Christian Tramitz in an interview over ten years of “Hubert without Staller”, arguments and parking tickets

Created: 01/12/2022Updated: 01/12/2022, 11:15 AM

By: Leoni Billina

Man of the first hour: Christian Tramitz as Franz Hubert © ARD / TMG / Jenrick Mielke

There is something to celebrate!

Today at 6:50 pm the tenth season of the popular ARD early evening series "Hubert ohne Staller" starts, which is loved by fans of Bavarian smack thrillers even after Helmfried von Lüttichau left - before 2019 the series was still known as "Hubert und Staller".

But she has also grown dear to the main actor Christian Tramitz.

The 66-year-old from Munich explains why in an interview.

Ten years of "Hubert and / without Staller" - after such a long time you grow closer together - what do you appreciate most about it?

Christian Tramitz

: We were really incredibly lucky there.

It can also go the other way in families.

With Helmfried (from Lüttichau, played police chief Johannes Staller until 2018, editor's note) I've been friends since school.

It helps a lot if you know each other.

Pauli Sedlmeir (Police Superintendent Martin Riedl) is my nephew, and I've been friends with Katharina Müller-Elmau (who plays district manager Sabine Kaiser) for a long time.

I always loved Michi Brandner (Police Officer Reimund Girwidz) anyway, an incredibly dear colleague.

You have already indicated - things don't always go well in a family ...

Christian Tramitz

:

We've already argued a lot.

Also with the producers and the editors.

But in the end we kept pulling ourselves together.

Arguing in a productive way is worth something.

Is there anything that annoys you?

Christian Tramitz

: That’s inevitable.

Helmfried and I, for example, often ran into each other.

Quite a few dents were made in the motorhome doors - I call them the Lüttichau memory dents.

It has to crack too.

Then we like each other all the more.

After ten years as a police officer, Franz Hubert - how well do you know your alter ego?

Christian Tramitz

: Actually, I still don't know how it works.

I think you have to break the character over and over again.

As in the episode when Hubert's supposed daughter appears.

I thought that was incredibly fun to play because it was shown from a different point of view.

Do you have leeway for your role in this regard?

Christian Tramitz

: We already have leeway.

Time to build in a gag that is not in the book.

Here, too, it is helpful that we have all known each other forever.

You've been filming without a Staller for a while now - do you miss him?

Christian Tramitz

: Yes.

That was a major cut.

And I didn't know if it still worked.

But then the line-up changed again, which was also a further development.

I don't want to say that one is better or worse, but it was important that something changed.

Established success: Christian Tramitz (left) and Helmfried von Lüttichau with director Sebastian Sorger © ARD / TMG / Marco Mehnen

And it works...

Christian Tramitz

: It was a great idea from the editorial team that they put Girwidz, my greatest enemy, in my car.

There is a basic emotional tension there - they are completely contrary.

But at the crucial moment they stick together.

The departure of Helmfried was a serious turning point, but I think that Michi Brandner filled it up more than well.

You play a Wolfratshausen police officer - have you ever had contact with "the real" ones for your role?

Christian Tramitz

: Yes, they also watch the series.

I asked them how it was for them, and they said that we were sometimes closer to reality than some “crime scenes”.

They are great.

What was your first personal experience with the police?

Christian Tramitz

: That was quite harmless: driving in the black with Helmfried von Lüttichau.

Actually, I didn't drive black, but my wallet had slipped into the lining of my coat.

And because I had no ID and no card and we had to laugh so hard, they took us by bus right in front of the police station in Pasing.

Then we were interrogated and I had to give my father's year of birth, which I didn't know.

The policeman said: "It's sad when you don't know the year of your father's birth!"

By now you've solved 164 episodes of murder - do you have a favorite?

Christian Tramitz

: There are two: One episode that takes place ten years in the future, that's a wacky episode with the title “Everything will be fine”.

And then “nunless”.

There's no corpse there, and we're investigating in the monastery, which I think is funny.

Actually two episodes that fall out of line ...

Christian Tramitz

: Exactly.

If you're involved yourself, you naturally love the weird things that are a little different.

What do you want for the tenth anniversary?

Christian Tramitz

: You can still do nonsense with our team.

With all the friction, quarrels, difficulties - if it stays that way, I would think it's great.

Interview conducted by Leoni Billina.

“Hubert ohne Staller”

runs on Wednesdays at 6:50 p.m. in the Das Erste.

From left: Paul Sedlmeir, Katharina Müller-Elmau, Michael Brandner, Christian Tramitz and Mitsou Jung © ARD / TMG / Jenrick Mielke