10. Once Upon a Crime: Tatort, Germany’s Longest Running Police Procedural

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. List of Figures and Tables VII
4. Introduction. German Television: Culture, Technology, or Cultural Technology? 1
5. Part I. Technical Prehistory and Theoretical Approaches
6. 1. The Third Image: Contingencies and Ruptures in the Technological History of Television 17
7. 2. Boredom, War, and Paradox: German Theories of Television 33
8. Part II. GDR Television
9. 3. “Just Like in the West, Except Diff erent”: Television and Its Relationship to Film in the Context of 1950s GDR Development 53
10. 4. Adventures in Stagnation: Gott fried Kolditz’s Unfi lmed Project Zimtpiraten 63
11. Part III. Television in the Federal Republic: Auteurist TV
12. 5. “A Challenge, Maybe the Greatest for a Filmmaker”: Televisual Perspectives on Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Martha (1974) 87
13. 6. Nah am Fern: Kluge TV 110
14. Part IV. Present and Future Perspectives
15. 7. Television History in Germany: Media-Political and Media-Ethical Aspects 133
16. 8. Germany as TV Show Import Market 155
17. 9. Heritage, Heimat, and German Historical “Event Television”: Nico Hofmann’s teamWorx 175
18. 10. Once Upon a Crime: Tatort, Germany’s Longest Running Police Procedural 193
19. Bibliography 215
20. Index 232