A young commissioner investigating political crises, nightlife and pornographic producers in 1929 - our critics classified the series "Babylon Berlin" as "a dizzying society panorama" around detective Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch).

The first showed on Sunday evening from 20:15 clock, the first three of a total of 16 episodes in one go. On average, 7.83 million viewers were interested in the series, which was staged by the three filmmakers Henk Handloegten, Achim von Borries and Tom Tykwer after the novel by Volker Kutscher with a record budget. The market share for "Babylon Berlin" was thus strong at 24.5 percent; Nearly one in four viewers around the time had turned on.

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The subsequent documentary "1929 - The Year Babylon" still saw 4.09 million viewers (market share 19.1 percent). "Babylon Berlin" was previously seen on Sky Germany and was there as one of the most successful series of subscription broadcaster.

On ZDF television saw from 5.15 pm 5.10 million (15.2 percent), the TV love drama "Inga Lindström: The other daughter". From 20:15 RTL showed the action film "Mechanic: Resurrection". 3.40 million (10.4 percent) were interested in this. The comedy "Fack ju Göhte" on Sat.1 had an average of 1.86 million viewers (5.9 percent). ZDFneo scored with the repetition of the thriller "Marie Brand and the Wrong Woman" with Mariele Millowitsch, for the 1.54 million (4.6 percent) turned on.