Löwengrube
"Löwengrube – Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit" is a German television series first aired between 1989 and 1992, created by Willy Purucker and directed by Rainer Wolffhardt. It is set in Munich and follows the lives of Ludwig Grandauer and his son Karl, both policemen, covering the years from 1897 to 1954. The TV show is based on Purucker's radio play series Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit (‘The Grandauers and their time’). The series’ main title "Löwengrube", meaning ‘Lions’ Den’, refers to the address of the Munich Police Headquarters inaugurated in 1913.
Episodes
1897 - 1907: Ludwig Grandauer is a policeman in a village somewhere between Munich and Bad Tölz. A murder occurs after his wedding party, of all thing...
May 1909: Karl Grandauer's bicycle is stolen. Afraid of his father's punishment, Karl keeps quiet about the theft. But the butcher Willy has a plan to...
The Grandauer family is worried about the health of mother Agnes. While their daughter Luise takes over the housework for her mother, Ludwig Grandauer...
1914: The Munich police department moves into the long-awaited new building in the Löwengrube, while at home Luise Grandauer falls in love with Karl's...
December 1918: Germany has lost the First World War, food is running short, and the Spanish flu keeps killing large numbers of people. When Karl Grand...
October 1920: A dead woman is found at the side of a small road, with a sign labelling her a traitor to her fatherland. During investigation, Karl Gra...
1923: Karl Grandauer and Traudl Soleder want to get married. But inflation makes the wedding dress and the suit for the groom very expensive. Then chi...
November 9, 1923: The Soleders are moving out of their expensive apartment into police seargent Karl Grandauer's new official residence, but streets a...
October 22, 1929: Kurt Soleder is working as a presenter at the Munich radio station, when one of his musicians is coming in late due to some sudden s...
Autumn 1931: A young man distributing the communist newspaper Die Rote Fahne is beaten up and deadly injured by two vigilantes, who claim that they ca...
January 30, 1933: Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. Chief inspector Grüner is leaving to spend a few w...
March 1933: Two policemen come to the Kreitmeiers’ bakery with a search warrant for the room of their journeyman, confiscating brass knuckles and some...
March 21, 1933: An elderly Jewish man has killed himself by opening the gas-tap in his apartment, apparently in despair of the rampant antisemitic agi...
Cast
Jörg Hube
Ludwig Grandauer / K...
Christine Neubauer
Traudl Grandauer
Franziska Stömmer
Adelgunde Soleder
Michael Lerchenberg
Kurt Soleder
Gisela Freudenberg
Sara Soleder
Alexander Duda
Adolf Grandauer
Gerd Anthoff
Friedrich Deinlein
Erich Hallhuber
Willibald Leitner
Werner Rom
Max Kreitmeier
Mona Freiberg
Katharina Kreitmeier
Hansi Kraus
Kargus
Timothy Peach
Rudi Grandauer
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