The Tel Aviv crime thriller

Television series
Original title	The Tel Aviv crime thriller
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Year (s)	2016-2017
Production company	TV60Filmproduktion , ARD Degeto
length	89 minutes
Episodes	4th
genre	Crime series
production	Andreas Schneppe , Sven Burgemeister , Andreas Bareiss
occupation
Katharina Lorenz : Sara Stein Katharina Marie Schubert : Anne Rodeck Samuel Finzi : Inspector Jakoov Blok Itay Tiran : David Shapiro

The Tel-Aviv-Krimi (working title: Sara Stein ) is a German, now discontinued, TV crime series of the ARD as part of the Thursday thriller. In the lead role, Katharina Lorenz was the Berlin detective Sara Stein. After meeting the Israeli pianist David Shapiro ( Itay Tiran ), she followed him to Tel Aviv , the next location in the series . The first episode, Tod in Berlin , entitled Sara Stein - Shalom Berlin, premiered on July 2, 2015 at the Munich Film Festival and was premiered on March 3, 2016 on Erste . The 89-minute films were produced by TV60Filmproduktion for ARD Degeto . So far, four films in the series have been broadcast. According to ARD, there should be no more episodes on the tense broadcasting slot.

action

Episode 1 Death in Berlin

The murder of the Israeli DJane Tamar becomes a challenge for Sara Stein, who is hardly interested in religious views. Public pressure to resolve the case is mounting, and suspicion arises that there may be a political background to the crime. The friend of the murdered, the Palestinian Khalid, and his family are at the center of the investigation. When Khalid's father out of the blue confesses to the murder, Sara Stein is alarmed that there may still be unknown dimensions in this case. She digs deeper and thereby neglects her private life including her new lover, the Israeli musician David, more and more. After all, they even bring their research to Tel Aviv.

Episode list

No.	Original title	First broadcast D	Director	script	Odds (Germany)
1	Death in Berlin	March 3, 2016	Matthias Tiefenbacher	Martin Kluger , Maureen Herzfeld	4.61 million viewers (market share: 14.2 percent)
2	Shiv'a	March 10, 2016	Matthias Tiefenbacher	Martin Kluger, Maureen Herzfeld	4.44 million viewers (market share: 13.8 percent)
3	Masada	23rd November 2017	Matthias Tiefenbacher	Matthias Tiefenbacher	4.47 million viewers (market share: 14.1 percent)
4th	Old friends	November 30, 2017	Matthias Tiefenbacher	Britta Stöckle , Josef Rusnak	3.49 million viewers (market share: 11.3 percent)

background

The production company TV60Filmproduktion produced the crime series for ARD Degeto . The filming of the first episode took place in November / December 2014 in Berlin, after which the film continued in Tel Aviv. The first episode was originally supposed to start in Tel Aviv, but because of the Gaza War , the plot was moved to Berlin.

With the first episode of the series, ARD picks up on the recent relocation of many young Israelis to Berlin.

reception

Thorsten Schmitz , longtime correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Israel, criticized in a review of the first two episodes that the production did not leave out any cliché regarding the relationship between Israelis, Germans, Palestinians, secular and religious people. Almost all of the characters had the authors "tied a Middle East conflict package around their stomachs that [they] threaten to suffocate". In order not to make a mistake, the feelings of those involved fell by the wayside.

Ursula Scheer, on the other hand, praised in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that the authors “let their characters talk about all the sensitivities [...] as if they were passing by”. In addition, she highlights the performance of the main actress Katharina Lorenz with her “balanced mixture of cool efficiency, sporty friendliness, fearlessness and grace on demand”.

Web links

• The Tel-Aviv crime in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Tel Aviv crime thriller at DasErste.de
• The Tel Aviv crime thriller at fernsehserien.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Shalom Berlin. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on September 7, 2017 . 
2. ^ Sara Stein - Shalom Berlin at the Munich Film Festival 2015, accessed on March 5, 2016.
3. ↑ The Tel-Aviv-Krimi - Death in Berlin at crew united . Retrieved September 7, 2017.
4. ↑ Sending slot lost. No more Thursday thriller from Tel Aviv In: Westfälische Nachrichten, August 28, 2018. Retrieved on May 2, 2020.
5. ↑ Audience ratings: great success for Tel Aviv crime thriller. In: mediabiz.de of March 4, 2016.
6. ↑ “The teacher” defeats the “top models”, Sport1 scores with the Europa League. In: Meedia of March 11, 2016.
7. ↑ Jauch's celebrity quiz and Tel Aviv thriller almost on par ( memento of the original dated November 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Halterner Zeitung of November 24, 2017. 
8. ↑ "Tel-Aviv-Krimi" leaves feathers and clearly loses against "Die Bergretter", "The Voice" stable strong In: MEEDIA from December 1st, 2017.
9. ↑ Production press release ARD from November 25, 2014
10. ↑ Thomas Gehringer: No Longing for Israel? In: Tagesspiegel.de of March 3, 2016.
11. ↑ ARD shoots German-Israeli crime thriller. dpa message in DerWesten from November 25, 2014.
12. ↑ Thorsten Schmitz : Sara am Kotti , Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 2, 2016
13. ↑ Ursula Scheer : In this case it can only have been the wrong one , FAZ of March 3, 2016