| Genre: | Police procedural |
| Director: | various |
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| Country: | Austria |
| Language: | German |
| Num Seasons: | 18 |
| Num Episodes: | 253 |
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| Producer: | various |
| Cinematography: | various |
| Editor: | various |
| Runtime: | 45 minutes |
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| First Aired: | (ORF) (ZDF) |
| Related: | SOKO München |
SOKO Donau (in Germany SOKO Wien) is an Austrian crime drama television series produced by ORF in collaboration with the German network ZDF. It is the sixth spin-off of the German crime series SOKO 5113 (SOKO München since 2015), launched in 1978. The show, which debuted on 20 September 2005 in Austria and 18 October 2005 in Germany, focuses on a Viennese police team responsible for investigating crimes committed on the Danube (German: Donau) river and its tributaries. The boat team operates in and around Vienna as well as Lower and Upper Austria, sometimes travelling all the way to Bratislava.
A crossover episode with Leipzig Homicide, titled "Der vierte Mann", was broadcast on ORF on 2 November 2019 and ZDF on 8 November 2019. The screenplay was based on a true story related to the Viennese political activist Rudolfine Steindling.[1] [2]
Current
| Actor | Character | Rank | Since | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lilian Klebow | Penelope "Penny" Lanz | District inspector / Group inspector | 2005– | |
| Helmut Bohatsch | Franz Wohlfahrt | Crime technician | 2005– | |
| Paul Matić | Dr. Paul Seiler | Chief prosecutor | 2005– | |
| Hary Prinz | Ernst Kanter | BKA chief | 2006– | |
| Maria Happel | Dr. Franziska Beck | Medical examiner | 2010– | |
| Dr. Henriette Wolf | Chief | 2018– | ||
| Andreas Kiendl | Klaus Lechner | District inspector | 2021– | |
| Martin Gruber | Max Herzog | Chief inspector | 2022– |