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Country of origin
  
Germany

Running time
  
90 Minutes

Original release
  
20 February 1995

Network
  
ZDF

Created by
  
Jürgen Kehrer

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IMDb

No. of episodes
  
50

Original network
  
ZDF

First episode date
  
20 February 1995

Number of episodes
  
50

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Starring
  
Leonard Lansink Heinrich Schafmeister Oliver Korittke Ina Paule Klink Rita Russek Roland Jankowsky

Genres
  
Crime Fiction, Comedy, Drama

Similar
  
Tatort, Kommissarin Lucas, Ein starkes Team, A Case for Two, Bella Block

Wilsberg is a German TV series based on novels about the fictional private detective Georg Wilsberg. A first TV episode was aired in 1995, five years after the release of the first novel, starring Joachim Król. Since the second episode (aired more than three years later), Georg Wilsberg is portrayed by Leonard Lansink.

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Synopsis

Wilsberg is not only a private detective, he also runs a bookshop for antiquarian books in Münster. Both jobs mix very well. He purchases whole libraries if he can, preferably striking bargains by buying the bequest of a recently deceased. He has got a business card which gives his side job away. So if there are any doubts concerning the circumstances of the demise, the relatives are inclined to employ Wilsberg. Other customers appreciate the chance to hire a private detective discreetly by pretending they are just looking for rare books when they visit him. Wilsberg investigates cases all over Münster and its outskirts.

Disparities between films and books

Readers of the novels recognise many of the plots and locations in the television series, however some adaptation was needed in order to make the material easily intelligible to a national audience and to those who had not read the books. Due to the success of the series new scripts were commissioned recounting stories not present in the novels.

References

Wilsberg Wikipedia