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television series created by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg and Martin E. Süskind that was originally broadcast on ZDF from 23 March to 29 June 2005. The show is based on the template of the American TV series ''

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''. The series is set primarily in the office of fictional Chancellor of Germany Andreas Weyer (

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), telling stories about the German head of government's political career and private life as a widower and father of a teenage daughter. "Chancellery is entertaining, exciting and interesting," said

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( CDU), former chief of the Federal chancellery. Compared with the multi-award winning US template ''The West Wing'', ''Chancellery'' appeared to most critics but rather shallow and trivial. It was written by the former speechwriter of German statesman

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, Martin E. Süskind, but they deemed unrealistic. It was neither a critical nor ratings success, and was cancelled after twelve episodes. It opened with 4.87 million viewers (market share of 15.2 percent), but the viewing numbers dropped relatively quickly to 1.5 to 1.7 million.

Plot

German Chancellor Andreas Weyer has many problems. It does not matter whether the Russian president does not want to return images that disappeared during the Second World War, whether he is suffering from back pain or if the German ambassador to Turkey is being shot. Privately Witwer Weyer lives with his 17-year-old daughter Nina, who has fallen in love with a salsa dancer.

Cast

as Andreas Weyer, Chancellor of Germany * Robert Atzorn as Norbert Kraft, head of the chancellery *

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as Conny Bergmann, spokesperson of the Federal Government *

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as Edith Lambert, head of department foreign policy *

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as Birte Schmitz, head of the chancellery office * Heikko Deutschmann as Alexander Nachtweih, speechwriter of the Chancellor * Karoline Teska as Nina Weyer, daughter of the Chancellor *

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as Dr. Christa Templin, doctor of the Chancellor

References

External links

* Television shows set in Berlin 2005 German television series debuts 2005 German television series endings German-language television shows ZDF original programming {{Germany-tv-prog-stub