45 minSeason 26 • Episode 24
LatestSOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast on 31 January 2001, on German television channel ZDF. On 12 November 2008, the first part of a two-part crossover between SOKO Leipzig and British police procedural The Bill was aired, with the same version being shown on both ZDF and British television channel ITV1.
Acting
Melanie Marschke's 20+ year tenure as Ina Zimmermann.
Production
Authentic Leipzig locations, not fake Berlin stand-ins.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
That 2008 The Bill crossover made history as the first Anglo-German police drama collaboration — they literally built a fake Leipzig set in London and vice versa.
SOKO Leipzig outlasted actual East German police structures it originally depicted, becoming accidental historical archive of post-reunification Saxony.
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