The Hunt for the Culprit radio show (1957-1964, West Germany)
Original title
Die Jagd nach dem Täter
Episode time
35 minutes
Language
German
In 1957 German NDR radio station started broadcasting The Hunt for the Culprit (Die Jagd nach dem Täter) that was similar in concept to classic American shows like Dragnet or The Black Museum - the crime radio show that used real cases as basis for the scripts. Each episode contained a different story, set in a different place, some of which were abroad, some of them in Germany. However, with time also fiction stories were adapted, including written by foreign authors, like Agatha Christie or Francis Durbridge.
The Hunt for the Culprit, using well-known actors and true crime, proved to be very popular with the audience, even though often the episodes were not broadcast in regular intervals (usually once every two weeks, but there were exceptions to that rule). Overall, 126 episodes were broadcasted between 1957 and 1964. They produced enough interest in the formula that NDR decided to adapt the same formula for the television series Stahlnetz, which was later described as "street sweeper" as so many viewers the series had the streets looked empty during the broadcast.
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