Blaulicht

• Bruno Carstens: Captain Wernicke
• Alexander Papendiek: Lieutenant Thomas
• Horst Torka: Lt. Timm

Blue light was emitted 1959-1968 Crime production of television of the GDR, whose 29 episodes were based on on record, realistic criminal cases. The idea for this series came from Günter Prodöhl. Since 1958 in the FRG crime film series steel mesh was successfully launched, Prodöhls blue-light concept was implemented quickly, so early as August 20, 1959 was the first episode of the screens.

General

The genre of the crime film in the GDR in the 1950s and 1960s, influenced by the idea that after overcoming the capitalist mode of production and the establishment of a just social order were dropped, the reasons for the commission of offenses and therefore these acts no longer with the further development of socialism vorkämen. Accordingly, any project for the representation of criminal cases on TV had to be designed not to escape this socio-political theory of the ground. On the other hand, an exciting television program should be offered in the GDR in order not to lose viewers to the TV from Germany.

Günter Prodöhl developed a detective series that tried to describe it based on trailing cases the work of the German People's Police in natural and factual narrative. The viewer should get a revealing insight into the activities of the criminal investigation.

Thematically blue light was not fixed on homicides. Rather, numerous offenses, such as theft, robbery, assault, criminal damage, arson and fraud have been addressed. Most cases had a direct or indirect reference to West Germany: the perpetrators were from the FRG and West Berlin, some acts were committed there, but the perpetrators fled to East Germany, or it should be stolen from in the GDR acts committed on German- German limit can be managed. Also espionage cases and the planned escape of a former concentration camp overseer were on the program. Handlungsort of cases was mainly Berlin.

With the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 it became increasingly difficult to portray the relation of the offenses or offenders to the FRG and West Berlin shown in the cases of the blue light credible. Not least for this reason, the series was discontinued in 1968.

The blue light - authors do not waived thrilling chases, spectacular and breathtaking scenes, searches and arrests. The theme music was catchy as that of the steel mesh in the same way: as the melody of the U.S. television series Peter Gunn (1958-1961) was used, which came from the pen of Henry Mancini.

Investigator

Unlike steel mesh cases solved by a group of investigators who recurred in every episode: Captain Wernicke, Lieutenant and Lieutenant Thomas Timm. Bruno Carstens also known as Wernicke was it - four years before the Commissioner Freytag from the Hessischer Rundfunk - the first series- investigator on German television. The figure of Wernicke emerged after the end of the blue-light series again in the 41th episode of the East German crime series Police 110, entitled An unusual assignment in the year 1976: Here is the now promoted to colonel Wernicke the head of a professional school for the training of detectives.

The individual consequences

Introduction

With few exceptions, the blue-light episodes were produced as live broadcasts. Of the 29 episodes, 2 of them in two parts, are only 23 in the German Broadcasting Archive Babelsberg handed. However, the scripts are the consequences of missing footage still exist.

The individual consequences

• Hot money (Part 1) ( Original Air Date on March 23, 1963), directed by Otto Holub
• Hot money (Part 2) ( Original Air Date on March 24, 1963), directed by Petra control

Radiations

After 1990, only a few episodes of the series as part of a " Gernsehabends " in the ORB / RBB were seen.