Season 5 • Episode 5
LatestAbschnitt 40 was a German police television series broadcast between May 21 2001 and 2006. It was aired on RTL Television.
Acting
Heinz-Werner Kraehkamp's world-weary commissioner anchors every scene.
Production
Rare glimpse of pre-Tatort-revival German crime television ambition.
Creator
Christoph Darnstädt
Heinz-Werner Kraehkamp
Polizeihauptkommissar Georg Burrow
Anne Kasprik
Polizeikommissarin Kerstin Rohde
Horst Kotterba
Polizeihauptmeister Harald Thomsen
Lenn Kudrjawizki
Polizeimeister Grischa Kaspin
Sebastian Bezzel
Polizeihauptmeister Ulf Meinerts
Norbert Stöß
Polizeihauptkommissar Egon Lochow
Christof Wackernagel
Polizeihauptkommissar Wolfgang Dudtke
Jeannette Arndt
Carola Franke
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Abschnitt 40 arrived during RTL's brief prestige push, predating the German crime renaissance that Netflix would later exploit.
The title refers to a fictional Berlin police precinct—showrunner Darnstädt later admitted he picked '40' because it sounded 'aggressively bureaucratic.'
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