Chancellery (TV series)

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Television series
Original title Chancellery
Country of production Germany
original language German
year 2005
length 45 minutes
Episodes 12
genre drama
idea Hans-Christoph Blumenberg ,
Martin E. Süskind
First broadcast March 23, 2005 on ZDF
occupation

Chancellery is a 12-part television series by ZDF , which was broadcast every Wednesday from March 23 to June 29, 2005 at 8:15 pm and is set in the political milieu of the Berlin Federal Chancellery . The main actor in the role of Federal Chancellor is Klaus J. Behrendt .

action

The German Chancellor Andreas Weyer has many problems. Regardless of whether the Russian President does not want to give back pictures that disappeared during World War II, whether the Chancellor has a backache or whether the German ambassador to Turkey is shot. Privately, the widower Weyer lives with his 17-year-old daughter Nina, who fell in love with a salsa dancer.

occupation

actor Role name Office / role
Klaus J. Behrendt Andreas Weyer Chancellor
Robert Atzorn Norbert Kraft Head of the Chancellery
Herbert Knaup Conny Bergmann Government spokesman
Claudia Michelsen Edith Lambert Head of Foreign Policy
Rita Russek Birte Schmitz Head of the Chancellor's Office
Heikko Deutschmann Alexander night consecration Speechwriter for the Federal Chancellor
Karoline Teska Nina Weyer Daughter of the Federal Chancellor
Gabriela Maria Schmeide Dr. Christa Templin

background

The series tries to depict the everyday life of politicians using fictitious but realistic stories, a concept that has already been successfully tested in the USA and Great Britain.

“The Chancellery is entertaining, exciting and interesting,” said ex- Chancellor Friedrich Bohl ( CDU ). Compared to the award-winning US template The West Wing - In the Center of Power , however , the Chancellery appeared to most critics rather shallow and trivial.

Since the audience ratings over the course of the run did not meet expectations by far, the last two parts were broadcast as a double episode and despite the cliff hanger that ends the last episode, the series was discontinued. Since the buildings have now been disposed of, a continuation is not to be expected.

literature

Based on the television series and its scripts, a book of the same name was also published, which was laid out as the diary of the fictional speechwriter Alexander Nachtweih .

  • Heikko Deutschmann (ed.): Chancellery: records of an insider . Egmont, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-8025-3464-6 .

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