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

转型中的塔托特调查员。对调查员角色作为文物、虚构人物、社会症状和国家象征性代表的历时分析。

• 批准号: 517008016
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Andreas Dörner
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Professur für Allgemeine Soziologie, insbesondere Handlungs- und Interaktionstheorien
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/517008016?language=en
• 关键词: Tatort; Investigators; Transition.A; diachronic; analysis

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.

Tatort是德国最重要的电视机构之一。在德国制作了1,041集，并持续保持高收视率，2020年，这部犯罪系列剧迎来了50周年纪念。本研究项目的目的是在马尔堡菲利普大学的媒体研究和社会学椅子在伍珀塔尔大学之间的跨学科合作。其目的是从文本、制作和接受三个层面上，从1970年犯罪系列的起源到2020年的周年纪念，重建塔托尔的调查员角色及其历时发展。格拉泽和施特劳斯的扎根理论概念是方法论基础。中心研究目标是研究调查员角色作为媒体人工制品，虚构的存在，社会的症状，最重要的是，作为象征性浓缩的国家代表，遵循Jens Eder的角色分析概念（2014）。为此，将在马尔堡研究中心使用约200集样本，分析研究者角色的构建方式：他们如何解释自己的职业和私人角色，他们如何在社会上轮廓化（例如，在性别、种族、性取向和环境归属方面），以及他们各自所处的社会背景。将特别注意多样性问题。然而，最重要的是，其目的是确定国家的形象已经和正在作为政治文化历时变化的一部分被传达。对生产和接收水平的实证调查和评估在伍珀塔尔地区进行。在对参与制作的剧本、编辑和导演等领域的约50名人员进行半标准化访谈的基础上，我们的目标是重建调查员角色设计背后的考虑因素以及调查员团队发生变化的原因。接受的层面是通过小组讨论进行审查，每个小组有四至六名参与者，他们根据选定的主题相关的剪辑讨论调查小组的角色。两个地点的结果不断进行三角测量。通过这种方式，犯罪现场调查员角色的类型学得以发展。