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Rodek, Hanns-Georg 15 September 2011.

Horst Tappert's search for the character of Stephen Derrick, along with sidekick assistant Harry Klein, began in 1973 when ZDF, another public television station in Germany, began planning a new mystery series with a different type of investigator.

Horst Tappert was born on 26 May 1923 in Elberfeld, Rhine Province, Prussia, and Germany.

Aged 19, he was, according to his widow against his will, transferred from the Army to the , where the author of the Derrick series, , had also served; initially a member of a reserve unit in , he was listed as a with the in March 1943.

1972: [] The Corpse Packs His Bags with , - Charles Barton• Acting on a hunch, Derrick would ignore a number of possible suspects right from the start, and instead of doing the legwork often shown in police movies, would follow the main suspect to his or her favourite haunts and involve them in lengthy conversations, claiming that he had to get to know them better.

However, NRK could not afford expensive remakes, leading to a very simplistic and, in the viewers' eyes, ridiculous approach to the show, involving uninspired actors and a strong lack of action.

An independent actor since 1967, he worked as an actor until he died.

Historian Jan Erik Schulte, an expert on the history of the SS, said that the circumstances of Tappert's membership in the SS and the question of whether he was pressured or coerced into joining remain unclear.

Books [ ] Derrick was also used as the protagonist for a series of books published in and :• 1959 Ruf ohne Echo TV-Film• His wife Ursula Pistor is also an actor, a graduate of the same acting school in as Ellinor Hamsun, daughter of.