Wolffs Revier

Karl-Heinz Willschrei created Wolffs Revier, a long-running German crime drama broadcast on Sat.1. Its first episode aired on September 17, 1992, and it ran until May 24, 2006, producing 173 episodes over 13 seasons. The series won the Grimme-Preis, one of Germany's respected television awards, and is also credited with the Dutch Zilveren Televizier-Tulp.

The story follows chief inspector Andreas Wolff of Berlin's homicide department and his investigations. Jürgen Heinrich plays Wolff and Nadine Seiffert plays his daughter Verena. In the first 99 episodes Wolff works alongside colleagues Günther Sawatzki (Klaus Pönitz) and Dr. Peter Fried (Gerd Wameling); in episode 100 the pair give way to the young Thomas "Tom" Borkmann (Steven Merting).

Behind the series stand the production companies Borussia Media Nostro Film and Odeon Film Sat.1, and directors including Peter Adam, Michael Lähn and Kaspar Heidelbach worked on episodes. The cast list also includes Turkish-German actors such as Jale Arıkan, Tim Seyfi, Tayfun Bademsoy, Erden Alkan, Orhan Kılıç and Baki Davrak. A television film shot in 2011, Wolff – Kampf im Revier, aired on January 17, 2012 to revive the series, but it did not draw enough interest to justify further productions. In France it aired from 1995 on Jimmy and RTL9.