Tegtmeier's travels
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Tegtmeiers Reisen was a 20-part German television series with Jürgen von Manger , which was broadcast on ZDF from 1972 to 1980 . In the first episodes of the series, von Manger played two gentlemen Tegtmeier, namely Adolf Tegtmeier and Dr. Tegtmeier who are not related and who happen to travel to the same places independently of each other. The concept of having two different characters of the same actor appear was very complex and could therefore not be maintained over the entire series, so that Dr. Tegtmeier stopped showing up at some point.
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Each episode of the series is dedicated to a travel destination. In the first three episodes, both gentlemen describe their view of the country and its people to the viewer. There are always random sporadic encounters between the two characters. This is how Adolf Tegtmeier describes a location in London and accentuates it with: "Yes, there where the gentleman there ...". At this moment you can see Dr. Tegtmeier coming out of a building. In another scene, Adolf Tegtmeier is looking for the youth hostel and asks Dr. Tegtmeier in "English" for the way. In Morocco, the two even have a long conversation with each other. Loneliness plagues Herr Doktor, and Herr Tegtmeier has a few very direct pieces of advice in store.
Adolf Tegtmeier always speaks very directly what he thinks, while Dr. Tegtmeier strives for polished and often very circumstantial formulations that often do not get to the heart of the matter. Much of the comedy of this character rests on the obviousness of this fact.
Episodes
- The Gelsenkirchen Odyssey - July 14, 1972 (Subject: Greece )
- With burnous and baksheesh - January 19, 1973 (Subject: Morocco , North Africa )
- London - February 16, 1973 (Subject: London , Great Britain )
- Everything in the bucket - January 3, 1974 (subject: Austria , Seefeld in Tirol , winter vacation)
- Eia Safari - February 7, 1974 (Topic: Photo safari in Africa )
- The scent of Tenerife - February 21, 1974 (Subject: Tenerife )
- Sylt according to the instructions for use - February 27, 1975 (subject: Sylt )
- Bangkok in full detail - July 3, 1975 (Subject: Bangkok , Thailand )
- A prince and three lemons - October 23, 1975 (Subject: Principality of Monaco )
- Venice as it sinks and sounds - March 4, 1976 (Subject: Venice , Italy )
- One Jumbo and Back - July 15, 1976 (Subject: China )
- No mountains in the Alps - October 28, 1976 (Subject: Berchtesgaden )
- The Gods in the Saucer - September 8, 1977 (Author: Mexico )
- The Wild West original - October 13, 1977 (Subject: USA )
- Why the Scots Are So Checkered - April 6, 1978 (Subject: Scotland )
- The last mud - January 18, 1979 (Subject: Cure in Abano Terme , Italy)
- Wiener Leut 'and Freud' - January 3, 1980 (Subject: Vienna , Austria )
- What the earth revolves around - March 6, 1980 (Subject: Deutsches Museum , Munich )
- Chopin was the first - April 3, 1980 (Subject: Mallorca , Balearic Islands )
- Olala - July 3, 1980 (Author: Paris , France )
DVD release
All episodes of Tegtmeier's Travels have been available in a DVD box since 2009.
Web links
- Tegtmeiers travel in the Internet Movie Database (English)