Lindenstraße: Hans Beimer dies serial death
The end comes with great sounds. When the 1685th episode of "Lindenstraße" starts at 6:50 pm on Sunday, 52 musicians from the WDR radio house orchestra will play the original film music of the series live in the Great Broadcasting Room of Westdeutscher Rundfunk. With soothing string sounds and a whimpering harmonica. An early requiem for father Beimer.
30 minutes later, the good Hans Beimer, one of the main characters of the endless soap, mousetot. "For heaven's sake," complain the fans of "Lindenstraße". "Thank goodness", the "Lindenstrassen" -Hasser, "another one less!"
The sufferings of Hans Beimer
Father Beimer has to die because his actor Joachim H. Luger (74) finally wants to have a different life. For nearly 33 years he played the male lead role. This speaks in favor of his ability to suffer, because this Hans Beimer has really not lived with his Parkinson's disease, two truly exhausting wives and lifelong tussle for his ideals no easy existence.
Father Beimer has fathered seven children, the last with almost 70. The career, at first as a social worker, was not the yellow of the egg, and then the shaking palsy - who wants to begrudge him the little bit of hash, he secretly with his wife on the memory itself pulls to relieve the symptoms of his illness? But now it is over, the vale of "Lindenstraße".
Hans W. Geißendörfer remembers
It was not easy to fill the role of the average guy Hans Beimer. The inventor of "Lindenstraße", director and producer Hans W. Geißendörfer (77), was in 1985 at the start with almost all castings through. "I could not find anyone for just one of the most important men's roles, more than 80 interviews and 'appraisals' did not produce any results, and I began to doubt my role idea, the character in my head, but suddenly he was in front of me: Joachim Hermann Luger He had heard about the casting and immediately realized: Helga Beimer has her Hans! "
Geißendörfer still raves about the idea of the king to make Luger his beekeeper and to give Helga Beimer (Marie-Luise Marjan) the right husband: "A couple as I had dreamed it: a bit stuffy, but at the same time cosmopolitan; conservative, but also modern again ... If I remember rightly, I gave up on test recordings and gave Luger a contract for a first year, and from the first day of shooting he was able to embody Hans Beimer with love and skill Always taken seriously, he has accepted her as his second self. "
Although father Beimer looks like a good man, which he is, but abysses abound in him. Already in 1988 he fell in love with the young neighbor Anna Ziegler (Irene Fischer); He leaves his "dove", mother Beimer, and the three children Marion, Klaus and Benny and marries the new. Since the "Linden Street" community is appalled at first.
Joachim H. Luger wants to set off to new shores
Well, then the well-deserved serial death of the daddy Beimer. It was decided in the spring, when Joachim H. Luger announced his exit. After all, he also has a life: "In October, I will be 75 years old and I would like to risk something new, just be more free in my options and decisions, play more theater or maybe slip into other role models." And I would like to do more Having time for my wife, my children, and grandchildren, when I set off to new shores, I also mean that I can pursue my passion for sailing more. "
The step to say goodbye to the figure of Hans Beimer, the "very familiar" ensemble and team after more than three decades, was not easy for him. "The 'Lindenstraße' was like a second family for me, I always felt very much in good hands."
"The calm after the storm"
However, he does not like to reveal how and why Father Beimer, who is currently training for the Way of St. James, is leaving life. Although he had already struggled with severe movement disorders in the last episode, Brooks certifies him but overall a "top-Constitution". At the end you see Beimer happy with his Anna united, he thanks her "for everything" with a loving kiss. Instead of saying goodbye to the Way of St. James adventure, the two of them will be forever ...
Even the responsible broadcaster WDR makes a big secret about the death of Beimer. In a press release it says only that in the episode "The rest after the storm" Hans is in the forest and Helga is looking for him. In the meantime Hans is back home and is looking for Helga in the forest. After all, everyone - including Klaus, Andy and Anna - are in the woods looking for each other.Anyway: "The situation gets out of control," promises the press release.
So the drama spills into painful heights, in the end Hans is no more, and all cry. He is the 45th "Lindenstraße" -tote since 1985. To be continued.
