Stockinger
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Stockinger is an Austria
n-made police television drama, with fourteen 45-minute episodes first aired from 1996 to 1997.
The series is a spin-off from the popular Austrian television drama Inspector Rex, and focuses on Ernst Stockinger, one of the original members of the Mordkommission.
Stockinger (Karl Markovics
) leaves the series to return to Salzburg
where his wife (who did not appear in the original series) has inherited a dental practice. He is appointed a Bezirksinspektor (District Inspector) at the Landes Gendarmerie (provincial police-force), sharing an office with District Inspector Antonella Simoni (Sandra Cervik).
Unlike the members of the team in 'Rex', who appear to be self-directed and are seldom seen to answer to senior management, Stockinger reports to Herr Hofrat Dr Brunner, a philosophising bureaucrat
.
Stockinger is portrayed as a clumsy, almost Inspector Clouseau
-like character, driving a clapped-out 1973 VW
Variant, but single-minded when following up clues.
The series was first broadcast in Australia in February 2008 on SBS
television.
, receiving free tickets to the annual performance of Jedermann (which he misses). Coincidentally, this event will set the scene for his first case which involves the murder of one of the city's chocolatiers, Herr Fehling. His bitter business rival, Baldinger, is the obvious suspect but Stockinger is not prepared to jump to conclusions.
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n-made police television drama, with fourteen 45-minute episodes first aired from 1996 to 1997.
The series is a spin-off from the popular Austrian television drama Inspector Rex, and focuses on Ernst Stockinger, one of the original members of the Mordkommission.
Stockinger (Karl Markovics
Karl Markovics
Karl Markovics is an Austrian actor and film director.He starred as Salomon Sorowitsch in Stefan Ruzowitzky's 2007 film The Counterfeiters, which was awarded the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for that year...
) leaves the series to return to Salzburg
Salzburg
-Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for...
where his wife (who did not appear in the original series) has inherited a dental practice. He is appointed a Bezirksinspektor (District Inspector) at the Landes Gendarmerie (provincial police-force), sharing an office with District Inspector Antonella Simoni (Sandra Cervik).
Unlike the members of the team in 'Rex', who appear to be self-directed and are seldom seen to answer to senior management, Stockinger reports to Herr Hofrat Dr Brunner, a philosophising bureaucrat
Bureaucrat
A bureaucrat is a member of a bureaucracy and can comprise the administration of any organization of any size, though the term usually connotes someone within an institution of a government or corporation...
.
Stockinger is portrayed as a clumsy, almost Inspector Clouseau
Inspector Clouseau
Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is a fictional character in Blake Edwards' The Pink Panther series. In most of the films, he was played by Peter Sellers, with one film in which he was played by Alan Arkin and one in which he was played by an uncredited Roger Moore...
-like character, driving a clapped-out 1973 VW
Volkswagen
Volkswagen is a German automobile manufacturer and is the original and biggest-selling marque of the Volkswagen Group, which now also owns the Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, SEAT, and Škoda marques and the truck manufacturer Scania.Volkswagen means "people's car" in German, where it is...
Variant, but single-minded when following up clues.
The series was first broadcast in Australia in February 2008 on SBS
Special Broadcasting Service
The Special Broadcasting Service is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio and television network. The stated purpose of SBS is "to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services that inform, educate and entertain all Australians and, in doing so, reflect...
television.
First Episode
'Stocki' arrives at the height of the Salzburg FestivalSalzburg Festival
The Salzburg Festival is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920. It is held each summer within the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...
, receiving free tickets to the annual performance of Jedermann (which he misses). Coincidentally, this event will set the scene for his first case which involves the murder of one of the city's chocolatiers, Herr Fehling. His bitter business rival, Baldinger, is the obvious suspect but Stockinger is not prepared to jump to conclusions.
List of episodes
- Salzburger Balls
- Fatal Night
- Last Stop Hallstadt
- Corpse in a Field of Daffodils
- Innocent Lambs
- Horror on the Traun
- Murder Season at See-Hotel
- The Secret of Krimmler Falls
- The Power of The Dead
- Living Targets
- Arrows at Tennegau
- Still Water
- Clues to a Death
- Death at Saalbach