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Wolfgang Winkler (actor)
Wolfgang Winkler (2 March 1943 – 7 December 2019) was a German actor. Born in Görlitz, he was best known for starring in films such as ''The Rabbit Is Me'', '' Das Mädchen auf dem Brett'' and ''I Was Nineteen'', as well as playing Hauptkommissar Herbert Schneider in the television series Polizeiruf 110. Selected filmography * 1965: '''' * 1966: ''Harras, der Polizeihund'' – episode: ''Die Party'' (TV) * 1967: ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polizeiruf 110
''Polizeiruf 110'' ("Police call 110") is a long-running German-language detective television series likened to Poirot. The name links to the emergency telephone number of the ''Volkspolizei''. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), and after the dissolution of Deutscher Fernsehfunk the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series ''Tatort'', and quickly became a public favorite. In contrast with other television crime series in which killings are practically the primary focus, while ''Tatort'' handled homicide cases, the cases handled in the GDR TV's ''Polizeiruf'' were more often more frequent crimes such as domestic violence, extortion, fraud, theft and juvenile delinquency, as well as alcoholism, child abuse and rape. Contrary to ''Tatort'', which concentrated on the primary characters and their private lives, police procedure was the center of attention of ''Polizeiruf'', espe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |