Post mortem evidence is immortal
| Television series | |
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| Original title | Post mortem |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 2007-2008 |
| length | 45 minutes |
| Episodes | 17 in 2 seasons ( list ) |
| genre | Crime series |
| Theme music | Seal - Crazy (only on TV) |
| First broadcast | January 18, 2007 on RTL |
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Post Mortem is a German crime - television series focusing on forensic and legal medicine that Produktions GmbH for the Sony Pictures film and television RTL was produced. It is reminiscent of the US American CSI series.
action
In completed episodes, a team of five from the Cologne Institute for Forensic Medicine led by Dr. Daniel Koch explains how found victims died and whether the respective cases involved a crime, an accident, a suicide or a natural death. As a rule, Dr. Koch together with Dr. Bergmann did the autopsies, while all kinds of traces of Dr. Moritz can be analyzed. Frederick Peyn, the youngest member of the team, is responsible for reconstructing the crime or the accident. In addition, there is Commissioner Brandt, who leads the investigation for the police.
background
Conception
Due to the great success of the US television series CSI: On the trail of the perpetrators and their offshoots , RTL decided in 2006 to also produce a crime series about forensic doctors. The title was borrowed from the similar television film Post Mortem - The Hooker Murderer, which RTL had already produced in 1996. However, no characters were taken from the film. The headwriter was Lorenz Lau-Uhle. The effect settings were edited by the Cologne company Pixellusion . Robert Rebele was responsible for the corpse effects .
While the series is thematically oriented towards CSI , cuts and visual style were taken from 24 : Often, visibly restless handheld cameras are used, which often go from close up (sometimes even smaller) directly to the close-up without cutting - a trademark of the US american series. 1,300 to 1,500 cuts were also made in a 45-minute sequence . Such a high speed in the sequence of images is otherwise only known from commercials and music videos .
Publication and program environment
After the premiere was quite successful with over 5.7 million viewers, the number of viewers fell by over a million in the second week. In the following weeks, too, audience interest continued to decline until episode 8 reached its low point with only 2.72 million viewers. Only the last episode of the first season recorded an increase in the rate to 3.36 million viewers. The first season of the series was released on November 8, 2007 by Sony Pictures Entertainment on DVD .
Despite the unsatisfactory development of ratings during the first season, RTL commissioned another season in April 2007. In this, the previously criticized camera work was calmed down and the cast by Minh-Khai Phan-Thi as Dr. Yvonne Janus added. The eight new episodes could be seen on the same slot since January 17, 2008. Five years after the last broadcast - on April 5, 2013 - the complete series was published by Turbine Medien, supplemented by the subtitle Evidence is immortal . This DVD edition was commented on by the well-known criminal biologist Mark Benecke , among others .
Parallel to Post Mortem on RTL, competing broadcaster Sat.1 adapted the similarly designed RIS - delitti imperfetti from Italy, which was already very successful there. Both Post Mortem and RIS - The Language of the Dead went on air for the first time at almost the same time. But the Sat.1 format also weakened on the Sunday broadcasting slot and was therefore also quickly discontinued.
Episode list
season 1
| No. | title | First broadcast | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-1 | Family grave | January 18, 2007 | Thomas Jauch | Lorenz Lau-Uhle |
| 1-2 | The confession | January 25, 2007 | Thomas Jauch | Lorenz Lau-Uhle, Clemens Murath |
| 1-3 | amok | February 1, 2007 | Thomas Jauch | Lorenz Lau-Uhle |
| 1-4 | Dog Food | February 8, 2007 | Thomas Jauch | Wolf Rüdiger Kuhl, Lorenz Lau-Uhle |
| 1-5 | Limitless love | February 15, 2007 | Thomas Jauch | Lorenz Lau-Uhle, Claus Stirzenbecher |
| 1-6 | The search | February 22, 2007 | Elmar Fischer | Hannes Jaenicke, Wolf Rüdiger Kuhl, Lorenz Lau-Uhle |
| 1-7 | Self-defense | March 1, 2007 | Elmar Fischer | Lorenz Lau-Uhle, Andreas Knop |
| 1-8 | Death in installments | March 8, 2007 | Florian Froschmayer | Lorenz Lau-Uhle, Clemens Murath |
| 1-9 | Old wounds | March 15, 2007 | Florian Froschmayer | Lorenz Lau-Uhle |
season 2
| No. | title | First broadcast | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2–1 | parts of the body | January 17, 2008 | Thomas Jauch | Lorenz Lau-Uhle |
| 2–2 | Lonely Hearts | January 24, 2008 | Thomas Jauch | Lorenz Lau-Uhle, Frank Speelmans, Douglas Wissmann |
| 2-3 | Defenseless | January 31, 2008 | Christoph Stark | Lorenz Lau-Uhle, Ralf Löhnhardt |
| 2-4 | flotsam | February 7, 2008 | Christoph Stark | Lorenz Lau-Uhle, Claus Stirzenbecher |
| 2-5 | Death in the operating room | February 14, 2008 | Uwe Janson | Peter Dommaschk, Lorenz Lau-Uhle |
| 2-6 | Heroes | February 21, 2008 | Christoph Stark |
Stefan Holtz , Florian Iwersen, Lorenz Lau-Uhle |
| 2-7 | Beyond paradise | February 28, 2008 | Eoin Moore | Peter Dommaschk, Lorenz Lau-Uhle |
| 2-8 | Deadly cloud | March 3, 2008 | Eoin Moore | Georg Heinzen, Lorenz Lau-Uhle |
Additional information
Web links
- Postmortem - evidence are immortal in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Interview with leading actor Hannes Jaenicke about the series
- Post Mortem at Fernsehserien.de
- Article at Spiegel.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Audience ratings at dwdl.de, accessed on May 5, 2016.
- ↑ DWDL.de: RTL sends “Post Mortem” in the second season