List of German crime TV series
This is the list of German crime and police programs that are currently (as of July 17, 2020) being produced as a series or shown for the first time.
| series | Sender (sender group) |
length | Place of action | since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alarm for Cobra 11 - The Autobahn Police | RTL | 45 | unspecified German Autobahn | 1996 |
| All criminals | The first | 90 | Frankfurt am Main | 2014 |
| Allmen and ... | The first | 90 | Zurich ( Switzerland ) | 2017 |
| The old | ZDF | 60 | Munich | 1977 |
| Arne Dahl | ZDF | 90 | Stockholm ( Sweden ) | 2011 |
| The Amsterdam crime thriller | The first | 90 | Amsterdam ( Netherlands ) | 2018 |
| The Athens crime thriller | The first | 90 | Athens ( Greece ) | 2016 |
| Babylon Berlin | The first | 45 | Berlin | 2018 |
| The Barcelona crime thriller | The first | 90 | Barcelona ( Spain ) | 2017 |
| Determined blindly | The first | 90 | Vienna ( Austria ) | 2018 |
| Bloody beginners | ZDF | 45 | Halle on the Saale | 2020 |
| The Bozen-Krimi (the first episode ran under the title Kripo Bozen ) | The first | 90 | Bolzano ( Italy ) | 2015 |
| The bull and the country egg | The first | 90 | Monreal in the Eifel | 2010 |
| Charlotte Link | The first | 90 | England | 2012 |
| The boss | ZDF | 60 | Munich | 2012 |
| The Chiemseekrimi | ZDF | 90 | Chiemsee | 2013 |
| Cora Steins ... case | Sat 1 | 120 | 2019 | |
| Craig Russell films ( wolf trail , blood eagle , brand , Carneval - the clown brings death , angel of death ) | The first | 90 | Hamburg | 2010 |
| Danowski | ZDF | 90 | Hamburg | 2019 |
| Dead end | ZDFneo | 45 | Mittenwalde | 2019 |
| Dengler | ZDF | 90 | from Stuttgart across Europe | 2015 |
| The diplomat | The first | 90 | worldwide | 2016 |
| Dresden Murder (formerly The Wallensteins ) | ZDF | 90 | Dresden | 2016 |
| Eberhofer's thriller | The first | 90 | Niederkaltenkirchen, fictional village in Lower Bavaria near Landshut | 2013 |
| Elisabeth Herrmann films ( The Nanny , The Seventh Hour , The Last Instance , Sunken Graves and Prayer for the Dead ) | ZDF | 90 | Berlin | 2012 |
| Emma after midnight | The first | 90 | Mannheim | 2016 |
| Erzgebirge crime story | ZDF | 90 | Ore Mountains | 2019 |
| A case for Dr. Abel | Sat 1 | 120 | Berlin | 2018 |
| One case for two (2014) (before 2014 under: One case for two ) | ZDF | 60 | Frankfurt am Main | 1981 |
| A case of love | The first | 45 | Leipzig | 2008 |
| Friesland | ZDF | 90 | Leer (East Frisia) | 2015 |
| The vixen | The first | 90 | Dusseldorf | 2015 |
| Metropolitan area | The first | 45 | Hamburg | 1986 |
| The good cop | Arte | 90 | Berlin | 2017 |
| Tough chunk | The first | 90 | Sankt Andreasberg | 2015 |
| Heldt | ZDF | 60 | Bochum | 2013 |
| Helen Dorn | ZDF | 90 | Dusseldorf | 2014 |
| Mr. and Mrs. Bulle | ZDF | 90 | Berlin | 2018 |
| Heart over head | RTL | 30th | 2019 | |
| Hubert without Staller (until 2015: cheerful to fatal : Hubert and Staller , until 2018: Hubert and Staller ) | The first | 45 | Wolfratshausen and on Lake Starnberg | 2011 |
| Huck | The first | 45 | Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt | 2015 |
| The informant | The first | 90 | 2016 | |
| The truth is | Arte | 90 | Saarland | 2017 |
| Inspector jury | ZDF | 90 | Dorset (county in England) | 2014 |
| The Ireland crime thriller | The first | 90 | Galway ( Ireland ) | 2019 |
| The Iceland crime thriller | The first | 90 | Iceland | 2016 |
| Julia Durant is investigating | Sat 1 | 120 | Frankfurt am Main | 2018 |
| Jussi Adler-Olsen films: Mercy , desecration and redemption | ZDF | 105 | Copenhagen ( Denmark ) | 2013 |
| The office (former title: The Fat ) | The first | 45 | Hamburg-Altona | 2005 |
| The plumber | RTL | 60 | eat | 2019 |
| ... A Kluftinger thriller (formerly in the Heimatkrimi series , first episode: Thanksgiving. An Allgäu thriller ) | The first | 90 | Allgäu | 2009 |
| Inspector Beck | ZDF | 90 | Stockholm (Sweden) | 1998 |
| Commissioner Dupin | The first | 90 | Finistère ( Brittany , France ) | 2015 |
| Commissioner Marthaler | ZDF | 90 | Frankfurt am Main | 2012 |
| The commissioner and the sea | ZDF | 90 | on Gotland (Sweden) | 2007 |
| Commissioner Heller | ZDF | 90 | Wiesbaden | 2014 |
| Commissioner Louise Bonì | The first | 90 | Aachen | 2015 |
| Commissioner Lucas | ZDF | 90 | regensburg | 2002 |
| The criminalist | ZDF | 60 | Berlin | 2006 |
| The Croatian crime thriller | The first | 90 | Split ( Croatia ) | 2016 |
| Laim and ... (first episode ran under the title Munich Laim ) | ZDF | 90 | Munich | 2012 |
| Lammert's corpses | MDR | 25th | Pathology of the Dresden crime scene setting | 2018 |
| Lena Fauch | ZDF | 90 | Munich | 2012 |
| Last trace Berlin , first of all: the last trace | ZDF | 45 | Berlin | 2012 |
| The Lisbon crime thriller | The first | 90 | Lisbon ( Portugal ) | 2018 |
| Lotte hunter | ZDF | 90 | Potsdam and the whole of the former GDR | 2016 |
| Marie Brand | ZDF | 90 | Cologne | 2008 |
| Mattern's territory | The first | 60 | Essen-Katernberg | 2015 |
| Matula | ZDF | 90 | Frankfurt am Main | 2017 |
| Meiberger - In the mind of the perpetrator | ServusTV | 60 | Salzburg (Austria) and surroundings | 2018 |
| The Butcher | The first | 90 | Austria | 2015 |
| Murder always works | ZDF | 90 | Cologne | 2016 |
| Murder in the north (formerly: cheerful to fatal: murders in the north ) | The first | 45 | Lübeck | 2012 |
| Homicide Squad Istanbul | The first | 90 | Istanbul ( Turkey ) | 2008 |
| Murder Hunger - Crime and Other Delicacies | ZDF | 90 | Klein-Beken (fictional place in the Bergisches Land ) | 2013 |
| Munich murder | ZDF | 90 | Munich and the surrounding area | 2014 |
| Night shift | ZDF | 90 | Hamburg | 2003 |
| Next to the track | ZDF | 90 | Hamburg and the surrounding area | 2015 |
| Nemez and Sneijder investigate | Sat 1 | 115 | Germany and Vienna (Austria) | 2019 |
| North by northwest | The first | 90 | Schwanitz (fictional place on the Priwall peninsula (part of Lübeck-Travemünde )) | 2014 |
| North north murder | ZDF | 90 | Sylt | 2011 |
| Emergency call harbor edge | ZDF | 45 | Hamburg | 2007 |
| Ostfriesland crime novels | ZDF | 90 | Ostfriesland | 2017 |
| Baltic Sea Crime ( Death of a Girl , The Missing Family , The Girl on the Beach ) | ZDF | 180 | Nordholm (fictional place on the Schleswig-Holstein Baltic Sea coast) | 2015 |
| A Paschakrimi (Title of the first episode: Inspector Pascha ) | The first | 90 | Munich | 2017 |
| The peppercorns | KiKA | 30th | Hamburg | 1999 |
| Police call 110 | The first | 90 | formerly: the entire GDR , currently: Świecko near Słubice ( Poland ) or Frankfurt (Oder) , Magdeburg , Munich, Rostock | 1971 |
| The Prague thriller | ARD | 90 | Prague ( Czech Republic ) | 2018 |
| The quartet | ZDF | 90 | Leipzig | 2019 |
| Rampensau | VOX | 105 | Berlin | 2019 |
| Reef for the island | The first | 90 | Foehr | 2012 |
| Pensioner cops | The first | 60 | Cologne | 2015 |
| The Rosenheim cops | ZDF | 45 | Rosenheim | 2002 |
| Sarah Kohr (first case with the same team of investigators ran in 2014 under the title The Last Key Witness - Escape to the Alps ) | ZDF | 90 | Hamburg | 2014 |
| Schwartz & Schwartz | ZDF | 90 | Berlin | 2018 |
| Schwarzach 23 | ZDF | 90 | Schwarzach, a municipality or part of a municipality in Bavaria , where house number 23 is | 2015 |
| A Black Forest thriller | ZDF | 90 | in the Black Forest | 2019 |
| SOKO Hamburg | ZDF | 60 | Hamburg | 2018 |
| SOKO Kitzbühel | ZDF | 45 | Kitzbühel (Austria) | 2001 |
| SOKO Cologne | ZDF | 45 | Cologne | 2003 |
| SOKO Leipzig | ZDF | 45 | Leipzig | 2001 |
| SOKO Munich (title until 2015: SOKO 5113 ) | ZDF | 45 | Munich and the surrounding area | 1978 |
| SOKO Potsdam | ZDF | 60 | Potsdam | 2018 |
| SOKO Stuttgart | ZDF | 45 | Stuttgart | 2009 |
| SOKO Vienna (in Austria: SOKO Donau ) | ZDF | 45 | Vienna, Austria) | 2005 |
| SOKO Wismar | ZDF | 45 | Wismar | 2004 |
| Solo for white | ZDF | 90 | Lübeck | 2016 |
| The specialists - on behalf of the victims | ZDF | 45 | Berlin | 2016 |
| Spreewald thriller | ZDF | 90 | Lübbenau / Spreewald , Lübben (Spreewald) | 2006 |
| Traces of evil | ZDF | 90 | Vienna, Austria) | 2011 |
| The prosecutor | ZDF | 60 | Wiesbaden | 2005 |
| a strong team | ZDF | 90 | Berlin | 1994 |
| Stralsund | ZDF | 90 | Stralsund | 2009 |
| crime scene | The first | 90 | is currently determined in: Berlin, Bremen and Bremerhaven , Dortmund , Dresden, Frankfurt am Main, Freiburg im Breisgau and the Black Forest, Göttingen , Hamburg and northern Germany , Kiel , Cologne, Ludwigshafen am Rhein , Mainz , Munich, Münster , Nuremberg , Stuttgart, Weimar, Vienna (Austria), Wiesbaden and Hesse | 1970 |
| A Taunus Krimi (formerly Der Taunuskrimi ) | ZDF | 90 | Hofheim am Taunus and in the Taunus | 2013 |
| The team | ZDF | 60 | across Europe | 2015 |
| The Tel Aviv crime thriller | The first | 90 | Berlin, Tel Aviv ( Israel ) | 2016 |
| Deadly secrets | The first | 90 | Berlin and worldwide | 2016 |
| The dead from Lake Constance | ZDF | 90 | Lake Constance region (cross-border between Germany and Austria) | 2014 |
| The dead of Salzburg | ZDF | 90 | Salzburg and the Austrian-Bavarian border region | 2016 |
| Across the border | The first | 90 | Kehl and the Franco-German border area | 2017 |
| In other circumstances | ZDF | 90 | Schleswig | 2006 |
| among enemies | Arte | 90 | Hamburg | 2013 |
| The Urbino crime thriller | The first | 90 | Urbino (Italy) | 2016 |
| The Usedom thriller | The first | 90 | on Usedom | 2014 |
| Van Leeuwen's ... case | Arte | 90 | Amsterdam, Netherlands) | 2012 |
| WaPo Berlin | The first | 45 | Berlin | 2020 |
| WaPo Lake Constance | The first | 45 | Lake Constance region | 2017 |
| Watzmann determined | The first | 55 | Berchtesgaden | 2019 |
| Wilsberg | ZDF | 90 | Muenster | 1995 |
| Wolf land | The first | 90 | Goerlitz | 2016 |
| Target investigators | The first | 90 | worldwide | 2016 |
| The Zurich crime thriller | The first | 90 | Zurich, Switzerland) | 2016 |