{"id":1214,"date":"2013-06-16T19:06:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T18:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schspin.wordpress.com\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2022-05-28T21:04:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T21:04:42","slug":"tatorte2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schspin.stieve.com\/gb\/2013\/06\/16\/tatorte2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s Top Crime Series behind and in front of the camera"},"content":{"rendered":"

Germany\u2019s Top Crime Series behind and in front of the camera<\/h1>\n

A few months ago I wrote about the main cast of the 2012 Tatort (crime scene) series on German TV (with one slight mistake: I evaluated only 34 episodes, but indeed it were a total of 35). Anyway, today I did the 6-sections-check for all 35 of last year\u2019s Tatort, i.e. I checked the share of women in the heads of department for direction, script, production, cinematography, sound and editing.<\/span><\/p>\n

For this I used the webpage of the<\/span> ARD Tatort<\/a>, crew united<\/a>, tatort-fundus <\/a>and<\/span> IMDB<\/a><\/p>\n

The result is depicted in Figure 1<\/strong>, as a reference I have added the share of women in the professional unions \/ organizations (green circle) and in the crew united data base (pink diamond).<\/span><\/p>\n


\n\"Tatorte_6Gew\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

For direction, script and sound the female filmmakers are represented below their professional percentage \u2013 and the figures for production, cinematography and editing. The 50 % line is only surpassed by female editors, the referencial numbers are 35,8 % for crew united and 61,7 % for their BFS Bundesverband Filmschnitt Editor e.V.<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

I find the low number of women who wrote Tatort scripts especially deplorable, maybe that would explain the men centered stories and the way of the male and female characters. But that is another story.<\/span><\/p>\n

Figure 2<\/strong> shows the number of men and women for each episode named as head of department in the 6 sections. The total is quite often more than 6, since especially for script and production quite often more than one person is responsible.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\"Tatorte_6Gew_35\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A total of 36 directors, 43 script writers, 47 producers, 35 cinematographers, 35 sound people and 35 editors are named for the 35 films (each 90 minutes).<\/span>
\n Three episodes had more women than men working as heads in the six departments:<\/span><\/p>\n