SOKO Kitzbühel

SOKO Kitzbühel is an Austrian crime series, which is a collaboration of ORF and ZDF. It is an offshoot of the German crime series SOKO 5113th The series takes place in the famous Tyrolean district of Kitzbühel. The production company " beo - film" produced the series since 2001.

Action

In the center of the action are the investigators Karin Kofler and Luke Roither. The team usually clears up unusual and complicated murders that take place in Kitzbühel and surroundings. Not infrequently, in members of the high society are involved, which is related to the status of the town of Kitzbühel as a popular vacation favorite of celebrities.

Support received from the Commissioners while Karin's father Hannes Kofler. This is a famous chef with a restaurant, the Pochlarner offices ( coordinates) 47.45837812.32426, and catering services. He and the Countess of Schoenberg like to ask to yourself to investigate the respective cases of SOKO Kitzbühel. The methods for the provision of evidence of Hannes and Countess move mostly on the edge of legality, which brings the two quite often in delicate situations.

Police work is often hindered or complicated by the interference of amateur detectives, in the end carry their information but often also to investigate the murders at.

Occupation

In addition to the recurring characters, many guest roles are part of the series. These are often taken over by well-known actors of the German television. Had guest appearances, among others, Francis Fulton -Smith, Huub Stapel, Edita Malovcic, Andreas Maria Schwaiger, Julia Thurnau, Franziska Stavjanik, Nora Heschl, Claudia Messner, Max Tidof, Barbara Redl, Stefano Bernardin, Sandra S. Leonhard, Hary Prinz, Nina Bott Katharina Stemberger, Ilja Richter, Christine Weinzierl, Simone Hanselmann, Olivia Pascal, Ruth Maria Kubitschek, Fritz Karl, Sonsee New, Michael Lesch, Valerie Niehaus, Michael Zittel, Franz Xaver Brückner, Lilian Klebow and many more.

Michael Steinocher was honored for his guest appearance in 2008 with an Undine Award.

Broadcast

Since 15 November 2001, the series running successfully on the Austrian ORF one. With an audience of up to 1.3 million viewers it is one of the most successful crime productions in Austria. From April to August 2010, the ninth season was aired in ORF 1.

The series runs also in Germany successfully in public television. Since January 2003, the consequences in the evening program of the ZDF are seen. ZDF began in October 2011 with the broadcast of the tenth season. Since September 2011, the series repeated ZDF alongside the older episodes of other Sokos weekdays in the morning program from 11:15 clock.

Since November 2012, the first three seasons are also seen on MyVideo.

The series has also been sold to non-German -speaking countries, such as Finland.

Language style

The predominant in the series spoken High German for the purpose of marketing in German-speaking does not correspond to the linguistic reality in the Tyrol (apart from the language style of the characters who appear as guests in Kitzbühel in appearance).

Episode List

DVD

Season 1, Episodes 1-6 and Season 2, episodes 1-4, were published on 26 May 2011 on a double DVD.