Bjarne Mädel
Bjarne Mädel is a German actor, radio play narrator, and director. He had his breakthrough in 2004/2005 playing the character Berthold “Ernie” Heisterkamp in the comedy series Stromberg.
Bjarne Mädel is a German actor, radio play narrator, and director. He had his breakthrough in 2004/2005 playing the character Berthold “Ernie” Heisterkamp in the comedy series Stromberg.
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
Release Date1970-11-29
Charactersd Heribert Scharf
Episode Count1
Vote Count119
Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.
Release Date1971-06-27
Charactersd Herr Jünnemann
Episode Count1
Vote Count25
The SOKO Köln investigates the cathedral city with humor and often with hard work. Their cases take them into a variety of environments, from the Cologne clique to the terraced housing estates on the outskirts of the city.
Release Date2003-10-22
Charactersd Stefan Traber
Episode Count1
Vote Count6
Release Date2004-10-06
Charactersd Bernd Strübing
Episode Count1
Vote Count10
Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of the Baltic Sea.
Release Date1997-04-19
Charactersd Fedor Priemer
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
Mord mit Aussicht is a German satirical crime comedy television series, produced by ARD, following the adventures of Sophie Haas, a detective from the city that takes a job in the fictional country village of Hengasch. Much of the humour of the series derives from the clichés of both city and provincial lives, in a similar manner to the English comedy crime series Midsomer Murders.
Release Date2008-01-07
Charactersd Dietmar Schäffer
Episode Count39
Vote Count46
To win back his ex-girlfriend, a nerdy teen starts selling ecstasy online out of his bedroom -- and becomes one of Europe's biggest dealers.
Release Date2019-05-31
Charactersd Dealer Buba
Episode Count6
Vote Count903
Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP was a German hospital drama television series which aired on Sat.1 between 1996 and 2005. The series covered the work of a team of doctors, nurses and caregivers in the fictional Hamburg Hansa Clinic, located in the Altona district.
Release Date1997-01-02
Charactersd Herr Kroll
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
A comedy centered around the incompetent boss of a German insurance office.
Release Date2004-10-11
Charactersd Berthold "Ernie" Heisterkamp
Episode Count46
Vote Count121
Adelheid und ihre Mörder was a German comedy-drama television series broadcast between 1992 and 2006 by Norddeutscher Rundfunk. 65, 50 minute episodes in five series were produced. Directors included Ulrich Stark, Arend Agthe, Claus-Michael Rhone, Stephan Meyer and Stefan Bart Mann.
Release Date1993-01-07
Charactersd Robert Kreile
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
Release Date2004-02-29
Charactersd Schotty
Episode Count1
Vote Count13
Heiko Schotte (Schotty) works for a cleaning company, cleaning all kind of crime scenes. There he sometimes meets weird people and tries to solve difficult situations.
Release Date2011-12-22
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Charactersd Heiko “Schotty” Schotte
Episode Count[ 31 ]
Vote Count141
Murder, Venice, relationships...it's a delicious concoction in the hands of crime novelist Donna Leon. Venice provides the backdrop for the lush film versions of the bestselling novels, which features the indelible Commissario Guido Brunetti, canal boat rides instead of car chases, fine cuisine and crime investigations in one of Europe’s most beautiful locations.
Release Date2000-10-12
Charactersd Nicola Resto
Episode Count1
Vote Count10
Für alle Fälle Stefanie is an German medical drama television series created by Werner Krämer that aired on Sat.1 from May 15, 2005 to August 29, 2005. It was produced by Novafilm Fernsehproduktion. Für alle Fälle Stefanie follows the professional and personal life of nurse Stefanie Engel, then Stephanie Wilde and for a short time Fanny 'Stephanie' Stephan. The show was a giant success for the network and had around seven, in later years, five million viewers on a weekly basis. It won the Goldene Kamera award in 1997 and the Bavarian TV Award in 1996.
Release Date1995-05-15
Charactersd Ekke Hoppe
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
Neo Magazin Royale is a satirical late night show hosted by Jan Böhmermann.
Release Date2013-10-31
Charactersd Guest
Episode Count2
Vote Count23
A few small town cops are resorting to unusual means to keep their police station from being closed.
Release Date2020-08-27
Charactersd Klaus
Vote Count20
Summer 1944. Walter Proska is about to return to the Eastern Front when his train is blown up by partisans. Together with a scattered bunch of German soldiers, cut off from the front, he awaits certain death while the commands of his superior Willi Stehauf are becoming more and more senseless and inhuman.
Release Date2020-04-08
Charactersd Ferdinand 'Baffi' Ellerbrok
Episode Count4
Vote Count28
The real life story of East German singer and writer Gerhard Gundermann and his struggles with music, life as a coal miner and his dealings with the secret police (STASI) of the GDR.
Release Date2018-08-23
Charactersd Parteisekretär
Vote Count73
In the middle of untouched nature, surrounded by forests and grain fields of the Brandenburg province, the fictional village of Unterleuten with only 250 inhabitants is located. Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall it seems a peaceful place for both locals and newcomers. But the appearance of rural idyll in eastern Germany is deceptive. There are turnaround winners and turnaround losers, friends and enemies, neighbors eyeing each other with suspicion, gossip, old secrets and hidden conflicts. When the mayor puts forward the proposal to have a company build a wind farm with dozen of wind turbines in order to secure the prosperity and future of the locals, the open fight for the only possible piece of land begins, which unfortunately belongs to three different owners. Everyone sees big money for themselves. Alliances are formed and friends become enemies. In addition, an unscrupulous vulture capitalism investor from southern Germany interferes that causes the glass to overflow.
Release Date2020-03-09
Charactersd Wolf Hübschke
Episode Count3
Vote Count7
Release Date2000-10-28
Charactersd Peter Sörensen
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Release Date2007-09-17
Charactersd Andreas Liebig
Vote Count4
Der Ermittler is a German television series.
Release Date2001-03-16
Charactersd Kai Hase
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Why am I standing in the slow line? Why am I being fired? Why is she falling in love with him and not me? Why me? That's the question we all ask ourselves so often. In thousands of situations. In six episodes, David Schalko, with his trademark dark humor, tells of life situations in which this question is central: WHY ME?
Release Date2025-06-26
Charactersd Dr. Bär
Episode Count2
Vote Count3
Der Dicke is a German television series.
Release Date2005-04-05
Charactersd Phillip Ücker
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Klaus Kranitz considers "normal" couples therapy to be nothing more than expensive separation counseling. His do-it-yourself approach promises quick results. Whatever the form, or you'll get your money back.
Release Date2021-10-20
Charactersd Manni
Episode Count10
Vote Count3
Electrical specialist salesman Ruediger Bunz knows famous people only from television. Simple knitted and satisfied with his life. For his wife, he cooks the best goulash and older ladies he repairs the vacuum cleaner. However, with the rest, it is almost overnight when he cast off the street for a commercial.
Release Date2009-03-24
Charactersd Rüdiger Bunz
Episode Count8
Vote Count8
About twenty years ago, Germany got to know Bernd Stromberg and his team from the claims department at CAPITOL Insurance. Back then, there was nothing vegan in the cafeteria, and bullying and sexism were commonplace in the office. Since then, the world of work has changed enormously. But has Bernd Stromberg changed too?
Release Date2025-12-04
Charactersd Berthold 'Ernie' Heisterkamp
Vote Count26
When a small-town con artist joins the local mafia with his manipulative brother, his obsession with balancing his karma gets hilariously brutal.
Release Date2022-08-02
Charactersd Jakob Otto / Buba
Vote Count106
The devil tricks a little boy off his laughter in exchange for assured wins in all his bets. It depicts his journey after the deal with the devil, how he loses his soul bit by bit with each win.
Release Date2017-02-02
Charactersd Timms Father
Vote Count34
A road movie about two very different brothers who have not seen each other for 20 years: city manager Christian and cabinetmaker Georg, who never left their hometown and took care of their father until his passing. After their fathers funeral, the brothers decide on a whim, and with some help from the alcohol, to fulfil their old dream: travel trough Germany together on their mopeds.
Release Date2018-10-31
Charactersd Georg
Vote Count226
The celebration of the 50th anniversary of “Capitol-Insurance” is due – that's what the bosses thought. All employees are invited to join the party in a hotel. However, rumors say the company's not doing very well. To avoid unemployment due to the possible shutdown of the smaller branch office the only option is to move to the headquarters. Now that's the ultimate challange for Stromberg, who is notoriously trying to be the example of a department manager, gathering all of his employees behind him.
Release Date2014-02-20
Charactersd Berthold 'Ernie' Heisterkamp
Vote Count247
"Bruder - Schwarze Macht" is about the radicalization of the adolescent German-Turkish Melih and his older sister Sibel, who tries to get him out of the milieu.
Release Date2017-10-29
Charactersd Kurt
Episode Count4
Vote Count4
Astrid is a comedian who makes people laugh for a living; her husband Markus is her manager and the two of them work well together. They have a nine-year-old daughter and are expecting their second child. When they learn that their child will not be born healthy, they are at first optimistic that they will be able to meet this challenge – although they have no idea what awaits them. But the closer it gets to the due date, the more Astrid begins to worry about the future of her unborn child as well as that of her family and her career. After many discussions and arguments Astrid realises that the decision that will affect all their lives must be made by her alone. What complicates matters further is the fact that, as a successful entertainer, she is in the eye of the public and the media.
Release Date2016-09-22
Charactersd Markus
Vote Count44
Detective Chief Inspector Sörensen is anxious. More precisely, he suffers from a chronic anxiety disorder that makes life difficult for him. That is why he is moving from Hamburg to the Frisian village of Katenbüll, where he hopes for a more peaceful working life. But that is not how the cookie crumbles. The place is grey and bleak, it rains continuously, and the locals are not very enthusiastic in welcoming him. He also finds his new colleagues, Jenni Holstenbeck and Malte Schuster, somewhat suspect. And then things go from bad to worse. Mayor Hinrichs is found dead in his stables. Sörensen quickly realises that there is a lot of bad blood hidden behind the small town's tranquil facade and some well-founded reasons for anxiety...
Release Date2020-09-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Sörensen
Vote Count63
A holiday celebration with the extended family gets stretched to the breaking point in this comedy from Germany. Sara is happily married to Jan, though this wasn't always the case -- Sara is Jan's second wife, while Sara has three ex-husbands, Gunnar, Andi and Erich, and she and Jan are raising children from each of their previous marriages. Jan is less than thrilled with the prospect of spending the holidays with Sara's mother, but things get worse when he learns his wife has planned a surprise for Christmas eve -- they'll be joined by Gunnar, Andi and Erich, as well as Erich's new wife Pauline, Andi's current spouse Rita and his own ex-wife, Eva. To call the atmosphere uncomfortable is an understatement, and things only get worse when Sara announces she's pregnant, which is quite troubling for Jan since he's been waiting for the right time to tell her he had a vasectomy several months before.
Release Date2007-11-22
Charactersd Max
Vote Count17
Ralf Prange lives on the ground floor and is at home all day. This makes him the perfect "branch" for the whole building. Stacks of boxes and parcels from his neighbors pile up in his tiny apartment. But one day, love comes knocking at his door: Dörte, the new parcel delivery woman. The grumpy but kind-hearted Prange is smitten, and Dörte doesn't seem averse to the idea either. However, Horst Rohde, Prange's number one annoying neighbor, doesn't like the budding romance at all. Because he has his eye on Dörte himself.
Release Date2025-09-26
Charactersd Ralf Prange
Vote Count8
As a divorced father of two teenage daughters, with a head-strong ex-wife for a best friend, too many peculiar patients to keep up with and a new dog, psychotherapist Max certainly doesn't need another challenge. But when Sophie, a compulsive gambler with a boyfriend problem, regularly shows up late for her appointments, she rocks his world in ways he's not ready for.
Release Date2018-09-01
Charactersd Hannes
Vote Count12
Marie Gruber fights tooth and claw to keep her café open. And yet she should be facing her "arch-enemy" with pure hostility. But she unwittingly falls in love with the real estate speculator who wants to take the café away from her. When the two confess their love for each other, the trouble really begins...
Release Date2007-12-28
Charactersd Kevin
Vote Count5
A wellness hotel in a small German castle specializes in well-off couples, offering a wide range of services, including one some partners feel trapped into : relational therapy. It's truth time, for some liberating, forcing others to face their secrets of dysfunctional relationship.
Release Date2016-11-23
Charactersd Malte Hell
Vote Count26
Susi Q loves to travel. To dance. To get drunk. She loves women. She loves her best friend. She loves life! And now all that should suddenly change? Because she's getting "too old"? Take responsibility - Settle down with someone - Live a normal life - Like everyone else? Not Susi Q.
Release Date2015-02-26
Charactersd Bene
Vote Count5
Under the auspicious name "Magical Mystery" the Berlin techno label BummBumm Records wants to go on a rave tour. Karl Schmidt aka Charly himself was once an aspiring artist on the scene, until he retired after a nervous breakdown five years ago. Since then he lives in a supervised withdrawal WG in Hamburg. Now, as a driver and custodian for the party-loving DJs and their producers, he becomes part of "Magical Mystery", trying to lead a self-determined life after years of patronizing and well-intentioned advice.
Release Date2017-08-31
Charactersd Werner Maier
Vote Count52
One day, robot Robby enters into a life of the most creative little boy, Toby. Robby had been separated from his robot parents when his spaceship crashed. Toby decides to offer his help and the two of them become friends.
Release Date2016-12-01
Charactersd Matti
Vote Count47
Although Volker is one of the less privileged people as a parcel deliverer and single father to his son Benny, he tries never to let his good mood be spoiled. But the miserable pay increasingly pushes Volker to his limits. When his son wants to move back in with his mother, Volker gives up something no one thought he could do - his integrity. He takes advantage of an opportunity that presents itself to make quick money.
Release Date2021-07-05
Charactersd Volker Feldmann
Vote Count22
Sophie Haas and her team are forced to state everything they know about the committed crime in the nearby village.
Release Date2015-12-28
Charactersd Polizeiobermeister Dietmar Schäffer
Vote Count31
Veteran defense attorney Konrad Biegler accepts the defense of a man accused of kidnapping a young girl. At the trial he must face the tenacious police inspector Peter Nadler.
Release Date2021-01-03
Charactersd Peter Nadler
Vote Count10
A wild genre mix between a boxer film, urban western, road movie and music video, set at end of the summer holidays in a drab neighborhood in the outskirts of Hamburg suburbia. Young boxing talent Mauser is preparing for a pivotal competition when his father kills his step-mother and flees. Trying to find his father, Mauser embarks on a journey through the world of music, psychedelia, violence, love and a biblical thunderstorm. And what is with the Native American? "Once upon a time in Indian country" is a story that radiates both, heat and poetry.
Release Date2017-10-19
Charactersd Cab Driver / Gas Station Attendant
Vote Count12
When a young girl is kidnapped, ruthless police inspector Peter Nadler embarks on a race against time to rescue her.
Release Date2021-01-03
Charactersd Peter Nadler
Vote Count13
The door has been closed for many weeks. A teenager has locked himself in - shutting out a helpless father, mother and sister. In Japan, youths like him have already been given a name: Hikikomori (the secluded). The phenomenon is also beginning to spread throughout the Western world. This is all the family has been able to find out. All they can do is stand in front of the locked door and ask, beg, implore, throw tantrums, despair, accuse, ignore and hope. All the while, the door increasingly becomes a mirror of their own lives.
Release Date2018-03-29
Charactersd Thomas
Vote Count21
A chief commissioner investigates the murder of a young woman and a fatal car accident. Apparently there is a connection between the two cases.
Release Date2019-08-31
Charactersd Markus Sellin
Vote Count3
Village pastor Hans-Uwe is worried about his brother Fiedje and his friends Heinrich and Knud in his small village of Toestrup in Schleswig-Holstein. The men have been alone for years and there are no suitable women in sight. But now there is hope, because he has persuaded the three of them to place a personal ad: "Looking for suitable wives for three loving men. Age and looks don't matter. Preferably animal lovers. Letters under box number ..."
Release Date2009-09-14
Charactersd Heinrich
Vote Count3
Dawid, Vanessa and Ludwig are the finalists at a pitch-competition for a movie about the German Rap phenomenon CRO. As the three youngsters work out their extraordinary film ideas, they must fight through unexpected personal challenges.
Release Date2016-10-06
Charactersd Vater
Vote Count23
Pastor Petersen is threatened with the loss of his parish and thus also his office: The parishes of the villages of Norderup and Toestrup are to merge, but the stuffy neighbors are bothered by the fact that Petersen and his girlfriend are living in a wild marriage. Petra, a hearty Westphalian, refuses to be blackmailed and offers the bourgeois from Norderup a performance they will never forget. Meanwhile, her friends from the Ruhr are also looking for and finding their little happiness.
Release Date2012-01-01
Charactersd Heinrich
Vote Count2
Choir director Johanna Bischoff and her girls choir go to a concert in their hometown Hameln. Shortly before the scheduled performance disappear four of the girls and the organist David.Sie were on a hike in a cave of the Ith - the fabled mountain, in which 700 years ago the Pied Piper is said to have led the children. Seeking help, Johanna turns to her ex-boyfriend Jan Faber, head of the police station in Hameln.
Release Date2014-05-18
Charactersd Jan Faber
Vote Count9
Lona Vogt is a target investigator and, together with her friend and colleague Simon Katzer, has been on the trail of the murderer Manuel Bove for some time. Then the body of a young woman is found in the Wadden Sea near Husum.
Release Date2006-07-17
Charactersd Matthias Brook
Vote Count3
Veteran defense attorney Konrad Biegler and tenacious police inspector Peter Nadler face off in the trial of a man accused of kidnapping a young girl. (Abridged version of Enemies: Against the Clock and Enemies: The Confession, focusing on the ins and outs of the judicial process.)
Release Date2021-01-03
Charactersd Peter Nadler
Vote Count1
Inspector Sörensen has finally retreated to the Frisian province, but he still has to contend with his own inner demons. Loneliness, insomnia and inner restlessness plague him, and although he does everything he can to stop taking his medication for the anxiety disorder, he remains trapped in his psychological torment. One dark night he almost runs over a young, disturbed woman on the country road. She is malnourished, wears only a nightgown and is blind. After she finally reveals her identity to Sörensen, a web of murder, religious madness and well-kept secrets begins to unfold before him. Sörensen is overwhelmed, not only by the shocking situation, but also by his own demons, which are gaining power over him again. The villagers reject him, and as fear takes hold of him again, he will soon realize that it won't just be a corpse.
Release Date2023-09-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Sörensen
Vote Count22
Release Date2013-05-14
Charactersd Sigbert Friesner
Vote Count1
In today’s Friesland, Fuchs, a food inspector in the district, is always in a good mood and committed to investigating North German snack bars. He dreams of a career in Hamburg, for which he works hard. But his superior at the public order office, Sigmar Koch, asks Fuchs to do him a special favor: he has to accommodate his brother Tillmann, a bad-tempered drunk.
Release Date2009-05-21
Charactersd Sigmar Koch
Vote Count3
Mona is fed up: while she keeps herself and her baby Bobby afloat with mini-jobs, Bobby's father celebrates his new girlfriend at every party in town. When Eddy announces his wedding, Mona sends him a smelly diaper - anonymously. Eddy catches on and sets off in search of the sender.
Release Date2012-12-26
Charactersd Klopka
All is no longer right with the world in East Frisia. The weatherproof crab fishermen who take their boats out into the North Sea every night are fighting for survival. In these times of globalization, the North Sea crabs travel thousands of kilometers to Morocco, where they are caught cheaply before being served up again in Germany.
Release Date2012-04-02
Charactersd Matze
Vote Count2
Just a few minutes ago, Paul Lohmann picked up a hitchhiker at the side of the road when he suddenly sees himself lying badly injured in his car. His car has overturned after a crash and Paul is angry about his apparent demise. He was just about to get his career off to a flying start and get his family life back on track. He still had so much planned! Then the hitchhiker, who turns out to be an angel, explains to him that he is in an intermediate world and still has a chance to overturn his fate. But Paul keeps experiencing situations from his past. Will he manage to turn the catastrophe around in time and prevent the car accident?
Release Date2016-06-23
Charactersd Paul Lohmann
Vote Count12
Release Date2006-08-04
Charactersd Krischan
Vote Count11
Motte is 15 years old in the fall of 1977 and has to come to terms with the news that his best friend Bogi has to go to the hospital with a life-threatening illness. This is a seemingly impossible task, because his first love, his parents' impending divorce, his enthusiasm for Bowie and soccer, an omnipresent chimney sweep, and his anger at not being able to share all this with Bogi overwhelm Motte and lead him to make himself scarce at the hospital.
Charactersd Morten
Every evening at 6:45 p.m. sharp, a prominent guest takes a seat on the red sofa—and DAS! provides daily updates on what's hot in the north.
Release Date1991-01-02
Charactersd Self
Episode Count7
Vote Count5
Release Date1997-07-23
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
Release Date1992-07-19
Charactersd Self
Episode Count2
Vote Count2
Release Date1999-08-30
Charactersd Self
Episode Count2
Vote Count6
Release Date1979-02-09
Charactersd Self
Episode Count3
Vote Count4
Release Date1976-01-25
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Release Date1996-07-09
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count10
Release Date2007-06-09
Charactersd Self
Episode Count2
Vote Count5
Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.
Release Date1964-01-16
Charactersd Self
Episode Count3
Release Date1974-11-19
Charactersd Self
Episode Count3
Vote Count4
Release Date2019-02-06
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Release Date2023-05-06
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Release Date2018-03-12
Charactersd Self
Episode Count2
Vote Count3
With plenty of passion and little know-how, two musicians undertake a daunting project: turn a late singer's houseboat into a creative musical space.
Release Date2021-03-09
Charactersd Self
Episode Count2
Vote Count19
TV total is a German late-night television comedy talk show. The set of TV total includes a floating interview stage that can be moved from one studio corner to the other. The show featured buttons with sounds and clips before Craig Ferguson's The Late Late Show.
Release Date1999-03-08
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count26
Release Date2014-04-10
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Release Date2023-03-24
Charactersd Self
Episode Count4
Vote Count2
A late night talk show, hosted by Joko and Klaas.
Release Date2013-02-25
Episode Count1
Vote Count10
Bella Block is a long-running German detective television series starring Hannelore Hoger, first broadcast in 1994 on ZDF. In 2010 the 30th series was produced.
Release Date1993-12-17
Episode Count1
Vote Count9
Release Date2006-11-14
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
In order not to end up as a lock keeper in the country like his father, 18-year-old Abel wants to go to the USA to become a stuntman. Girlfriend Merle is supposed to come along, but then finds out that she is pregnant.
Release Date2003-07-18
Vote Count3