Salto Postale

Salto Postale was a sitcom ZDF with a high degree of popularity. The main roles Wolfgang Stumph, Achim Wolff and Hans- Jürgen Schatz played. The series is one of the few German sitcoms that are repeated successfully.

Action

The series plays with Wolfgang Stumph in the lead role of a postman in the fictional village in Brandenburg Niederbörnicke shortly after the turn. The colleagues at the office, the postal workers Wolfgang " Wolle" Stanko wide and Rudi Reschke ( Achim Wolff), the head of the Office is a native of West Germany Maximilian default (Hans - Jürgen Schatz ). The three officers form a group containing a primary explosive. For besides sell stamps and accept packages also satirical political speeches are swinging, inspired by the events at the post office in Niederbörnicke. This shows the obstacles of reunification and the problems of politicians. For fixed component and the telephone inquiries Stanko Weits with numerous members of the federal government, a running gag, the interrupted action was short.

Characters

Stanko wide of the typical employee is in a post office, it is only about Mr default, which knows better with his " Western methods " and with whom he is always in continuous dispute. He constantly wants to achieve more pay or better working conditions for himself and his friend Rudy. It goes Stanko wide, behind the words to hide some criticism that usually do not notice the stubborn boss, but probably to the viewer.

Rudi Reschke is a loser, he does not want to get ahead in his career and is seduced by the charms and the new opportunities after the turn often, thanks Stanko Weits control and its clear view Reschke falls, although every now and then deep, but never really around. Reschke only waiting for his pension because life is before him too much. If Stanko wide again messing with the policy, Reschke tried to slow him what he never succeeds.

Mr default, the prototypical Westerner and head of the post office of Niederbörnicke. His methods like neither Stanko wide or Reschke, yet the citizens of Niederbörnicke who wonder about taxes from which they would not have dreamed recently. Default, wonders about the work ethic of its East counterparts, but is itself also in the tribulation, when it comes to corruption and shift. Finally, he also has to rely on the help of his subordinates, but gratitude is also a foreign concept to him.

Supporting roles

  • Beatrice Richter - as Franziska Velten ( Travel Agency Owner) 1994: In the post office, there is also a side room with changing industries, at the beginning there is a travel agency. This symbolizes the possibilities of traveling, which was impossible in the GDR, now it have Stanko wide and Reschke constantly in mind.
  • Christel Peters - as Ms. Kaiser (post - customer ): The "good" wife of Emperor is a regular customer at the post office because they regularly want to pick up their "West Package ". She knows everything and sometimes mixed properly with, shall even be happy with intruder to Mr default.
  • Gunter Antrak - as Mr. gossip beer ( citizens): Gossip beer is a notorious wise guy who always wants preferential treatment in the post office, but they never get.
  • Myriam Stark - as Yvonne ( Zustellerin ) 1993: It is in 1993, the third employee at the post office.

Guest roles

  • Ronnie Milsap - as a woman Zander Albrecht
  • Dieter Thomas Heck - as a shrewd businessman Scrooge Zack
  • Eddi Arent - as Dr. Blubbard ( savior and sects guru )
  • Elisabeth Volkmann - as Reschke's ( ex-) wife
  • Ernst -Georg Schwill - as a police officer
  • Gert Burkard - as Professor Schulze- Schmargendorf
  • Gojko Mitic - as Arthur Miller
  • Gunda Ebert - as Simone Reschke ( Reschke's daughter)
  • Harald Effenberg - as a customer and worker
  • Helen Vita - as Mäßigs mother ( recurring role )
  • Horst Krause - as workers, is to saw off a tree
  • Herbert Feuerstein - as a police officer
  • Jochen Busse - as postal inspector tailor
  • Jockel Tschiersch - as Detlef Bresicke and as head of the construction company Zielke
  • Karin Gregorek - as Dr. Schnäblein - Spraffke (Head of Oberpostdirektion )
  • Maybrit Illner - as TV reporter
  • Michael Kausch - as Posträuber
  • Roberto Blanco - as a computer technician
  • Look Orchestra Ungelenk - as a debt collector with the song " economic Cha -Cha " by Robert Sherman
  • Wolfgang Lippert - as postal inspector Werner Schulze

End of the series

1996 ended the series, but the characters went on in the sitcom Salto Municipal. Mr default, mayors and Stanko wide and Reschke be employees of the municipality Niederbörnicke. For the 60th birthday of Wolfgang Stumph lead actor in 2006 a three-part series under the name Salto Special Special aired.

Awards

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