Heinrich Pommerenke
A few days after Christmas in 2008 died in the prison hospital Hohenasperg the convicted murderer Heinrich Pommerenke. 47 years he sat behind bars for four murders and various other offenses. As the District Court of Freiburg on 22 10th In 1960, the verdict on him, said Konrad Adenauer was Chancellor, and the wall not being built. No prisoners in the Federal Republic of Germany or the GDR was longer in prison.
Heinrich Pommerenke - Backstage
Screenwriter: | Tom Ockers |
Director: | Tom Ockers |
Director of Photography: | Johannes Anders |
Production manager: | Stefan Hoffmann |
Executive Producer: | Andreas Knoblauch |
Producer: | Thomas Schuhbauer |
Head of Production: | Ulrich Lenze |
Program manager: | Gerolf Karwath |
Shooting locations: | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Hamburg |
Principal photography: | February through May 2009 |
To be aired on: | SWR, 2009 |
Dagobert, der Kaufhauserpresser
Arno Funke blackmailed over the period 1988 to 1994 the Karstadt group by several hundred thousand Deutsche Mark. Under the nickname of "Scrooge", it is the most popular criminals of post-revolution period, because beating the ingenuity with which he plans to money transfers, and the chutzpah, the Police a trick to impress many. The blatant some sympathy for the blackmailing and the accompanying schadenfreude about the disgraced police are next to the complex personality of the offender's unique German to this criminal case.
Dagobert, der Kaufhauserpresser - Backstage
Screenwriter: | Sven Ihden |
Director: | Sven Ihden, Roland May |
Director of photography: | Patrick Popov |
Film editor: | Alan Rexroth |
Production manager: | Jörg Kunkel |
Producer: | Thomas Schuhbauer |
Executive producer: | Andreas Knoblauch |
Head of Production: | Ulrich Lenze |
Program director: | Gerolf Karwath |
Shooting locations: | Berlin, Hamburg and others |
Principal photography: | February - April 2007 |
To be aired on: | SWR, 2007 |
Bernhard Kimmel, der Al Capone aus der Pfalz
The Kimmel-gang is considered the most dangerous gang of the Adenauer era. Between 1956 and 1961, nearly 200 burglaries go on her account. The prey: 100,000 Mark - is at that time a fortune. Named after the gang is their leader, the young Tuchweberlehrling Bernhard Kimmel. The newspapers called him "Al Capone of the Palatinate. Kimmel grew up in Palatine Lambrecht. After initial "cops and robbers" games with army weapons found, is from the game seriously. In 1957 she attacked her first bank and soon no longer safe is safe from them ...
As a "last coup" a drunken member of the gang shoots a man, the whole gang will be tracked down by police and arrested. After 10 years, Kimmel is released early from prison, but he will no longer evade the criminal underworld. After another murder of a policeman, he gets a life sentence. In December 2003 he was released after 22 years in prison - after 32 years behind bars.
Bernhard Kimmel – der Al Capone aus der Pfalz - Backstage
Director: | Roland May |
Screenwriter: | Dirk Laabs |
Program manager: | Gerolf Karwath |
Director of photography: | Christian Giradet |
Location manager: | Moritz Widmann |
Production manager: | Jörg Kunkel |
Producer: | Thomas Schuhbauer |
To be aired on: | March 20, 2006, ARD |
Produced for: | SWR, 2006 |
Die Schlecker-Entführung
Just before Christmas 1987 three masked men kidnap the children of blackmail drugstore King Anton Schlecker and 9.6 million marks, the highest ever paid ransom in the history of the Federal Republic. Only eleven years later, the crimes are solved. The public is astonished: The three offenders are of retirement age and had hidden for years, many serious crimes behind the veneer of honest men. The film tells the story of a spectacular murder case and a (nearly) perfect camouflage.
Die Schlecker Entführer - Backstage
Written and directed by: | Roland May |
Production manager: | Jörg Kunkel |
Location manager | Stefan Hoffmann |
Executive Producer: | Andreas Knoblauch |
Producer: | Thomas Schuhbauer |
Film editor: | Gerolf Karwath |
Head of Production: | Ulrich Lenze |
Principal photography: | July to August 2003 |
To be aired on: | SWR, 2003 |