Richy Müller is 70: five facts about the “crime scene” investigator

He is one of the most constant investigators in the “crime scene”: Together with his colleague Sebastian Bootz alias Felix Kleiere (46), Richy Müller has been going on a criminal hunting in Stuttgart and the surrounding area since 2008. The likeable Mannheimer himself hardly knows someone under his real name – and there are good reasons. This and other exciting facts are available for his 70th birthday on September 26th.

When Hans-Jürgen Müller was born in a kitchen in Mannheim in 1955, nobody suspected that he would become a Richy. His first big acting role helped him: in 1979 he played the semi -strong Richie Piesch in the “Die Great Flatter” television, a role that was supposed to completely change his life. The films saw 22 million viewers at the time – and from then on called him Richy, no matter where he went.

Müller denied for a year, but then he gave up. “If everyone just calls you Richie, then you can’t do anything about it,” he said. Years later, he officially had the name entered in his passport – after proving several newspaper articles that he was always called that anyway.

Before Richy Müller came to the acting – and became Richy – he trained as a toolmaker for three years. “You don’t get the idea of ​​becoming an actor as a workers’ child,” he recalled. “At some point someone came to me and said: ‘Why don’t you go to the drama school?’ But I didn’t have the idea myself. “

Nevertheless, he followed the proposal, terminated his craft job, applied to the Bochum drama school – and was taken directly. After two years, however, he had to go: Because he defended a fellow student against a threat, both flew from school. Because of “the big flatter”, he still managed to gain a foothold as an actor.

After the success of the film, it became difficult for Richy Müller on the job market. Many offers came, but he didn’t always want to play the same type. His motto became: “Dear Miese in the account than lousy on the soul.” If he could not reconcile roles with his conscience and morality, he consistently canceled. “If you have the opportunity to make money with something that actually doesn’t work, then you have to make decisions. And I have always decided against the things that I had been in my stomach,” he said in the SWR4 conversation.

But you can’t live from this attitude – when he spoke around, he declined offers, none came at all. “I had almost 200,000 marks in the late 1980s,” he revealed in the podcast. Through a role in the “dream ship” and later a ZDF series, he got back on his feet. However, it was only “in the early 1990s” that he was again debt -free.

At the latest with his role in the “crime scene” in Stuttgart, he probably no longer has to worry about the finances. He shares a passion with his commissioner: both drive Porsche, Müller’s privateer is painted purple. His enthusiasm for fast cars started in childhood because he grew up near the Hockenheimring. Later he even races himself, only on the motorcycle and when that became too dangerous for him because of his acting profession. For this he acquired the international C license and, among other things, was a guest starter at the Porsche supercup. In 2003 in Hockenheim he was 17th “It was not bad for someone who only drives every few years,” he emphasized.

And today? Even at the age of 70, Richy Müller still wants to adventure and action. Shortly before his milestone birthday, he ventured to something completely new and 13 performances long in the musical “Tarzan” in Stuttgart on stage. There he embodied the wild hunter Clayton until the end of July. “Nobody knows if I can,” he joked before the premiere. After all, physically it was a real challenge: “There is this saying: ‘Can you still have a tumble tree?’ And suddenly I have to roll around. “