Großstadtrevier

Großstadtrevier
Genre	Crime; Comedy-drama
Created by	Jürgen Roland
Starring	Arthur Brauss (1986–1991) Mareike Carrière (1986–1994) Jan Fedder (1992–2020) Maria Ketikidou [de] (since 1994) Saskia Fischer Marc Zwinz Wanda Perdelwitz Sven Fricke Peter Fieseler Patrick Abozen Thomas Naumann Mischa Neutze Peter Heinrich Brix Kay Sabben Edgar Hoppe Peter Neusser Till Demtrøder Christoph Eichhorn Britta Eichhorn Andrea Lüdke Dorothea Schenck Ann-Cathrin Sudhoff Matthias Walter Wilfried Dziallas Anja Nejarri Tommaso Cacciapuoti Sebastian Hölz Sophie Moser Steffen Groth Mads Hjulmand Jens Münchow Farina Flebbe
Opening theme	"Großstadtrevier" by Truck Stop
Country of origin	West Germany (1986–1990) Germany (1990–present)
Original language	German
No. of seasons	37
No. of episodes	512
Production
Running time	48 minutes
Production company	Studio Hamburg [de]
Original release
Network	Das Erste
Release	16 December 1986 (1986-12-16) – present

Großstadtrevier (roughly (Big) City Police Station) is a German television series, broadcast on Germany's Das Erste of the ARD. First aired on 16 December 1986, the show is one of the most popular television series in the country. It follows the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg.

Synopsis

The series depicts everyday police work in the Hamburg district of St. Pauli and the neighborhood, focusing on the officers of the fictional 14th Police Station/PK14 (until season 23, the 14th Police Precinct). The plot essentially consists of three sub-areas.

First, there is the area of everyday police work, dealing primarily with minor offenses such as theft, neighborhood disputes, traffic offenses, and family disputes. Here, the often unbureaucratic and interpersonal assistance provided by officers, especially when it comes to elderly citizens, children, and the homeless, is presented as an almost natural part of the job.

Furthermore, there is the area around the neighborhood and Reeperbahn, where the officers primarily deal with prostitution, human trafficking, drugs, and violence, but also address the concerns of the people who live and work there. Real locations such as the drag cabaret Pulverfass and the boxing bar Zur Ritze were also used for this. Dirk Matthies's numerous contacts in the neighborhood often prove helpful when working on the Reeperbahn.

The third section focuses on the private lives of the police officers of PK14 and their interactions at work, true to the motto "One for all, all for one." The cohesion and familial relationship between the officers are particularly emphasized here; this is evident in shared trips to the countryside and after-work beers at their local pub, Big Harry (formerly Elli's). The officers' private activities, which occasionally also become official business, are also frequently featured in the series.

Major crimes such as murder, hostage-taking, and robbery are also occasionally addressed.

Cast

Current

Character	Actor	Episodes	Seasons	Years	Rank
Hariklia "Harry" Möller	Maria Ketikidou	64-onwards	8-onwards	1994-onwards	Police Chief, former Police Master, then Police Sergeant; civilian detective, partner of Nils Sanchez
Mrs. Küppers	Saskia Fischer	244-onwards	21-onwards	2007-onwards	Chief Inspector
Daniel Schirmer	Sven Fricke	327-onwards	26-onwards	2012-onwards	Police Commissioner
Lukas Petersen	Patrick Abozen	424-onwards	32-onwards	2018-onwards	Chief Inspector of Police
Helmut Husmann	Torsten Münchow	460-onwards	34-onwards	2021-onwards	Police Chief; Watchman
Nils Sanchez	Enrique Fiß	460-onwards	34-onwards	2021-onwards	Civilian detective; partner of Harry Möller, comes from PK 22
Bente Hinrichs	Sinha Melina Gierke	483-onwards	35-onwards	2023-onwards	Chief Police Commissioner, comes from the Schleswig-Holstein police in the district of Dithmarschen

Former

Character	Actor	Episodes	Seasons	Rank
Dirk Matthies	Jan Fedder	37–447; 452	6–33	Police sergeant; police chief; later police commissioner; then police senior commissioner
Nina Sieveking	Wanda Perdelwitz	327–482	26-35	Police sergeant

Episodes

Season 1 (1986-87)

Episode	Title	Original air date
1 (1.01)	Mensch, der Bulle ist 'ne Frau (Man, the cop is a woman)
2 (1.02)	Speedy (Speedy)
3 (1.03)	Prosit Neujahr (Happy New Year)
4 (1.04)	Amamos & Consorts (Amamos & Consorts)
5 (1.05)	Der Champ (The Champ)
6 (1.06)	Fahrerflucht (Hit and run)

Filming Locations

Since Season 33, the interior shots and the entrance of the Commissariat have been filmed in Studio Hamburg Atelier 3 in the Hamburg district of Tonndorf. The outdoor recordings take place in front of the archway Elsässer Straße 20/22 in Dulsberg.

Previously, the district was located in a building in Mendelssohnstraße/Eck Paul-Dessau-Straße, Hamburg-Bahrenfeld. The red brick building, in which the offices of Studio Hamburg Produktion GmbH (which occupied the metropolitan area up to and including the 32nd century) are located outside the shooting times. was used for both indoor and outdoor shots.

In Episodes 1 to 28, the then-real police station 12 (today a branch office of the police station 14), Klingberg 1 in 20095 Hamburg (next to the Chilehaus) was used for the outdoor recordings. The sign with the inscription "Police station 12" was glued accordingly.

Other recurring main shooting locations are the Reeperbahn, Sankt Michaelis, the Sankt-Josefs-Kirche in St. Pauli and the St. Pauli-Landungsbrücken. Some episodes take place outside of Hamburg, so the 300. Episode (airted under episode title 5 after 12 on 10. January 2011) in Bad Segeberg in the scenes of the Freilichttheater am Kalkberg, where the Karl May Games usually take place and was designed as a Western. In addition, three episodes were shot on Gut Rundhof in the Gasthof Weißer Hirsch. The episode Fährmann hol'röver was filmed on the North Sea island Neuwerk, which belongs to the Hamburg-Mitte district.

Another special shooting location was a former firefighting boat called Repsold, which is used for excursion trips on the Lower and Upper Elbe. In the metropolitan area, the Repsold served Dirk Matthies (Jan Fedder) as a houseboat for eight years.

See also

• List of German television series

External links

• Großstadtrevier at IMDb