“WaPo Elbe”
Series gets eight new episodes
In the picture from left to right: Chief Inspector Sami Fares (Adnan Maral), the head of the police station, Chief Inspector Maike Junghans (Carina Wiese), Inspector Moritz Krätschmer (Ferdi Özten) and Inspector Jana Macourek (Barbara Prakopenka).
© ARD/Rudolf Wernicke
Replenishment for the early evening series: Since July 18th, shooting has been going on for eight new episodes of the crime series “WaPo Elbe” for ARD.
With peak values of 3.65 million viewers, the first season of the evening series “WaPo Elbe” a complete success. Replenishment is already being provided. Shooting for eight new episodes of the crime series for ARD has been underway since July 18th. Filming will continue until October 12th, 2023 on and on the Elbe between Pirna and Saxon Switzerland and the Czech border.
New challenges for the “WaPo Elbe”
The “WaPo Elbe” patrols a 120-kilometer-long waterway that stretches from Dresden through Saxon Switzerland to the Czech border. “A fatal climbing accident, illegal dumping of toxic waste in the river and vigilantism against climate activists pose new challenges for the Elbe water police team,” the broadcaster announces the new episodes.
In season two, the focus is again on Carina Wiese (55) as head of the Maike Junghans guard, her colleague Chief Inspector Sami Fares, played by Adnan Maral (55), and Barbara Prakopenka (31) and Ferdi Özten (36) as Commissioner Jana Macourek and Commissioner Moritz Kretschmar. Regine Hentschel (58) embodies the forensic doctor Dr. Annemarie Jaschki.
The episode cast includes Christin Alexandrow, Frank Streffing, Vlad Chiriac, Esther Esche, Senita Huskic, Javeh Asefdjah, Ron Helbig, Alexander Weise, Petra Marie Cammin, René Schwittay, Simon Käser and Knud Riepen.
Already the fourth series about the water police
“WaPo Elbe” is already the fourth series from the previous evening series about the water police on Germany’s waters and celebrated its premiere in February 2023. The longest-serving members of the series family are the four investigators from “WaPo Bodensee”, who went on a criminal hunt in Germany’s south-west for the first time in 2017. Five seasons have already aired.
The “WaPo Berlin” has been in service on the capital’s waterways since 2020. She can already look back on three seasons. In January 2022, the “WaPo Duisburg” team finally determined for the first time in the heart of the Ruhr area, in the largest inland port in the world. The series has already produced two seasons.