Crime Scene Cleaner (TV series)

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Crime Scene Cleaner
German Der Tatortreiniger
Genre Comedy
Created byIngrid Lausund, Arne Feldhusen, Bjarne Mädel
Written byMizzi Meyer (Ingrid Lausund)
Directed byArne Feldhusen
Starring Bjarne Mädel
ComposerCarsten Meyer
Country of originGermany
Original languageGerman
No. of seasons7
No. of episodes31
Production
ProducerWolfgang Henningsen
Camera setupChristian Leschner
Production companies
  • Studio Hamburg (season 1 & 4)
  • Nordfilm GmbH (season 2–3)
  • Letterbox Filmproductions GmbH (season 5–7)
Original release
Network Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Release23 December 2011 (2011-12-23) [1]  –
19 December 2018 (2018-12-19)
Bjarne Madel as Heiko Schotte (2012) Der letzte Dreck with Bjarne Madel.jpg
Bjarne Mädel as Heiko Schotte (2012)

Crime Scene Cleaner ( German : Der Tatortreiniger) is a German comedy TV series broadcast by the NDR/ARD, starring Bjarne Mädel as the title protagonist. It was directed by Arne Feldhusen and written by Mizzi Meyer. The show was broadcast from 2011 until 2018, spanning 31 episodes over seven series.

Contents

Crime Scene Cleaner can be described as a mixture of chamber play, sitcom and comedy of manners. Guest actors include Sandra Hüller, Florian Lukas, Matthias Brandt and Fritzi Haberlandt.

Plot

Bjarne Mädel plays the crime scene cleaner Heiko "Schotty" Schotte. He works as a facility cleaner (specialized on crime scenes) whose job it is to remove the last traces of the living, in and around Hamburg. It is not a crime thriller nor detective story, [2] it rather takes a closer look at the work of the crime scene cleaner in a humorous way, where the criminal cases have a rather subordinate importance. The main focus is laid on scenes which mirror the style of a chamber play. [2] Those scenes are garnished with situational humour, which results from Schotty's interaction with the spouses, acquaintances of the victim or in some cases even with the ghost of the one victim. [3] In multiple episodes Schotty's deep connection to the soccer team Hamburger SV is either briefly mentioned, or partially becomes the in-depth subject of the conversation.

Foreign broadcasting

After the Video-on-Demand rights were already sold to Canal+ in France in the autumn of 2013, the Studio Hamburg sold the rights for broadcasting and DVD-Releases to the American television station MHz Network. [4] Since 5 December 2014, the network aired season 1 and 2 of the show under the title Crime Scene Cleaner in the original German soundtrack with English subtitles. [5] The episodes 1 to 10 were released on DVD on 27 January 2015. [6]

An adaptation for BBC One titled The Cleaner starring Greg Davies was broadcast in 2021, with Helena Bonham Carter, David Mitchell, Ruth Madeley and Stephanie Cole as guest actors. [7] [8] [9] [10]

DVD releases

The first season of the TV-Show was released on DVD on 9 March 2012. [11] On 7 June 2013, the second season DVD as well as the Blu-ray-Completed Edition, containing the first two seasons were released. [12] On 10 October 2014 the third season DVD was released, which contained the not-yet-aired episodes. On 13 March 2015 the fourth season was released as well as the limited collectors edition “Böse Dose” (eng.: Evil Can), which contained all episodes that were aired by then on three Blu-ray Discs. The fifth season was released on 11 March 2016. [13] On 13 October 2017, the sixth season appeared on DVD and Blu-ray. The final season was released on 25 January 2019. A complete edition on 7 DVDs followed at the end of the year.

Der Tatortreiniger is also available on multiple video on demand services like Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Google Play and iTunes. [14] All episodes also appeared freely accessible on the VOD platform of ARD.

Recurring cast

Many of the guest actors return in the final episode.

Composer Carsten Meyer (episodes 7 and 24), the former football player Uwe Seeler (episode 22) and rapper Marteria (episode 31) have cameo appearances.

Episodes

Season 1 (2011)

  1. Ganz normale Jobs ("Completely Normal Jobs")
  2. Spuren ("Traces")
  3. Nicht über mein Sofa ("Not on My Sofa")
  4. Geschmackssache ("A Matter of Taste")

Season 2 (2012)

  2. Über den Wolken ("Above the Clouds")
  3. Die Challenge ("The Challenge")
  4. Schottys Kampf ("Schotty's Struggle")
  5. Angehörige ("Dependents")
  6. Auftrag aus dem Jenseits ("Assignment from the Beyond")

Season 3 (2014)

  2. Fleischfresser ("Carnivores")
  3. Schweine ("Pigs")
  4. Carpe Diem ("Seize the Day")
  5. Ja, ich will ("Yes, I Do")

Season 4 (2014)

  2. Wattolümpiade ("Mud Olympics")
  3. Der Putzer ("The Cleaner")
  4. Damit muss man rechnen ("Expect the Worst")
  5. Der Fluch ("The Curse")
  6. Tauschgeschäfte ("Transactions")

Season 5 (2015)

  2. Bestattungsvorsorge ("Funeral Pre-Arrangements")
  3. Das freie Wochenende ("The Weekend Off")
  4. Pfirsichmelba ("Peach Melba")
  5. Anbieterwechsel ("Switching Providers")
  6. E.M.M.A. 206
  7. Freunde ("Friends")

Season 6 (2016)

  2. Sind Sie sicher? ("Are You Sure?")
  3. Özgür ("Free" [from Turkish])
  4. Schluss mit lustig ("Fun's over")

Season 7 (2018)

  2. Currywurst
  3. Rebellen ("Rebels")
  4. Der Kopf ("The Head")
  5. Einundreißig ("Thirty-One")

Awards

Der Tatortreiniger won several awards, including the German Television Award, two Grimme Awards and a Jupiter Award. In 2016, the show was nominated for the Rose d'Or.

See also

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  11. ↑ DVD-Veröffentlichung am 9. März 2012 (Memento of the Original from Januar 10th 2012 in the Internet Archive)
  12. ↑ DVD Der Tatortreiniger 2: Episode 5-9. (Not only accessible) In: ARD Video Shop. (Archived: 21 October 2014) 2012. Retrieved 2013-04-28
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