''SOKO Wismar'' is a German

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television series that premiered on 6 October 2004 on

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. It is the fifth offshoot of ''

SOKO München ''SOKO München'' (until 2015: ''SOKO 5113'') is a German police procedural television series that first aired on 2 January 1978 on ZDF. "SOKO" is an abbreviation of the German word ''Sonderkommission'', which means "special investigative team ...

'', launched in 1978 under the name ''SOKO 5113''. "SOKO" is an abbreviation of the German word ''Sonderkommission'', which means "special investigative team".

Synopsis

Under the leadership of First Chief Inspector Jan Reuter, Chief Inspector Lars Pöhlmann, Chief Inspector Karoline Joost, and Chief of Police Paula Moorkamp, a police team investigates criminal cases in the north German town of

Wismar Wismar (; Low German: ''Wismer''), officially the Hanseatic City of Wismar (''Hansestadt Wismar'') is, with around 43,000 inhabitants, the sixth-largest city of the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and the fourth-largest city ...

. Assisting the team are forensic scientist Roswitha Prinzler, Latvian exchange officer Edgars "Eddi" Jansons, and coroner Helene Sturbeck.

Production

''SOKO Wismar'' is produced by Real Film Berlin, a subsidiary of Studio Hamburg. Filming takes place both in Wismar and its surroundings as well as in Berlin. The

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s of Wismar's old town and its harbour often serve as filming locations. The entrance to the police station is actually the entrance to the

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. The inside of the station is filmed at Adlershof Studios, in Berlin.

Crossover

On 3 April 2013, five SOKO teams were brought together for a five-part special titled ''

SOKO – Der Prozess ''SOKO – Der Prozess'' is a German five-part crossover between five ZDF SOKO series, combining the special investigative teams from Munich, Cologne, Leipzig, Stuttgart, and Wismar. It was broadcast from 30 September 2013 to 4 October 2013, on ...

''. In it, the teams from

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Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...

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Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

, and Wismar have to solve the murder of a police officer. The five episodes were shown across Germany from 30 September to 4 October 2013.

Cast and characters

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