The peppercorns

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Television series
Original title The peppercorns
Pfefferkoerner.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Year (s) 1999–2004, 2007–2010, since 2012
Production
company		 Studio Hamburg Production GmbH
length approx. 28 minutes
Episodes 208 in 16 seasons ( list )
genre Children's series , crime series
idea Katharina Mestre
music Mario Schneider
First broadcast December 27, 1999 on the children's channel

Die Pfefferkörner is a German children's and youth series . Groups of four or five young people are shown who solve criminal cases.

The 15th season with episodes 186–195 with the current detective group was broadcast in the first program from December 1 to 29, 2018 and the 16th season with episodes 196–208 from November 23 to December 28, 2019. The 17th season is scheduled to air in early 2021.

Cast and content

The 1st detective group

The Pfefferkörner are five friends from Hamburg (in the order of the opening credits):

actor Role name episode Guest appearances Season year Remarks
Anna-Elena Herzog Jana Holstein-Coutré 1-36 48 1-3 1999-2003 Cem's stepsister
İhsan Ay Cem Gülec 1-36 1-3 1999-2003 Jana's stepbrother
Vijessna Ferkic Natalia Marija "Natascha" Jaonzäns 1-36 53, 100, 200 1-3 1999-2003 Katja's cousin, Fiete’s friend
Julian Paeth Philipp "Fiete" Overbeck 1-36 43, 100 1-3 1999-2003 Vivi's big brother, Jojo's adoptive brother, Tasha's friend
Aglaja Brix Vivien "Vivi" Overbeck 1-52 1-4 1999-2004 Fiete's little sister, Jojo's adoptive sister, Paul's friend
cola 2-44 1-4 1999-2004 Team dog

After school, the young detectives meet in their headquarters on the floor of the Overbeck & Consorten spice warehouse in Hamburg's Speicherstadt, which initially belongs to Fiete and Vivi's parents and is later given to Fiete.

They determine their cases here with the smartness, the gift of combination and the support of the Internet. The sniffers convict environmental offenders, animal dealers and drug smugglers. But they also help each other with personal problems that sometimes depress them. Cem lost his parents in a car accident and is sad and lonely at times. After her parents divorced, Jana lives with her mother, a lawyer who is rarely at home. Natascha comes from Latvia and her parents initially have very strict rules regarding their upbringing, which makes Natascha unhappy. Fiete has problems showing his feelings and hides them behind gruffness and hostility towards girls until he falls in love with Natascha. The two come together as the series progresses. Vivi suffers from her role as the youngest member of the group. She believes that she has to constantly fight for recognition. She takes care of the bitch Cola, which belongs to the customs officer Uli (Rolf Nagel).

The shared adventures and resolved conflicts ultimately allow the Pfefferkörner to become a committed community in which everyone can rely on the other.

In the end, Jana and Cem move to Berlin with their mother and his uncle and later you don't hear anything from Cem. However, Jana appears again; in the episode "Die Bladerbande" she visits Vivi and the new Pfefferkörner and is directly involved in a new case and plays a decoy. After Natascha and Fiete flew to Australia for a student exchange, Fiete appears twice in the series. First to visit his family in the next season, where he again helps to solve a case (episode 43 "Beware of the crocodile!"), Later in episode 100, in which he looks at the old book of peppercorns with the new peppercorns which has been carried on from generation to generation.

Natascha is also present in this episode. In episode 53 she was already working as a police officer and thinks back to her time with the peppercorns - in the same period of time she also investigates six cases in the krimi.de series . Since she later gets married there, we learn that she is no longer with Fiete. It is decisive for the fact that the third team also calls itself “Die Pfefferkörner”. The role of Natascha (again as a patrol officer) also appears in the 200 anniversary episode.

The 2nd detective group

The new peppercorns are again five friends from Hamburg (in the order of the opening credits):

actor Role name episode Guest appearances Season year Remarks
Aglaja Brix Vivien "Vivi" Overbeck 1-52 1-4 1999-2004 Fiete's sister, Jojo's adoptive sister, Paul's friend
Lukas Decker Paul Hansen 37-52 33, 34 3-4 2003-2004 Vivi's boyfriend, Katja's ex-boyfriend
Carlotta Cornehl Johanna "Jojo" Overbeck (née Gentbrink) 37-52 35, 36 3-4 2003-2004 Vivi's and Fiete's adoptive sister
Jana Fomenko Katja Jelena Makarowa 37-52 33, 34 3-4 2003-2004 Tasha's cousin, Paul's ex-girlfriend
Tim Patrick Chan Xiaomeng "Panda" Weidtmann 37-52 3-4 2003-2004
cola 1-44 1-4 1999-2004 Team dog

Vivi remains the only peppercorn in Hamburg. Little by little, she takes on new members to her detective club. After school, the new peppercorns meet in their headquarters, on the floor of the spice warehouse of Overbeck & Consorten , which belongs to Vivi's parents. The apartment and spice store are located in Hamburg's Speicherstadt, a port area where tons of coffee, tea and spices are stored behind historic brick walls. Between sacks of pepper and paprika, marjoram and sage, they determine their cases with brains and the gift of combination and with the help of the Internet and digicam. The sniffers convict antique thieves, saboteurs, polluters, smugglers and blackmailers. In the course of episodes 37 to 39, the new peppercorns have come together to form a community that now has to withstand a few tests in the fourth season.

Vivi is now the most experienced in the group. She confidently leads the peppercorns and is passionate about her job as a reporter for the school newspaper “Die Feder”. When her parents took Johanna into the family and the boys wanted to see Vivi “only” as a good friend, but not as a girl, difficult times began for Vivi. She falls in love with Paul and still helps him to win Katja over. In the fourth season she then meets with him.

Johanna lost her parents in a car accident. To save her from the children's home, the Overbecks picked her up during the penultimate fall of the old peppercorns, Deadly Garbage . Jojo is the youngest among the new peppercorns. She is a calm and withdrawn girl who still suffers from the trauma of having lost her parents. Sometimes she is haunted by nightmares. Some of these dreams turn out to be premonitions that are controversial in the group but come in handy in clearing up some cases.

Katja comes from St. Petersburg and is a cousin of Natascha. Katja's parents have separated and she is supposed to stay with her uncle Andrej and aunt Ilze in Hamburg until her mother has come to terms with the failure of their marriage. She made her first, real appearance in the case of The Witness , at the time of which Natascha and the old peppercorns were still running the investigation, but it was Vivi and her classmate Paul who made friends with her and also protected her from teasing at school. Katja is wearing a leg brace because her leg was seriously injured in an accident. Katja is deadly unhappy about this, because her greatest wish is to become a ballet dancer. In St. Petersburg she was one of the best in her ballet class. She and Paul initially have a relationship, but it fails because of the two different interests.

Paul lives with his father, who owns a tourist launch in the port of Hamburg. His mother had left the family when Paul was little. She now lives in Berlin. Together with Vivi, he was already involved in the fight for Hoppetosse when the first team was still playing in the series. Although Paul suffers from the fact that his mother almost never answers, he leads a wonderfully free life with his father. He is always in good spirits and full of ideas. During the season Paul falls in love with Katja. But they don't stay together for long, because Paul notices that both of them have to pretend very often in order to maintain the relationship. Then Paul meets Vivi, which was to be expected during the "old peppercorns".

Panda is the son of a Hamburg tea merchant and a Chinese actress. Panda is brave, masters Chinese martial arts and likes to joke. He's just as self-confident as Vivi, with whom he keeps getting into trouble. He is the only member of the second Pfefferkörner group to join the group only after Fiete, Natascha, Jana and Cem have left.

In episode 49, the director Miko Zeuschner has a cameo as Ralf Wegener.

All members of this generation do not appear in the series later. This makes them the only Pfefferkörner group to this day, of which no character ever made a guest appearance in a later episode after its official end.

The 3rd detective group

The detective group in the fifth, sixth and the first two episodes of the seventh season (53-80) consists of the following people (in the order of the opening credits):

actor Role name episode Guest appearances Season year Remarks
Laura Gabriel Lilly Theede 53-80 5-7 2008-2010 Laurenz's girlfriend, Max's ex-girlfriend, Yeliz's stepsister
Moritz Jahn Karol Adamek 53-80 5-7 2008-2010 Yeliz's friend
Mira dear Yeliz Surat 53-80 5-7 2008-2010 Karol's girlfriend, Laurenz's ex-girlfriend, Lilly's step-sister
Tim Tiedemann Laurenz Krogmann 53-80 200 5-7 2008-2010 Marie's big brother, Sophie's and Emma's cousin, Lilly's boyfriend, Yeliz's ex-boyfriend
Nina Kaiser Marie Krogmann 53-80 5-7 2008-2010 Laurenz's little sister, Sophie's and Emma's cousin
Feline "Fee" 53-143 5-11 2008-2014 Team dog

A lot changes with the fifth season, as a completely new detective team begins. Lilly moves to Hamburg, where she only knows Laurenz. She quickly becomes friends with his friends Yeliz and Karol. Lilly and Yeliz become best friends. Yeliz falls in love with Laurenz, but he rejects her. Only a little later does he notice that he does feel something for her, and they come together. But only a short time later she realizes that she has fallen in love with Karol. When Laurenz discovers a love letter from Karol to her and reads it in front of the group, the two separate and she gets together with Karol, with whom she stays together until the end of the 3rd detective group, with a short separation phase. Lilly has a lot to do with boys as she was voted beauty queen. Laurenz later falls in love with Lilly, but they only meet in the last episode of the 6th season. Marie first has to prove herself to be taken seriously with the peppercorns.

In the seasons of this detective group, the female Feline "Fee" appears for the first time. It is a present from Laurenz to Lilly.

In season 7, which begins with the birth of Lilly and Yeliz's half-brother about nine months after the last episode of season 6, Laurenz and Marie emigrate to Cape Town with their parents. Since Lilly cannot part with Laurenz, after Laurenz and Marie's parents have negotiated several times, she is allowed to come with them for a year and the five are accompanied by Yeliz and Karol, who are going on vacation with them. Before that, Rika, the mother of Laurenz and Marie, hands over all tasks and powers to her brother Hannes, who moves into the tea shop with his family. Emma and Sophie, the two daughters of him and his wife Maike, meet their two cousins ​​Laurenz and Marie again while they move in, and later the others from the group before they leave town.

In episode 82 Emma finds the book of peppercorns again and a brief overview of the cases of the third group is given again in the form of flashbacks. With the exception of an appearance of a few seconds at the end of Laurenz's 200th anniversary episode, the members of this group no longer appear in the series.

The 4th detective group

The detective group of the seventh and eighth season (from episode 81) has the following members (in the order of the opening credits):

actor Role name episode Guest appearances Season year Remarks
Katherina Unger Sophie Krogmann 81-104 80, 105 7-8 2010-2011 Emma's big sister, Laurenz 'and Marie's cousin, Themba's girlfriend, Lukas' ex-girlfriend
Coco Nima Themba Bruhns-Mcomo 81-104 7-8 2010-2011 Sophie's boyfriend, Alisa's ex-boyfriend
Lale H. Mann Lina Lange 81-104 7-8 2010-2011 Henri's cousin, Rasmus' friend
Julian Winterbach Rasmus Bo Nilsen 81-104 7-8 2010-2011 Lina's friend
Aurelia Stern Emma Krogmann 81-117 80, 200 7-9 2010–2012 Sophie's little sister, Laurenz 'and Marie's cousin
Feline "Fee" 53-143 5-11 2008-2014 Team dog

When Laurenz and Marie move away, the bitch Fee is passed on to Emma and her big sister Sophie when they move into the tea office with their parents. The family lived in Brussels for a long time and Sophie initially had problems settling in Hamburg. Together with Rasmus, Lina and Themba, they are now taking over the Pfefferkörner's detective work. Emma's photographic memory is of great help here. Lina and Rasmus get together over the course of the season and Themba raves about Sophie, but she denies possible feelings for him. When she finally realizes the truth, Themba is with a schoolmate. At the end of the eighth season there is a happy ending for Themba and Sophie.

Sophie has a brief appearance in a flashback in the first episode of the ninth season and is mentioned several times by her sister (they also keep in touch by phone), but her relationship with the other peppercorns is never discussed. The rest of the gang is only mentioned by name, but otherwise not shown.

In episode 90, Themba and his family's apartment is searched by two police officers named "Frank" and "Hansen". This is an allusion to Jophi Ries , who played Jochen Overbeck with the Pfefferkörnern from 2000 to 2003. He played in the series SOKO Cologne from 2003 to 2011 Chief Inspector Frank Hansen.

In episode 96, the director Klaus Wirbitzky has a cameo as biology teacher Müller.

The 5th detective group

The detective group of the ninth season has the following members (in order of the opening credits):

actor Role name episode Guest appearances Season year Remarks
Aurelia Stern Emma Krogmann 81-117 80, 200 7-9 2010–2012 Sophie's little sister, Laurenz 'and Marie's cousin, Nina's best friend
Bruno Alexander Max Paulsen 105-131 9-11 2012-2014 Nina's friend, Tatjanes ex-boyfriend
Carolin Garnier Nina Pellicano 105-131 9-11 2012-2014 Max's friend, Emma's best friend
Sammy O'Leary Henri Patterson 105-117 9 2012 Lina's cousin
Feline "Fee" 53-143 5-11 2008-2014 Team dog

Sophie, Lina, Rasmus and Themba go on a world tour for a school year. The now twelve-year-old Emma has received the key to the headquarters from Sophie, with the hint that she will find new friends and new peppercorns. Since, in her opinion, there are only rivets in her class, she is closing the headquarters first. Her detective acumen quickly awakens when the new student in her class, Nina Pellicano, is accused of stealing wallets on her first day of school. The next surprise awaits Emma at home: a little boy makes himself comfortable in the headquarters and rummages through the book of peppercorns. It is Henri Patterson, the nephew of river boat pastor Jan (Lina's father). Henri and his uncle moved in with the Krogmanns because he got seasick on the ship. His parents worked in a hospital in the Congo for several months, so he stayed with his uncle that long. Henri is enthusiastic about the cases of the peppercorns and absolutely wants to be part of it. He also wants to win Emma's classmate Max over for the peppercorns, because he is committed to Nina - who he's been blown away by since he first saw her. It takes some time until that happens, however, because Max does not take the peppercorns seriously at first and always blocks Nina because - as it turns out later - she was bullied at her old school because of her disabled brother Matteo ( Robin Huth ). This is what the other peppercorns find out in episode 107, “Nina's Secret”. This episode occupies an exceptional position in the series, in this case it is not a crime, but in addition to the disclosure of this secret, the future of a little girl who lives in socially disadvantaged circumstances is in the foreground.

Max lives with his grandmother Magdalena "Leni" Paulsen because his parents were killed in a car accident when he was seven years old. Grandma Leni is a motorcyclist and runs a food truck. At the end of the season, Max and Nina become a couple.

Nina's parents are from Italy. Her father becomes the new caretaker at the school, and so the family moves into the caretaker's apartment. Nina doesn't want to be with Max at first because he always plays the cool and pretends that he doesn't care. But at the end of the season she falls in love with him and the two become a couple.

Emma is Nina's best friend and the leader of the group.

As in the previous two detective groups, the female Feline “Fee” will be there again.

Emma and Henri will be briefly mentioned again in the next season. Furthermore Emma appears in the anniversary episode 200, in which she uses other earlier peppercorns to explain the disappearance of the current group. Why she is in Hamburg again is not explained. Otherwise the two will no longer appear in the series.

Besides Natascha, Emma was the only person in the entire series who had come across peppercorns from 8 of the 10 generations. First the 3rd group at the end of episode 80 (before they leave for Cape Town); then by forming a new group in episode 81 with her sister, the 4th generation, before she met Fiete and Natascha from the 1st detective group in episode 100. With the meeting of Henri as the first new member of the 5th team in episode 105 and from episode 107 Nina and Max, who were also part of the 6th detective group, the 2nd generation remained the only one to whom Emma had never had a relationship . However, indirectly through her encounter with Fiete and Natascha, who in turn knew the 2nd detective group (and of which Natascha, just like Emma, ​​had also seen the 3rd detective group) on the one hand, and her collaboration with Nina and Max, their engagement was still up to At the beginning of the 7th detective group it was enough, on the other hand, to have a connection to the other groups. Since she also founded the first group to investigate in the office, which is still used as headquarters today, she can be described as the real key figure in the first 15 years of the series. With her guest appearance in the 200th episode, this importance was underlined again, where she first met members of generations 8-10 and met Natascha again for the second time after episode 100.

The 6th detective group

The detective group of the tenth season has the following members (in order of the opening credits):

actor Role name episode Guest appearances Season year Remarks
Carolin Garnier Nina Pellicano 105-131 9-11 2012-2014 Max's girlfriend
Bruno Alexander Max Paulsen 105-131 9-11 2012-2014 Nina's friend, Tatjanes ex-boyfriend
Martha Fries Jessica "Jessi" Amsinck 118-143 10-11 2013-2014 Luis' big stepsister, Anton's friend
Emilio Sanmarino Luis de Lima Santos 118-143 10-11 2013-2014 Jessi's little stepbrother
Feline "Fee" 53-143 5-11 2008-2014 Team dog

This group includes the peppercorns Max and Nina, who are already known from the fifth group. Jessi and Luis are new. Emma and Henri are no longer there.

At the beginning of season 10, Max and Nina still have each other, but no longer an investigative team. Her best friends, Emma (moved to India with their parents) and Henri (moved to live with his parents in Africa), have left Hamburg. The end of the “peppercorns” seems sealed. Until Nina meets a girl in Hafencity who bravely intervenes when a homeless person is beaten up by two young people. As luck would have it, Jessi's family is a new tenant in Emma's parents' office. And after initial friction, she moves into the "Pfefferkörner" headquarters with her concentrated courage, her self-confidence, but also with her patchwork brother Luis. Luis is a smart guy and always curious. He thinks the fact that his mother Isabell "Isa" de Lima Santos is now moving in with Jessi's father, the architect Alexander "Alex" Amsinck, is great - in contrast to Jessi, who was also happy with her father and has great difficulties. to accept the new family constellation.

In episode 126, the director Klaus Wirbitzky has a cameo as an angry neighbor of Max's friend Lennart.

The bitch Fee is also back in season 10.

Nina and Max have another appearance in the first episode of the 11th season.

The 7th detective group

The detective group of the eleventh season has the following members (in order of the opening credits):

actor Role name episode Guest appearances Season year Remarks
Jaden Bojsen Niklas Klinger 131-143 11 2014
Martha Fries Jessica "Jessi" Amsinck 118-143 10-11 2013-2014 Luis' big stepsister, Anton's friend
Danilo Kamber Anton Cengiz 131-143 11 2014 Ceyda's twin brother, Jessi's friend
Merle de Villiers Ceyda Cengiz 131-143 11 2014 Anton's twin sister
Emilio Sanmarino Luis de Lima Santos 118-143 10-11 2013-2014 Jessi's little stepbrother
Feline "Fee" 53-143 5-11 2008-2014 Team dog

In this group, the peppercorns Jessi and Luis, who are already known from the sixth group, will be there. Ceyda, Anton and Niklas are new. Nina and Max are no longer there. Nina returns to Italy with her parents at the beginning of the season. But because Max can't stand the separation from Nina, Matteo and Grandma Leni arrange for Max to go to Italy with Nina. After Leni returned from Italy, Nikla's mother Janin took on a temporary job in Leni's snack bar. As with the first four groups, there are five of the peppercorns again. Similar to the 107th episode of the 5th detective group, there is also a case in this group with episode 132 that is not a criminal case in the strict sense, but deals with a girl who runs away from home due to the pressure from her parents to perform. Jessi falls in love with Niklas, but he is in love with Ceyda and Anton is also in love with Jessi. Later, Ceyda falls in love with Niklas and the two almost get together, but then realize that they just want to be friends. In addition, Jessi falls in love with Anton and the two become a couple.

In episode 132, the director Klaus Wirbitzky made a cameo as a reporter in a video on the Internet .

The bitch Fee is also there again in season 11.

All peppercorns of the seventh generation have a guest appearance in the first episode of the following season, in a video that they left for the new peppercorns. There you learn that the five friends have moved away from Hamburg and want to hand over command to a new group. You don't find out where the group moved to or for what reason (and whether they all moved to the same place together). But since the following generation will find an abandoned tea shop from the 12th season onwards, it can be assumed that Luis' mother and Jessi's father left the city and also took the other peppercorns with them.

The 8th detective group

The detective group of the twelfth and thirteenth seasons has the following members (in order of the opening credits):

actor Role name episode Guest appearances Season year Remarks
Sina Michel Pinja Friese 144-169 12-13 2015-2016 Stella’s sister, Ramin’s friend
Otto von Grevenmoor Till Petersen 144-168 169, 200 12-13 2015-2016
Zoe Malia Moon Stella Friese 144-169 12-13 2015-2016 Pinja's sister, Ramin's ex-girlfriend
Jann Piet Ramin Dschami 144-169 200 12-13 2015-2016 Jale's brother, Stella's ex-boyfriend, Pinja's boyfriend
Ava Sophie Richter Jale Jami 144-169 12-13 2015-2016 Ramin's sister
sock 144-169 12-13 2015-2016 Team dog

The new peppercorns are: the twelve-year-old German-Persian Ramin, a master of logic and strategy, and his nine-year-old sister Jale, a clever rebel; In addition, the eleven-year-old Pinja, a committed environmental and animal rights activist, and her sister, Stella, who is one year older than her, the IT queen, and the eleven-year-old half-orphan Till with a mixed breed dog, Socke, a specialist in networking and tracking. Together, the five solve many new, exciting crime cases around the port of Hamburg.

Till leaves the peppercorns after the penultimate episode because he is moving to the USA with his brother, with whom he lives. The brother got a job there.

Why the members of the 8th group are no longer active and where they may have moved is not mentioned. In the next season, the Goldmann family will live in the Dschami family's previous apartment. In the anniversary episode 200, Ramin and Till play again and clarify the disappearance of the current group with other earlier peppercorns. Till is a seaman who happens to be in Hamburg. Ramin's further career is not mentioned in this episode.

The 9th detective group

The detective group of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth season (in the order of the opening credits) and the movie Die Pfefferkörner and the Curse of the Black King (2017) has the following members:

actor Role name episode Guest appearances Season year Remarks
Marleen Quentin Mia Goldman 170-185 200 14-15 2017-2018 Alice's sister, Benny's friend
Luke Matt X-Ray Johannes von Wied-Litzow 170-185 186 14-15 2017-2018 Lisha's friend
Emilia Flint Alice Goldman 170-185 14-15 2017-2018 Mia's sister
Ruben Storck Bennet "Benny" Jansen 170-185 14-15 2017-2018 Mia's friend
Emma Roth Lisha Schulze 171-185 186 14-15 2017-2018 Johannes' girlfriend
did not appear in the movie
Murphy 172-183 14-15 2017-2018 Team dog
did not appear in the movie

With the fourteenth season, a new intro was used for the first time since the beginning of the series, which differs from the previous opening credits by various animations and effects. In addition to various city views of Hamburg, the Elbphilharmonie can also be seen. Music, lyrics and singing have stayed the same.

In the third episode of the 15th season, Mia and Alice leave Hamburg because they are moving to New York with their parents. Benny, Mia's friend, is allowed to come along to improve his English. In the fourth episode, Johannes also leaves Hamburg because his parents want him to continue growing up with them in South Africa. Lisha as his girlfriend is allowed to accompany him.

In the 200 anniversary episode, Mia is back in Hamburg. There she, together with other earlier peppercorns, solves the disappearance of the current group. Why she is back in Hamburg (about a year has passed during the film era) is not explained further.

The 10th detective group

In the 186th episode, the fourth episode of the 15th season, Lisha is looking for new members for the Pfefferkörner, solves a case with them and hands over the headquarters to the 10th generation of Pfefferkörner. This season, too, the team consists of five members, three boys and two girls (in the order of the opening credits):

actor Role name episode Guest appearances Season year Remarks
Marlene von Appen Kira Dierksen 186-208 15-16 2018-2019 Levin's girlfriend got out of a criminal gang with the help of the peppercorns
Moritz Pauli Levin Grevenmeyer 186-208 15-16 2018-2019 Nele's brother, Kira's friend
Spencer King Olufemi "Femi" Okoawo 186-208 15-16 2018-2019 Tayo's brother
Ronja Levis Nele Grevenmeyer 186-208 15-16 2018-2019 Levin's sister, Tayo's friend
Samuel Adams Tayo Okoawo 186-208 15-16 2018-2019 Femi's brother, Nele's friend
Pepper 188-201 15-16 2018-2019 Team dog

Recurring supporting actors

Arranged according to the order in which the roles appear. Table can be sorted according to the names of the actors, role names and the first episode of the appearance.

actor Role name consequences Remarks
Annette Mayer Anne Overbeck 1-13 Fietes and Vivi's parents, Jojo's adoptive parents, owners of the “Overbeck & Consorten” spice trade in the Speicherstadt
Nina Hoger 14-51
Alexander fur Jochen Overbeck 1-13
Jophi Ries 14-47
Katharina Naumow Ilze Jaonzäns 1-42 Natasha's parents, Katja's uncle and aunt
Jurij Schrader Andrej Jaonzäns 1-12
Denis Burgazliev 18-42
Sabine Vitua Elisabeth Holstein-Coutré 1-36 Jana's mother, ex-wife of Jana's father, lawyer
Charlotte Crome Rita Schmitz 1-7 Teacher
Rolf Nagel Uli Beneke (up to season 3 Uli Mertens) 2-52 Customs officer, good friend, owner of the bitch Cola
Ercan Özçelik Kemal Gülec 2-26 Cems uncle and legal guardian
Thando Walbaum Jeremy (Joachim Behrens) 2, 46 plays basketball player Adesola Awolo in episode 133
Max Herbrechte Sebastian Holstein-Coutré 4-35 Jana's father, ex-husband of Jana's mother, Celine's (ex-) boyfriend, Jacqueline's husband
Siemen Rühaak Commissioner Dreyer 7-30 Commissioner
Miriam Lahnstein Jacqueline 14-29, 46 Jana's father's wife
Moritz Scholz Niklas Rasmussen 18-26 Jana's (ex) boyfriend
Josef Ostendorf Pastor Gotze 18-29 Pastor to St. Katharinen
Steffen Munster Mats Hansen 33-50 Paul's father, small boatman
Gerhard Olschewski Otto 33-48 good friend, employee of Paul's father
Mey Lan Chao Xing Xing Weidtmann 37-51 Panda's parents
Christian Maria Goebel Peter Weidtmann 37-51
Katharina Spiering Rika Krogmann 53-80 Laurenz and Marie's parents, operators of the Krogmann tea shop in the Speicherstadt
Samuel Weiss Thomas Krogmann 53-80
Steffen Groth Roman Che Theede 53-80 Lilly's father, Port Security employee
Barbara nuts Inga Theede 53-76 Lilly's grandma, psychologist
Sascha Özlem Soydan Hatice Surat 54-76 Yeliz's mother, lawyer
Sven Waasner Nils Quaschner 54-80 Policeman friend of Karol's father at the water police in Hamburg
Marek Gierszal Tadeusz Adamek 56-77 Karol's parents, operators of the Hafenkantine (Marek Gierszal already appeared in episode 19 (as Alex))
Katerina Poladjan Janina Adamek 56-77
Katharina Schütz Marlies Schröder-Hartmann 67– Director
Jannik Schümann Max 70-74 Lilly's (ex) boyfriend
Jörn Knebel Hannes Krogmann 80-117 Sophie's and Emma's parents take over the tea shop from Rika (Hannes' sister) and Thomas Krogmann
Verena Mundhenke Maike Krogmann 80-105
Matthias Klimsa Jan Lange 81-117 Lina's father and Henri's uncle, pastor at the river boat church . (Matthias Klimsa already appeared in episodes 40 (as Steinke) and 71 (as Mr. Hansen))
Simon Böer Sven Bader 82-104 Police chief inspector in Hamburg, friend and later Lene Nilsen's husband
Katrin Weisser Lene Nilsen (from episode 104 Lene Bader) 82-104 Rasmus' mother, lawyer, friend and Sven Bader's future wife
Katinka Auberger Mariella Schulze (up to season 9 Mariella Lenz) 82– Teacher
Paula Paul Gabi Bruhns-Mcomo 83-104 Themba's parents, Gabi runs a hairdressing salon, Dalu is a taxi driver (Paula Paul already appeared in episode 51 (as a teacher))
Nino Sandow Dalu Mcomo-Bruhns 83-104
Lianna Kerneck Alisa 99-103 Themba's (ex) girlfriend
Julian Greis Teacher 105-113 Teacher
Orazio Zambelletti Antonio Pellicano 105-131 Nina's parents, Antonio is the school's new caretaker
Clelia Sarto Maria Pellicano 106-131
Robin Huth Matteo Pellicano 106-131 Nina's brother has Down syndrome
Doris Kunstmann Magdalena "Leni" Paulsen 106-143 Max's grandma, runs a food truck
Stefanie Schmid Svenja 112-117 Policewoman, Jan Lange's friend
Markus Knüfken Alexander Amsinck 118-143 Jessi's father, Luis 'stepfather, boyfriend and Isabell de Lima Santos' later fiance and husband, architect
Lucia Peraza Rios Isabell de Lima Santos 118-143 Luis 'mother, Jessi's stepmother, Alexander Amsinck's girlfriend and later fiancé or wife, Tiago de Lima Santos' ex-wife, later began studying
Aaron Hilmer Diego 119-137 classmate
Alexander Milo Milos Tosic 120-126 Policeman, Max's anti-aggression trainer
Victoria Fleer Sonja Cengiz 131-143 Anton and Ceyda's parents are owners of a boat storage company
Özgür Karadeniz Erol Cengiz 132-143
Lotta Doll Janin Klinger 134-143 Niklas' mother is training to be a nurse and also works in Grandma Leni's snack bar
Jodie Leslie Ahlborn Katrin Friese 144-169 Mother of Stella and Pinja
Neda Rahmanian Dr. Leyla Dschami 144-169 Parents of Ramin and Jale, operators of the carpet shop in the Speicherstadt (Abdullah already appeared in episode 106 (as Dragan))
Neil Malik Abdullah Navid Jami 144-169
Mathias Harrebye-Brandt Jonne Friese halons 145-169 Father of Stella and Pinja
Tilman Pörzgen Luke Petersen 145-168 Till's older brother, Anne's ex-boyfriend
Sophia Schubert Anne Verily 158-159 Luke's ex-girlfriend
Annika Martens Maja Goldman 170-185 Parents of Mia and Alice, operators of “Das Goldman - Café and Coffee Roasting” in the Speicherstadt
Ole Eisfeld Sam Goldman 170-185
Altamasch Noor Hamit Yildirim 170-185 Bodyguard, Johannes' Chauffeur (also starred in the movie (2017))
Meike Kircher Andrea Jansen 171-204 Mother of Benny, friend of Martin, foster mother of Tayo and Olufemi, daughter of Reiko (was played in the movie (2017) by Katharina Wackernagel )
Janek Rieke Martin Schulze 171-194 Teacher, father of Lisha, friend of Andrea, foster father of Tayo and Olufemi (was played in the movie (2017) by Devid Striesow )
Oliver Brocker Enno Nebatz 175-176 Benny's father, in prison
Bo Hansen Sven Dierksen 185-208 Kira's father, fish stall owner (Sven's Fisch Kiste) (Bo Hansen already appeared in episodes 8 (as Leo) and 59 (as tiger))
Jens-Peter Brose Hannes 185-203 Police officer (Jens-Peter Brose already appeared in episodes 29 (as Mr. Petersen), 70 (as a fire fighter), 130 (as Tore Aalmann) and 157 (as police chief Möller))
Silja von Kriegstein Kristin "Krissi" Grevemeyer 187-207 Mother of Levin and Nele, partner of Imke, musician
Lena Münchow Imke Grevemeyer 187-207 Mother of Levin and Nele, partner of Krissi, operator of "Das Goldman - Café and coffee roastery" in the Speicherstadt
Peter Badstübner Reiko Jansen 196-204 Grandfather of Benny, foster grandfather of Tayo and Olufemi, father of Andrea (Peter Badstübner already appeared in episode 118 (as homeless Claus))

Transitions between groups

In most group changes there is a connection between the old and new peppercorns so that the Pfefferkorn book and the archive can be continued. With four out of nine changes, only part of the cast is changed.

There seems to be no connection between the second and third groups. Here the name “Die Pfefferkörner” is only preserved through a chance meeting with Natascha. How the archive and the book were passed on during this change remains open. Likewise, there seems to be no connection between the eighth and ninth generation and cinema (with the ninth generation). It remains unclear how the archive, the book and the name were passed on.

All generations go to the same school except for Kira Dierksen from the 10th generation.

When switching between the third and fourth generation, relatives move into the house in which the headquarters of the peppercorns are located, so that the two groups meet, if only briefly. Between the seventh and eighth generation, it is a seventh generation video that convinces Stella, Ramin, Jale, Pinja and Till for the peppercorns. Between the ninth and tenth generations, Lisha is the last Pfefferkorn on site to convince the new members to join forces before she also leaves Hamburg.

Episode list and movies

Production and broadcast

The first 52 episodes of the series, produced by Studio Hamburg on behalf of NDR , were shot in four seasons from 1999 to 2004 in Hamburg's Speicherstadt .

The first season, which comprises 13 episodes, was first broadcast on KiKA from December 27, 1999 to January 12, 2000 . The second season was created a good year later on behalf of NDR and SWR and was filmed in two stages: First eight episodes were produced, the first airing of which was from March 22nd to April 2nd, 2001, later another five episodes, which were broadcast from March 7th to 13th, 2001 April 2002 premiered.

The third season, again comprising 13 episodes, was created barely a year after the second season as a joint production by ARD and was first broadcast from January 3 to 21, 2003. This season the change between the first and second generation of peppercorns took place. The first ten episodes were shot with the old, the last three episodes of the season with the new generation of actors. In the four episodes in between, both generations were seen in parallel, the old actors were written out of their roles and the new characters were introduced into the series.

As in the first season, the sole client of the fourth season was NDR. Like the second, the fourth season was created in two stages: First, nine episodes were filmed, which were first broadcast from February 26 to March 9, 2004. A little later, the last four episodes of the second generation were filmed, which were shown for the first time from December 7, 2004 to January 11, 2005 in the KiKA evening program.

After a break of two years, the fifth and sixth seasons, each with 13 episodes, were filmed in Hamburg in 2007 and 2008 with a new third team of detective. The episodes of the fifth season could be seen for the first time from March 15 to June 7, 2008 on Saturdays in the morning program of the first. The sixth season was there from April 4 to July 4, 2009 as a first broadcast on Saturdays.

Between April 15, 2009 and October 16, 2009 Studio Hamburg Produktions GmbH produced the seventh season of the series with completely new actors. However, the previous group still appeared in the 79th and 80th episodes. Since the last two episodes with the third generation were only produced after the casting for the follow-up team, the plot starts a few months later, and there is a brief encounter between the two groups. The eighth season was filmed between March 8, 2010 and October 15, 2010 in the following year. The first broadcast of both seasons took place since October 9, 2010, one after the other, on Saturdays at 8:40 am on the children's program of the station “Das Erste” and ended on April 16, 2011.

In 2012, the ninth season was filmed with a new fifth team of detective. The episodes were initially broadcast on KiKA from October 8 to 12, 2012 (several episodes in a row). After that, all episodes were broadcast again from October 13th to November 10th 2012 on Saturday morning in the first.

In 2013, the 10th season was shot with the sixth detective team. For the first time, two members from the previous team were taken over. The new episodes were broadcast from November 16 to December 21, 2013 on Saturday morning on Erste.

In 2014, two members of the old team were taken over again and the 11th season was produced with the partly new team. Episode 131 has a special position because it is the first episode in the history of the series in which all peppercorns from two generations appear. From October 25 to December 27, 2014, the new episodes were broadcast on KiKA and Erste.

A year later, the twelfth season was filmed with an eighth, completely new detective team. They aired from November 7th to December 19th, 2015. The 13th season was filmed with the same team in 2016 and aired from November 20 to December 10, 2016

The movie Die Pfefferkörner and the Curse of the Black King was released on September 7, 2017 . In this film, which was produced in 2016 and whose theatrical release was on September 7, 2017 shortly before the broadcast of the 14th season, Mia, Alice and Benny are shown as the new peppercorns from the start. In addition to Hamburg, he also plays in South Tyrol. At the end of the film, Johannes and at the beginning of the 14th season also Lisha join the others, who then form the 9th detective group. The replacement of the old peppercorns Stella, Ramin, Pinja, Till and Jale is not shown in the film or in the 14th season.

The fourteenth season was 12 November and 17 December 2017 in the first broadcast.

The planned film Die Pfefferkörner - Das Rätsel der Cimbria , for which a script by Katharina Mestre is already available, has not yet been realized for various reasons.

Publications

DVD

  • Season 1: February 29, 2008
  • Season 2: February 29, 2008
  • Season 3: April 11, 2008
  • Season 4: April 11, 2008
  • Season 5: June 26, 2009
  • Season 6: June 26, 2009
  • Season 7: October 22, 2010
  • Season 8: March 4, 2011
  • Season 9: November 2, 2012
  • Season 10: January 24, 2014
  • Season 11: September 11, 2015
  • Season 12: March 11, 2016
  • Season 13: January 20, 2017
  • Season 14: March 23, 2018
  • Season 15: February 8, 2019

Books

In Egmont VGS of the first five seasons books that have been written on the basis of scenarios of different authors appear to some consequences. The titles differ from the templates, the actions are largely the same.

Radio plays

For some episodes of the first two and fifth seasons, radio plays were released with the original sound of the TV series, each newly mixed with a narrator. Selected episodes of the first two seasons on Karussell with Volker Hanisch as narrator, episodes of the fifth season on Jumbo with Robert Missler as narrator.

Pc game

In Terzio the PC game appeared "Cem under suspicion" with the original voices of the television series.

Nominations and Awards

  • 2000: Golden Telix in the Best Game Series category
  • 2000: First prize of the Asian-Pacific-Broadcasting Union (ABU) in the category Best Children's Series
  • 2000: Nomination for the Prix ​​Jeunesse
  • 2001: Goldener Spatz in the category Fiction short (children's jury)
  • 2003: Goldener Spatz in the short film category for the episode Kampf um Hoppetosse (children's jury)
  • 2003: Winner at the KinderKom - Merano TV Festival 2003 in the category Best Children's Program for the episode Der Schlitzer von der Elbchaussee
  • 2008: Nomination for the children's media award The White Elephant for the episode Karol undercover

Remarks

  1. ↑ In the Belgian Dutch version it is called Fiebe Overbeck , in the Dutch version it is also called “Fiete”.
  2. ↑ Name at the time: Nina Flynn
  3. ↑ In the Belgian Dutch version he is called Fill Petersen , in the Dutch version he is also called "Till".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b fernsehserien.de: The peppercorns at fernsehserien.de
  2. ↑ The peppercorns on television. NDR, accessed November 15, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Die Pfefferkörner: Season 16.NDR, November 23, 2019, accessed on December 29, 2019 .
  4. ↑ The Peppercorns - FAQ. NDR, accessed on July 28, 2020 (item “Will there be new episodes?”).
  5. ↑ KiKA - Natascha Jaonzäns In: kika.de , accessed on February 28, 2018.
  6. ↑ Studio Hamburg production mirror July / Aug. 2009 (PDF; 1.1 MB) ( Memento from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Patricia Batlle: Now I'm a peppercorn daddy too. Interview with Matthias Klimsa. In: Peppercorns. NDR, August 6, 2009, archived from the original on November 30, 2011 ; accessed on November 27, 2018 .
  8. ↑ The Peppercorns (2009) | Episodes 79–91 In: crew-united.com , accessed on February 28, 2018.
  9. ↑ Studio Hamburg production mirror Sept./Oct. 2009 (PDF; 713 kB) ( Memento from February 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ a b Ten years "Die Pfefferkörner". (No longer available online.) In: Die Pfefferkörner. NDR, archived from the original on July 20, 2010 ; accessed on January 1, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Studio Hamburg production level Aug / Sept. 2010 (PDF; 709 kB) ( Memento from February 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Nils Zurawsk: Laurenz and Karol in the hands of protection money gang. In: Peppercorns. NDR, November 19, 2008, archived from the original on August 18, 2012 ; accessed on November 28, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Die Pfefferkörner - all seasons, episodes, videos | NDR.de
  14. ↑ New episodes: Start of shooting for the 10th season. (No longer available online.) In: Die Pfefferkörner. NDR, archived from the original on March 11, 2013 ; accessed on January 1, 2020 .
  15. ↑ ffhsh.de
  16. ↑ Wild Bunch: The Peppercorns and the Curse of the Black King. In: wildbunch-germany.de. Retrieved August 31, 2017 .
  17. ↑ abovetheline.de
  18. ↑ The children's jury awards the GOLDEN SPARROW in the "Fiction short" category. Retrieved June 18, 2013 .
  19. ↑ The children's jury awards the GOLDEN SPARROW in the "Short Feature Film" category. Retrieved June 18, 2013 .
  20. ↑ mmm.verdi.de
  21. ↑ lifepr.de