Jogi Kaiser

With his uncouth manner, Professor Pohl doesn’t enjoy the best reputation at the university where he works. To make matters worse, he makes a racist remark when student Naima arrives late for his lecture. Unfortunately for him, a video of his verbal outburst spreads like wildfire on the Internet, and the university’s president, Lambrecht, is called to deal with the incident. But Pohl is not dismissed. Instead, he is put to the task of helping Naima prepare for an important debating competition. The lecturer and the student could not be more different, yet they are thrown together to work as a team.

Martina is a successful neurosurgeon, happily married and mother of a pubescent daughter. She has everything under control - until she is raped by Mischa, the son of her best friend Jutta and her husband Torsten, while on a joint family vacation. When Martina's husband Andi tells her friends about it, Martina has to face not only her trauma, but also the reactions and opinions of others.

A psychologist specializing in microexpression, Dr. Marlene Nielsen is called in to assist on an apparently obvious case of self-defence. She is asked to help establish the identity of a woman who fatally wounded an attacker, but who steadfastly refuses to speak. But in the face of the »woman without a name« Marlene sees evidence of an intentional act. When no-one takes her seriously, she begins to investigate on her own and comes across an unpunished crime from the past.

An excursion boat on Lake Constance. Good-humored passengers celebrate at a costume party. In the middle of it all is Elena Barin on the day before she takes up her post as head of department at the Constance criminal investigation department. She is traveling as a tourist - until the moment she notices a weapon on a passenger.

Kim and Maja, two physiotherapists who are friends, are planning to open a practice together. To finance their dream, they are working part-time at a hostess agency that offers jobs in the restaurant industry.

Detective Inspector Jonas Neimann has been the bodyguard of local politician Magnus Mittendorf for years and is close to the entire family. But one day he finds himself in a dilemma. He has a relationship with the team's new press officer, Katharina Borba, which is still kept discreet. After a team party to celebrate a successful election appearance, Katharina is suddenly no longer available to Jonas. Does he have reason to be jealous?

Sex is power, and Waseem, a Syrian gay-for-pay hustler seeking asylum in Cologne, wields it like a shield. Keeping his johns at an emotional arm’s length while satisfying their most carnal desires in order to eke out a living, he meets his match in Lars: a kind, affluent professional with a growing personal interest in Waseem. This gripping tale of transactional identity explores the tactical exchange of trust and intimacy in a partnership, and the divisions between immigrants and their host countries in contemporary Europe.