SOKO München

SOKO München
Also known as	SOKO 5113
Genre	Crime
Created by	Dieter Schenk
Written by	Conny Lens Franz-Xaver Wendleder Hubert Eckert Jochen Wedegärtner Renate Kampmann
Directed by	Kai Borsche Bodo Schwarz Ulrich Stark Zbynek Cerven
Starring	Wilfried Klaus (1978–2009) Werner Kreindl (1978–1992) Bernd Herzsprung (1978–1992) Hartmut Schreier (1992–2010) Michel Guillaume (1993–) Christine Döring (2000–2008) Bianca Hein (2006–) Gerd Silberbauer (2008–) Joscha Kiefer (2010–)
Theme music composer	Arpad Bondy
Composers	Axel Kroell Robert Fuhrmann Robert Krolage
Country of origin	Germany
Original language	German
No. of seasons	45
No. of episodes	656+
Production
Executive producer	Eva Gerstenberg
Producers	Daniel van den Berg, Joachim Kosack
Production locations	Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Cinematography	Oliver-Maximilian Kraus Matthias Papenmeier Stefan Motzek
Editor	Axel Laustroer
Running time	43 Minutes
Production companies	Elan-Film Gierke & Company (1978–) UFA Fernsehproduktion (1978–2013) UFA Fiction (2014–)
Original release
Network	ZDF
Release	2 January 1978 (1978-01-02)
Related
SOKO – Der Prozess

SOKO München (until 2015: SOKO 5113) is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired on 2 January 1978, and is set in Munich. SOKO is an abbreviation of the German term “Sonderkommission” (engl. special investigation team).

The production ends in 2020 after 40 years; it is planned to replace the format by SOKO Hamburg and SOKO Potsdam.

Longest serving cast

• Wilfried Klaus as Kriminalhauptkommissar Horst Schickl (381 episodes, 1978–2008)
• Hartmut Schreier as Kriminalkommissar Manne Brand (278 episodes, 1992–2008)
• Michel Guillaume as Kriminalkommissar Theo Renner (261 episodes, 1993–2008)
• Werner Kreindl as Kriminalhauptkommissar Karl Göttmann (126 episodes, 1978–1992)
• Christine Döring as Kriminaloberkommissarin Susanne von Hagenberg (118 episodes, 2000–2008)
• Bernd Herzsprung as Kriminalobermeister Fred Less (115 episodes, 1978–2008)

Spin-offs

The first spin-off series was a twelve-part series named Solo für Sudmann in 1997, followed by SOKO series based in other cities in Germany and Austria:

• Leipzig Homicide (SOKO Leipzig, since 2001)
• SOKO Kitzbühel (since 2003)
• Cologne P.D. (SOKO Köln, since 2003)
• SOKO Wismar (since 2004)
• SOKO Donau (in Germany SOKO Wien; since 2005)
• SOKO Rhein-Main (since 2006; initially titled Die Spezialisten: Kripo Rhein-Main)
• Stuttgart Homicide (SOKO Stuttgart, since 2009)

External links

• SOKO München at IMDb