K11 - Commissioners on duty

Television series
German title	K11 - The new cases (since season 12) K11 - Commissioners in action (season 1–11)
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Year (s)	2003–2013 since 2020
Production company	Constantin Entertainment
length	22–34 minutes. Special episodes : 45 minutes
Episodes	1834+ in 12 seasons ( list )
genre	Pseudo-documentary , crime series
Theme music	tATu - All the Things She Said (modified version)
German-language first broadcast	September 1, 2003 on Sat.1
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Former logo of K11 (2003-2013)

K11 - The New Cases is a pseudo-documentary in the style of a real-life crime series that is broadcast on the private broadcaster Sat.1 and so far consists of twelve seasons. It was broadcast for the first time with eleven seasons under the then title K11 - Commissioners in action . The last episodes of the format were filmed in October 2013 and broadcast on Sat.1 Gold in 2015 and 2016 . On January 14, 2020, it was announced that filming was planned for new episodes to be broadcast in the first half of 2020. The broadcast of the new episodes began on May 11, 2020. After an interruption, further new episodes have been broadcast since August 24, 2020.

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In the series, the "everyday life" of four commissioners in the fight against crime is played. Chief Inspector Michael Naseband and his colleague, Chief Inspector Alexandra Rietz , run the K11 together . In their work they are Kriminaloberkommissar Philipp stealer, Detective Chief Commissioner Daniela trunk and Detective supports Max Katzenberger. The starting point of an episode is usually a murder case that needs to be solved. K11 - The new cases are based on the Whodunit principle (perpetrator unknown). Witnesses , relatives , perpetrators , victims and suspects are embodied by amateur actors , many of whom can be seen in multiple episodes.

background

Information about the program

The former K11 commissioner at Landshuter Allee 8 in August 2007

• K11 was shot in and around Munich .
• The forensic medicine department was located in the building at Nussbaumstrasse 26, it belongs to the Ludwig Maximilians University .
• About 200 episodes were broadcast each year.
• The 1000th K11 broadcast was broadcast on December 8, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. The 1,500th episode was broadcast on January 9, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
• In the first 84 episodes, before the verdict was pronounced, prosecutor Kirkitadze could see his plea in court.
• The location of the commissioner's office was on the second floor of Landshuter Allee  8 in Munich from 2003 to 2012 .
• On the wall of the old K11 office was a map showing part of northern Germany , although the K11 is active in and around Munich. Before the renovation of the office at the beginning of season 7, a city map of Berlin hung in the same place .
• In addition, there was the coat of arms of the federal police in front of the door of the commissioner's office ; However, since it is a state police, it should have hung a coat of arms of the Bavarian police .
• For the 6th season, with the new inspector Robert Ritter, the K11 office rotating complex was renovated.
• The series included information displayed below relating to places, times, names and ages and positions of people (e.g. the victim's wife).
• Since the middle of the 6th season with the episode War on the Garden Fence broadcast on September 24, 2008 , the prosecutor was no longer seen in the opening credits, he was replaced by Robert Ritter. Exceptions to this are the two-part films In the Visor of the Angel of Vengeance and At the Wrong Time in the Wrong Place .
• Since the beginning of season 8 there has been no voiceover.
• The new office used from the 11th season was located at Taunusstraße 51, the exterior shots were shot at Stefan-George-Ring 23 in Munich-Daglfing.
• In mid-2008 the text and image form of the convictions was renewed.
• Since May 2, 2011, K11 has been broadcast in 16: 9 widescreen format .
• From October 5, 2010 to May 17, 2013, no episode title was given. From May 21, 2013, this will be shown briefly in the start scene.
• The commissioners carried a HK USP as a service weapon.
• Officers from a special task force appeared in numerous broadcasts. These were real police officers who came to K11 through a casting agency. Police chief inspector Matthias Wolf, who is also on kabel eins at Attention Control! - Use for the law enforcement officers can be seen as a patrol officer with the name Jörg , SEK officer or employee of forensics.
• Nicole Drawer, who teamed up with Jens Loors in season 1, was in the 2012 and 2013 series Attention Control! - To see the top stories of the law enforcement officers as chief detective. She died in 2019 at the age of 54.
• It was often speculated whether Sat.1 would discontinue the series, but it was decided again and again, also due to fan protests, to extend K11.
• K11 - Commissioners in action was the prototype for the Polish television series "W11 - Wydział Śledczy" on TVN
• In January 2020, filming began on a 12th season, which has been broadcast since May 2020 with the addition "The New Cases".

Opening credits

The opening credits have only been changed minimally since season 1, depending on the cast, the currently investigating commissioners were shown in the opening credits. Only Robert Ritter was only shown in the opening credits in the middle of the sixth season, although he had been involved in the investigation since the beginning of the sixth season. For the new edition of the series under the title "The New Cases", a different opening credits were introduced in 2020, which shows changes in the visual nature, the melody and the logo.

Broadcast breaks

Every year there was a break of several weeks with repetitions. There were smaller breaks in winter (mostly from Christmas week to mid-January) and sometimes in the two weeks before and after Easter. The big break was the summer break and lasted about five and sometimes up to ten weeks.

Offshoot

In 2006, KTI - People Lies, Evidence Not, an offshoot of K11, started on Sat.1. The KTI pilot episode was based on an episode of K11 that aired on the same evening as the KTI pilot. The first season of the offshoot then ran on RTL II . After only nine of 30 episodes produced, the broadcast was canceled in 2007. From KTI, Commissioner Robert Ritter also came to the K11 in 2008.

K11 - specials

In the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 11th season there were K11 specials, which differed significantly in length from the normal episodes. During the summer break of the 6th season, 45 minute long special episodes were broadcast. In the 10th and 11th seasons, some 34-minute episodes were broadcast.

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Current

actor	role	job	Started	Main role (episodes)	Supporting role (episodes)
Michael nose tape	Michael "Michi" nose strap	since 4x110 chief detective ; previously chief detective	September 1, 2003	1x001–
Alexandra Rietz	Alexandra "Alex" Rietz	since 4x110 chief detective; previously chief detective	September 1, 2003	1x001–
Philipp Stehler	Philipp Stehler	Chief Detective	May 11, 2020	12x001–
Daniela Stamm	Daniela Stamm	Chief Detective Officer	May 11, 2020	12x001–
Max Katzenberger	Max Katzenberger	Detective inspector	January 14, 2004	1x087–
Sarah Nasari	Sarah Nasari	Coroner	May 11, 2020	12x001–

Former

actor	role	job	Started	Exit	Main role (episodes)	Supporting role (episodes)
Jens Loors	Jens Loors	Chief Detective	September 2, 2003	July 9, 2004	1x002-1x180
Nicole Drawer	Nicole Drawer	Chief Detective Officer	September 2, 2003	July 9, 2004	1x002-1x180
Jan Pöhls	Jan Pöhls	Detective inspector	September 2, 2003	May 24, 2005		1x002-2x116
Branco Vukovic	Branco Vukovic	Detective inspector	October 11, 2004	January 9, 2006	2x001-3x109
Katharina Roll	Miriam Evers	Police commissioner trainee	March 15, 2010	March 24, 2010		8x030–8x035
Sewarion Kirkitadze	Sewarion Kirkitadze	Prosecutor	September 1, 2003	March 31, 2010	1x001-7x106	7x107-8x040
Guido Kellermann	Stefan Bender	Chief Detective	April 6, 2010	April 30, 2010		8x041-8x056
Janine Waland	Mia Bach	IT specialist	April 8, 2010	March 25, 2011		8x043-9x046
Ulla Ried	Dr. Nicole Peschke	Coroner	August 13, 2012	20th August 2012		10x095-10x100
Gerrit Grassl	Gerrit Grass	since 4x110 chief detective; previously detective inspector	January 9, 2006		3x110-11x166	3x109
Jonas Rohrmann	Robert Ritter	since 11x014 chief detective; previously detective inspector	February 14, 2008		7x107-11x166	4x024 (as Sven Kunze), 6x013, 6x016–7x106
Mehmet Fahri	Cenk Demir	Detective inspector	January 25, 2013			11x018-11x097
Michael Mayer	Dr. Christian Alsleben	Coroner	September 1, 2003			1x001-11x166
Andre Parusel	Andre Parusel	Detective inspector	January 14, 2004			1x087-11x166

Teams

At first, four detective superintendents took turns working in two teams on a weekly basis. One week Michael Naseband and Alexandra Rietz went on a hunt for criminals, the next was Jens Loors and Nicole Drawer. On July 11, 2004, in episode 180, almost a year after the start of the series, Drawer and Loors left the pseudo-documentary. Loors returned to the real police service and Drawer devotes himself to writing novels and since then has been Kabel eins at Achtung Kontroll! - Commitment to the law enforcement officers shows the top stories of the law enforcement officers , it can be seen there again and again.

The following three months were investigated by Alex Rietz and her colleague Michael Naseband on their own, until the start of the second season on October 11, 2004, when they were reinforced by the detective chief Branco Vukovic. In January 2006 he was transferred to Kosovo . On the same day, Gerrit Grass from the drug squad started working at K11.

At that time the heads of the Rietz and Naseband department were the chief detective and Gerrit Grass was just a simple detective. This changed in the episode Fear for the Public Prosecutor , broadcast in July 2006 , in which all three commissioners were promoted.

At the beginning of February 2008 the team was enlarged by Detective Inspector Robert Ritter. This came from the spin-off of K11, KTI - people lie, evidence doesn't .

Prosecutor Sevarion Kirkitadze has not appeared on K11 since season 8 , but there was neither an official exit nor a farewell episode.

After Commissioner Robert Ritter was wounded during an operation in March 2010, first police commissioner candidate Miriam Evers, later chief detective Stefan Bender, stepped in for him, but both were only seen in field operations and did not take part in any interrogation.

After Robert Ritter was promoted to chief detective, the team was reinforced by detective commissioner Cenk Demir at the end of January 2013.

In general, there are always two inspectors in the field and two in the office. They then mainly carry out the interrogations.

Charisma

Sat 1

Season	Episodes	Charisma
1	200	Sep 1 2003 to September 17, 2004
2	116	Oct 11, 2004 to May 25, 2005
3	113	May 26, 2005 to January 13, 2006
4th	196	Jan. 16, 2006 to January 19, 2007
5	190	Jan. 22, 2007 to December 21, 2007
6th	204	Jan. 14, 2008 to January 23, 2009
7th	162	Jan. 26, 2009 to November 13, 2009
8th	143	Jan. 18, 2010 to November 30, 2010
9	175	Jan 10, 2011 to December 2, 2011
10	162	January 9, 2012 to November 21, 2012
11	165	January 7, 2013 to June 17, 2013, June 21, 2014 to June 28, 2014, March 31, 2016 to July 28, 2016
12	15+	May 11, 2020 to May 29, 2020

Annotation:

1. ↑ The 4 special episodes in summer 2008 are each double episodes.

In Germany and Austria, the television series is broadcast on the private channels Sat.1 and Sat.1 Austria . Seasons one to eight were broadcast between September 1, 2003 and December 2, 2011 with several breaks. The tenth season started on January 9, 2012 with the 1500th episode and lasted until November 21, 2012. From May 29, 2012, K11 was only broadcast from 7:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. From July 2, 2012 to July 21, 2012, no episodes were broadcast Monday to Friday, as Push - Das Sat.1-Magazin was broadcast at that time , instead the episodes ran on Saturdays from 7 to 8 p.m. On July 19, 2012 it was announced that after only three weeks the test programming of Ab durch die Mitte - The fastest quiz in the world would be terminated prematurely and instead three episodes of K11 - Commissioners in Action will be broadcast from 6.30 p.m. After the start of the new Sat.1 series Patchwork Family on January 28, 2013, only 2 episodes can be seen Monday through Friday. These are broadcast Monday to Saturday between 7 and 8 p.m.

After the quotas continued to fall, K11 was removed from the weekday evening program in June 2013. On Saturday, too, K11 was replaced for 2 weeks with flirting, dating, loving , but since this format did not bring the desired success either, K11 was brought back into the program. In October 2013, Sat.1 announced that the last episodes would be broadcast from November 11, 2013 on Sat.1 Gold at 19:25. Ultimately, the episodes broadcast there were repetitions, a total of six of the remaining episodes of the eleventh season were broadcast on the 21st and 28th June 2014 in the evening program of Sat.1. On December 27, 2015, Sat.1 Gold broadcast 10 never-before-seen episodes from 2013. From March 31, 2016, the remaining new episodes from 2013 ran on Thursdays from 8:15 p.m. in a pack of three on Sat.1 Gold.

Pulse 4

Season	Episodes	Charisma
1	200	Oct. 16, 2009 to March 30, 2010
2	116	March 30, 2010 to June 23, 2010
3	113	June 23, 2010 to September 2, 2010
4th	196	Sep 2 2010 to February 3, 2011
5	190	Feb. 21, 2011 to June 30, 2011
6th	159	July 1, 2011 to March 14, 2012

In Austria, the television series was also broadcast on the private broadcaster Puls 4 . Seasons one to five were broadcast between October 16, 2009 and June 30, 2011 with several breaks. From July 1 to September 2, 2011, the first 45 episodes of the sixth season aired and from October 3, 2011 to March 14, 2012, the remaining episodes aired at 6:00 p.m.

Seasons

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Cooperation with Lenßen & Partner

Occasionally there was cooperation between K11 - commissioners in action and Lenßen & Partner , in which the investigative teams investigated together. In the first crossover, the old team of investigators, Loors and Drawer, is still investigating, and they left the series after 180 episodes.

1st episode	2nd episode	3rd episode	4th episode	5th episode
Deadly Love Games (Season 2, Episode 2)	Doomed Love (Season 1, Episode 2)
Ingo Lenßen under suspicion of murder (season 5, episode 120)	Lenßen under suspicion of murder (season 4, episode 122)	Murderous Wedding (Season 5, Episode 121)
The Commissioner's Affair (Season 4, Episode 164)	Nose Tape Behind Bars (Season 5, Episode 18)	Manhunt for Nose Band (Season 5, Episode 19)	Commissioner Naseband in Need (Season 6, Episode 28)	Nose Band Strikes Back (Season 5, Episode 20)
Intrigue against the investigative team (Season 7, Episode 41)	Christian Storm Under Suspicion (Season 6, Episode 43)

Prominent guest appearances

The list of performers includes:

• the sports reporter Erich Laaser
• the soccer coach and former professional soccer player Holger Fach
• the ex-national player Jimmy Hartwig in a double episode
• the lawyer Ingo Lenßen and his colleagues Sandra Nitka (played by Sandra Kowalski ), Christian Storm , Julia Brahms (played by Friederike Lohrer ) and Sebastian Thiele (played by Sebastian Jäger ) from the series Lenßen & Partner, which is also broadcast on Sat.1 .
• from the series Richter Alexander Hold : Alexander Hold , in his function as a judge, in the cooperation episode with K11 - Commissioners in action ( death in the courtroom ), and the lawyers Maria Isabella Schulien (today: Maria Isabella Kirkitadse ); girlfriend at the time, now wife of public prosecutor Kirkitadze; and Christian Vorländer
• Lena Meyer-Landrut , not yet known at the time, in ( In the line of fire ), as the daughter of a drug lord.

DVD release

On September 2, 2011, four DVD boxes with the first 80 episodes of the first season were released.

The remaining 120 episodes of the first season appeared in six boxes on August 3, 2012.

The episodes of the second season have been available in stores since February 1, 2013 in six boxes with four DVDs each.

game

K11 - Commissioners on duty
Studio	F + F Distribution GmbH
Publisher	SevenOne Intermedia
Erstveröffent- lichung	April 15, 2010
platform	Windows , Nintendo DS , Nintendo Wii
genre	Adventure
language	German
Age rating	USK PEGI

On April 15, 2010, the first game in the series was released for the Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii and PC platforms. In this game you are the young inspector Gerrit Grass, who has to solve five criminal cases under the guidance of Alexandra Rietz and Michael Naseband.

Web links

since 2020

• K11 - The new cases at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• K11 - The new cases at Fernsehserien.de
• K11 - The new cases at sat1.de

2003-2013

• K11 - Commissioners in action at the Internet Movie Database
• K11 - Commissioners on duty at Fernsehserien.de
• K11 - Commissioners in action at sat1.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sat.1: In October, the last flap for "K11" falls. In: DWDL.de of July 31, 2013
2. ↑ "K11" is back: Sat.1 is relaunching crime formats. In: DWDL.de. Retrieved January 14, 2020 . 
3. ↑ New K11 office ( memento from February 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at Gerrit Grass Fanpage on facebook.com
4. ↑ Nicole Drawer in the top stories of the law enforcement officers from Attention Control! - Use for the law enforcement officers  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from kabeleins.de  
5. ↑ Broadcast dates: Sat.1. In: fernsehserien.de. July 4, 2011, accessed July 4, 2011 . 
6. ↑ K11 - Season 10. In: fernsehserien.de. January 9, 2012, accessed January 9, 2012 . 
7. ↑ Sat1: K11. In: fernsehserien.de. July 5, 2012, Retrieved July 5, 2012 . 
8. ↑ "Ab durch die Mitte": Sat.1 aborts the quiz show test. dwdl.de, July 19, 2012, accessed on July 19, 2012 . 
9. ↑ K11: Monday to Saturday 7pm on sat1.de
10. ↑ We bring K11 back the evening before  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ Ten new episodes of K11 on sat1.de
12. ↑ sat1gold.de
13. ↑ Broadcast dates: Plus 4. In: fernsehserien.de. July 4, 2011, accessed July 4, 2011 . 
14. ↑ K11 - Season 1, episodes 1 to 20. In: amazon.de. Retrieved August 22, 2018 . 
15. ↑ Marcus Willer, Andreas Einbeck: K11 - Season 1, episodes 21 to 40. Zc (Michl), accessed on August 22, 2018 . 
16. ↑ Marcus Willer, Andreas Einbeck: K11 - Season 1 episodes 41 to 60. Zc (CMS), accessed on August 22, 2018 . 
17. ↑ Marcus Willer, Andreas Einbeck: K11 Season 1, episode 61 to 80. Zc (CMS), accessed on August 22, 2018 . 
18. ↑ K11 commissioners in action, Season 1, episode 81 to 100. In: amazon.de. Zc (CMS), accessed August 22, 2018 . 
19. ↑ Marcus Willer, Andreas Einbeck: K11 Kommissare im Einsatz Season 1, episodes 101 to 120. Zc (CMS), accessed on August 22, 2018 . 
20. ↑ K11 commissioners in action, Season 1, episode 121 to 140. In: amazon.de. Retrieved August 22, 2018 . 
21. ↑ Marcus Willer, Andreas Einbeck: K11 commissioners in action Season 1, episode 141 to 160. In: amazon.de. Zc (CMS), accessed August 22, 2018 . 
22. ↑ K11 commissioners in action Season 1, episode 161 to 180. In: amazon.de. Zc (CMS), accessed August 22, 2018 . 
23. ↑ K11 commissioners in action, Season 1, episode 81 to 100. In: amazon.de. Zc (CMS), accessed August 22, 2018 . 
24. ↑ K11 commissioners in action Season 1, episode 181 to 200. In: amazon.de. Retrieved August 22, 2018 . 
25. ↑ K11 Season 2 available in stores at fernsehserien.de