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Germany\u2019s Top Cop Drama 2015 and a Vision for 2016
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Only two more new TATORT \/ CRIME SCENE (Germany\u2019s top cop drama) will be screened this year, on December 26 and 27. Information on these 90 minute TV movies is already provided on the ARD channel\u2019s website \u2013 main cast and a few crew members, and all this year\u2019s others are available in an archive (Alle F\u00e4lle <\/a>\/ All Cases), so I am able to present an analysis of the 40 TATORT premieres of 2015<\/strong> today \u2013 and to make a suggestion for 2016<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The TATORTs 2015 Behind the Camera: Directing, Script and Camera<\/span><\/h3>\n

It looks like more than one person is filling in the information on the ARD TATORT website, at least what and how information is given for the films varies, sometimes you get only director and script writer, most times DoP and composer as well. The number of cast members differs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most strikingly, the hiring of female directors of photography<\/span> hit an all time low. Not one single woman<\/span> <\/strong>filmed a TATORT. Or to put it the other way around: all 40 TATORTs were filmed from a man\u2019s point of view, or to be precise, from 30 men<\/span>\u2019s points of view. Camerawomen do exist, including those with TATORT experience, in 2012 for example 1 in 5 were filmed by a woman.<\/span>
\nThe share of women for script writing was also quite low with 14 %<\/span> <\/strong>in 2015, this is not a good value genderwise (86 %<\/span> of the plots were written by men), neither as far as employment policies go, women account for roughly 40 %<\/span><\/strong> of script writers in the industry (41,7 %<\/span><\/strong> in the Script Writers\u2019 Guild and 36,9 %<\/strong><\/span> in the database of crew united). Some TATORTs were written by teams of two which led to 50 authors for the 40 scripts, but actually it was 7<\/span> <\/strong>women and 36<\/span> men, since some appeared more than once.<\/span>
\nThe share of female directors in 2015 was 10 %<\/strong><\/span>, 3<\/span><\/strong> women \u2013 Claudia Garde<\/span> <\/strong>(twice), Dagmar Seume<\/span><\/strong> and Nicole Weegmann<\/strong> <\/span>\u2013 directed 4 TATORTs. The remaining 36 films were directed by 32<\/span> <\/strong>men.
\nThe first two graphs show the team positions directing, script and DoP for the years 2011 to 15, on the left grouped by profession, on the right grouped by year.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

The TATORTs 2015 In Front of the Camera: Female and Male Roles \/ Main Cast
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We find an average of 12,5 roles<\/strong> for each of the 40 new TATORTs 2015 on the ARD website (which is not the complete cast of course), on average 4,7<\/strong> <\/span>female and 7,8<\/span> male roles, in a ratio of 1<\/strong><\/span> to 1,7<\/span>.
\nThere were two TATORTs with the same number of roles for women and men, and two with more women (6<\/strong><\/span> to 5<\/span> and 3<\/span><\/strong> to 2<\/span> respectively).
\nThe remaining 36 TATORTs had a male characters majority<\/strong>, eleven had at least twice as many male over female parts, five had at least three times as many and one had four times as many males (3<\/span> to 12<\/span>).
\nThe following graph shows the percentage shares of female and male characters for the TATORTs 2011 to 15. Unfortunately the website contained no information on the size of the roles, but the persistance of the male dominance in the main cast<\/strong> over the five years is significant as it is.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Tatort15_c_en\"<\/a>More than 60 %<\/span> of the parts were given to men.<\/strong> Year after year. We are oh so used to this.<\/span>
\nIf we look at similar pictures for too long we run the risk of getting rather accustomed to them, of taking them as unchangeable truths, – this is what happened with maps and globes that are northwardly oriented. Of course this is not a truth, just an agreement, a tradition, picturing the earth and everything on it in maps with the North pointing upwards and the South pointing down, with all negative side effects.
\nWhat would happen if this were changed<\/strong>, if for example the United Nations would proclaim the year of the southward maps, if they would ask of all member countries to orientate their maps to the south, and have that as the all defining cardinal direction. <\/span>
\nWhat would happen if a majority of states would then change their official maps etc, for example the weather chart on public television, the global map in the background at a press conference by the government, or the map of public transport in a major city? This would literally turn the world as we know it upside down.<\/strong><\/span>
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According to ARD\u2019s director of progamme Volker Herres<\/span> , 20 %<\/span> <\/strong>of the TATORTs shall be directed by women within the next three years. No set gender target was announced for the TATORT scripts or for the TATORT look, the DoP position. The gender distribution of the roles, their characterization and the plots were not a topic for discussion yet either as far as I know. But then how is the men\u2019s<\/span> programme TATORT to change into one for everybody<\/strong>?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The New Year is nearly upon us and so is Christmas. This is a good time for resolutions, wishes and believing in miracles. So:<\/span><\/p>\n

What if…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Some call it visionary, some call it setting a target, some call it a challenge.<\/span>
\nI am going to paint a picture. No inversion of the present state, not even a fair compromise like a 50<\/span><\/strong>:50<\/span> situation. No, I am keeping this low-key. I will show you the statistics for 2011-16 if next year the following parameters are met<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n