House of Cards (UK TV series)

House of Cards ( Original title: House of Cards ) is a novel by British writer Michael Dobbs. The political thriller depicts the entanglements between corrupt politicians and compliant journalists in Britain in the year 1991. While writing the novel Dobbs was able to draw on his own experience in senior positions in the British political operation.

In Germany, the novel was published in 1992 in a translation by Joachim Honnef in Bastion Luebbe Verlag. ( Dobbs, Michael: The house of cards, Bergisch Gladbach: Bastion - Luebbe Verlag, 1992, ISBN 3-404-13416-8 )

Content

Following the resignation of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1990, the Conservative Party will be guided by the applicable as weak and uninspired Henry Collingridge. The reduced in the last election parliamentary majority threatens to shrink by local by-elections on. The young journalist Mattie works after moving to London as a political reporter for the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph. The parliamentary secretary Tory Francis Urquhart feels in the allocation of cabinet posts again passed over. He lets party Interna transpire and spins an intrigue, allegedly speculating in the Collingridges brother with shares of a pharmaceutical company who is to receive government contracts, and thus who is suspected of insider trading. Collingridge must resign. Urquhart wants to be prime minister with the help of a media mogul, but Mattie sees through gradually his machinations.

Adaptations

In 1990, the novel by BBC in a trilogy ( parts: House of Cards (1990 ), To head and crown (1993 ), The Final Cut (1995)) into a film. Early 2013, the series was adapted under the title House of Cards as self-production of the Internet service Netflix by director David Fincher. The main role is played by Kevin Spacey.