(''Two Brothers'') is a German detective television series based on an idea by
Felix Huby
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* Felix (name), people and fictional characters with the name
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, who also wrote several screenplays. Eleven directors produced 17 episodes of 85-90 minute length for
ZDF
ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...
between 1994 and 2000. The music for the series was by
Frank Langer and
Wilbert Hirsch.
Plot
The two brothers, Christoph (
Fritz Wepper) and Peter Thaler (
Elmar Wepper) could not be more different: the elder Christoph is married and a successful attorney. The younger Peter has given up his studies and is considered by police as a ruthless detective. Both live in the house of the mother (
Ruth Hausmeister
Ruth Hausmeister (5 June 1912 – 1 February 2012) was a German actress whose career, centered primarily in theater, spanned decades. She also had more than eighty credits in German film and television as well.
Her film credits included '' The L ...
) and so tensions are inevitable. Together, they go hunting criminals and solve difficult cases.
Episodes
The episodes are as follows:
*1. Zwei Brüder
*2. Die lange Nacht
*3. Die Quirini-Affäre
*4. Der Gassenmörder
*5. In eigener Sache
*6. Die Tochter
*7. Nervenkrieg
*8. Einzelgänger
*9. Kaltes Herz
*10. Tödliche Träume
*11. Verschleppt
*12. Gift
*13. Herztod
*14. Mörderische Rache
*15. Tod im See
*16. Farbe der Nacht
*17. Abschied
Cast
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Klaus J. Behrendt
Klaus Johannes Behrendt (born 7 February 1960) is a German actor. Since 1992 he has starred in the Westdeutscher Rundfunk version of the popular television crime series ''Tatort''; he also starred in the 2008 film ''Die Bienen – Tödliche Bedro ...
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Suzanne von Borsody
Suzanne von Borsody (; born 23 September 1957 in Munich) is a German actress.
She comes from a prominent theatre family, being the daughter of actress Rosemarie Fendel and actor Hans von Borsody. Her grandfather, Eduard von Borsody, was a famou ...
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Jacques Breuer
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Anne-Sophie Briest
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Sky du Mont
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Alexander Duda
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Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...
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Anton Feichtner
Anton Feichtner (born 1942 in Garching an der Alz, Germany) is a German television actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Derrick'' - Season 6, Episode 12: "Ein Todesengel" (1979)
* ''Derrick'' - Season 7, Episode 5: "Ein tödlicher Preis" (1980)
* ''Der ...
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Peter Fricke
Peter Fricke (born 26 August 1939, in Berlin, Germany) is a German television actor.
Filmography (incomplete)
* '' Die rote Kapelle'' (1972, TV miniseries)
* '' Alexander Zwo'' (1972, TV miniseries)
* ' (1973)
* '' Das Blaue Palais'' (1974-1976, ...
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Dirk Galuba
Dirk Galuba (born 28 August 1940 in Schneidemühl) is a German television actor.
Selected filmography
*1972: ''Tears of Blood''
*1976: '' Derrick'' - Season 3, Episode 5: "Schock"
*1976: '
*1977: '' Derrick'' - Season 4, Episode 9: "Inkasso"
*19 ...
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Gerald A. Held
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Jörg Hube
Jörg Hube (22 November 1943 – 19 June 2009) was a German actor and director. He died of cancer.
Theatre
Some of Hube's roles:
*1973 in Plenzdorf's ''Die neuen Leiden des jungen W.'', München
*1974 in Brecht's ''Die heilige Johanna de ...
*
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Oliver Korittke
Oliver Korittke (born 6 April 1968) is a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1972. In ''Wilsberg
''Wilsberg'' is a German TV series based on novels about the fictional private detective Georg Wilsberg. A first TV episo ...
*
Henry van Lyck
Henry van Lyck (born Rüdiger Leberecht; 15 January 1941 in Cologne, Germany) is a German actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Freddy and the Millionaire'' (1961)
* ''Snow White and the Seven Jugglers'' (1962)
* ' (1965, TV miniseries)
* ''Go for It, ...
*
Axel Milberg
Axel Theodor Klaus Milberg (born 1 August 1956) is a German actor. His most prominent role is that of ''Tatort'' investigator Klaus Borowski.
Selected filmography
* ''After Five in the Forest Primeval'' (1995)
* ' (1996)
* ''Father's Day'' (1 ...
*
Franka Potente
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Ralf Richter
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Barbara Rudnik
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Dietmar Schönherr
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Ellen Schwiers
Ellen Schwiers (11 June 1930 – 26 April 2019) was a German actress of stage, film, and television. She was featured in world premieres of plays by Dürrenmatt and Frisch at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, and appeared as Buhlschaft in '' Jed ...
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Dietz-Werner Steck
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Oliver Stritzel
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Friedrich von Thun
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Max Tidof
Max Tidof (born 1960 in Polch) is a German actor.
Life
Born 1960 in Polch, he grew up in Hamburg and moved to Munich in 1979 where he started acting in the Theater.
His first experiences in TV he made 1983 with the famous German TV series '' ...
*
Christian Tramitz
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Karl-Heinz Vosgerau
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Klaus Wennemann
Klaus Wennemann (18 December 1940 – 7 January 2000) was a German television and film actor.
Wenneman was born in Oer-Erkenschwick, North Rhine-Westphalia. He is perhaps best known for his leading roles as the Chief Engineer, (the LI), in ''D ...
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Rolf Zacher
Rolf Zacher (28 March 1941 – 3 February 2018) was a German actor.
Life and career
Zacher appeared in about 190 films and television shows between 1961 and 2016, often in illustrious or eccentric character roles. He starred in the 1971 fil ...
See also
*
List of German television series
References
External links
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German crime television series
1990s German police procedural television series
2000s German police procedural television series
1994 German television series debuts
2000 German television series endings
German-language television shows
ZDF original programming
Detective television series
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