Der Kommissar (TV series)
| Der Kommissar | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Herbert Reinecker |
| Starring |
Erik Ode Günther Schramm Reinhard Glemnitz Fritz Wepper |
| Country of origin | West Germany |
| No. of episodes | 97 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Helmut Ringelmann |
| Running time | 55 Minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | ZDF |
| Original release | 3 January 1969 – 30 January 1976 |
| Website | |
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).
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 episodes, Kommissar Keller even asks everyone to gather at the scene of the crime so that he, in the manner of Hercule Poirot, can reconstruct the events leading up to, and following, the killing so that the murderer can eventually be arrested.
In Der Kommissar, author Herbert Reinecker neatly captures the zeitgeist of the late 1960s and early 1970s by presenting many young characters that are involved in a crime. These young people usually wear trendy clothes and listen to the songs from the hit parade, be it at home or in seedy pubs, night clubs, or discotheques. In Reinecker's world, a young girl who leaves her parents and moves from the country to the anonymous and evil big city—Munich—will necessarily end up as either a prostitute, or a drug addict, or a murder victim, or all of the above.
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