Trautmann (TV series)
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| Original title | Trautmann |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | Viennese |
| Year (s) | 2000-2008 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Episodes | 10 |
| genre | Thriller |
| idea | Ernst Hinterberger |
| production | MR film |
| First broadcast | December 21, 2000 on ORF 1 |
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Trautmann is commissioned by the ORF of the MR film produced between 2000 and 2008 crime - television series . The script for the 90-minute episodes was written by Ernst Hinterberger , the pilot was directed by Harald Sicherheitsitz , and all subsequent episodes by Thomas Roth .
background
The character of Trautmann originally emerged from the role of the Viennese police officer Trautmann in the television series Kaisermühlen-Blues . When this series ended in 1999 after seven years, the independent series Trautmann was continued as a spin-off .
In the aftermath, Commissioner Trautmann solves cases that are largely located in the milieu of the Viennese half- and underworld.
The series takes place in the 2nd district of Vienna, Leopoldstadt , around the Karmeliterviertel . Recurring locations are the (fictional) market café on Karmeliterplatz, run by “Hansi” (Viktoria Schubert) and “Mariedl” ( Margarethe Tiesel ), as well as the horse butcher's shop and the “Miranda-Bar” nightclub.
The homeless alcoholic Rudi ( Johannes Silberschneider ) and the work-shy Franzi (Karl Künstler) are often in the market café.
characters
- Trautmann can be addressed in the series with you and his surname, because he is embarrassed by his first name Polycarp . The fact that the service regulations are less important to him when there is an urgent need for action or when humanity is in the foreground becomes clear in the first episode, when Trautmann tries to blame a Russian gangster for murder in order to protect a father. He often smokes self-rolled cigarettes and stops at the “market café”, where he has “ little blacks ” and cognac .
- Kurt "King-Kong" Brösler ( Ernst Konarek ) and Ignaz "Nazl-Onkel" Wessely ( Heinz Petters ) play an important role in almost every episode. Brösler is a pimp and manager of the "Miranda-Bar", which belongs to underworld boss Wessely.
- Ferdinand "Ferdl" Grünsteidl ( Erwin Steinhauer ) is a member of the National Council whose party is never mentioned, a woman hero and Trautmann's worst enemy. His wife Hilde (Beatrice Frey) runs a poultry shop on the Karmelitermarkt. Only in the last episode it turns out that he is a member of a right-wing populist party with the blue party color. (See "The Hanno Heart Story")
- “Fini” Gasser ( Brigitte Kren ) works for the horse meat butcher at the Karmelitermarkt, where Trautmann often gets meat loafs.
- Monika "Moni" Tränkler ( Monica Weinzettl ) is Trautmann's tough colleague in group 4 of police station 2. She is good at combining, sporty and likes to ride a motorcycle.
- Karl-Heinz “Burschi” Dolezal ( Simon Schwarz ) also belongs to group 4. He is very quick-tempered and always has to act up. “Burschi” easily slips into vulgarity and often criticizes Trautmann, but rather out of jealousy. “Burschi” would like to end up with Moni, but Moni repeatedly lets him down. He is also responsible for the computer science work of "Koat 2".
- Colonel Brandner ( Wolfram Berger ) and the coroner ( Karl Ferdinand Kratzl ) complete the investigative staff of the series.
Production notes
From 2002 onwards, the series was to replace the previous investigator Chief Inspector Moritz Eisner ( Harald Krassnitzer ) in the joint production Tatort . But shortly before it was broadcast, this production was rejected by ARD because the strong Viennese dialect could not be perfectly understood by many German viewers. Trautmann is therefore only broadcast on Austrian radio and on the 3sat community channel . From January 1, 2009, it was broadcast on RTL Crime .
In 2002 Wolfgang Böck made a guest appearance as Trautmann in the children's crime series Tom Turbo .
consequences
| episode | title | First broadcast on ORF | script | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who is tricky remains | December 21, 2000 | Ernst Hinterberger | Harald Sicherheitsitz |
| 2 | Nothing is so fine | October 28, 2001 | Ernst Hinterberger | Thomas Roth |
| 3 | The last shirt has no pockets | October 13, 2002 | Ernst Hinterberger | Thomas Roth |
| 4th | Life sentence | May 25, 2003 | Thomas Roth, Ernst Hinterberger | Thomas Roth |
| 5 | The game is over | August 1, 2004 | Thomas Roth, Ernst Hinterberger | Thomas Roth |
| 6th | Everything as it was | September 12, 2004 | Thomas Roth, Ernst Hinterberger | Thomas Roth |
| 7th | Heavyweight | November 21, 2004 | Thomas Roth, Ernst Hinterberger | Thomas Roth |
| 8th | 71 days | December 12, 2004 | Thomas Roth, Ernst Hinterberger | Thomas Roth |
| 9 | boomerang | November 14, 2006 | Ernst Hinterberger, Thomas Roth | Thomas Roth |
| 10 | The Hanno Herz story | November 2, 2008 | Thomas Roth, Ernst Hinterberger | Thomas Roth |
Episode content
A dead person is found at the pleasure house water. A colleague from Budapest contacts Trautmann. The description of the corpse fits a girl missing in Hungary, Aranca Todt. Trautmann goes to Hungary to talk to the von Aranca family, while Burschi and Moni interview Todt's father, who works on a ship. While Trautmann and his colleague are investigating trafficking in girls, Aranca's father tells us that his daughter studied in Dortmund. In a discotheque, Trautmann questions young girls who testify that a certain "Simba" Aranca had recruited as a model.
In the market café on Vienna's Karmelitermarkt, Sandler gives Rudi Trautmann and Moni the tip that Simba could be a certain Leo Pospischil (Thomas Morris). Pospischil, the son of a prostitute (Maresa Hörbiger), is said to work in the milieu and was once heavily addicted to cocaine. Trautmann asks "King-Kong" Brösel in the Miranda-Bar, a nightspot: The latter tells him that Pospischil is doing jobs for Russian girl smugglers.
'The Russians' meanwhile ask National Councilor Ferdinand “Ferdl” Grünsteidl for help, he should stop Trautmann's investigations. Moni and Trautmann finally find Pospischil shot dead in his apartment and are now also looking for his murderer.
Leo's mother "Mizzi" says that one of the Russians is a certain Belzin. During an identity check in the Miranda bar, prostitute Ilonka is arrested. She knows Aranca and tells of her deportation to Austria.
Moni also believes that Aranca's father took revenge on Simba Pospischil and thus killed him. Their suspicions are confirmed: Moni and "Burschi" led Todt to Pospischil through their own investigative work.
Trautmann meets other kidnapped girls and learns that Pospischil and Aranca were in a relationship. Trautmann and Burschi finally find Janos Todt, but the department inspector wants to do justice to justice and portray the girl trafficker Belzin as the murderer of Aranca and Pospischil.
The Russian Criminal Syndicate refuses to help Anatoly Belzin, who is in custody. Belzin wants to testify in revenge against his friends and is poisoned by them.
During an autopsy, the coroner (Karl Ferdinand Kratzl) discovers that the deceased has been murdered. It concerns Mr. Rudolf Doppler, a wealthy locksmith entrepreneur who was initially diagnosed with a stroke. The entrepreneur was stabbed in the head with a sharp object, the stab wound could initially not be recognized by his thick hair.
His widow ( Michou Friesz ) has been taken to a clinic because of the shock of this death. Irene Doppler gave a barbecue party at the time of the murder, where Mr. and Mrs. Grünsteidl were also present.
The locksmith's accountant, Mrs. Sageder, was Doppler's lover. Section head Antonitsch (Peter Matić) and sinologist Dr. Felix Dechant, Irene's brother ( Joachim Bissmeier ), are now suspected.
Trautmann discovers that Doppler, Grünsteidl and Brösler have carried out illegal business. Hilde Grünsteidl and Irene Doppler have both 'ripped off' a lifeguard ( Wolfgang Pissecker ). Burschi is injured by Wessely's bodyguards when they beat up the lifeguard.
To clarify the matter, Trautmann agrees to meet the 'Nazl uncle' for a closed discussion in the market café: Wessely says that Irene Doppler commissioned him to kill her husband because he suspected something about their affair and wanted to get a divorce. The lifeguard introduced the two of them, so Wessely decided to give him a rub. Ferdl Grünsteidl wanted his wife, who is also having an affair with the lifeguard, in the fight, so that she can see "what happens when she lets someone else whip her" (original sound: Nazl uncle).
In the meantime, Irene Doppler makes a second suicide attempt. A nurse ( Maria Hofstätter ) from the psychiatric clinic says that the widow Doppler is only faking her illness and her suicide attempts. Meanwhile, Antonitsch poses as the businessman's murderer. But Trautmann doubts his guilt.
Ferdinand Grünsteidl's illegality went wrong, but Wessely slipped him extra money.
Trautmann's doubts are confirmed: Antonitsch's alleged murder weapon, a puncture needle, is out of the question as a tool. Moni and Trautmann discover in the Felix Dechants collection in the Museum für Völkerkunde an ancient 'pestle' with which Doppler could have been killed. Dechant confesses in the museum and then flees.
Trautmann senses a lead and finally meets Dechant in his own apartment. Ms. Doppler, who planned the crime with her brother and gave him the key to the apartment, is also arrested.
Ms. Sageder, who was not only Doppler's lover, but also has a current “Pantscherl” with Ferdl Grünsteidl, reveals him and his illegal business with which she assisted him. Sageder is disappointed because she now realizes that the woman hero Grünsteidl is not serious about her. Trautmann can put his 'favorite enemy' at the airport urinal. The member of the National Council carries the money from the illegal real estate transactions with him. Trautmann cannot harm the politician, but informs Brösler and Wessely, who think that the politician wants to get away with their money, and promptly take the sum away from him.
Colonel Brandner celebrates his birthday in an inn in the Prater . However, Trautmann, Moni and Burschi have to leave the party early because a man was murdered in an underground car park. It is an Albanian who was run over by a woman in her car. The woman is probably a long-sought serial thief who steals expensive classic cars. Moni notices that she has already noticed the jaguar in the Prater.
Back in the amusement park, Burschi and Trautmann meet Josef “Panther von Glasgow” Krivanek (Helfried Edlinger). The former wonder goalkeeper of Austria is now an alcoholic homeless man and hangs around the Prater. But he protests that he has not seen anything.
Grünsteidl is 'stranded' in the Caribbean: He has run out of money and is now asking his wife for help. She also pays the bill, but sets a private detective on Ferdl in Vienna in order to finally have evidence of his infidelity.
Moni finds the stolen Jaguar in the Prater the next morning, and there's a lot of heroin hidden in the car.
Grünsteidl's holiday acquaintance and lover Anna Gregory (Tatjana Velimirov) receives a visit from her deceased mother's partner in Vienna: the criminal Franz Mittermüller asks Anna to take care of his bag.
Trautmann goes to the trotting track to ask Wessely and Brösler for advice: Brösler knows the dead Albanian and gives Trautmann the tip that the UÇK could have a hand in the game. Trautmann also sees Slansky ( Hansi Lang ) at the horse race. He remembers that he knew him from prison and that he was involved in drug offenses.
Slansky is killed by UÇK men in the Miranda Bar, Brenner ( Franz Josef Csencsits ), Trautmann's archenemy, led them to him. They want to know where Slansky got the heroin he was trying to sell them from. Slansky mentions Krivanek, but is murdered by the Albanians anyway.
Krivanek dies in a fire. The police assume an accident involving petroleum, but Trautmann has his doubts.
In a panic, Mittermüller reappears at Gregory's and confesses to her the story about the bag: According to this, the car thief is Mittermüller, who, disguised as a woman, cracks oldtimers all over Vienna. When he tried to steal the Jaguar, the alleged owner fought back with a pistol, so that he had to run over him. In his hiding place in the Prater it becomes clear why the Albanian wanted to prevent the theft by force of arms: drugs are smuggled with the help of the car. However, Mittermüller is observed by Krivanek examining the car. The ex-soccer player offers the criminal a deal: he short-cuts with Slansky, who is supposed to sell the heroin for the two of them. However, the UÇK judges the roast and kills Slansky and Krivanek. Now they are looking for Mittermüller and the rest of the heroin that is in the bag that the criminal gave his ex-stepdaughter to keep.
During the conversation, Grünsteidl comes by for a shepherd's hour with his lover, Mittermüller steals his car and secretly runs away. The private detective hired by Hilde considers the criminal disguised as a woman to be Grünsteidl's love affair and pursues him. Mittermüller has an accident and has to flee on foot. However, the detective takes a lot of photos of him. Shortly afterwards he informs the police and it turns out that the story of the stolen car, as Grünsteidl tells it, cannot be true. Trautmann informs the politician of the investigation results in front of his wife, whereupon Hilde puts her Ferdl in front of the door.
Gregory finally reveals to Trautmann where Mittermüller lives, and he can be arrested. In the end, Trautmann threatens Brenner and the confiscated heroin is burned.
Trautmann picks up his 'archenemy', the drug criminal Wilhelm Brenner, from the airport. In episode 3 you could already see in flashbacks that Brenner brought Trautmann's daughter into contact with heroin, Trautmann tried to catch the dealer abroad and accidentally shot his lover. Brenner has now been arrested abroad for a murder and is extradited to Austria. In custody he meets Mittermüller, who is already known from the third episode and is now starting his prison sentence.
The prostitute "Franzi" Beimbichler ( Maria Bill ) asks Trautmann to see her daughter Rosi, she seems to have slipped into the milieu. Furthermore, the renowned doctor Prof. Dr. Krupnik ( Manfred diving ) killed. Caretaker Smeibidlo ( Erika Deutinger ) was once Trautmann's school colleague and is now being questioned by him about the murder.
Grünsteidl is supposed to be the cashier of the Viennese party friends, in order to rise further afterwards. Chairman Dr. Werner wants Ferdl to get his marital problems under control beforehand. As a reconciliation gift, Ferdl buys a supposedly expensive wristwatch for Hilde. Grünsteidl is once again hasty and tells a journalist that he will soon be General Secretary of the federal party and also wants to take action against Trautmann. He asks the reporter to take photos of Trautmann and his tipsters from the underworld.
Krupnik's wife ( Hilde Berger ) was only married to him pro forma, she tells Colonel Brandner of a long-term relationship between the doctor and a stranger. It turns out that ordination aid Köhrer ( Ulli Maier ) had a relationship with her employer. Trautmann examines Krupnik's private apartment on his own and finds numerous videos showing celebrities having sex.
Trautmann's investigation leads him once again to the Nazl uncle: Smeibidlo has described a pimp type who came to Dr. on the day of the murder. Krupnik wanted. Nazl-Uncle reveals the name of the wanted man: Ivanauskas.
In the elevator shaft of Dr. Kruppnik find two craftsmen a bloody rag. Moni and Trautmann learn from the notary ( Kurt Sobotka ) that the murder victim has considered Beate Köhrer in his will. Smeibidlo is present when the craftsmen are questioned and finally admits that she killed Kruppnik because he is said to have treated her deceased husband Loisl wrong.
Trautmann doubts the statement of his former school colleague, he suspects that her strong medication clouded her perception. Colonel Brandner does not want to know anything about it, and Grünsteidl "shoots" sharply in the press against the police officer's methods of investigation.
Hilde Grünsteidl is attacked by "Rosi" Beimbichler ( Stefanie Dvorak ) near her house, the business woman's bag and watch are taken away. Grünsteidl uses the attack on his wife to hold another press conference against Trautmann.
Trautmann hooks up with Brösler and Wessely and finally goes to Ivanauska's apartment. After a chase, however, the wanted man had a fatal accident without the officers being able to question him. Brandner is angry and even the police chief wants Trautmann to take a vacation.
Moni finds out that Krupnik has worked with Ivanauska's "tugboat" because of his ability to create identification papers.
“Burschi” hears the arrested “Rosi” Beimbichler: Trautmann insists on bringing Hilde's bag to the Grünsteidls in person. It also turns out that the “reconciliation clock” is a cheap duplicate. Trautmann also confronts the politician with the sex video that was recorded at Kruppnik. Grünsteidl finally has to publicly revoke his allegations against Trautmann.
Trautmann asks Helga Smeibidlo one last time and learns that Köhrer has given the caretaker her heavy medication. These lead to severe perception disorders. Bills prove that Kruppnik stopped paying the rent for Köhrer and also wanted to urgently change the will in which his ordination assistance was considered.
Trautmann confronts Köhrer with his suspicions against her and it turns out that Köhrer was dismissed and dumped by Kruppnik, who then killed him, put Smeibidlo on medication and put the bloody knife in her hand.
Finally, Trautmann sits down with "Rosi" Beimbichler, he has long suspected that she is in contact with the "incarcerated" Brenner. "Rosi" remains stubborn and does not reveal anything. However, she promises to go on vacation with her mother.
Mittermüller and Brenner are planning a coup. "Rosi" Beimbichler, who is in love with Brenner and secretly telephones with him, attacks the tobacconist Böltl ( Walter Davy ) and other tobacco shops .
“Trixi” ( Nora Heschl ), a young bank clerk and the godchild of “Nazl-Uncle” Wessely, constantly confuses the emergency call switch with the shutter button in the bank. “Wolfi” and his colleague have to come for the umpteenth time, although nothing has happened.
"Ferdl" Grünsteidl accepts an illegal party donation from Heinz Pock ( Heribert Sasse ).
Brenner and Mittermüller manipulate Brenner's teeth so that they both have to go to the dental clinic at the same time. Once there, they can overpower the officers with a pistol that "Rosi" has left at the toilet and flee. You want to rob a bank, before that Mittermüller “tweaks” the supposed emergency call cable.
Trautmann suspects that "Rosi" is the series burglar.
Brenner and Mittermüller attack the Wiener Landesbank. As luck would have it, there are several interesting people in the branch at this point:
Trautmann, who would like to pay his electricity and gas bill, Grünsteidl, who would like to put the party donation in a locked suitcase in his wife's locker, and “Nazl-Onkel” and “King” Brösler, the bank director Dr. Brendel ( Klaus Ofczarek ) adjust his head because he has complained about Wessely's beloved godchild "Trixi".
Since "Trixi" once again shortly before the attack that "printed the wrong buttons" and "Burschi" asked Trautmann over the phone that everything was ok, no special attention is paid to another alarm.
At the bank, Brenner now not only wants to take the money from the cash register, but also to rob the vault. Mittermüller cut the wrong line, so the alarm was triggered anyway and the power supply to the safe door was interrupted in accordance with regulations.
Moni and "Burschi" drive past the bank to pick up Trautmann, they can barely save themselves when Brenner and Mittermüller open fire. A hostage drama is developing now. Brenner opens Grünsteidl's suitcase and finds the money. Then his collar bursts and he shoots accomplice Mittermüller.
During the night, Brenner releases a few hostages, and Trautmann tries to give his colleagues a hidden tip that Brenner is communicating with someone via SMS. In fact, “Burschi” and Moni “Rosi” notice and they pursue them.
Brenner leaves the bank with Trautmann, "Trixi" and Grünsteidl. Moni and "Burschi" can overwhelm "Rosi". Brenner, who is traveling by car, lets "Trixi" and Grünsteidl get off one after the other and drives with Trautmann to the hotel, where he has made an appointment with "Rosi".
Trautmann escapes in the hotel, but Brenner gets into the room where Moni and “Burschi” are with “Rosi”. He tied up the two policemen and the security guard who had joined them and tried to escape with "Rosi". Brenner is shot by a WEGA officer, but he and "Rosi" can still drive off.
Trautmann suspects that “Rosi” could have spoken to her mother. He feels "Franzi" on the tooth and promises that the information can have a mitigating effect on her daughter.
In fact, the police officers can surprise “Rosi” while shopping and Trautmann gives the seriously injured Brenner the opportunity to commit suicide.
The married "Fini" has an affair with a "newbie", Karl Auer ( Karl Fischer ). Verena Leinwarther ( Jutta Fastian ), a single mother, also has a "Pantscherl" with a married teacher Egon Bruckner ( Christoph Moosbrugger ).
"Ferdl" Grünsteidl has to resign from his political functions because of the illegal party donation. Party leader Dr. However, Werner offers him a place in the fast-food group of John Flachsberger, a self-made millionaire with Austrian roots. Flachsberger would like to expand Hilde Grünsteidl's poultry business: "Chicken Ticker" is to grow into a fast food chain. But Hilde is transverse. Therefore Grünsteidl is looking for other partners.
Verena Leinwarther is murdered, her daughter Annemarie (Fenella Chudoba) observes the crime and runs away.
Rudi reveals to Trautmann that Verena made a big lottery win that she kept at home.
Moni and Brandner ask teacher Bruckner about his student Annemarie. Later, Moni and “Burschi” notice that the last call on Leinwarther's cell phone came from Bruckner. Bruckner confesses his affair with Leinwarther.
The horse butcher finds his employee "Fini" dead in the freezer.
The Prater whore "Lady" (Roswitha Soukup) gives Trautmann the tip that Annemarie is hiding near the Hochschaubahn in the amusement park. Trautmann manages to find the girl. Annemarie is severely traumatized and cannot be questioned for the time being.
Karl Auer is addicted to gambling and murdered Leinwarther because he found out from "Fini" that Leinwarther had made money. When “Fini” tells that Trautmann asked her who she told about the lottery win, Auer also kills his lover. When he learns that Annemarie has been found, he also decides to move her out of the way. He disguises himself as a child psychologist and offers to help group 4, but they do not reveal any information. After this failure, Auer calls Annemarie's supposed father and finally assaults the girl in the hospital. However, it can flee and goes to Trautmann's home. There it records the murder scene for the policeman.
"Hansi" takes care of Annemarie, while Trautmann drives to the "Koat" to discuss the latest findings. Moni tells Trautmann about the supposed doctor who wanted to see him.
Grünsteidl wants to win Wessely as a partner for the "Chicken Ticker".
Trautmann drives back to his apartment and watches TV with Annemarie. In a feature film with Heinz Rühmann , the famous children's song La Le Lu can be heard - only the man in the moon is watching , Annemarie reacts in panic. It falls from Trautmann's eyes like scales: The song plays a toy box that Karl Auer sold to the "Nazl uncle" at the flea market. Annemarie's drawing fits Auer exactly.
Group 4 drives to Auer's apartment, but he is not there. Moni sends a patrol car to Trautmann's house, where Annemarie is waiting alone. In fact, Auer remembers that he saw Trautmann's address on a drawing in the hospital and now suspects the girl to be there.
Moni and Trautmann can intervene, "Burschi" ultimately incapacitates Auer.
European Championship title fight in the light heavyweight division: Ronny "The Punchman" Formanek ( Wolfgang Pissecker ) boxes against a German.
Ronny wins, he desperately needs the prize money: The light-hearted boxer has to pay debts, pay alimony for his ex-wife and their child and also wants to set aside some money for the operation of his former boxing trainer and “foster father” Fritz ( Fritz Muliar ) .
At “King” Brösler a package is handed in for the “Nazl-Uncle”: Inside is a cut off ear. This belongs to a bodyguard from Wessely. A little later, a prostitute is murdered in the “Miranda Bar”. A gang war begins to rage in the Viennese underworld: The "Nazl uncle" is in a dispute with a Russian underworld man named Vitali Choroschenko (András Gönczöl). This and his lawyer Dr. Prochanski ( Martin Semmelrogge ) want to gain the upper hand over the Viennese "dash".
Trautmann decides to hand the case over to the security office. However, he investigates the thefts in the Atlanta boxing club: Ronny, who is always worried about money, steals money from his colleagues' lockers.
Grünsteidl's “Chicken Ticker” is running miserably. His latest acquisition is Formanek's ex-wife (Monika Hilmerová), who now works in the “Chicken Ticker” kitchen.
“Ferdl” is also in business with Khoroshenko and Prochanski: he has received money from them for his restaurant and cannot repay it. Prochanski offers him that the matter will be forgotten when Grünsteidl knows how to thread a deal between him and Wessely. The strangers want to buy the “Miranda Bar”.
Formanek urgently needs money, he asks Brösler for help. However, he rejects him. Dr. Prochanski matches the boxer and offers him that he should lose the fight on purpose and that he will be rewarded princely for it. Since Formanek is a huge favorite, Khoroshenko and Prochanski would cash out if they bet a huge sum on Ronny's opponent, whom they organized themselves. Formanek initially defends himself, but realizes that he absolutely needs the offered money. Prochanski slips him a "pill" that is supposed to suddenly make the boxer incapacitated.
Wessely and Brösler ask Trautmann for help: he should regularly search Khoroshenko's premises. Trautmann actually tries to talk to the Russian, who threatens him immediately and bribes a policeman who is foisting cocaine on Trautmann.
Ronny takes the pills and dies in the fight, the seriously ill Fritz has to die in the hospital. A bomb goes off in the “Miranda Bar”.
The alleged "knockout pill" turns out to be fatal. Trautmann is suspended from duty because of the cocaine found in his drawer.
Grünsteidl is lucky again: Flachsberger transfers money to him again. However, Grünsteild lets the business fall into bankruptcy and runs away with Flachsberger's latest grant.
The angry Trautmann knows exactly who gave him the drug. Wessely is broke because he has to pay out the winners who bet on Ronny's opponent 8: 1, his beloved "Miranda Bar" is in ruins and the Russians want to buy the apartment building from him. Trautmann decides to help Wessely.
Wessely appears to go into the deal with the Russians. Trautmann puts Striemer, the bodyguard Wesselys, in a cell with the bodyguard Khoroshenko: Khoroshenko's "Bugl" was responsible for cutting off Striemer's ear. When he was beaten by Striemer, the latter confessed in panic that the Russian was illegal.
The colleague who was hailing Trautmann drugs is arrested and confesses. Trautmann wants to persuade Prochanski to cooperate: After a short period of reflection, he wants to give comprehensive information.
Grünsteidl writes a farewell letter from the Caribbean to his wife Hilde.
Group 4 is called to a dispute in Novaragasse: Charlie Ringhofer ( Rainer Egger ) has brought Jana Formanek (Monika Hilmerová) into his power. Trautmann can overwhelm Ringhofer, but a shot is released and hits Moni. Moni has a complicated fracture on her collarbone and has to go to the hospital. Ms. Formanek knocked out Ringhofer with a glass ashtray
Trautmann is considering an investment in a holiday complex.
Hilde Grünsteidl's jewelry and € 2,500 in cash are stolen. Trautmann believes that something is wrong with the matter. He intercepts a package from "Ferdl" which contains his "last will" and some personal items.
The “Miranda Bar” is reopened. Trautmann is an invited guest, when he leaves the restaurant, he sees an attempted murder, but the perpetrators escape.
"Ferdl" Grünsteidl is found dead. He was shot in a hotel.
Trautmann goes to Bratislava, where Grünsteidl has rented a hotel as “Herr Kopf”. He meets Jana Formanek again, whom he has looked into a bit. Jana says that "Ferdl" actually contacted her and wanted help. Out of fear, Formanek asked Ringhofer for protection, but Ringhofer became jealous and eventually threatened her. The incident occurred in which Trautmann, Moni and "Burschi" had to intervene.
Officially, "Heinz Kopf" still lives in Bratislava, Trautmann takes a close look at Grünsteidl's (Kopf's) room and car: Grünsteidl is likely to have met with a certain "P."
Brandner is annoyed that Trautmann is investigating on his own: He confronts the department inspector with the knowledge that Grünsteidl called Trautmann shortly before his death. Grünsteidl also asked his “archenemy” for help.
Ringhofer has since succumbed to his injuries.
The latest results of the investigation into the Grünsteidl murder show that Khoroshenko is involved in the matter again.
According to Grünsteidl's request, Trautmann and many others are invited to his funeral. Trautmann announces the results of the investigation:
Accordingly, after his escape from Vienna in Grenada, a Caribbean island, Grünsteidl had a friend issue a passport in the name of "Heinz Kopf". Mr. Kopf invests in tourism facilities. One day he gets a visit from Khoroshenko, who wants his money from Vienna, he sets Grünsteidl on fire. Grünsteidl escapes, but his money burns.
John Flachsberger does not want to help Grünsteidl either, but threatens him. Grünsteidl initially went into hiding in Bratislava. "Ferdl" suits Dr. Werner personally and offers him to play the "straw man" for the party. In order to get rid of the annoying ex-National Councilor, Dr. Werner to Heinz Pock. Grünsteidl breaks into himself and also takes his insurance policy and his pistol with him.
Mrs. Doppler, who commissioned the murder of her husband in episode 2, is visited by Hilde in the hospital. Now “Ferdl's” farewell package arrives. The wanted "P." in Grünsteidl's recording is Heinz Pock. Grünsteidl would also like to act as the “straw man” for Pock, but the businessman only wants his money and threatens murder. Grünsteidl leaves Bratislava and shows up on the day the “Miranda Bar” opens. The ex-politician is now confronting “Nazl” and “King” with his latest business idea, but these two are also fed up with Grünsteidl. Pock's bodyguards beat up Grünsteidl in the backyard of the “Miranda Bar” until Trautmann steps in.
Meanwhile, Hilde notices that both her husband's weapon and his life insurance are missing. A little later, "Ferdl" pours out his heart to his wife and tells about his last plan how both of them can go into hiding. But Hilde decides to put an end to “Ferdl's” humiliations and to get him out of the way. With Ingrid Doppler, she finds a false alibi and shoots Grünsteidl in his hotel. Moni, who is in the same hospital as Doppler, can testify that the alibi is wrong. The second "P." in Grünsteidl's notes stands for "Puppi", as he always called his wife.
Group four now arrests Hilde Grünsteidl for the murder of Ferdinand Grünsteidl.
Ludwig “Vickerl” Stedronsky ( Karl Markovics ) is released from prison after 25 years. The retired Colonel Geyer ( Otto Tausig ) receives the former kidnapper and threatens him. Geyer finally wants to close “his” case.
Stedronsky visits Brösler in the “Miranda Bar” to inquire about his former accomplices: Frantisek Drdla (Erhardt Koren) now works as a show catcher in the Vienna Prater. Stedronsky matches him there.
Trautmann is having an apartment renovated in Grado for his pension .
In addition, Pock was ambushed and his Porsche stolen.
Colonel a. D. Geyer invites Trautmann and Brandner to tell them about Stedronsky:
1979 Manufacturer Pöschko is kidnapped by several people. Ms. Pöschko and her brother hand over the ransom money for the entrepreneur, but the kidnappers cannot be caught despite persecution. That same night, a letter for Geyer is handed in at the police station, in which a train number and the name Stendronsky are noted. Geyer wants to arrest Stedronsky on the train. He barricades himself in the toilet and shoots a policeman. The next day Pöschko's body was found; he was shot with a different weapon than the one Stedronsky had with him. However, Stedronsky claims to have been the sole kidnapper and murderer. The ransom is said to have been stolen from a sausage stand .
Geyer now believes that Stedronsky will get his share of the booty after 25 years and thus reveal the other accomplices. He himself followed the former prisoner every step of the way after his release, but lost his trail.
Drdla is digging a grave, where Stedronsky once made the loot disappear.
It turns out that Stedronsky stole Pock's Porsche.
Stedronsky visits his old love and then accomplice Steffi Wackernagl ( Sophie Rois ). She tells him that the fourth member of the group, Mick Bäumler, had a conversation with someone the night the ransom was collected. Bäumler's father sent Steffi a photo shortly before his death in which Mick can be seen with this man.
“Burschi” is sent to the grave dug by Drdla and Stedronsky: The two criminals uncovered two bodies: Steffi's mother, Hedwig Wackernagl, who also belongs in the grave according to regulations, and a male corpse who was shot.
Geyer is finally found murdered in his bed.
Trautmann confronts Drdla with the fact that he belongs to the gang. A professional killer then murders Drdla.
Trautmann finds out that Stedronsky lives in the Hotel Grüner. But initially he does not find him there.
Moni flies to Kenya to talk to Pöschko's widow.
Trautmann can finally watch Stedronsky and warns him that he will soon be the next to die. But Stedronsky refuses his help. The officers finally understand that Steffi Wackernagl is Stedronsky's old friend, but when “Burschi” and Trautmann come into their apartment, it is not at home.
The professional killer who murdered Drdla is now also trying to kill Trautmann.
Wackernagl is found dead under her friend's apartment.
Pöschko's widow (Anna-Franziska Srna) provides information that the company was sold to Heinz Pock for exactly 15 million Schillings, the amount of the ransom.
Trautmann and Brandner now give Pock their suspicions: According to them, Pock was the mastermind behind the kidnapping. Mrs. Pöschko confided in him and said that she would prefer it if her faithless husband was dead. Because then she would sell the companies and emigrate to the south. Since Pock urgently needs capital, he instigates barman Bäumler, whom he met in a red light club, to find accomplices and kidnap the manufacturer. Pock shoots the sedated Pöschko while Bäumler and Stedronsky bury the ransom. Then Pock forces Bäumler to open the grave again, then kills him and buries him in the grave. Since only the dead Bäumler knows of Pock's existence, he has nothing to fear until Geyer begins to "water". Pock then hires a professional killer who is employed as his bodyguard to disguise himself and who is now supposed to kill everyone involved.
Pock is not very enthusiastic about Trautmann's investigation results and advises him not to come back until he can prove his allegations.
“Sandler” Rudi advises that Stedronsky is hiding in a house that is in a state of demolition. But Trautmann and “Burschi” cannot prevent the murder of Stedronsky. Trautmann is also shot, but survives.
Trautmann is in a coma after his gunshot wound and recapitulates his first case with Group 4:
You can also learn more about Trautmann's past:
1995 Trautmann and "Gitti" Schimek separated (see Kaisermühlen Blues ). In order to change the scene, Trautmann can be moved to the second district and also moves back into his old apartment.
FPÖ MP Dkfm. Reinald Frühwirt ( Thomas Freudensprung ) intervened unsuccessfully against the appointment of Brandner as colonel and successor to the retired Geyer and also against Trautmann's new office.
Brösler is released from prison after four years and is ceremoniously welcomed by the “Nazl uncle” because he has “dutifully thrown the cardboard.” Wessely makes Brösler the manager of the “Miranda Bar”.
At the reunion party in the nightclub, Frühwirt is also part of the party and makes advances to a waitress ( Daniela Golpashin ). Pop star Hanno Herz ( Robert Palfrader ) also has an appearance.
On the way home from the celebration, the inattentive early landlord almost runs over Trautmann. The policeman takes his driver's license from him, and that's how "Sandler" Rudi and Trautmann get to know each other. "Mariedl", "Hansi" and "Franzi" welcome Trautmann to the "Grätz'l".
Waitress Swetlana flirts with Hanno Herz, her friend Gerald Besenböck (Harald Windisch) is jealous.
Svetlana's body is found in the Prater the next day by Josef "Panther of Glasgow" Krivanek, who also appears in episode 3. The girl was raped and murdered with 14 stab wounds. Swetlana's mother Janica ( Susi Stach ) initially has no suspicions. Rudi helps Trautmann and tells him that Swetlana's friend Besenböck usually spends the weekend at Lake Neusiedl .
Besenböck reports that Swetlana drove to the villa of Hanno Herz's manager yesterday. Herz 'car was also parked in the driveway of the property.
Franz "Frankie" Hobel (Andy Hallwaxx), the manager of Herz and the pop singer himself state that Herz and Swetlana spent one night at Hobels. At 2 a.m., Hobel had sent the woman home, and Herz left for the marital home at around 4:30 a.m.
When examining the bedroom, Trautmann notices an alleged blood spatter on the wall next to the bed, but he does not show anything.
The departmental inspector is now visiting Frühwirt when it becomes known that he wanted to hire Swetlana as an “eye-catcher” for an election campaign appearance. Herz sings at said event, Dr. Werner and his party comrades, however, are concerned that the bad press could also damage the political movement. Frühwirt should therefore withdraw from the party, Dr. Werner also announces his successor, a certain Ferdinand Grünsteidl.
Journalist and party member Kurt shoots against Trautmann in the media. Herz 'lawyer Holiday ( Florian Teichtmeister ) also intervenes.
When Trautmann approaches with a search warrant and forensics, the supposed blood splatter next to the bed is painted over.
Moni has researched similar sex murders: Three comparable acts were committed in four years, Hanno Herz was always out and about in the murder area on his tours.
Trautmann is certain that hearts and planes have made common cause. However, the musician can show an alibi. Janica Karadarevic gets in touch again and Trautmann expresses his suspicions. Janica then shoots the pop singer as he is speaking to the assembled press.
Trautmann's memories end here, he wakes up from his coma and sees Gitti Schimek sitting by his side. However, his state of health is questionable, perhaps he will remain paralyzed.
Trautmann asks Brandner how things went in the "Hanno-Herz-Case": Brandner says that Karadarevic spent ten years in prison and has now been released. Herz survived the attack, and one year after the incident, his manager Hobel crashed into a wall. One assumed suicide.
Trautmann is in rehabilitation and has a lot of time to think. A poster "Herz" in the hospital gives him an idea: He persuades Brandner to take him to Hobel's parents. There they find a farewell letter from Hobels in which he relieved his conscience.
Group 4 drives to Herz 'house. Herz has been in a wheelchair since the attack, Trautmann confronts him with Hobel's confession and the ex-singer is arrested.
The series ends with Trautmann and Gitti going to Italy together.
supporting cast
Well-known Austrian and German actors had guest appearances in a few episodes:
- Among others: Hansi Lang (as Slansky / episode 3 and as caretaker / episode 7), Karl Fischer (as Karl Auer / episode 6), Thomas Morris (as Leo Pospischil / episode 1), Florian Teichtmeister (as a public holiday lawyer / episode 10 ) Kurt Sobotka (as notary / episode 4), Peter Matić (as section head Antonitsch / episode 2), Walter Davy (as tobacconist Böltl / episode 5), Fritz Muliar (as Fritz Brosche / episode 7), Susi Stach (as Janica Karadarevic / Episode 10), Erika Deutinger (as Helga Smeibidlo / episode 4), Manfred diving (as Prof. Dr. Krupnik / episode 4), Christoph Moosbrugger (as Egon Bruckner / episode 6), Martin Semmelrogge (as Dr. Prochanski / episode 7), Daniela Golpashin (as Svetlana Karadarevic / episode 10), Karl Markovics (as Ludwig "Vickerl" Stedronsky / episode 9), Robert Palfrader (as August "Gucki" Schwaderer alias Hanno Herz / episode 10), Helmut Berger (as a doctor / Episode 4), Heribert Sasse (as Heinz Pock / episode 5, episode 8 and episode 9), Michou Friesz (as Ingrid Doppler / episode 2 and episode 8), Ursula Strauss ( as a nurse / episode 10), Roman Gregory (as hotel porter / episode 9), Maresa Hörbiger (as "Mizzi" Pospischil / episode 1), Wolfgang Pissecker (as lifeguard / episode 2 and boxer Ronny / episode 7), Jutta Fastian (as Verena Leinwarther / episode 6), Maria Hofstätter (as a nurse / episode 2), Ulli Maier (as Beate Köhrer / episode 4), Thomas Maurer (as a surgeon / episode 9, 10), Boris Eder (as a journalist and party member Kurt / episode 4 and episode 10), Volker Piesczek (as a watch seller / episode 4), Maria Bill (as "Franzi" Beimbichler / episode 4, 5), Stefanie Dvorak (as "Rosi" Beimbichler / episode 4,5), Klaus Eberhartinger (as WEGA head of operations / episode 5), Klaus Ofczarek (as banker Dr. Brendel / episode 5), Thomas Freudensprung (as NR-MP Dkfm. Reinald Frühwirt / episode 10), Otto Tausig (as Colonel aD Geyer / episode 9), Sophie Rois (as Steffi Wackernagl / episode 9), Andy Hallwaxx (as Herz 'Manager Franz “Frankie” Hobel / episode 10), Franz Josef Csencsits (as Brenner, Trautmann's arch enemy / episode 3, 4 and 5).
Trivia
- Dispute between writer and producer : The writer Ernst Hinterberger repeatedly felt that he was not involved enough in the making of the film; he expressed anger when his scripts were changed. Ultimately, Hinterberger refused to work on more episodes and the series ended after ten parts.
- Pock : The name of the character "Heinz Pock" is onomatopoeically reminiscent of the Austrian arms manufacturer Gaston Glock . In episode 9, Trautmann says to Pock: “They didn't have any money. But "they had in their mind the idea of a revolutionary gun made of plastic and metal. . Glock's pistols are also self-loading weapons made of plastic and steel.
- “Fini” : “Fini” ( Brigitte Kren ) is dubbed “Anna” by Trautmann in episode 3. In episode 6, Brandner calls her “Fini” Weber. In the first episode, however, she is referred to as "Fini" Gasser.
- Double roles : In episode 2, Wolfgang Pissecker plays the lifeguard with whom Hilde Grünsteidl has an extramarital relationship, in episode 7 Pissecker can be seen as boxer Ronny. His characters die in both episodes. Hansi Lang plays the criminal Slansky in episode 3 and a caretaker in episode 7.
- Trautmann's daughter : Trautmann's personal background appears in the television series Trautmann, as well as in the series " Kaisermühlen Blues " and in the accompanying novel "Kaisermühlen Blues. A Viennese novel ”narrated slightly differently: In the TV series“ Kaisermühlen Blues ”the inspector Gitti Schimek tells that he was divorced and raised his daughter Ilse as a single parent. At 17, however, the girl died of heroin (episode 17). In the novel, Trautmann's daughter is still alive. She is therefore 24 years old and lives into the day. Ingrid, that's her name, has false friends and takes drugs. Trautmann's wife, however, died of cancer. In the first episode of the series “Trautmann” the policeman tells his Hungarian colleague that his daughter died of a heroin overdose at the age of 19. In episode 3, several of Trautmann's memories of the time with his child are shown. The drug dealer Wilhelm Brenner, Trautmann's archenemy, is therefore to blame for the child's death. Brenner appears in several episodes. The different stories have in common that Trautmann is a workhorse and had little time for his daughter.
- Guest appearances : Sigi Bergmann , the legendary Austrian boxing presenter, moderates the shown boxing matches in episode 7. Marianne Mendt made a guest appearance as "Gitti Schimek" in the tenth episode when Trautmann's first case is told.
- " Hannibal Lecter " : Towards the end of the seventh episode, "Ferdl" Grünsteidl meets a man who looks like the actor Anthony Hopkins as the film character Hannibal Lecter. The English-speaking man also uses two quotes ( "I'm having dinner with an old friend" and "liver and fava beans" ) from the novel and film " Das Schweigen der Lämmer ". In episode 8 it is told that this Mr. Grünsteidl got false papers.
- First names : Trautmann's first name Polycarp is not mentioned once in the entire series. In episode 10 the policeman only mentions that he would like to be addressed as Trautmann. Until the last episode, “Burschi's” first name is also unclear, only then does Brandner mention: "[…] well Karl-Heinz, but we all say“ Burschi ”to him."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Production notes on moviepilot.de, accessed on August 25, 2014.
- ↑ More about the film: Trautmann on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on August 25, 2014.
- ↑ MR film ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The episode is referred to on the MR-Film website as “Not only the trees are blooming in the Prater” .
