Friesland (TV series)

Television broadcast
Original title	Friesland
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Year (s)	since 2013
Production company	Warner Bros. ITVP Germany
length	90 minutes
Episodes	10+ ( list )
genre	Detective film
First broadcast	May 3, 2014 on ZDF
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Friesland is a television series of the ZDF , which has been produced since 2013 and aired since, 2014. The humorously designed crime films are set in Leer (East Friesland) and the surrounding area. The shooting takes place in the old town of Leer. There is also filming in Norderney , at the port of Ditzum and on the East Frisian coast.

Ten episodes have aired so far, with the most recent episode airing on February 29, 2020. The film was directed by Sven Nagel , Dominic Müller , Markus Sehr and Isabel Prahl . The scripts were written by Arne Nolting , Jan Martin Scharf and Timo Berndt . The series is produced by Warner Bros. ITVP Germany (formerly: Eyeworks), the producers are Sabine de Mardt (until 2018) and Anton Moho .

Characters

Süher Özlügül and Jens Jensen / Henk Cassens

Two uniformed police officers in Leer who should work in a team and, when it comes down to it, stick together, but also often enough clash when they exceed their competencies in investigations or find it difficult to separate business and private matters.

After Florian Lukas left the TV series in 2017 as the main actor Jens Jensen, Maxim Mehmet stepped in for him as Henk Cassens' new colleague.

Jan Brockhorst

Chief Detective Inspector, initially responsible for murder cases in Leer from Wilhelmshaven, in episode 4 he is transferred there as the new head of the department. Which is the end of the world for him, because he doesn't think much of Friesland in general and Leer in particular and doesn't make a secret of it - dialogues like “Maybe she couldn't take it here anymore? - Of course, nobody can take it here! ”Are a running gag . Rural economic structures are deeply alien to him; in episode 7 he can't amuse himself enough that they “sell shit” as he puts it. He does not contribute much to the investigation, but tries, above all, in vain to portray an authority figure, but then likes to adorn himself with feathers.

Insa Scherzinger

Pharmacist in Leer and passionate hobby forensic scientist. She temporarily closes her shop at any time to examine a new corpse and then produces astonishing results in her private laboratory, with which she is ahead of official forensic medicine. That is why the police like to consult them unofficially, which Jan Brockhorst is of course not allowed to tolerate, but it is also difficult for him to evade Scherzinger's charm.

Wolfgang Habedank

is the undertaker on site and can therefore provide Insa Scherzinger with access to the current corpses at any time. It is an open secret that he also runs a hemp plantation in the basement of his house . Habedank, Scherzinger, Özlügül and Jensen / Cassens are good friends and therefore also investigate together, although not all regulations are always observed.

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Role name	actor	episode
Jens Jensen, police officer	Florian Lukas	1-5
Henk Cassens, cop	Maxim Mehmet	since 6
Süher Özlügül, policewoman	Sophie Dal	since 1
Jan Brockhorst, chief detective	Felix Vörtler	since 1
Insa Scherzinger, pharmacist	Theresa Underberg	since 1
Wolfgang Habedank, undertaker	Matthias Matschke	1
	Holger Stockhaus	since 2
Güneş Özlügül, harbor master	Tayfun Bademsoy	1-2
Yunus Özlügül, Süher's brother	Yunus Cumartpay	Since 3

background

Friesland was originally planned as the TV movie of the week , but then it was the start of a new Saturday crime series. It is less based on the films like Murderer on Amrum by Holger Karsten Schmidt and Markus Imboden , but rather reminds of Wilsberg because of the many situations comical scenes , as the author duo Arne Nolting and Jan Martin Scharf as well as director Dominic Müller already look at crime novels by the Wilsberg- Series were involved.

Episodes

No.	Original title	First broadcast	Director	script	spectator
1	Murderous tides	May 3, 2014	Dominic Müller	Arne Nolting , Jan Martin Scharf	6.47 million
A young housewife is found dead in her apartment. Her murder is said to be covered up as a suicide , whereupon the two patrol officers Jensen and Özlügül start their own investigations.
2	Family secrets	Feb 7, 2015	Dominic Müller	Arne Nolting, Jan Martin Scharf	6.05 million
The two policemen Jensen and Özlügül apply for the position of head of department and clarify the death of the doorman Felix Bilstedt.
3	Klootschießen	Feb. 27, 2016	Markus Sehr	Timo Berndt	6.48 million
The two policemen Jensen and Özlügül find the klootschieten a bog body , which later turns out to be the long-lost football Hannes Jell.
4th	False fire	25 Feb 2017	Markus Sehr	Timo Berndt	7.34 million
The two policemen Jensen and Özlügül find a corpse in the beach fire at a party. Brockhorst investigates a ritual murder, Jensen and Özlügül in a family environment.
5	Crab war	Apr 15, 2017	Markus Sehr	Timo Berndt	6.00 million
Police investigations - including Insa's forensic expertise and valuable inside information from Undertaker Habedank - lead the two policemen Jensen and Özlügül into the shrimp fishing milieu.
6th	The Blue Jan	Jan. 13, 2018	Marc Rensing	Jürgen Kehrer , Sandra Lüpkes	6.91 million
Özlügül's new colleague Cassens is one of the suspects in this episode about an old custom and a dead women's representative.
7th	Dirty deals	Feb 10, 2018	Markus Sehr	Timo Berndt	6.57 million
A corpse in a slurry tank brings Özlügül and Cassens on the trail of dirty business in agriculture.
8th	ashes to Ashes	March 9, 2019	Sven Nagel	Stefan Rogall	6.86 million
The violent death of an undertaker at first puzzles, until it turns out that some deceased senior citizens had been talked into overpriced life insurance policies.
9	Hand and foot	Dec 14, 2019	Isabel Prahl	Christian Schiller , Marianne Wendt , Magdalena Grazewicz	5.98 million
Additional body parts are found in the coffins in the crematorium. Brockhorst suspects that this is a serial killer, whom he initially wants to bring down on his own.
10	Out of control	Feb 29, 2020	Martina Plura	Magdalena Grazewicz, Thomas Gerhold	6.79 million
During training for the upcoming race, Claudia, the rowing hope of the Leer police, dies of sudden heart failure. Nobody believes in natural death.
11	Countercurrent	-	Marc Rensing	Stefan Rogall
12	The great Waal	-	Thomas punch	Georg Ludy
13	Up to the blood	-	Thomas punch	Mariann Kaiser

Others

The two main characters Jensen and Özlügül wear the uniform of a police superintendent in the series (two silver stars, senior service). Nevertheless, Jensen is happy about the promotion to police chief (three blue stars, middle service) in the episode Krabbenkrieg , who, however, is below a chief inspector in the ranking. The middle service and thus the career master - head master - main master has also been abolished in the police of the state of Lower Saxony for years.

Coffee from Wilsberg cups is drunk at the police stations in Leer . Insa Scherzinger and Jan Brockhorst are involved in two crossover episodes in the Wilsberg series ( Morderney and Wellenbrecher ).

As a running gag , the same short dolphin sound can be heard off camera in the background of every episode in a harbor or water scene, usually in a break in dialogue :

episode	time
Murderous tides	1:17:31
Family secrets	23:08
Klootschießen	1:03:39
False fire	46:25
Crab war	58:50
The blue Jan	54:04
Dirty deals	57:04
ashes to Ashes	13:04
Hand and foot	30:38
Out of control	52:33

Web links

• Friesland in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Friesland at Fernsehserien.de
• Friesland on the ZDF page for the broadcast

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Friesland - Irrfeuer": ZDF is shooting the fourth film in the Saturday crime series with Florian Lukas and Sophie Dal . In: presseportal.de . May 24, 2016 ( presseportal.de [accessed March 3, 2017]).
2. ↑ Sabine de Mardt leaves Warner. Retrieved January 7, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ZDF is shooting a new “Friesland” thriller with Maxim Mehmet and Sophie Dal. In: presseportal.zdf.de. ZDF, July 7, 2017, accessed on February 16, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Friesland series at kino.de, accessed on March 4, 2018.
5. ↑ David Grzeschik: Primetime check: Saturday, May 3, 2014.quotemeter.de, May 4, 2014, accessed on December 30, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Daniel Sallhoff: Prime Time check: Saturday, February 7, 2015. Quotenmeter.de, February 8, 2015 accessed on 30 December 2017 . 
7. ↑ Manuel Weis: Primetime check: Saturday, February 27, 2016.quotemeter.de, February 28, 2016, accessed on December 30, 2017 . 
8. ↑ David Grzeschik: Primetime-Check: Saturday, February 25, 2017.quotemeter.de, February 26, 2017, accessed on December 30, 2017 . 
9. ↑ David Grzeschik: Primetime check: Saturday, April 15, 2017.quotemeter.de, May 16, 2017, accessed on December 30, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Robert Meyer: Primetime Check: Saturday, January 13, 2018.quotemeter.de, January 19, 2018, accessed on January 19, 2018 . 
11. ↑ David Grzeschik: Primetime check: Saturday, February 10, 2018.quotemeter.de, February 11, 2018, accessed on February 11, 2018 . 
12. ↑ David Grzeschik: Primetime check: Saturday, March 9, 2019.quotemeter.de, March 10, 2018, accessed on March 11, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Daniel Sallhoff: Primetime check: Saturday, December 14, 2019.quotemeter.de , December 15, 2019, accessed on December 15, 2019 . 
14. ↑ David Grzeschik: Primetime check: Saturday, February 29, 2020.quotemeter.de , March 1, 2020, accessed on March 1, 2020 .