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German enthusiasm for crime: Also in the Black Forest

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Germany is known as a crime country. We hardly export our crime culture to other countries, but rather absorb Scandinavian and British crime fiction in order to further enrich our already well-saturated market. As we shall see, the Black Forest is also well represented.

crime scene street sweeper

The German "crime scene" is an institution that knows only few comparable phenomena internationally. A crime series with a constantly changing cast, produced in ever new locations by a potpourri of public broadcasters. And that's probably the explanation: Not every crime scene is a hit, but the series always offers personal points of contact and can serve a wider audience through diversity. In keeping with the spirit of the times, the cast was extended to include women, homosexuals and other groups in order to get more people on board.

In the past, the crime scene could deliver real "street sweepers". Not a cleaning phenomenon, but a term for programs in which the streets deserted were because whole generations enthusiastically gathered in front of the television.

Today the Black Forest stands for Commissioners Berg and Tobler ready. They don't concentrate on a single city (e.g. with their office in Freiburg), but bravely plow the entire region and thus represent the diversity that this corner of Germany has to offer.

Real crime is often not that exciting

Film, book or play are always condensed with a highly condensed plot, which draws much more tension from the dreary life than it actually gives. Cybercrime, for example, is not usually about masked hackers sneaking across rooftops to break into secure server farms. Instead, the drug of choice is often simple fraud. Of course, it can be technically sophisticated to cover tracks or deceive vigilant users, but criminals are often much clumsier than you think.

For example, there are clear rules for online gaming libraries that are closely monitored in Germany. Nevertheless, there are numerous black sheep who simply go after customers without a valid license and then rip them off. Players can now use a simple fraud test fall back on to check if they are being duped. However, this page not only provides important clues to identify dubious gambling providers. Extensive lists also recommend legal and trustworthy sites to try your luck with without hesitation.

Why this genre?

From crime dinners to crime novels: Dealing with the abysses of society, crime and the victory of good over evil: the format has a lot that can trigger enthusiasm. He is particularly enthusiastic about it Local thriller that is also well received in the Black Forest and allowed, satire, social commentaries up to milieu studies or chamber pieces. Sharp-edged characters with different agendas always meet, there is investigation, escalation, tension built up and sometimes just banged on. The genre is so broad that there is something for everyone. Conventions that are not lustfully broken or even made fun of, film quotes or genre mixes are also allowed.

Black Forest: Not just a stage, but a leading actor

The desire to explore their own homeland through literature, is obvious: Stories that take place in places and with an atmosphere that we are familiar with offer significantly more points of contact for our imagination. In this way we can join in investigating in the forests and villages where we spent our childhood and life, where we know stones, trees and people.

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