Otto – Die Serie

• Otto Waalkes: Various
• Jenny Elvers

Otto - The series is a German comedy series of Otto Waalkes which was first aired in 1995 on RTL. They became especially famous by the use of scenes from 32 old Edgar Wallace films dubbed, also nachcoloriert in some cases and were edited together with additional scenes sketches.

Background

In addition to Otto Waalkes Bernd Eilert, Robert Gernhardt and Peter Knorr worked as writers for the series. The digitization of the Edgar Wallace films and the elaborate Into cutting Otto Waalkes in the old imagery drove the cost of production to 10 million DM, the then record for a German comedy series.

The first broadcast took place on RTL on 30 January 1995. The 13 episodes were shown each Monday night at 20:15 clock. The first episode had 7.64 million viewers, but the odds were worse from week to week, so that the series of many was considered a flop. The series was repeated at irregular intervals, in addition to RTL and RTL 2 and Super RTL.

2005 Otto was - the series released on DVD.

Reviews

The reviews were from mostly negative. Criticized shortly after the airing of the pilot episode Ralf Schlüter from the Berliner Zeitung that the series offers little that is new about "how he together mixte his ancient jokes with old movies that was made ​​already refined and technically very loving. Especially funny it was not " too Barbara Sichtermann of the time felt the humor as out of date: ". A happy comeback there would have been for gasoline only, if he had purely married in the nineties, rather than just in the Middle Ages in the German film industry to crawl. And if he had consistently refrained ' to vary old hits such as, English Insiders and thus to ride to death. "