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Der Kommissar (TV Series)
''Der Kommissar'' ( English ''The Police Inspector'') is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad (''Mordkommission''). All 97 episodes (55 minutes each), which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert ( Günther Schramm), Robert Heines (Reinhard Glemnitz), and Harry Klein (Fritz Wepper) who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother (also in real life) Erwin Klein ( Elmar Wepper). History Today considered cult television, ''Der Kommissar'' had many of the ingredients of the whodunnit: a murder victim, often unidentified at first; a group of suspects who gradually emerge as the police gather all the evidence available to them; and a police detective who, by sheer reasoning, figures out all by himself who the murderer is, while he has his assistants do all the legwork. In some ep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Reinecker
Herbert Reinecker (24 December 1914 – 27 January 2007) was a very prolific German novelist, dramatist, screenwriter and former Nazi SS officer. Career Born in Hagen, Westphalia, Reinecker began to write short stories already as a high school student. In 1936 he moved to Berlin, where he became editor-in-chief of a youth magazine, ''Jungvolk''. In the same year he also co-authored a book, ''Jugend in Waffen'' (''Armed Youth''). This was a time when the Nazis had already been in power for three years and when the media had long been '' gleichgeschaltet''. In 1943 he joined the Nazi Party and worked as the editor-in-chief of a book entitled ''Der Pimpf'' about the training system of the Hitler Youth. Throughout World War II Reinecker served in a propaganda company of the Waffen SS. In the early 1940s Reinecker also wrote a number of plays, among them ''Das Dorf bei Odessa'', and the novel ''Der Mann mit der Geige''. In 1944 he wrote an award-winning screenplay, ''Junge Adler'' (''Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |