42 posts tagged “germany”

Action Concept, the crowd that makes Alarm für Cobra 11: die Autobahnpolizei, has an English trailer for the show on its site. I am surprised no English channel has ever picked up the long-running series. Sure, it’s devoid of real plot and there are inconsistencies the size of Düsseldorf itself, but my gosh, is it fun.
   The budget has been cut since its heyday and the ratings are down, but from what I have read in the German press, it still outperforms everything else in its time slot.
   One problem is that the trailer is ancient. The German accent on the American English (why do announcers in Germany all sound the same—is this the same guy as on DW-TV?) might make it too foreign for some English-speaking countries, but who cares?

   As fans can see, Semir’s partners end with Tom Kranich (played by Réné Steinke). Since then, Chris Ritter (Gedeon Burkhard) has joined and been killed off in the course of duty, and Ben Jäger (Tom Beck) has been fielding the sidekick position since. The intro is pre-Chris, though this is still the only one I can recite with my extremely limited German.
   This is the sort of show that might start off at a bad time slot on an English channel and steadily work its way to prime-time. Even if it was dubbed, I am sure it would get plenty of fans.

PS.: I have tried Vox at another office, and I have used it with another ISP. The compose screen either fails to come up or takes several hours. Something is afoot.

Go back one year and this was how Tom Beck was promoted in his first season of Alarm für Cobra 11: die Autobahnpolizei. There were a few episodes I didn’t see, judging by this RTL promo.

I somehow think there are fewer big car stunts tonight on Alarm für Cobra 11: die Autobahnpolizei. At 8.15 p.m. on RTL. Looks more like an episode of Water Rats.

The makers of Alarm für Cobra 11: die Autobahnpolizei have a good relationship with many of the local car manufacturers. BMW débuted its X1 on the show, before it even appeared at the IAA (Frankfurt Motor Show), and since it is filmed in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Ford Köln is in the area. So, is this a Ford prototype? It looks like a stripped-down version of next year’s S-Max.

From last Thursday’s Alarm für Cobra 11: die Autobahnpolizei. (Being outside Germany, this is about as much as one can see.)

This series of Alarm für Cobra 11 seems to have Semir and Ben going undercover more. Last week’s 200th episode took them on to water and off-road, rather than on the Autobahn, while here’s next week’s preview:

As long as I can have my car chases and eye-popping Euro stunts, I really don’t mind …

Looks like I finally got in to compose on Vox after an hour. I’ve tried proxy servers, and the site is slow through there, too.
   The latest series, starting next week, of Alarm für Cobra 11: die Autobahnpolizei looks really good. First up is a compilation of TV promos on RTL:

A miracle! Finally got in to Vox to write a post.
   Sure hope they get this glitch fixed ASAP.
   Some more pics to share—kind of lost the inspiration to write something cheeky since it took a few hours to get the ‘Compose’ box up on this site.

Dented in the right rear wing but otherwise, looking really good.
   Slightly more upmarket:

Not that I will get to see it down here in Neuseeland. Those lucky Germans.

The new series of Alarm für Cobra 11: die Autobahnpolizei begins September 3 on RTL at 8.15 p.m.

This is unbelievable in a modern European country in 2009, from Time:

The election campaign in Germany took an ugly turn last week when the country’s far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) threatened a black member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. Angolan-born Zeca Schall, who has German citizenship, was featured on CDU campaign posters in the eastern state of Thuringia, which is holding a regional election on Aug. 30. The posters went up on Aug. 1; 10 days later, the NPD attacked Schall on its website, calling him a “n_____ for the CDU party quota,” telling him to “go back home to Angola” and urging its members to deliver the message to him personally. In an act that had tones of a modern-day lynching, NPD supporters tried to march to Schall’s house in the central town of Hildburghausen, but they were stopped by police. Since Aug. 11, Schall has been under police protection.

   Mr Schall has lived in his town for 20 years and isn’t even running for office, but it hasn’t stopped some racists nutters from the threats.
   Time, meanwhile, has the following as a related article on its site: