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Yes, the following blog post may very well be one that\u2019s more of a funky insider’s joke than anything else. More than that, it\u2019s an insider’s joke that likely only relates to German and Austrian people. And going even deeper: mainly to people who, many years ago, loved watching crime shows on local TV – back in the early \u201990s, when, at least around here, there was no internet yet, and television was indeed the only medium through which you could experience the latest thrills.<\/p>\n

Anyway, back then I always found it a bit suspicious how much airtime was devoted to countless of German crime series. To put this into perspective for any American reader: Austria had two TV channels and Germany had three that lucky Austrians could receive over the air. And every Friday and Saturday evening it felt as if three quarters of those handful of channels were only showing crime shows. Quite phenomenal, really – that apparent public longing to catch at least one villain a week!<\/p>\n

Even though I wasn\u2019t (and still am not) a big fan of the crime genre myself, there was one German production that somehow did draw me in from time to time. The show was called “Ein Fall f\u00fcr Zwei” (\u201cA Case for Two\u201d) and revolved around the friendship and cooperation between a defense lawyer and a private detective. The latter fascinated me in particular because he wasn\u2019t the typical good guy or hero – back then I might have learned, through him, was an antihero was. That guy was short and not muscular in appearence, never too proud to spend more time in a pub than planned, and, in what felt like every episode, he\u2019d get involved in a brawl or two. Yet he was always a guy whose rough edges, reliability, attitude, and humor somehow stuck with me. A man who wouldn\u2019t give up easily, who always knew exactly what was unjust, who would not shy away from taking unorthodox paths to outsmart and catch the villain. A man his partners could always count on and who was always addressed by only his surname: Matula<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So the other day, I was driving home from work and couldn\u2019t help bursting out laughing while waiting at a traffic light –\u00a0 because, of all things, there\u2019s actually a local garden center here that bears the very same name. Realising that it instantly triggeed some old TV memories in my mind and a certain sense of longing too – that today\u2019s world would really need some more guys like him, like Matula.<\/p>\n

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Yes, the following blog post may very well be one that\u2019s more of a funky insider’s joke than anything else. More than that, it\u2019s an insider’s joke that likely only relates to German and Austrian people. And going even deeper: mainly to people who, many years ago, loved watching crime shows on local TV – … <\/p>\n

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