Tour de Ruhr (TV series)

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Television series
Original title Tour de Ruhr
Country of production Germany
original language German
year 1980
length 45 minutes
Episodes 6th
Director Reinhard Schwabenitzky
idea Elke Heidenreich
music Arthur Lauber
First broadcast March 27, 1981 on WDR
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Tour de Ruhr is the title of a six-part television series that was created based on the screenplay by Elke Heidenreich and was first broadcast on West German television in 1981 and on ARD's Sunday afternoon program in 1983.

The series shows a bike tour by Karlheinz Stratmann with his wife Lisbeth and their fifteen-year-old daughter Martina as well as his work colleague Harald Schlümer with his girlfriend Ines. It leads from Dortmund through the northern Ruhr area to Duisburg. The series conveys impressions from the Ruhr area around 1980, which was undergoing structural change after collieries were closed. The tour is presented as unusual, although bicycle tours are popular again, but not through the Ruhr area.

The director was the Austrian Reinhard Schwabenitzky, who cast the role of the seamstress Ines with his future wife Elfi Eschke.

review

“The Dortmund federal railway official Harald Schlümer (Eckhard Heise) rides his girlfriend Ines (Elfi Eschke) through the Ruhr area by bike. Schlümers work colleague Karlheinz Stratmann (Henry van Lyck), his wife Lisbeth (Marie-Luise Marjan) and the daughter Martina (Klaudia Schunck) together with friend Wolf-Rüdiger (Ralf Richter), called 'Wölfchen', join them. You drive past sights and it comes to arguments, marital quarrels, jealousy and flat tires. The six stages led from Dortmund via Henrichenburg, Westerholt, the 'Our Fritz' settlement in Wanne, Gelsenkirchen and Hünxe to Duisburg. Elke Heidenreich's family series was not least a declaration of love to the Ruhr area with all its surprisingly beautiful, green sides, but also the social problems. "

- Michael Reufsteck , Stefan Niggemeier

Episodes

episode 1

Karlheinz Stratmann and Harald Schlümer work as federal railway officials in the middle service on the platform.

Karlheinz would like to tell other people what to do, especially his wife Lisbeth and his daughter Martina, which often leads to arguments with him. He drives an old mid-size sedan and lives with his family in an apartment block. Lisbeth works as a temporary worker in the Hüttenkieker restaurant around lunchtime. Martina has a friend named Wolf, who is already working and owns a car. The parents do not like the relationship.

Harald tends to show off and drives a new coupé. With this he takes out the seamstress Ines, with whom he has been together for a week. He reports about life on the platform and Ines about her unusual project of a bike tour through the Ruhr area, which Harald joins without being asked.

To make himself important, Harald asks his work colleague if he would like to take part in the tour. Karlheinz reports again at noon in the Hüttenkieker over a beer to his wife and the daughter who is also present about the idea. Lisbeth is astonished. Martina doesn't like such a tour at all at first, but changes her mind during the course of the day when her boyfriend suggests coming to visit her every evening. After Harald asks his colleague repeatedly and notes that he and Ines would be passing his housing estate anyway, Karlheinz and Lisbeth buy bicycles.

On the first day of his vacation, Harald arrives at Ines with a racing bike without a luggage rack, so that he is only packed with a backpack. After a short drive, the two surprisingly meet the Stratmann family, which annoys Ines. However, Harald points out that he will have to continue to work with Karlheinz and suggests driving on alone after a day. Martina makes friends with Ines. The five drive along a canal and then want to dine in the snack bar Schlemmer-Stübchen, but are put off by an unfriendly and, to top it all, smoking service behind the dining counter. You visit the new Henrichenburg ship lift and end your stage in a restaurant with an attached guesthouse. The Stratmann family spend the night together in one room, which Martina does not like. Harald and Ines want to camp, but have to return to the pension because they forgot herring.

Episode 2

Karlheinz plans a route in the dining room with the destination Westerholt . Harald and Ines, however, have breakfast in the room to go unnoticed. So, to the disappointment of Martina, the Stratmanns can just see her drive away. But they all meet again on the country road and continue the journey together.

A red construction site traffic light then separates men and women, which the women use to wait in a restaurant with refreshing drinks. The men overlook the bicycles in front of the door and are only stopped by a bizarre Swiss cyclist with a trailer on the roadside, who reports that he comes from Rapperswil , is on his way back from Moscow and is unable to find his way around the Ruhr area, so he has the feeling to drive in circles. Then the women arrive, whereupon the Stratmann couple insult each other about the incident, which Harald and Ines use to continue on their own.

Harald initially injured himself in a fall in the ditch and is then asked in the middle of the landscape by two mounted police officers to retrofit lights and mudguards on his bicycle. Ines is surprised at how unusually subdued Harald is: "... I'm a civil servant myself ..." In the next city center, Harald has his bike retrofitted while Ines buys pegs for the tent. When the two are resting in the castle park, Martina suddenly comes running to stop her ball on the way into a pond.

Karlheinz does not like Martina running into the water and orders her to be arrested for the evening, and Wolfchen has announced that he is. Ines promises to help Martina and comes with her to Westerholt. There the adults go out to eat and Martina to dance with the little wolf. When the visit to the restaurant draws to a close, Martina is informed by Ines and Harald so that she can be in her hotel room on time.

Episode 3

During a break, Martina and Ines bathe in the lake, which Karlheinz doesn't like at all, whereupon Martina no longer wants to take part in the tour. Lisbeth saves the situation by suggesting a visit to Uncle Jakob and Aunt Änne, who live nearby. Martina successfully asks that Ines and Harald also come along. The tour group meets the bizarre Swiss again and passes a street festival a few meters from the destination, which is also a protest against the demolition of the housing estate.

Martina visits Grandpa Berghoff with his goat and then gets to know a protest singer better at the party. When the latter said late in the evening that Martina had to become more political, she turned away from him again. Uncle Jakob gives a speech in which he calls for the purchase of the houses in the settlement, which are to be given up after the colliery is closed. He also assumes that the mine will reopen soon, as coal still has a future.

Wolfchen meets Karlheinz in the house and suspects it is Uncle Jakob. Since Martina is currently with the protest singer, the two of them go to a bar where Karlheinz is amazed at the work of Wölfchen: “Steel cooker, what kind of job is that?” In the end, he thinks Wölfchen is okay.

Harald sets up his tent in the garden to spend the night there alone. He is not interested in the events at all and he arranges to meet Ines to continue the next day without the Stratmanns.

In the evening Lisbeth raves about Schloss Berge and that they want to eat there. Martina and Ines, who spend the night in the living room, consider this to be a consequence of reading reports about royal families over and over again.

Episode 4

In the morning, Harald asks if you should get away, but Ines says that everyone wants to have lunch together in the castle. But first you have breakfast in the garden with Aunt Änne, Uncle Jakob and Grandpa Berghoff. In the castle restaurant Lisbeth puts on a new dress in the toilet, while Martina, Karlheinz and especially Harald attract attention with their bad behavior. Martina calls Wolfchen before dinner to explain the situation at the street festival, which she does not manage. So Karlheinz has to persuade her in the palace garden that Wolfchen is all right and that she should let him come.

On the onward journey, Karlheinz insists on seeing the places of his childhood again and suggests that the others should go to the Ruhr Zoo alone . But Harald follows him. The two take a look at the old marshalling yard, where Karlheinz talks about his relationship with Klärchen, who followed Lisbeth and then became pregnant. In return, Harald doubts whether Ines is the right woman for him because she discusses too much what Karlheinz is trying to talk him out of. You also have a look at the old football stadium, where Karlheinz used to be often, and finally go to the agreed meeting point, the Sporteck restaurant, where Karlheinz is still very well known.

In between, Karlheinz visits Klärchen, who is now divorced from her husband. During this time Harald began to be interested in a young woman who came with her mother. When he is standing in front of the door with her, Ines just arrives, who only comments with “Do not be bothered!”. Wolfchen has already visited Martina in the zoo and offers Harald on request to take him to Dortmund. Karlheinz can just prevent this by booking a double room for Harald and Ines and a triple room for his family above the restaurant. However, there is no success: Ines just wants to sleep and be left alone.

Episode 5

While staying in the city center, Karlheinz books an overnight stay in a country inn in a travel agency to surprise his family, while Martina puts on a T-shirt in a fashion store but doesn't pay. Ines and Harald agree to book a caravan for the next night to be alone, and are amazed that Liesbeth is sitting in the same restaurant with an acquaintance. The next destination on the tour is Traumland Park , where Karlheinz notices the price tag on his daughter's T-shirt.

For the picnic that follows, Harald fetches beer from the nearest restaurant, where his saddle is stolen. Then Harald and Ines spend the night at the booked campsite, while the Stratmann family continues to the country inn. There is also Wolfchen, who sneaks into Martina's room after a visit to the bar. At the campsite, the evening does not go so smoothly, Ines admonishes Harald: "I'm not just your bed bunny!"

Episode 6

After waking up, Harald asks if you should stay a few more days at the campsite, but Ines wants to keep the breakfast appointment with the Stratmanns.

Lisbeth sees Wolfchen leaving the hotel, Karlheinz driving away and Ines and Harald approaching them on the road. When Wolfchen appears for breakfast and pretends to have come from home, everyone just thinks they know the truth themselves. After all, Wolfchen doesn't like the mood and he drives back to Dortmund.

Although it is a detour, Harald gets through by visiting his hometown Duisburg . First you visit the gas station of your old friend Hotte Niemeyer. Harald shows off his secure life as a civil servant so much that Ines is increasingly disgusted. The next item on the program is a harbor tour. In front of the jetty you meet the Swiss cyclist again, and a dispute breaks out between Harald and Ines, which leads to Harald saying goodbye and going home.

The remaining tour participants drive along the Rhine to a café that the Stratmanns last visited when Martina was little. While eating ice cream on the terrace, Ines tells us that she will continue to Amsterdam and visit the pop festival there. Martina joins her, whereupon the Stratmanns are alone. Karlheinz announces a surprise and gets tickets to Amsterdam while his wife waits on the platform.

Locations

The locations are not all on the way as it appears in the film.

episode 1

Karlheinz and Harald work at Dortmund Central Station . The Stratmanns live in the north of Dortmund, namely in the Eving district , Krainerstraße, near the Böhmerwaldstraße intersection. The Hüttenkicker is not nearby, as the series suggests, but in the Hörde district , on Hochofenstrasse, and thus in the south of Dortmund. The house still exists, but the restaurant no longer exists. Ines' apartment is also in Hörde, but close to the center not far from the Luther Church.

The tour leads along the Dortmund-Ems Canal to the Henrichenburg ship lift. The Schlemmer-Stübchen snack bar is not on the way, but in Herten , near the Feldstrasse / Westerholter Strasse intersection. The railway line next to the snack bar leads to the nearby Nordstern colliery and has now become a cycle path.

The first stage destination is the Döttelbeck house, which has since been demolished in favor of the new Döttelbeck bridge that crosses the Rhine-Herne Canal .

  • Ines' home, 2015

  • The home of the Stratmanns, 2015

  • Former restaurant Zum Hüttenkieker, 2015

  • Dortmund Central Station, 2017

  • Henrichenburg ship lift, 2015

  • Former Schlemmerstübchen, 2015

  • The Döttelbeck house had to make way for the bridge shown in 2015

Episode 2

The direct route from Haus Döttelbeck to Westerholt would be just 20 km. The Friedag inn, where the women stop, is in Dülmen , on the country road halfway between Dülmen and Coesfeld-Lette . It is therefore not on the way at all and is no longer in the Ruhr area, but already in the Münsterland .

While driving by, two motorcyclists hit Ines on her buttocks on Westerholter Strasse between the Herten districts of Westerholt and Langenbochum . Harald tries to pursue them, but falls and injures himself.

Ines and Harald go shopping in Herten, although the scenes in the department store with escalators come from another city. Then the two stop in the pedestrian zone at an ice cream parlor that still exists today. It is not far from the Herten Mitte bus stop. Then the two rest in the park of Herten Castle .

The journey of the entire tour group finally leads past the golf course to the old village of Westerholt, where the Alte Börse inn is located. There they pass the sundial, which is located on a house wall.

  • Former Friedag restaurant, 2017

  • Former Friedag restaurant, 2017

  • Herten pedestrian zone as seen from the ice cream parlor, 2017

  • Herten Castle, 2017

  • Old village in Westerholt, entrance to the village, 2016

  • Weg durch Westerholt, 2015

  • Sundial, Old Village in Westerholt, 2015

  • Sundial, Old Village in Westerholt, 2015

  • Hotel Zur Börse in Westerholt, 2015

Episode 3

The journey ends in the star street in Herne district Unser Fritz / Crange (named after the nearby coal mine), where the house of Aunt and Uncle Jacob Änne is located.

  • Uncle Jakob and Aunt Änne's house, 2015

Episode 4

Ernst Kuzorra's tobacco shop was on Kurt-Schumacher-Allee in the section that is now called Schalker Meile. It no longer exists, but has now become a sales point for FC Schalke 04 . The sign above the shop reminds of the past as a tobacco shop. The Ruhr Zoo in Gelsenkirchen is now called Zoom Erlebniswelt Gelsenkirchen and has been extensively rebuilt. The football stadium is the Glückauf-Kampfbahn . It is no longer used for Bundesliga games. The Sporteck restaurant no longer exists, but the house in which it was located does. It is diagonally across from the tobacco shop, but this cannot be seen in the series. Klärchen's former apartment is on Walzer Straße 22. The new apartment is on Kurt Schumacher Straße 55, and therefore not within sight of the old apartment, as suggested in the scene setting.

  • Berge Castle, 2015

  • Berge Castle, 2015

  • Former tobacco shop owned by Ernst Kuzorra and Stan Libuda, 2017

  • Glückauf-Kampfbahn, 2017

  • The entrance to the zoo in Gelsenkirchen, 2017

  • Former Sporteck restaurant, 2017

  • Former Sporteck restaurant, 2017

  • Access to the back yard of the former Sporteck restaurant, 2017

Episode 5

The Traumland Park was near Bottrop-Kirchhellen , today the Movie Park Germany is in its place.

The restaurant in front of which Harald's saddle is stolen from his bicycle is in Hünxe on Wilhelmstrasse. It is the former Landwehr house , which is now empty.

The Schillingsrott campsite , where Ines and Harald spend their night together, is located in the Gahlen district of Schermbeck , right on the border with Hünxe, on Hünxer Straße. The old barrier and the old gate are still there.

The Landgasthof Loemühle is located near the Marl-Loemühle airfield and thus about 15 km from Traumland Park and 45 km from Duisburg. It represents a considerable, albeit feasible, detour.

  • Gasthof Zur Loemühle, 2015

  • Gasthof Zur Loemühle, 2015

  • Gasthof Zur Loemühle, 2015

Episode 6

The trip leads to Duisburg, where it is shown as if Hotte Niemeyer's gas station is also there. In fact, it was on Castroper Strasse in Recklinghausen . It has now been torn down and replaced by a drinks store.

Then the tour group goes to Ruhrort , where the ships dock for the harbor tour. Then the Stratmanns drive with Ines to the Zur Arche restaurant in Voerde , which is right on the banks of the Rhine. Karlheinz and Lisbeth can then be seen again on the platform of the Dinslaken train station , from where they want to go to Amsterdam .

  • Location of the gas station, 2017

  • Location of the gas station, 2017

  • Café Zur Arche, 2015

  • Café Zur Arche, 2015

  • Dinslaken station, 2015

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tour de Ruhr at fernsehserien.de , accessed on September 2, 2011.