Pagrindinis herojus – policijos komisaras Gereonas Ratas (aktorius Volkeris Bruchas, 37 m.), narpliojantis įvairius nusikaltimus Berlyne – nuo banalių žmogžudysčių iki prekybos narkotikais. Prabanga alsuojančioje Veimaro respublikoje (demokratinė Vokietijos valstybė, gyvavusi 1919–1933 m.) į valdžią pamažu ėmė brautis nusikaltėliai. Prostitucija, narkotikai ir žudynės tapo Berlyno kasdienybe. Miesto gatvės virto nacių ir komunistų susidūrimų arena. Vokietija išgyveno tradicinių vertybių nuosmukį, tačiau Pirmajame pasauliniame kare nugalėta valstybė jau pradėjo kaupti jėgas, kad dar kartą pabandytų parklupdyti pasaulį. Televizijos serialas sukurtas pagal vokiečių rašytojo ir žurnalisto Volkerio Kutscherio (54 m.) romaną „Šlapia žuvis“.
„Barbaruose“ pasakojama apie garsųjį Teutoburgo Miško mūšį, tarp germanų ir Romos kariuomenės. Mūšis įvyko 9 po Kr. rudenį Teutoburgo Miške, Emso, Lipės ir Veserio upių rajone. Sukilusios germanų gentys, vadovaujamos cheruskų genties vado Arminijaus, netikėtu puolimu trijų dienų mūšyje sumušė tris romėnų legionus.
Shortly after the end of the Second World War: In 1945 and 1946, the men of the British "War Crimes Investigation Unit" drove through northern Germany on the hunt for Nazi criminals. One of them is Captain Anton Walter Freud, the grandson of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. Anton Walter Freud fled to London with his family from the Nazis in 1938. Now an intelligence officer, he's back to track down killers on Allied wanted lists: hitmen in pinstripes, brutal SS henchmen, and ruthless doctors who conducted medical experiments even on children. The soldiers who witnessed the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp months earlier are not squeamish about it. 24-year-old Freud is a free spirit known for his unorthodox methods. He knows how to make war criminals talk. So he comes across a crime that has hardly been known before, the murder of 20 children in Hamburg in the last days of the war.
From the armistice of 1918, which marked the end of the First World War, to the declaration of war in September 1939, the beginning of the Second World War: an era during which there was an aspiration to create a new world, prosperous and at peace, but which provoked a new tragedy, seen through the destinies of thirteen people who were both actors and witnesses of the upheavals of the so-called inter-war period.
"Löwengrube – Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit" is a German television series first aired between 1989 and 1992, created by Willy Purucker and directed by Rainer Wolffhardt. It is set in Munich and follows the lives of Ludwig Grandauer and his son Karl, both policemen, covering the years from 1897 to 1954. The TV show is based on Purucker's radio play series Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit (‘The Grandauers and their time’). The series’ main title "Löwengrube", meaning ‘Lions’ Den’, refers to the address of the Munich Police Headquarters inaugurated in 1913.
The village Schabbach experiences Germany's triumphs and tragedies from 1989 to 2000.
