Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst
| Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst | |
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| Created by | Eduard Zimmermann |
| Presented by |
Eduard Zimmermann (1967–1997) Sabine Zimmermann (1987–2001) Butz Peters (1997–2001) Rudi Cerne (2002–present) |
| Narrated by | Wolfgang Grönebaum (1967–1989) Michael Brennicke (1989–present) |
| Opening theme | Heinz Kiessling Ernst-August Quelle |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Original language(s) | German |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Claus Legal |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Securitel, ZDF |
| Release | |
| Original network | ZDF |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Original release | 1967–present |
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| Website | |
Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst (German for "Case number XY … Unsolved") is an interactive German television programme first broadcast on 20 October 1967 on ZDF. Created by Eduard Zimmermann, it aims to combat and solve crimes. The programme is currently presented by Rudi Cerne. It airs monthly, with 12 episodes in a year, on Wednesday at 8:15 PM.
Until 2003 it was produced in co-operation with the Austrian public service broadcaster ORF and Schweizer Fernsehen, a division of the Swiss public broadcaster SRG SSR.
The programme was adapted by the BBC as Crimewatch and for the US market as America's Most Wanted. Other adaptions aired in Canada, Poland, Hungary and New Zealand.
The goal of the programme is to throw light on unsolved offences with the aid of viewers. Each episode contains three to five short films, each lasting about ten minutes, in which a real criminal case is reconstructed. The cases are mostly complex ones in which the criminals and chains of events are still unknown. In addition cases are discussed in the studio in which, for example, the identities of criminals or unknown murder victims are sought with the aid of a photo. Viewers can use the telephone or Internet to give information. According to a study by the programme's editorial department, about forty percent of cases shown on the programme are solved.
The creator and first presenter of the programme was Eduard Zimmermann. After the programme's 300th episode he passed the presentership onto Butz Peters, who fronted the show together with Zimmermann's daughter Sabine. Since 18 January 2002 Aktenzeichen XY has been presented by Rudi Cerne.
With Aktenzeichen XY Eduard Zimmermann and ZDF succeeded in starting a TV format that had not existed worldwide until 1967. Although news reports had often shown photofits, an actual independent show of this type was unknown at this time.
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