Lenßen & Partner
- Lenssen & Partner: 1303 ( 1 TV movie ) in 8 seasons
- Lenßen: 57 in 1 Season
Lenssen & Partner is a German eve - crime series that was produced from 2003 to 2009 by Constantin Entertainment GmbH and broadcast by Sat.1 Monday to Friday in the afternoon or early evening. It is assigned to the genre of pseudo - documentaries. Theme song of the series was Lose Yourself by Eminem. The series was filmed in and around Munich.
From 5 March 2012, the series was resumed under the title Lenßen up modified on named Ingo Lenßen occupation on the eve of the end of the old place, location was now food and environment. The first episode after the break was a direct crossover with a series of Richter Alexander Hold the same day. On 27 April 2012, the new setting of the series was announced due to constant worse odds. The final episode ran on 25 May 2012.
- 7.1 to reality
- 7.2 Awards and nominations
- 7.3 ratings
Plot and concept
The series is about the lawyer Ingo Lenssen, who determined with the help of private investigators on behalf of his clients, but occasionally gets into spontaneously in criminal cases. Mostly it 's about the education or avert moderate crimes and crimes ( threats, extortion, kidnapping, fraud, etc.). Although it is always pointed in the show that there are private investigators, police assume this to a considerable extent tasks such as trace evidence and apprehending the perpetrators and work as a matter of course with police action. Frequently advised people, including members of the investigator team, in the violence of criminals. The case is resolved in the end and the perpetrators are supplied to the judiciary. In most cases, each episode a closed case dar.
In principle, Lenssen & Partner a simply constructed crime series, loosely inspired by the Attorney - private investigator constellation in A Case for Two. All cases are pure fiction. By means of various stylistic devices have attempted above all in the first transmission years to bring the viewer the impression that if it were trailing real criminal cases or even to recordings of real investigators at work ( pseudo - documentary ):
- The kind of " reporting" and picture documentation is aimed at tracing programs such as file number XY ... unresolved: Speaker's voice from the off, provides the treatment and supportive information or to a danger
- Display of local and / or times at scene changes
- Integration of recordings of supposed surveillance cameras and shaky black / white hand-held cameras
- Shaky camera work is intended to illustrate the spontaneous and authentic staging
- Pixelation of car plates and faces "accidentally" running past people
Occupation
Occasionally, however, there were also other team compositions; for example, found also Christian Storm and Sebastian Thiele already in several episodes together Sandra also Nitka and Katja Hansen found together in some cases.
The episode " Goodbye Sandra Nitka " was broadcast on 26 May 2008, in which the investigator was adopted on maternity leave. For this, she returned to the sent on 1 September 2008 episode " Sandra Nitkas return" back.
After the resumption of the series two completely new teams of investigators were introduced. Both teams were introduced in the first episode. Afterwards, both teams change each episode from. It also happens that both teams sometimes occur in a sequence.
Starring in detail
Prominent guest appearances
- Münchener Freiheit, band
- Holger Fach, soccer player and coach
- Axel Schulz, Boxer
- Alexandra Rietz, Michael noseband and Gerrit Grass, commissioners from the K11.
Cooperations
Lenssen & Partners can be viewed as an offshoot of the court show Judge Alexander Hold, occurred in the Ingo Lenßen since 2001 as a defense lawyer. This activity he continued intermittently until 2012, when over virtually the entire term of his own series.
Occasional collaborations gave it with the similarly designed and sent in close temporal proximity Series K11 - Commissioners in use. As a result, Ingo Lenßen on suspicion of murder of Lenßen & Partner Commissioners of K11 appeared as a guest performer. The same thing happened in the episode Commissioner noseband in need. The Lenssen & Partner sequence intrigue against the team of investigators continued in the same anschließendenen K11 sequence Christian Storm under suspicion continues. The actors of both series were, so to speak as a guest performer in the other program on or overlapped the scenes of action of both series in these episodes.
Radiance of the squadrons in Sat.1
Changes and updates
In September 2006, the format has been changed slightly. The opening credits was updated with the renewed team and the series a little passed by a documentary, as the spokesman Thomas Albus, who had previously often portrayed the situations was almost taken out of the concept. The shaky hand-held cameras were no longer needed.
13 November 2009, the mission in the course of restructuring in the early evening program was discontinued. Lenssen & Partners came in April 2003 with the target group of 14 - to 49 -year-old has a market share of 15.4 percent.
In 2012, new episodes were aired under the simple series entitled " Lenßen ". Also two completely new teams of investigators replaced the previous one. Furthermore, it was of the type introduced documentation again, in which a speaker again accompanied the complete case and situations described. The theme music and the melody of the final credits have been retained. On January 23, 2012 it was announced that the time slot is released by setting the daily telenovela Anna und die Liebe. March 5, 2012 to May 25, 2012 New episodes of Lenßen were sent on this time slot. At the start there was a double episode.
In December 2012, the first season of Lenßen & Partner available on DVD.
Since the end of January 2013 Lenssen & Partner is repeated from the first season on Sat.1 gold.
Reception
Relation to reality
The whole incident was shown suspense and sensationalism in the series, this is not generally true professional life of a private detective. Afterall, there were some questionable aspects: In the series the viewer the impression was wrongly suggested that private investigators possess powers similar to police. The detectives committed in almost every episode burglaries to gather information. Also, installing cameras and eavesdropping bugs counted in the series of current practice, but is in fact a criminal offense dar. house searches and wiretapping operations must be carried out by police officers with judicial approval. Also, it was unrealistic that investigators suspect threatened with firearms and led away, instead of these only hold onto it and over to the police. This would also constitute an assault or false imprisonment. In the case of escape of a person subject to arrest, they gave warning shots. Their appearance was overly aggressive, they held firmly with violence suspects to interrogate them and force them to testify.
The Federal Association of German Detectives eV was expressed in an official statement as follows:
" Would have to be the television detectives for their actions appear in court to give them a long prison sentence would be safe. Because detectives in Germany no other rights as any citizen of our country as well. [ ... ] With the actual detective work in our country this presentation, in Lenßen and partners therefore nothing, absolutely nothing to do. "
Awards and nominations
- Nominated - "Best daily series " (2003)
Ratings
The first episode of the new series circulation reached 680,000 viewers (9.6 percent) of the target demographic and 1.94 million viewers ( 9.1 percent ) of the total audience. The second episode, which ran at the first right after, reached slightly better numbers. Such were 820,000 viewers ( 9.9 percent) of the 18 - to 49 -year and 2.54 million viewers ( 10.1 percent ) of the total audience the result.