Grimm (TV series)

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Television series
German title Grim
Original title Grim
Grimm-logo.png
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 2011-2017
Production
company		 Universal Television ,
GK Productions,
Hazy Mills Productions
length 42 minutes
Episodes 123 in 6 seasons ( list )
genre Fantasy , mystery , crime , drama
idea Stephen Carpenter ,
David Greenwalt ,
Jim Kouf
production Steve Oster ,
Cameron Litvack
music Richard Marvin
First broadcast October 28, 2011 (USA) on NBC
German-language
first broadcast		 February 18, 2013 on VOX
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synchronization

Grimm is an American crime series with fantasy and mystery elements, which is partly based on the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and was conceived by Stephen Carpenter , David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf . The series has been produced since 2011 by Universal Television in collaboration with Hazy Mills Productions for the US broadcaster NBC . She follows the detective Nick Burkhardt, who learns from his aunt Marie that he is a descendant of the Brothers Grimm and can recognize fairytale creatures camouflaged in some of their fellow human beings.

In the United States, it was first broadcast on October 28, 2011 on NBC. In German-speaking countries, the broadcast began on February 18, 2013 on VOX . The sixth and final season of the series aired in 2017.

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Grimm tells the story of Nick Burkhardt , who works as a police detective in Portland , Oregon . His office is in the South Revier and Burkhardt's boss is Sean Renard , who he does not know is an illegitimate member of one of the seven royal families. A strong rivalry will develop between the two later. Burkhardt's partner is the African American Hank Griffin .

Burkhardt grew up with his maternal aunt, Marie Kessler , from the age of twelve when his parents were killed in a mysterious traffic accident. He has been in a relationship with the vet Juliette Silverton for about three years and lives with her.

Burkhardt leads a completely normal police life until one day he realizes that he is able  to recognize enigmatic creatures - so-called beings - in some of his fellow human beings . Some of these creatures remind him strongly of the fairy tale creatures of the Brothers Grimm .

Contrary to expectations, one evening Burkhardt's aunt Marie shows up at his house, who is meanwhile seriously ill with cancer. She explains to him that his family (and he) are direct descendants of the Brothers Grimm from Germany and that everything they recorded in their “ fairy tales ” corresponds to reality .

Marie Kessler asks her nephew to do without Juliette; if both stayed a couple, her life would be in great danger. During their conversation, both are attacked by one being. His aunt is seriously injured in this fight and Burkhardt manages to kill the attacker with a pistol shot. In the hospital, his aunt explains to him that this creature was a "grim reaper", a contract killer of the monitor lizards , who in turn served the royal families.

From this moment on, Burkhardt sees it as one of his duties to protect humanity from dangerous beings, and he accepts his family secret. Since he has to protect this from friends and colleagues, Burkhardt is now increasingly involved in a conflict of conscience.

The first being Burkhardt befriends is the watchmaker Monroe , who turns out to be a bloodbath and was initially a suspect of child abduction: Together with Monroe, Burkhardt succeeds in tracking down the child kidnapper, a postman, in a remote forest hut and together with partner Hank turn off.

Monroe, for his part, gradually introduces Burkhardt to the world of beings and becomes his first point of contact if he suspects that suspects might belong to the beings. He trusts the bloodbath Monroe so much that he asks him to look out for his Aunt Marie in the hospital, who has already been subjected to several murder attempts there.

After his aunt dies, Burkhardt inherits her trailer, which is packed with mysterious books and ancient weapons. Burkhardt feels compelled to hide it. He also inherited a mysterious key from his aunt, the cover of which has an engraved partial map. Burkhardt knows from his aunt that there are a total of seven keys that were made by seven Grimms during the Crusades ; they would have found a powerful weapon or something similar in Constantinople , whose possession in the royal families they wanted to prevent and which they would have buried somewhere in the Black Forest .

Bit by bit Burkhardt lets his friends in on his secret: When Hank Griffin is frightened to death by Monroe in his bloodbath form and then suffers psychiatric problems, he lets him in. The attempt to initiate his girlfriend fails: She doesn't believe a word he says and a short time later she falls into a coma. The lawyer Adalind Schade , a witch beast, uses magic to ensure that Nick Burkhardt is erased from Juliette's memory. Through Renard's kiss ("... only a prince can wake the sleeping beauty ...") Juliette wakes up again and struggles to regain her memories.

The second creature Burkhardt befriends is the ice beaver Bud Wurstner , who runs a refrigerator repair shop . The fox devil Rosalee Calvert , who will later marry his friend Monroe, also becomes a close friend.

Sean Renard finally manages to get hold of the key. But instead of handing it over to his family, he gives it back to Nick Burkhardt: He has recognized that the Grimm Burkhardt is more useful to his own plans alive than dead. So both of them more or less form an alliance of convenience, into which Hank Griffin is also initiated.

In the fight against the royal families, Burkhardt learns that his mother Kelly is still alive. She joins the resistance, the Résistance , and takes care of Diana for a while . This was snatched from the royal family by Meisner and given to Burkhardt's mother. Kelly Burkhardt is forced to go underground after Adalinde's mother Catherine is killed in a fight with her.

After Sergeant Wu also has a being experience that threatens to break him, this one too is initiated. The situation becomes chaotic when Theresa "Trubel" Rubel , another Grimm, appears in the city; Griffin and Burkhardt disguised the suspect of a murder case as a "police student" and involved them in the investigation. To get the hustle and bustle out of the line of fire, Burkhardt lets the 20-year-old live with him in the house.

Sean Renard, otherwise apolitical, is noticeably committed to the city's mayor election and supports a promising candidate. Rachel Wood , a dandelion and its campaign advisor, brings Renard on board. She makes sure that the Police Captain stands there as a hero when the candidate is murdered during an event.

Renard's department is now working on mysterious murder cases that are associated with a creature organization called "Black Claw". So he gets caught between the front lines when he has to choose between honest work as a policeman and work as mayor: Black Claw's goal from the start was that the magical beast Renard should be given control of the city. Renard decides to join Black Claw.

Due to complicated circumstances, Burkhardt, the Grimm, and Adalinde Schade, the witch beast, are now a couple, while Burkhardt's ex-girlfriend Juliette has also mutated into the witch beast, who is trying to kill Adalind. She now has two children in Diana (Sean Renard's daughter) and Kelly (Burkhardt's son), with whom she can be put under pressure: She officially moves in with Sean Renard to give him the impression that he has solid family structures disposes.

During the argument with Black Claw, Burkhardt succeeds in unraveling the secret of the keys, after having obtained four other keys through an inheritance from Monroe. Using an old map of Monroe, he succeeds in locating the place where the crusaders buried their secret in the 13th century. Both travel to Germany under assumed names, and they manage to unearth the treasure of the crusaders: a mysterious piece of wood that, as it will later turn out, has magical abilities.

Burkhardt learns through the hustle and bustle that the government has a secret agency, Hadrian's Wall , whose Portland cell is led by Meisner and which is committed to the fight against Black Claw. Eve , Juliette's new name, is also used there as the ultimate weapon.

After the mayoral election, which went in favor of Black Claw (and thus Renards), Burkhardt was arrested after an assault on Renard and transferred to the North Revier, which was under the control of Beings and Black Claw. There, however, he can be freed from his friends. During the liberation struggle it turns out that Conrad Bonaparte is not only a puller and co-founder of Schwarzkralle, but also a pure witch beast. He manages to seriously injure Eve. Burkhardt heals them with the piece of wood that Monroe and he found in the Black Forest. When trying to kill Burkhardt in his apartment, however, Bonaparte is murdered from behind by Renard. (Daughter Diana held his hand after learning that Bonaparte physically attacked and threatened her mother.)

Black Claw has Hank kidnapped after being accused of murder. While Trubel, Eve and Burkhardt free him, Hadrian's Wall in Portland is wiped out by Black Claw and Meisner is shot by Renard. In the guise of Renard, Burkhardt succeeds in pushing him out of politics.

Diana, meanwhile, comes more and more into the focus of an uncanny power: A powerful demon needs the girl, who has tremendous power, as a child bride to restore her power. Burkhardt manages to defeat this demon with the help of the hustle and bustle and the ghosts of his mother and aunt.

The story ends with the notes of Kelly Burkhardt, who, together with sister Diana and "the triplets" (the children of Monroe and his wife), has resumed the Grimm traditions and who, together with them, fights dangerous beings.

The Grimms

Grimms are people who have an extraordinary, genetically determined gift: They are able to expose so-called beings . Beings are creatures with a human shell, but inside of which monsters and other beings live. Beings are invisible to normal people. They are only recognized as such when the beings want it ("external surge"). However, Grimms are also able to recognize beings when they are under emotional stress and actually do not want their true selves to be upset and thus visible. This "inner surge" can, however, be seen by the Grimm, so that for centuries they represent a danger to the world of beings.

It turns out that beings are reflected in the eyes of the Grimms (who turn jet black when they stand opposite beings) and can see their true form there. This is how beings recognize anger.

Once the Grimms were the guardians of the seven royal families who acted on their behalf against rebellious beings. In the 13th century, during the last crusades, seven Grimms betrayed their respective royal families and now proceeded independently against every kind of creature - regardless of whether it was harmless or dangerous; they had become pure creature hunters. For this reason, there is cruel mortal enmity between the Beings and the Grimms today. The first Grimm to classify beings according to human aspects (good and bad) is Nick Burkhardt, who works as a police officer. Even as Grimm, he tries to assess all suspicious creatures as policemen. He only kills beings when forced to do so by them. Burkhardt also has numerous friends from among the beings.

For this reason, Burkhardt is respected by the beings, but with the rest of his kind beings react as before: The more cowardly beings flee, aggressive species such as bloodbathers or anger attack Grimms with extreme brutality . As a result, the Grimms, with the exception of Burkhardt, see in every being a potential threat and danger of death. Their mortal enemies are the "Grim Reapers", on behalf of the dragons kill targeted Grimm. The most brutal Grimms are the End Mark Grimms , which without exception kill every being, whether man, woman or child. End-of-Grimm also torture their victims before they are killed, with red-hot branding iron . Therefore, their bodies are also covered with the mark of the end-mark Grimms (a Gothic  G ).

Essence

Beings are divided into innumerable types of species. In almost every episode in the series, a new type of them is presented, which mostly has animal-like features.

Thanks to the legacy of his aunt Marie Kessler, Nick Burkhardt has numerous records from his ancestors that he can use to find out about various beings. If the books don't help, he can also ask his friend Monroe, who is very knowledgeable about this.

Beings live camouflaged among people. Each species has its own traditions and structures that need to be preserved, and they have special infrastructures such as Wesen pharmacies and doctors.

While there are types of beings that can easily live among humans due to their peacefulness or their leadership qualities (ice beavers, golden eagles), some species come into conflict with the law again and again due to their "nature" (bloodbaths, adder geckos, jackals).

The world of nature dominate seven royal houses , one of which (apparently) most powerful in apparently Austrian Vienna is established. The essence council respects the observance of the essence laws , which is committed to ensuring that the human world does not learn anything about the existence of beings. Therefore, he reacts openly hostile when he becomes aware of the friendship between the Grimm Nick Burkhardt and the creatures Monroe and Rosalee Calvert. Nevertheless, the Essence Council also uses Burkhardt's help every now and then if it fits into the concept.

(In addition to the beings, other supernatural creatures such as ghosts and demons also appear in the series.)

The most important types of beings, as they appear most frequently in the series, are:

Farmer's pig
In their true shape, peasant pigs are very similar to domestic pigs. Like them, they have a keen sense of smell and like to take mud baths to relax. They are preferred prey of the bloodbathers, who hunt and kill them because they are clearly inferior to them. But for some time now farm pigs have started to hunt down bloodbaths.
Bloodbathers
The true form of the carnivores resembles the wolves with whom they share pack behavior, hunting instinct, and keen sense of smell. In an upsurge, bloodbathers have superhuman strength. In packs they show violence and act instinctively. In addition, they react extremely aggressively to the color red. Traditionally, bloodbathers are meat eaters (who used to kill people too) and tend to mark their territory by e.g. B. pee on their own garden fence. Among the bloodbathers, there is also a reform movement called the cons-bloodbathers who adhere to a strict diet, do Pilates training and eat a vegetarian diet .
Cracher mortar
The cracher mortar comes from the Caribbean and in its true shape is reminiscent of a porcupine fish. It produces a paralyzing poison that, after spitting it in their faces, puts its victims into a death-like sleep, from which they wake up again after a short time as mindless, violent zombies who carry out every command of their master. However, the influence of the poison can be neutralized after a grueling procedure.
Polar beaver
Fearful and docile beings that resemble beavers in their form. They are prone to excessive gratitude, which manifests itself through numerous gifts and favors. Ice beavers show a tendency for manual activities. They often work as electricians or manage repair shops.
Fire devil
Kite-like in upsurge. According to their lore, they are descended from dragons. Are able to concentrate the body's own fat and spit it out as a flame. They are de facto immune to heat and fire, so they work in the military for flamethrower companies or in the fire department. They have to equip their home (or shelter) with copper, which in thunderstorms attracts lightning to which they are exposed.
Fox devil
The form of this type of being is fox-like. They are considered peaceful and generally avoid direct confrontations. They also have a keen sense of smell. In danger, however, they are extremely defensive and act aggressively. In the world of beings they have a reputation for being herbal and cunning; so they are often suspected of ripping other beings.
Hexenbiest / Zauberbiest
Witch-beasts and their male counterpart, the magic beast, are of a mummy-like shape. They also have a disfigured face and silver-gray hair. In human form, she reveals only a black birthmark on the underside of her tongue. Due to their descent from witches, this type of being has extensive magical and alchemical abilities. So they are able to brew potions that can have different effects and that can be extremely dangerous for humans and beings. Witch and magic beasts are power-obsessed and masters of manipulation. The witchcraft abilities are not so pronounced in magic beasts, but they have enormous physical strength. Common to both is their telekinetic talent. Witches beasts often work in law firms or for the nobility, especially for the royal families. Magic beasts, on the other hand, are often in politics, the police or the military. In their home country Europe they work closely with the Sinti and Roma clans . Their arch enemies are the Mellifers , bee-like creatures.
Golden eagle
A surge of raptor-like, majestic beings who strictly follow the code of honor, courage and sincerity. Hence, this type of being never acts insidiously. Because of their mentality, they are often found in high positions in the military, police, or the FBI.
Mastiff of death
Dreaded type of creature due to its brutality, which is dog-like in appearance. They are often united in mafia-like organizations, calculating and loyal to the monitor lizards, for whom they work as killers. Therefore, they are in close contact with the royal houses. They are represented in human form in the FBI, administration, the military and the police.
Goat demon
Nondescript in human appearance, but exude certain pheromones that make them attractive to women. They resemble goats when they rise. They love to kidnap, hold captive and impregnate women. Some of them eat a certain species of frog in order to increase their external effect, caused by the pheromones . Women influenced in this way are no longer able to think for themselves and they believe goat demons every word. As lawyers, they are also manipulative and love to lead violent criminals, whose guilt has already been proven by evidence, out of the courtroom as “innocents”.

Royal families

The seven royal families were once the rulers of beings and people, but lost this power through various revolutions when the "rulers by God's grace" were either completely eliminated in Europe or restricted to representative functions in parliamentary monarchies. Behind the scenes, they ruthlessly seek to regain their old power and position their agents and puppets everywhere. They are also looking for seven card keys that seven crusaders, all of them Grimms, once made to hide something that was so powerful that no one was allowed to own it. The royal families are the cross-episode antagonists of the series, as Nick Burkhardt gets more and more in the way of their plans, first because of one of the keys Nick has, later because of Diana, the last heiress of the Austrian royal family.

main characters

Nicholas "Nick" Burkhardt
Nick is the protagonist of the series and a homicide detective in Portland. His seriously ill aunt on his mother's side, Marie Kessler, who like him has certain skills, explains to him during a surprising visit what it means to be a "Grimm". She advises him to separate from his girlfriend so as not to endanger her. But since Nick sees himself primarily as a policeman, he gradually develops his own way of looking at beings after he gets to know the bloodbath Monroe - instead of killing them immediately and indiscriminately, he treats each being as an individual, differentiating as with normal people between good and bad individuals. He also thinks about telling his girlfriend Juliette about the existence of the beings and his role as Grimm, but hesitates. In the first season, Nick Juliette proposes marriage, which she refuses because he apparently has secrets from her. When he was temporarily separated from Juliette due to a lack of memory, he lived with the watchmaker Monroe, but later moved back to their common house. He is the best man at Rosalee and Monroe's wedding. However, he is briefly deprived of his powers as Grimm by the witch beast Adalind after she has been transformed into Juliette's image by a spell and sleeps with him. He receives the powers as Grimm, however, with the help of Captain Renard's mother, also a witch beast, and Juliette again by reversing the spell and transforming Juliette into Adalind's likeness; she now has to have sex with Nick so that his special abilities return. During the second half of season four, Nick learns that Adalind is pregnant from him. This happened when she slept with him in the form of Juliette to take his strength away. At first he is reluctant, but has to work with Adalind, since she knows a way to help Juliette, who has now become a witch beast. However, both Nick and Adalind will become a couple over the course of season five.
Hank Griffin
Like Nick, Hank is a homicide detective and his partner. Until episode 2.03 he has no knowledge of the actual nature of the cases or that Nick is a Grimm. This finally brings him to the brink of mental breakdown when he sees things he cannot explain, whereupon Nick lets him in. He becomes an "enlightened unface" and is considered a little sarcastic. Griffin has been divorced at least four times. He and Nick are good friends in private too.
Juliette Silverton / Eve
Juliette is Nick's friend and a veterinarian. She's been with him before Nick's ability is awakened, and at first knows nothing of his legacy except Grimm. Since she is almost inevitably drawn into the events, Nick finally reveals everything to her. In the second season, Juliette has an amnesia caused by Adalind's magic, in which she has lost all memories of Nick, but can remember everything else. When her memories return and she is back with Nick, she learns of his existence as Grimm. She makes good friends with Rosalee, gives her tips on her relationship with Monroe and becomes a bridesmaid at her wedding. She transforms into a witch beast midway through season four after helping Nick transform himself back to a Grimm. This transformation makes her bitter at first and finally, when she accepts her "new self" and this takes control, turn against her friends, whom she blames for her condition and whom she first threatens and then betrays. At the end of season 4, she is apparently shot by Trubel with a crossbow, the arrows of which are coated with the extremely deadly victorious venom. In the fifth season, however, she reappears as Eve and it becomes apparent that the hustle and bustle only stunned her so Hadrian's Wall could break it and turn it into a weapon against Black Claw. In the sixth season, she reconciles with Nick.
Monroe
Watchmaker Monroe is a staunch vegetarian, although as a bloodbath, a wolf-like creature, in earlier times he was often and successfully on manhunts with others of his kind. So it is not surprising that Nick meets him as a suspect of a child abduction. Monroe loves watches of all kinds and is often pedantic in this regard. Although a former Grimm killed his grandfather, he helps Nick with his cases. So he watches over Nick's aunt Marie in the hospital. Due to his very good knowledge of the different beings, he is Nick's first point of contact when hunting them down. He marries Rosalee at the end of the third season, which is initially not welcomed by his parents, as he and Rosalee belong to different beings.
Captain Sean Renard
Sean is Nick's politically skilled homicide manager and a member of the Beings' royal family. Nick has no knowledge of this at first. While Renard initially appears as a potential threat, he later occasionally pulls strings on Nick's interest. Its goals are initially largely unknown. In the course of the second season it turns out that Renard is the son of a king of beings and a witch beast, so a bastard . His family tries to get a key from Nick that Nick got from his aunt Marie. He is the father of Adalind's daughter Diana. Renard supports the resistance against the seven royal families as they seek again the world domination they once lost. Her success would also put his life at risk as his family rejects him. In season five he joins the Black Claw Association , but realizes this was a mistake in season six and eventually reconciles with Nick and Adalind.
Sergeant Drew Wu
Sergeant Wu is a police officer born in the Philippines who works with Nick and Hank. In this collaboration, he seems to be doing the “main work behind the scenes”, often providing helpful facts and information. After coming into contact with a being who attacks an old childhood friend, he has psychological problems and has to go to a psychiatric facility for a while. In the course of the fourth season he is initiated by Nick and Hank and henceforth actively fights with them against criminal beings and finally also the royal families. In the course of the fifth season he becomes a lycantropic himself through the scratch of a lycantrope.
Rosalee Calvert
Rosalee is a fox devil who once had a wild youth that she is not proud of. After the death of her brother, she continues to run his essence pharmacy and is later in a relationship with Monroe, whom she marries at the end of the third season. Rosalee helps Nick along with Monroe and has alchemical skills that are needed time and again to deal with beings, poisons and diseases.
Adalind What a shame
Adalind is a witch beast who initially works as a lawyer and secretly for Captain Renard, whose lover she is. After Nick has taken her powers, she lets Sean Renard impregnate her and goes to Vienna, where Renard's royal relatives live. There she becomes the center of interest because she is pregnant with the heir of the family, specifying a false father: the father of her child is said to be Sean Renard's half-brother, Prince Eric, with whom she has entered into a sexual relationship supposed to be safe side. At first she offers the child in exchange for the restoration of her strength, but finally discovers that she herself has no meaning for the family. She unexpectedly develops maternal feelings for the unborn child and successfully escapes with the help of the butler Sebastian and Meisner, a human member of the essence resistance. After giving birth to a daughter, Meisner hands Adalind to another member of the Resistance: an extremely aggressive woman who previously managed to eliminate six monitor lizards and who later turns out to be Kelly Burkhardt, the mother of her arch enemy Nick, who was believed to be dead. They return to Portland, where Adalind loses her child anyway: Sean Renard, the father, gives the daughter to his cousin Viktor, who succeeded the murdered Eric in Vienna, and later kidnaps her. The resistance is blamed for the kidnapping, and Nick's mother sets off with Diana into an uncertain future. Adalind, however, mourns her daughter afterwards and a hatred for Sean Renard develops. Believing that her daughter was in Renard's royal family, she went to see them in Vienna. However, there she is incarcerated and she learns that the resistance has her daughter. So she voluntarily makes herself an assistant to the royal family and begins to act openly against Nick and his friends: At the end of the third season, she steals Nick's Grimm ability on behalf of the royal family by magically assuming the form of Juliette and sleeping with him. Back in Vienna, Adalind begins a violent affair with Prince Viktor. Due to the fact that the king, Sean Renard's father, Prince Viktor is replaced by his younger cousin Kenneth Bowes-Lyon, Adalind suddenly becomes part of the internal family disputes: Kenneth is more brutal and unscrupulous than any other member of the royal family; he is also willing, under any circumstances, to bring Adalind's daughter Diana back into the family, something that not even Prince Viktor had succeeded in doing until then. Kenneth also tells her on the head that Eric was sterile. Accordingly, Diana could not be his daughter. A short time later Adalind left for Portland. But soon afterwards it becomes clear that Adalind is pregnant from Nick. When Kenneth follows her to Portland and offers her to help her get her daughter back, Adalind finally realizes that she herself is only a means to an end and that her life is in great danger. To protect her unborn child, she is forced to team up with Nick, who has Kenneth arrested. Kenneth is later killed in action by Nick Burkhardt and made the scapegoat for Sean Renard's serial murders, which he committed when he was possessed by the ghost Jack the Ripper . Her ties to Nick become closer when she learns that Juliette has become a witch beast and is now seeking revenge. However, she falls in love with Nick and the two become a couple over the course of the fifth season. To try a magic potion that could make Juliette a normal person again, she sacrifices herself and voluntarily gives up her witchcraft skills by drinking this potion to test its effects. She later admits to Rosalie, with whom she has a close friendship, that she never wants to be a witch beast again, and is desperate when her powers return. She ponders for a long time whether and how she should prepare her significant other for the new situation. After Adalind has revealed himself to Nick as a witch beast, she behaves neutrally in the fight against "Black Claw", although she is officially back with the father of her daughter Diana, Sean Renard.

Minor characters

Kelly Burkhardt
Kelly Burkhardt is Nick's mother, an old school Grimm and long considered dead. She disappeared after attempts to murder her, killing her husband and best friend. She turns up in Portland by surprise to find three magical coins, where she runs into Nick. At first she is not very enthusiastic about his unconventional way of dealing with beings, but eventually accepts that the approach of not wanting to kill all beings immediately makes sense. When Juliette falls into a coma, she helps save her, but also kills Adalind's mother in the process. In the third season she brings Adalind Schade, who does not yet know anything about it, out of Austria and back to Portland. She takes her daughter Diana with her and raises her. At the end of the fourth season she is betrayed by Juliette, lured into a trap and killed by the mastiffs of death.
Marie Kessler
Marie Kessler is a librarian and Nick's maternal aunt. She takes him in when Nick's parents are officially killed in a car accident when Nick is around 12 years old. What Nick doesn't know: his mother, her sister and he are descendants of the Brothers Grimm, whose ancestors once served as crusaders for the seven royal families in the 13th century. Seriously ill with cancer, she unexpectedly turns up at her nephew's home, since she suspects that Grimm's abilities are now available to him. And indeed: Nick has been able to recognize beings in people for a few days. This new ability initially scares your nephew. She bequeaths her trailer with the family property to him, including old books and numerous weapons that Nick has to hide. When she is attacked, Marie is seriously injured and taken to the hospital. There one of the royal families tried several times to kill Marie; Adalind is also one of those who try to murder her. Nick now asks his friend Monroe to take care of his aunt. Indeed, he succeeds in overriding two assassins. The last attempted murder is averted by Marie herself, and she dies in the arms of her nephew as a result of her cancer.
Theresa "hustle and bustle" rubles
Theresa, like Nick, who takes her under his wing, is a Grimm and comes from New York. She is not aware of her abilities for a long time, she only experiences that people turn into monsters in front of her eyes and try to kill them for no apparent reason, which is why she is extremely suspicious, reacts extremely aggressively to all beings and roams for years. In Portland, she runs into Nick; only this explains to her the connections around the beings and Grimms as well as their enmity. Nick does not rule out that he and Trubel could be related indirectly. He also shows her that not all beings are evil; hustle and bustle thus becomes the second grim, which overcomes the old enmity. She temporarily moves in with Juliette and Nick and helps during Nick's “non-grimm phase” with cases in which beings are involved. She leaves Nick and Juliette at the beginning of the fourth season to go with Joshua, the "unseen" son of a deceased Grimm, and to take care of him. Hustle and bustle returns at the end of season four when the royal family implements their plan to get Diana back. She helps Nick and his allies and eventually "kills" Juliette when she tries to kill Nick. After all of the Grimms, that is, Nick, Trubel and the now deceased Kelly Burkhardt and her deceased sister Marie Kessler, who had assumed the mother role for Nick for many years, got together in the last episode to defeat a powerful demon the viewer of the notes of the now 20-year-old Kelly Burkhardt that Trubel is a cousin of his father's third degree on his mother's side.
Meisner
Martin Meisner, whom everyone simply calls by his last name, was born in Berlin and is a member of the resistance against the royal families, the Résistance. Initially he works closely with Sean Renard, who gives him one or the other assassination assignment. On behalf of the resistance, he later also murdered Prince Eric, who shortly before planned and commissioned the murder of his half-brother Sean. Ultimately, it is Meisner who finally introduces Renard into the Resistance after he actively opposes the renewed world domination of the royal houses. During Renard's stays abroad, Meisner often takes on the role of a bodyguard . On behalf of the resistance, Meisner, with the help of the butler Sebastian, frees the heavily pregnant Adalind and is an obstetrician on their escape: Adalind gives birth in the middle of a forest in an old hunting lodge that once belonged to Meisner's family. After the birth, Adalind asks him how he came to resist. Meisner's answer is very simple: He hated the royal family because one of them would have murdered his girlfriend at the time. When Sean Renard joins the criminal organization "Schwarzkralle", he and Meisner become bitter enemies. In the fight against “Black Claw”, however, Meisner and Nick Burkhardt become friends, and the latter learns that Meisner is the head of a state secret agency, the “Hadrian's Wall” (HW). The HW had kidnapped Juliette after she had become a witch beast. Meisner's goal: to break Juliette and use her as a weapon against "Black Claw". The result of this experiment was Eve, who no longer has any feelings and who only thinks or acts logically and rationally. But he had also "learned" the hustle and bustle at HW after they were kidnapped by relatives. When the HW is extinguished by the “Black Claw” organization, Meisner is shot by Renard; but later reappears as a ghost.
Sebastian
Sebastian is at first Prince Eric's butler and serves him at his family castle in Vienna. He later also took on this role for Prince Viktor, who succeeded Eric. What the royal family does not know: He is a member of the Resistance and is the contact and liaison between Sean Renard, an illegitimate king's son, and Meisner. Due to his position, Sebastian always acts cautiously within the castle walls. But finally he is blown when the heavily pregnant Adalind escapes, in whose escape he was actively involved. Sebastian confesses under torture and shows the monitor lizards and Prince Viktor the spot in the Swiss mountains where he let Adalind and Meisner get out of the car. Left seriously wounded in the car, Sebastian succeeds again in helping the refugees escape; he dies a little later in a brief exchange of fire with the monitor lizards.
Prince Eric Renard
Prince Eric is the local representative of the royal families in Vienna. He is Sean Renard's half-brother and he hates this "witch bastard". When Adalind Schade stayed in Vienna to serve the royal family, he entered into a sexual relationship with them. Eric is ruthless and cruel when it comes to asserting family interests. So he assigns several murders to get rid of his brother Sean. However, he falls victim to an assassination attempt carried out by Meisner.
Bud Wurstner
Bud is an ice beaver who fixes the fridge for Nick and Juliette. When he learns that Nick is a Grimm, he withdraws out of fear. Some time later, however, he gets along with Nick, because he realizes that Nick is different from other Grimms and does not kill all beings. When another polar beaver is involved in a criminal case, Nick asks Bud for help, and they become friends. In later cases, Bud is more often on hand to support Nick. He also helps Nick educate Hank, Juliette and Wu about the world of beings. Even in later cases he is always by his side.

Production method and characteristics

Frequently seen on the series: Downtown Portland and the Hawthorne Bridge

The location is the city of Portland , Oregon , where the series itself is shot. The outdoor filming is usually done in the city itself or in the vicinity of the city. The reason the series is filmed in and around Portland was cited because of the large forests in the two parks, Washington and Forest. Forest Park is also the largest park in the country that is within city limits, being larger than Central Park in New York and Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Some of the episodes were filmed at their original locations in Vienna , where the plot also partially shifts from the second season. For example, the Vienna Prater, the Hotel Sacher and the Cafe Sperl are often quite clearly in the picture. Often a place is referred to as Vienna, however, and the film was shot directly in Prague, as can be seen from the Prague Castle , Czech flags, license plates and police vehicles. Some episodes of season 5 are set in the Black Forest and were also filmed there. There is also a scene in the first season that shows the cityscape of Hanover, but is supposed to take place in Mannheim according to the overlay.

Many of the episodes focus on stories by the Brothers Grimm, although some episodes contain fairy tales that were not put together by the brothers. The other episodes contain adaptations of the stories put together by the brothers, albeit with considerable artistic freedom.

Production history

Jim Kouf and David Greenwalt , from which other well-known TV series such as Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer come, presented their idea for Grimm to NBC in January 2011 , which then gave the green light for a pilot episode . The production company Universal Television , which belongs to the media group , was commissioned with the production together with Hazy Mills Productions. After the filming of the pilot episode took place in Portland in March 2011, the official series order from NBC followed in May 2011. Filming of the remaining episodes of the first season resumed in Portland in mid-July 2011. The premiere was then October 21, 2011, which was then postponed two months later by a week to October 28, 2011. After just four episodes broadcast, the Grimm broadcaster placed a full season order of 22 episodes.

In March 2012, NBC announced the production of a second season with an additional 22 episodes. Filming for the second season began again in Portland at the end of May, and was officially opened by Governor John Kitzhaber . At the end of April 2013, the series was extended by a third season with 22 episodes. A fourth season was announced in March 2014. On February 5, 2015, NBC extended Grimm for a fifth season. In April 2016, the series was extended by a sixth and final season, which aired from January 6 to March 31, 2017.

Casting

The casting started in mid-February with the engagement of David Giuntoli as protagonist Nick Burkhardt. Just a few days later, the role of Monroe, a bloodbath who helps Nick, was cast with Silas Weir Mitchell . Also a short time later you could hire for the role of Nick's partner Hank Griffin Russell Hornsby and for the role of Nick's friend Juliette Silverton Bitsie Tulloch . In early March, the role of Nick and Hank's boss at Homicide was cast to Sasha Roiz and the role of her colleague Sergeant Wu to Reggie Lee . Also in March, Claire Coffee was hired to play the supporting role of Adalind Schade.

For the second season, Bree Turner in the role of Rosalee Calvert and Claire Coffee as Adalind Schade were promoted to leading actresses.

Characteristics

The episode of the series usually begins with a short excerpt from a German or Nordic fairy tale, which mostly has something to do thematically with the plot of the episode and also has a certain reference to the fairy tale.

In the first season, the usual opening credits consisting of cuts of individual scenes were dispensed with in favor of a brief title image. From the second season, however, there is an opening credits.

While in the first season the general plot moves into the background next to the plot of the individual episode and the episodes are mostly self-contained, this relationship turns in the second season and most episodes end with a cliffhanger . In the third season there is a mixed form.

In the original English version, the names of many beings have a German word origin and are pronounced German.

The episode number is built into the plot in each episode. So in season 4, episode 22, the number 422 becomes a house number.

Cast and dubbing

The German synchronization is created for a dialogue book and the dialogue director of Heinz Friday by the synchronous company Interopa Film GmbH in Berlin .

main characters

Role name Being / human Actress image Main role Supporting role Voice actor
Nick Burkhardt Grim David Giuntoli David Giuntoli 1.01-6.13 Dennis Schmidt-Foss
Hank Griffin enlightened unface Russell Hornsby 1.01-6.13 Tobias Kluckert
Juliette Silverton enlightened unface Bitsie Tulloch Bitsie Tulloch 1.01-4.22 Luise Helm (season 1–2)
Maria Koschny (from season 3)
Eve Witch beast 5.06-6.13
Monroe Bloodbathers Silas Weir Mitchell Silas Weir Mitchell 1.01-6.13 Stefan Krause
Captain Sean Renard Magic beast Sasha Roiz Sasha Roiz 1.01-6.13 Uwe Büschken
Sergeant Drew Wu enlightened unface Reggie Lee Reggie Lee 1.01-6.13 Michael Deffert
Rosalee Calvert Fox devil Bree Turner Bree Turner 2.01-6.13 1.15-1.22 Natascha Schaff
Adalind What a shame Witch beast Claire Coffee Claire Coffee 2.05-6.13 1.01-2.04 Nicole Hannak

Minor characters

Role name Being / human Actress Supporting role Voice actor Number of episodes
Dr. Harper human Sharon Sachs 1.03-3.07 Almut Zydra 11
Bud Wurstner Polar beaver Danny Bruno 1.05-6.02 Frank Ciazynski 25th
Sergeant Franco human Robert Blanche 1.11-6.13 34
Kelly Burkhardt Grim Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio 1.23-6.13 Katharina Koschny 7th
Sebastien human Christian Lagadec 2.04-3.16 Frédéric Vonhof 17th
Meisner human Damien Puckler 3.02-6.06 Julien Haggége 32
Viktor Albert Wilhelm George Beckendorf human Alexis Denisof 3.07-4.15 Boris Tessmann 17th
Theresa "hustle and bustle" rubles Grim Jacqueline Toboni 3.19-6.13 Anja Stadlober 31
Diana Witch beast Hannah R. Loyd 4.21-6.13 16
Rachel Wood dandelion Anne Leighton 5.06-5.21 Ursula Hugo 15th

Charisma

United States

After the series order in May 2011, NBC announced a premiere for October 21, 2011. The series finally launched a week later on 28 October 2011 after the fifth and final season premiere of the action - comedy series Chuck . The pilot episode was seen by almost 6.5 million viewers, resulting in a target group rating of 2.1. He exceeded his lead-in Chuck , which only has a rating of 1.0, by 110 percent. It is the best drama series start and also the best premiere of a television series on NBC this season. As is the case with pretty much all new series, Grimm lost a few viewers in the next few weeks, so that it finally reached 5.2 million viewers and a rating of 1.6 in the third episode. The quotas then leveled off at this level . On average, the first season was seen by 6.36 million viewers, making it 81st among all broadcast series this season.

The second season began broadcasting on NBC on August 13, 2012. After the November 16, 2012 episode, the series went on a nearly four-month hiatus and returned on March 8, 2013 with the remaining ten episodes of the season on NBC. For the last four episodes of the second season, the series switched from Friday to Tuesday on April 30, 2013, and was broadcast there following the US version of The Voice . The second season finale ran on May 21, 2013.

The third season premiered on October 25, 2013. The third season finale was shown on May 17, 2014. The fourth season aired on NBC from October 24, 2014 to May 15, 2015. The fifth season has aired since October 30, 2015. On August 29, 2016, NBC announced that there would be a final sixth season. Its premiere was on January 6, 2017.

Germany

The broadcasting rights for Germany were acquired by Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland in March 2012 . The first broadcast of the first season took place between February 18 and July 15, 2013 on VOX . On average, 1.37 million viewers (11.4 percent) of the advertising-relevant target group and 2.21 million viewers (7.2 percent) of the total audience watched the first season, which is well above the broadcaster average. The broadcast of the second season began on August 26, 2013 and ended on January 27, 2014 on VOX. With an average of 8.7 percent of the advertising-relevant target group and 1.73 million viewers (5.5 percent) of the total audience, the ratings of the second season were no longer quite as good as those of the first season, but they are still above the broadcaster average . The third season was broadcast in double episodes from May 5, 2014 on VOX. After 10 episodes, the series paused until it continued in October of the same year. The season finale was broadcast in January 2015. From July 20, 2015 to September 7, the 4th season was broadcast on Mondays on VOX. Season 5 has been available in German at the online video libraries Amazon Video and Netflix since June 2017 . The final sixth season has been on Amazon since June 2018, and on Netflix since the beginning of January 2019.

International

Grimm is already distributed in over 50 different countries in North and South America , Europe , East and Southeast Asia as well as in the Middle East and Oceania . In addition to the United States, the series has also been broadcast in Canada , Latin America and Sweden since 2011 . In 2012 the series premiered in the oceanic states of Australia and New Zealand , in the United Kingdom , as well as in the Republic of Cyprus , Denmark , Greece , Spain , France , Norway , Hungary , Romania , Bulgaria , Iran , Russia and some Asian countries like Hong Kong , Singapore and Indonesia . Grimm is broadcast on many different channels in each country, for example it is shown in Latin America on the Universal Channel and in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Watch . Otherwise, most of the broadcast can be seen on the country-specific free-to-air private channels.

DVD and Blu-ray publishing

Season United States Great Britain Australia Germany
1 August 7, 2012 October 22, 2012 May 2, 2013 22nd August 2013
2 17th September 2013 October 28, 2013 February 13, 2014 April 10, 2014
3 16th September 2014 20th October 2014 16th September 2014 November 27, 2014
4th 29th September 2015 19th October 2015 January 14, 2016
5 September 27, 2016 17th October 2016 August 24, 2017
6th January 06, 2017 January 7, 2017 06/25/2017 15th February 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

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