Die Kommissarin is a German

Germany

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 police

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 TV series which aired on Das Erste

Das Erste

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. Its 66 episodes ran from 1994

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 till 2006.

The series, which takes place in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, is notable as being the first, and as of yet, one of the few commercially successful German detective series to have a female lead character (others include Bella Block

Bella Block

Bella Block is a long-running German detective television series starring Hannelore Hoger, first broadcast in 1994 on ZDF. In 2010 the 30th series was produced....

 and Rosa Roth

Rosa Roth

Rosa Roth is a German television series....

).

The main character is Inspector Lea Sommer, played by Hannelore Elsner

Hannelore Elsner

Hannelore Elsner is a German actress. After finishing drama school she worked in theatres in Berlin and München. Later she starred in films and TV series such as Die Schwarzwaldklinik...

. Sommer is divorced with custody of her teenage son, Daniel. She is looking forward to a new relationship with her new boyfriend, Jonathan. Although Lea and Jonathan telephone each other frequently, he has never actually been seen or heard on screen (see unseen character

Unseen character

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).

Sommer was originally paired with Nick Siegel (Til Schweiger

Til Schweiger

Tilman Valentin "Til" Schweiger is a German actor, director, and producer.He is one of Germany’s most successful filmmakers. Since 1968, when the FFA started counting, no other German actor has drawn more people to the cinemas. He runs his own production company, Barefoot Films, in Berlin.-Early...

), but in a 1996 episode, Siegel was shot to death by an escaping criminal

Crime

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. His last words were "Lea, ich fühle mich so kalt" ("Lea, I feel so cold"). Sommer's current partner officer is Jan Orlop.

Die Kommissarin airs on the German Language channel German Kino Plus in the United States. In Finland

Finland

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 it airs on YLE TV2

YLE TV2

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under the title Etsivä Lea Sommer.