Kanzleramt (TV series)

Kanzleramt (engl: "Chancellery") is a German television series based on the template of the American TV series The West Wing.[1]

Kanzleramt
Title card
Created byHans-Christoph Blumenberg [1]
Martin E. Süskind
StarringKlaus J. Behrendt
Robert Atzorn
Herbert Knaup
Country of originGermany
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes12
Production
Running time45 minutes
Release
Original networkZDF
Original release23 March –
29 June 2005 (2005-06-29)

It is primarily set in the office of fictional Chancellor of Germany Andreas Weyer (Klaus J. Behrendt), telling stories about the German head of government's political career and private life as a widower and father of a teenage daughter.

"Chancellery is entertaining, exciting and interesting," said Friedrich Bohl (CDU), former chief of the Federal chancellery.[2] Compared with the multi-award winning US template The West Wing, Chancellery appeared to most critics but rather shallow and trivial.[1][3] It was written by the former speechwriter of German statesman Willy Brandt, Martin E. Süskind, but they deemed unrealistic.[4]

It was neither a critical nor ratings success, and was cancelled after twelve episodes. It opened with 4.87 million viewers (market share of 15.2 percent),[5][6] but the viewing numbers dropped relatively quickly to 1.5 to 1.7 million.[7]

Plot

German Chancellor Andreas Weyer has many problems. It does not matter whether the Russian president does not want to return images that disappeared during the Second World War, whether he is suffering from back pain or if the German ambassador to Turkey is being shot. Privately Witwer Weyer lives with his 17-year-old daughter Nina, who has fallen in love with a salsa dancer.

Cast
  • Klaus J. Behrendt as Andreas Weyer - Chancellor
  • Robert Atzorn as Norbert Kraft - Head of the chancellery
  • Herbert Knaup as Conny Bergmann - government spokesman
  • Claudia Michelsen as Edith Lambert - Head of Department Foreign Policy
  • Rita Russek as Birte Schmitz - Head of the Chancellery Office
  • Heikko Deutschmann as Alexander Nachtweih - Speechwriter of the Federal Chancellor
  • Karoline Teska as Nina Weyer - Daughter of the Federal Chancellor
  • Gabriela Maria Schmeide as Dr. Christa Templin - Chancellor's doctor

References
  1. Kirzynowski, Marcus (1 November 2016). ""Kanzleramt": Als das ZDF auf "West Wing"-Spuren wandelte". Fortsetzung.tv (in German). Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  2. Götsch, Antonia (24 March 2005). "If it is in the Chancellor's office". spiegel.de (in German). Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  3. "Kanzleramt". TV Wunschliste (in German). Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  4. Meyer, Michael (29 June 2005). "- "Kanzleramt" wird eingemottet". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  5. Mantel, Uwe (24 March 2005). "Neue ZDF-Serie "Kanzleramt" erfolgreich gestartet". DWDL.de (in German). Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  6. "ZDF-Serie "Kanzleramt": Schelte von Horst Ehmke". Spiegel Online (in German). 24 March 2005. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  7. Perger, Von Werner A. (30 June 2005). "Der Kanzler überlebt". ZEIT ONLINE (in German). Retrieved 12 January 2019.


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