Crime Scene Cleaner (TV series)


Crime Scene Cleaner is a German Comedy TV show broadcast by the NDR, starring Bjarne Mädel as the titular protagonist. It was directed by Arne Feldhusen and written by Mizzi Meyer. The show was broadcast from 2011 until 2018, during that time they aired seven Seasons and 31 Episodes. 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

plays the crime scene cleaner Heiko "Schotty" Schotte. He works as a facility cleaner 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, 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. Those scenes are garnished with a lot situational humour, which results from Schotty’s interaction with the spouses, acquaintances of the victim or in one case even with the ghost of the one victim. In multiple episodes Schotty’s deep connection to the soccer team SV Hamburg is either briefly mentioned, or partially even 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 fall of 2013, the Studio Hamburg sold the right for broadcasting and DVD-Releases to the American television station MHz Network. 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. The episodes 1 until 10 were released on DVD in 27 January 2015.

DVD releases

The first season of the TV-Show was released on DVD on 9 March 2012. On 7 June 2013, the second season DVD as well as the Blu-ray-Completed Edition, containing the first two seasons were released. On 10 October 2014 the third season DVD was released, which contained the net yet aired episodes. On 13 March 2015 the fourth season was released as well as the limited collectors edition "Böse Dose", which contained all episodes that were aired by then on three Blu-ray Discs. The fifth season was released in 11 March 2016. On 13 October 2017, the sixth season appeared on the DVD and Blu-ray. The show is also available on multiple Video-on-Demand-Platforms like AmazonVideo, Maxdome, Netflix, Watchever, Google Play and iTunes.

Episodes

Season 1
  1. Ganz normale Jobs
  2. Spuren
  3. Nicht über mein Sofa
  4. Geschmackssache
Season 2
  1. Über den Wolken
  2. Die Challenge
  3. Schottys Kampf
  4. Angehörige
  5. Auftrag aus dem Jenseits
Season 3
  1. Fleischfresser
  2. Schweine
  3. Carpe Diem
  4. Ja, ich will
Season 4
  1. Wattolümpiade
  2. Der Putzer
  3. Damit muss man rechnen
  4. Der Fluch
  5. Tauschgeschäfte
Season 5
  1. Bestattungsvorsorge
  2. Das freie Wochenende
  3. Pfirsichmelba
  4. Anbieterwechsel
  5. E.M.M.A. 206
  6. Freunde
Season 6
  1. Sind Sie sicher?
  2. Özgür
  3. Schluss mit lustig
Season 7
  1. Currywurst
  2. Rebellen
  3. Der Kopf
  4. Einundreißig