by Michaela May, presents herself as a self-confident woman who is attached to her home country. For them, calm is important during investigative work, because their motto is: "There is strength in calm". Despite some differences of opinion, she gets along well with her disabled colleague Tauber.

More figures

• Tarik Yilmaz ( Tayfun Bademsoy ), Obermaier's husband
• Christine Obermaier ( Natalie Spinell ), Obermaier's daughter
• Kevin Yilmaz ( Vincent Waas ), son of Obermaier and Tarik Yilmaz

consequences

episode	title	Channel	First issue	Investigator	case	author	Director	particularities
224	Promised Land	BR	Jan. 14, 2001	Obermaier, Tauber	Obermaier (1), Tauber (4)	Christian Jeltsch	Peter Patzak	First case with Obermaier and Tauber .
232	No good deed goes unpunished	BR	0July 1, 2001	Obermaier, Tauber	Obermaier (2), Tauber (5)	Peter Probst	Hans-Günther Bücking
235	Around head and collar	BR	Jan. 13, 2002	Obermaier, Tauber	Obermaier (3), Tauber (6)	Carolin Otto	Peter Patzak
239	Silicone walli	BR	May 26, 2002	Obermaier, Tauber	Obermaier (4), Tauber (7)	Wolfgang Limmer	Manfred Stelzer
245	Deep wounds	BR	Jan. 19, 2003	Obermaier, Tauber	Obermaier (5), Tauber (8)	Christian Limmer	Buddy Giovinazzo	German TV Award 2003 : Best Actor TV Film Edgar Selge .
249	pitch and sulfur	BR	0May 4, 2003	Obermaier, Tauber	Obermaier (6), Tauber (9)	Klaus Krämer , Kaspar von Erffa	Klaus Krämer	German TV Award 2003 : Best Actor TV Film Edgar Selge .
258	Our Father	BR	22 Aug 2004	Obermaier, Tauber	Obermaier (7), Tauber (10)	Christian Jeltsch	Bernd Schadewald
261	The measure is full	BR	0Oct 3, 2004	Obermaier, Tauber	Obermaier (8), Tauber (11)	Klaus Krämer	Klaus Krämer
263	The scarlet angel	BR	Feb 20, 2005	Obermaier, Tauber	Obermaier (9), Tauber (12)	Günter Schütter	Dominik Graf	Adolf Grimme Prize with gold to Günter Schütter, Dominik Graf, Michaela May, Edgar Selge and Nina Kunzendorf . German Television Award 2005 : Best crime series .
267	The exam	BR	0July 3, 2005	Obermaier, Tauber	Obermaier (10), Tauber (13)	Boris Gullotta	Eoin Moore
277	He should be dead	BR	0Aug 6, 2006	Obermaier, Tauber	Obermaier (11), Tauber (14)	Rolf Basedow	Dominik Graf	Adolf Grimme Prize to Rolf Basedow, Dominik Graf, Edgar Selge and Rosalie Thomass . Special award for the script at the Baden-Baden Television Film Festival 2006. German Television Award 2006 : Award to Rosalie Thomass.
281	With different eyes	BR	Oct 22, 2006	Obermaier, Tauber	Obermaier (12), Tauber (15)	Christian Limmer	Buddy Giovinazzo
283	Taubers fear	BR	0Feb. 4, 2007	Obermaier, Tauber	Obermaier (13), Tauber (16)	Klaus Krämer	Klaus Krämer
289	Beyond	BR	0Nov 4, 2007	Obermaier, Tauber	Obermaier (14), Tauber (17)	Markus Thebe , Boris Gullotta	Eoin Moore
292	How is the world so quiet	BR	Apr 13, 2008	Obermaier, Tauber	Obermaier (15), Tauber (18)	Alex Buresch , Alain Gsponer	Alain Gsponer
294	Rosi's baby	BR	0Aug 3, 2008	Obermaier, Tauber	Obermaier (16), Tauber (19)	Matthias Lease , Alex Buresch	Andreas Kleinert
305	Endgame	BR	0Nov 8, 2009	Obermaier, Tauber	Obermaier (17), Tauber (20)	Alexander Adolph	Andreas Kleinert	Last case with Obermaier and Tauber .

reception

Awards

Films with investigators Tauber and Obermaier have been awarded the German Television Prize and the Adolf Grimme Prize several times .

criticism

The two figures were mainly assessed as an asset to Police Call 110, which had not yet been "used up" by Edgar Selge's early departure. However, there were different criticisms of the individual cases - often with reference to the script.

On the occasion of the last episode, Endspiel , Der Tagesspiegel praised how diverse and comprehensively social and societal grievances were addressed in Germany and drew the conclusion:

“The 'police call' with Tauber and Obermaier, that was always the subtle, careful and precise look at what was behind the people. It may well be said: To the abyss of the human soul. Completely unpretentious. "

- Thilo Wydra : The daily mirror

The Frankfurter Rundschau pointed out the importance of Tauber's disability for the investigative duo:

“Because the best crime scene is the Munich police call. Was the Munich police call. That was due to Edgar Selge, who stayed for eleven years before he didn't want to anymore, but it was also due to the ingenious figure of the one-armed investigator Tauber. [...] Tauber's disability was always one hundred percent present. [...] But Tauber's arm was seldom played. Interestingly enough, the consequences were often weaker. "

- Judith von Sternburg : Frankfurter Rundschau

Web links

• Tauber and Obermaier , at daserste.de.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tauber and Obermaier say goodbye with a half-baked police call at moviepilot.de; Retrieved June 25, 2015.
2. ↑ Thilo Wydra: And sadness lies above everything. In: The daily game. November 8, 2009, accessed March 24, 2020 . 
3. ^ Judith von Sternburg: Jürgen and his prosthetic arm. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. November 6, 2009, accessed March 24, 2020 .