''SOKO Stuttgart'' (English title: ''Stuttgart Homicide'') is a German
police procedural
The police show, or police crime drama, is a subgenre of procedural drama and detective fiction that emphasizes the investigative procedure of a police officer or department as the protagonist(s), as contrasted with other genres that focus on eith ...
television series that premiered on 12 November 2009 on
ZDF
ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...
. It is the eighth 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".
The first season of ''Stuttgart Homicide'', consisting of twenty episodes, aired on
ZDF
ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...
from November 2009.
In February 2022, filming began on the fourteenth season, made up of twenty-five episodes.
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
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
,
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 ...
,
Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...
, Stuttgart, and
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 ...
have to solve the murder of a police officer. The five episodes were shown across Germany from 30 September to 4 October 2013.
See also
*
List of German television series
The following is a list of television series produced in Germany:
Current
Drama
* ''4 Blocks'' (TNT Serie, 2017–2019)
* ''Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei'' ( RTL, 1996–present)
* ''Babylon Berlin'' (Sky 1 & ARD, 2017–presen ...
References
External links
''SOKO Stuttgart''on ZDF
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2010s German television series
2009 German television series debuts
German crime television series
2000s German police procedural television series
2010s German police procedural television series
2020s German police procedural television series
German television spin-offs
German-language television shows
ZDF original programming
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