Tatort Investigators in Transition.A diachronic analysis of investigator characters as artefacts, fictional beings, symptoms of society and symbolic representatives of the state.

Tatort是德国最重要的电视机构之一。这部犯罪连续剧在德国制作了1041集，收视率一直很高，2020年庆祝了它的50周年纪念日。本研究项目是马尔堡菲利普斯大学媒体研究教席和伍珀塔尔大学社会学教席之间的跨学科合作项目。其目的是从文本、制作和接受三个层面，历时性地重构《塔托尔》的侦查员角色及其从1970年犯罪系列的起源到2020年的周年纪念。格拉泽和施特劳斯的扎根理论概念是方法论基础。研究的中心目标是按照延斯·埃德(Jens Eder)的角色分析概念，将调查员角色作为媒体艺术品、虚构的存在、社会的症状，以及最重要的，作为国家的象征性浓缩代表来考察。为此，将在马尔堡地点使用大约200集的样本来分析调查员角色是如何构建的：他们如何解释他们的专业和私人角色，他们如何被社会等值(例如，在性别、种族、性取向和环境方面)，以及他们每个人都带有产生他们产生的社会背景的痕迹。将特别注意多样性问题。然而，最重要的是，目标是确定作为政治文化历时变化的一部分，政府的哪一种形象已经并正在被传达。对生产和接收水平的实证调查和评价在Wuppertal地点进行。在对参与制作的编剧、剪辑和导演领域的大约50名半标准化采访的基础上，我们的目标是重建调查人员角色设计背后的考虑因素和调查人员团队发生变化的原因。接待的维度是通过小组讨论的方式进行的，每个参与者有四到六个人，他们根据选定的、主题相关的剪辑讨论调查小组的特点。这两个站点的结果都被连续三角测量。这样，就形成了犯罪现场侦查员角色的类型学。

Tatort is one of the most important institutions of German television. With 1,041 episodes produced in Germany and continuing high ratings, the crime series celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2020. The presented research project is designed as an interdisciplinary cooperation between a chair of media studies at Philipps University Marburg and a sociological chair at the University of Wuppertal. The aim is to reconstruct the investigator characters of Tatort and their development diachronically from the origin of the crime series in 1970 to its anniversary in 2020 at the levels of text, production, and reception. The concept of grounded theory according to Glaser and Strauss serves as methodological basis. The central research objective is to examine investigator characters as media artefacts, fictional beings, symptoms of society, and, most importantly, as symbolically condensed representatives of the state, following Jens Eder's concept of character analysis (2014). To this end, a sample of approximately 200 episodes will be used at the Marburg location to analyse how the investigator characters are constructed: how they interpret their professional and private roles, how they are socially contoured (for example, in terms of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and milieu affiliation), and which traces they each bear of the social context in which they originated. Special attention will be paid to the question of diversity. Most importantly, though, the aim is to ascertain which image of the state has been and is being conveyed as part of the diachronic change in political culture. The empirical survey and evaluation on the levels of production and reception take place at the Wuppertal location. On the basis of approximately 50 semi-standardised interviews with people from the domains of script, editing, and directing who were involved in the production, we aim to reconstruct the considerations behind the design of the investigator characters and the reasons why changes were made to investigator teams. The dimension of reception is examined via group discussions with four to six participants each, who discuss the characters of the investigator teams based on selected, thematically relevant clips. The results of both sites are continuously triangulated. In this way, a typology of crime scene investigator characters is developed.