SOKO Stuttgart

German television series

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Peter Ketnath
Nina-Friederike Gnädig
Benjamin Strecker
Mike Zaka Sommerfeldt
Astrid M. Fünderich
Sylta Fee Wegmann
Karl Kranzkowski
Eva Maria Bayerwaltes
Cordula Seiffert

Theme music composerUwe SchenkComposers

Günther Illi
Peter Gromer

Country of originGermanyOriginal languageGermanNo. of seasons15No. of episodes350ProductionProducers

Torsten Lenkeit
Oliver Vogel

Camera setup

Thomas C. Weber
Pascal Rémond

Running time45 minutesProduction companyBavaria FilmOriginal releaseNetworkZDFRelease12 November 2009 (2009-11-12) –
presentRelatedSOKO – Der Prozess

SOKO Stuttgart (English title: Stuttgart Homicide) is a German police procedural television series that premiered on 12 November 2009 on ZDF. It is the eighth offshoot of SOKO München, launched in 1978 under the name SOKO 5113. "SOKO" is an abbreviation of the German word Sonderkommission, which means "special investigative team".

The first season of Stuttgart Homicide, consisting of twenty episodes, aired on ZDF from November 2009.^[1] In February 2022, filming began on the fourteenth season, made up of twenty-five episodes.

Crossover

On 3 April 2013, five SOKO teams were brought together for a five-part special titled SOKO – Der Prozess. In it, the teams from Munich, Cologne, Leipzig, Stuttgart, and Wismar have to solve the murder of a police officer. The five episodes were shown across Germany from 30 September to 4 October 2013.