KDD - permanent criminal service

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Television series
Original title KDD - permanent criminal service
Country of production Germany
original language German
Year (s) 2007-2010
length 45 minutes
Episodes 30 in 3 seasons ( list )
genre Crime series
idea Orkun Ertener
production Kathrin Breininger (Hofmann & Voges)
music Christoph M. Kaiser, Julian Maas
First broadcast February 2, 2007 on ZDF
occupation
Götz Schubert (2010)
Jürgen Vogel (2010)
Christian Redl
Devid Striesow (2010)
Jürgen Tarrach (2008)
The facade of the Berlin Army Bakery on the courtyard side

KDD - Criminal Long Service (colloquial short form also "KDD") is a German crime series that was broadcast from 2007 to 2010. Due to the unusual dramaturgy and the ambiguous characters of the main characters, she received critical acclaim and won several awards. Since the audience numbers fell short of expectations, the ZDF stopped the series after three seasons.

content

The focus of the series is a fictional permanent detective unit in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg . Unlike conventional crime series, KDD does not focus on the solution of a case, but on the day-to-day work of the unit as well as the professional and private fortunes of the individual. The different levels on which the story is told are typical of KDD . The overarching framework for action that extends through all three seasons is a case of corruption within the Berlin police, in which the KDD officers are drawn in in different ways. A second, also constantly narrated level, addresses the personal fortunes of the investigators. Finally, the third level is the everyday cases from everyday KDD life. In the first season there were usually two per episode, in the following seasons - depending on the course of the overall story - none, one or two cases.

The different levels and narrative threads condense into a continuous overall storyline - one reason why individual reviews occasionally characterized the series as a drama or police soap . The main characters are the seven officials of the KDD core cast:

  • Head of the Detective Chief Inspector Helmut Enders ( Götz Schubert ),
  • Kriminaloberkommissar Jan Haroska ( Manfred Zapatka ), an experienced police officer and sometimes dry, sometimes relapsed alcoholic,
  • the guard chief detective Kristin Bender ( Saskia Vester ), who keeps her lesbian relationship hidden from her colleagues,
  • the son of a newspaper publisher, Detective Inspector Leo Falckenstein ( Barnaby Metschurat ),
  • the ambitious detective Sylvia Henke ( Melika Foroutan ),
  • Detective Inspector Mehmet Kilic ( Billey Demirtas ), torn between German and Turkish identity, and
  • the divorced Police Commissioner (later Chief Police Commissioner) Maria Hernandez ( Jördis Triebel ).

The KDD core team is flanked by other characters:

  • Karsten Stieglitz ( Michael Rotschopf ), an officer from the Internal Investigation,
  • Enders' spouse Sabine ( Johanna Gastdorf ) as well
  • the adolescent Enes ( Edin Hasanović ), a Kosovar refugee, with whom the security guard Bender is increasingly establishing a substitute mother-like relationship.

In the first season, the plot is determined by two strands of events: on the one hand Jan Haroska, who embezzled drug money and is increasingly caught between the fronts, on the other hand, the companionship of high-ranking police officers with a faction in the Berlin drug trade. Flanked by the small cases within the individual episodes, the drug story develops stringently towards a spectacular finale, in which the KDD unit is attacked by snipers from the drug mafia on the Berlin Gendarmenmarkt . The second season follows the corruption framework of the first. In addition, it focuses on an overarching subplot that deals with manipulated sports betting and a soccer scandal in the regional league . In addition, some of the plot elements of the first season are continued - the broken relationship between Haroska and the police officer Hernandez, for example, or the situation of Detective Inspector Henke, who psychologically has to deal with a rape she has suffered and has since entered into a relationship with her colleague Falckenstein. The third season is scheduled around a year after the end of the second. Just like the previous ones, it also takes up action elements from the previous seasons. The course of the main story is largely determined by the person Mehmet Kilics, who has drug problems, earns additional money through a second job in the bouncer environment and - when he gets in the way of an undercover drug investigation - gets into massive conflicts of loyalty. The finale of the third season is a hostage-taking in the KDD area - whereby the outcome does not represent the end of the series in the classic sense, but just another cut in the KDD story.

A typical feature of the series is the speed with which the different events are staged. On the one hand, this speed is part of the dramaturgy. In addition, the author, production staff and the directors involved made a conscious decision to stringently record the individual scenes with two different cameras. The two-camera technology - as z. B. was also used in the US series The Shield - Law of Violence , not only enabled a more dynamic editing sequence, but also a more fluid style of play when playing the individual scenes. Further distinguishing features of KDD were the gloomy, pale beige tones of color, which was strongly based on comparable modern US series such as The Wire , and the slimmed-down, pulsating, minimalist theme song.

Production and broadcast

The idea and concept of the series come from screenwriter Orkun Ertener and producer Kathrin Breininger ( Hofmann & Voges , Munich ). During the conception phase, on-site research took place, which also included participation in missions by real KDD officers. The series was conceived from the beginning as an overarching story that should contain different levels. Author Ertener made it clear in an interview that KDD is not iron television . Producer Breininger characterized the wealth of figures as a gift to viewers who can choose their favorites and follow their stories. In addition to the main roles, the production team also filled supporting supporting roles with prominent actors. The role of the Russian drug dealer Han was played by Jürgen Vogel , that of the corrupt LKA official Rainer Sallek by the film and TV actor Christian Redl , and that of the shady boxing promoter Armin Ponew Jürgen Tarrach . Other supporting roles were played by Bernhard Schütz (as Dr. Wolfgang Jacobi), Sandra Borgmann (as Marlies Haroska), Anna Fischer (as Maren / Lisa Enders), André Hennicke (as Aoun), Falk Rockstroh (as Axel Falckenstein), Devid Striesow (as Police officer Keitel), Idil Üner (as Rüya Deniz), Alma Leiberg (as Karen Murnau) and Tobias Oertel (as Frank Döring). Wotan Wilke Möhring and Rolf Kanies also made guest appearances in individual episodes .

The locations of the individual KDD episodes were mainly in Berlin's Kreuzberg and Neukölln districts . The exterior shots of the police building were filmed in the Köpenicker Strasse at the corner of Brommystrasse in Kreuzberg in the former Berlin military bakery of the Royal Prussian Provision Office . The interior motif of the guard itself was set up in a studio near Berlin-Tegel Airport .

In addition to the pilot episode , the first season had ten more episodes. Falko Löffler worked on the scripts for episodes 1 and 2 . Matthias Glasner directed the pilot film and episodes 1 and 2, Lars Kraume in episodes 3 to 6 and Filippos Tsitos in episodes 7 to 10 . The second season aired from May 2 to July 4, 2008 and included eight other episodes in addition to the pilot episode. Orkun Ertener, Lars Kraume, Oliver Hain and Edward Berger are responsible for the script . The second season was directed by Edward Berger, Andreas Prochaska and Züli Aladag . Filming for the third season began in October 2008. The third season was first broadcast on ARTE from January 12th to March 2nd, 2010 and was also broadcast on ZDF from April 9th ​​to May 21st. This season has a total of eight episodes. The length of the pilot episodes was 90 minutes, the other episodes were each about 45 minutes in length. The first episode of the third season was broadcast in two parts on ARTE. The respective episodes could be seen for the first time in 2007 as a stream 24 hours before the television broadcast . Robert Amlung from the Directorate for New Media at ZDF described this decision as a measure that initiated the first steps on the way to a media world in which TV and Internet are growing together.

Due to the unusual concept and the type of implementation, the series struggled with acceptance problems from the start. Despite the numerous positive reviews, the ratings in the first two seasons were rather poor. While the big media and some of the viewers received the series positively, in some cases even enthusiastically, other viewers expressed reservations or disinterest. The audience ratings for the first two seasons were below average despite the numerous positive reviews. The finale of the second season saw almost two and a half million viewers. The resulting market share of 9.6% was assessed as unsatisfactory; What was particularly bitter was the significantly reduced audience share among the young viewers. In 2009, the people in charge of ZDF finally made the decision to discontinue the series after the third season. The reason was that the stories had been told, the story was "final". In an interview with the daily newspaper, series author Ortun Ertener drew a disaffected résumé with regard to the feasibility of other, similar materials. In retrospect, he described KDD as "too complex, too fast, too confusing, too dark and too immoral" for German television. In itself, the series would have had potential for a fourth and fifth season.

Despite the below-average ratings success, the ZDF subsidiary ZDF Enterprises succeeded in the fall of 2010 in selling KDD - Permanent Criminal Police Service to US and Canadian TV providers. Under the title KDD: Berlin Crime Squad , the series was first broadcast by the Canadian international channel Eurochannel at the end of October 2010. Under the titles KDD: Policia de Investigación, KDD: Policia Investigativa de Berlim, KDD: Berlinski Oddzial Kryminalny and KDD: Berlin Brigade Criminelle , the series also ran on the Spanish , Portuguese , Polish and French-speaking Eurochannel series channel. The series was also broadcast in French by the bilingual channel ARTE. Marketing on DVD took place after the relevant season was broadcast. All three seasons are available in stores. The DVD box for season 2 in particular contains more detailed bonus material including a making-of feature. The series' soundtrack is also commercially available in the form of MP3 downloads.

Episode list

reception

The series was largely received positively by the critics and praised primarily for its authenticity.

Der Spiegel wrote on February 2, 2007:

“The strength of 'KDD' lies in the details: from the daughter of the Turkish greengrocer who staged a raid on her father's shop in order to distract attention from her own rape, to the Hartz IV recipient who got together with invents a daughter for a hospitalized doctor so that she can apply for child benefit - the economic and psycho-cultural contradictions of the Berlin neighborhood are shown precisely. Seen in this way, the shocker KDD, with which the contemplative and always somewhat remote ZDF Friday evening is mixed up, is much more than just another crime series. A disturbing trip into a system before collapse. "

Klaudia Wick praised the speed and intensity of the series in the Berliner Zeitung : “The new ZDF series 'KDD' cannot be measured against the standard of conventional series crime thrillers. Instead of staging ten cases in a row, as usual in ten episodes, at least ten crimes happen simultaneously in 'KDD'. " Jochen Voss wrote in the media magazine DWDL.de : " 'KDD' shows people. It would be easy to say that the series shows its depths. Rather, it shows their fear, their despair and longing for life. "

Concerning the broadcast of the third season, the Süddeutsche Zeitung emphasized the special quality of the series and regretted its announced attitude: “And there is the shimmering sound motif of 'KDD - Kriminalfamiliedienst', the most innovative German television series of recent years. (...) The fact that this format never looks like a soap opera despite all the compression - that's what makes KDD so special. If you also consider how confidently the directors by Christian Zübert and Andreas Prochaska continue the storylines, then the understanding that KDD should have no future disappears. "

In an analysis of the series, the film industry website negativ-film.de drew a comparison with similarly ambitious productions such as In the Face of the Crime by Dominik Graf and the US series The Shield . The jury of the Adolf Grimme Prize justified its award in 2008 with the words that it adorns German television and stated that KDD: " Speed, speed, demanding dramaturgies, broken characters and criminals with dirty vests."

In particular, to the news that KDD would not be continued, many media responded with criticism of what they believed to be too much oriented towards conventional viewing habits of the TV managers. Thomas Abeltshauser wrote on Welt Online : “The German crime series 'KDD - Kriminalfamiliedienst', which is about a Kreuzberg police force, delivers intelligent suspense and has rightly received several awards. Ironically, this shining example of German television culture, the preview of which took place in January at Arte, is now slowly dying from the series - and we can watch on ZDF where the third and final season starts today. "

Others

  • The series refers to a fictional long-term crime service unit in Berlin-Kreuzberg . In Berlin, however, this special form of criminal police standby duty is taken over by other departments; a KDD there is not there hence.
  • With Night Shift , ZDF broadcasts another crime series with a KDD unit at the center. The night shift series is based in Hamburg , however, and the series also consists of a series of self-contained films - similar to the crime scene .
  • A poster with the American country singer Kinky Friedman hangs in the office of the KDD service group leader Enders . Friedman, who ran as an independent candidate for the Texas gubernatorial election in 2006, has also made a name for himself as a crime writer.
  • Anna Fischer, who plays the double role of twin sisters Maren and Lisa Enders in the series, also got involved in the series as the front woman of the Berlin band Panda . In an episode of the first season, which is about the current status of Enders' family, she plays the panda single Jeht Kacken with the band .

Awards

2007

2008

  • Adolf Grimme Prize in the field of fiction to author Orkun Ertener, producer Kathrin Breininger and Manfred Zapatka (deputy for the cast)
  • Bronze medal in the drama at the International TV Broadcasting Competition of the New York Festivals for the pilot episode The Enemy ( "Balancing on the Tight Wire")

2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief description of the first season on the website of the Grimme Institute ( memento of the original from December 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grimme-institut.de
  2. ^ Description of the contents of the 2nd season , Christian Junklewitz, Serienjunkies, de, May 2, 2008
  3. ↑ Start of shooting for the 3rd season of 'KDD' , Sabrina Brixius, Cinefacts , October 14, 2008
  4. ↑ Frequently asked questions. What “KDD” is all about , ZDF FAQ page on the series, ZDF Online
  5. ↑ "Life writes the most exciting cases" ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Interview with producer Kathrin Breininger and author orkun Ertener on zdf.de  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zdf.de
  6. ↑ Frequently asked questions about KDD , ZDFneo , accessed on December 6, 2010
  7. ↑ ZDF: Start of shooting for the 3rd season of "KDD: Criminal Continuous Service"
  8. ↑ KDD - Criminal Continuous Service: 3rd season from January on ARTE ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmstarts.de
  9. ↑ a b c The neon green glow , Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 11, 2010
  10. ↑ a b ZDF shows episodes of a new crime series in advance on the Internet , message on heise online from January 30, 2007
  11. ↑ a b c ZDF series 'KDD' goes with weak ratings , Alexander Krei , quotemeter.de , July 5, 2008 (accessed on December 28, 2013)
  12. ↑ End of duty: "KDD" is discontinued , Michael Brandes, Wishlist.de, November 18, 2009
  13. ↑ "I didn't promise a happy ending" , interview with Orkun Ertener, taz.de , January 12, 2010
  14. ↑ ZDF Enterprises sells KDD to Canada and the USA , Christian Junklewitz, Serienjunkies.de, October 7, 2010
  15. ↑ Berlin Crime Squad on the Eurochannel homepage
  16. ^ The human blemish , Christian Buß , Spiegel Online , February 2, 2007
  17. ↑ ZDF: Press comments on the second season ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zdf.de
  18. ↑ DWDL.de: Terrifyingly close: Second season 'KDD' starts , Jochen Voß, DWDL.de , May 2, 2008
  19. ↑ Kriminaldauerdienst Season 1 , Leander Ripchinsky, negativ-film.de 15 December, 2010.
  20. ↑ KDD - Criminal Continuous Service - May 2nd, 2008 9:15 pm - ZDF ( Memento of the original from November 2nd, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Eric Leimann, May 2, 2008  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.monstersandcritics.de
  21. ↑ Lost on Friday evening , Thomas Abeltshauser, Welt Online , April 9, 2010
  22. ↑ Jens Harant, TV series category. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 15, 2015 ; Retrieved November 27, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutscher-kamerapreis.de