This open access book examines how TV professionals in Germany have negotiated quality TV drama from 2015 to the present. As practitioners have adapted quality TV a term most strongly associated with US series to their own national context, they have simultaneously dealt with shifts in screenwriting and storytelling as well as with broader transformations of the local television industry. As in other European countries, in Germany this has included a crucial upheaval: the emergence of various streaming services, which has multiplied the television market. As a systematic study of this changing fiction industry, Television Drama from Germany will be of great interest to both academics and practitioners working both within and outside the German-language television market.

Explores the expansion of German drama beyond Germany contributing to studies in transnational television Considers recent media industry, screenwriting research and television studies in a national context Extends research on quality TV This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

Autorentext

Florian Krauß is a lecturer at the University of Siegen, Germany, and a freelance script editor. He has held visiting scholar positions at the universities of Bologna, Copenhagen and Utrecht and served as visiting professor at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, and as research associate at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Germany.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Quality TV Drama: Fields of Research and Practitioners' Perspectives.- 3. Drama Production in Networks: Starting Points, Methods and First Results.- 4. Germany's Television Landscape: Actors and Production Areas.- 5. Financing and Distributing Television Drama: Economic Networks.- 6. Quality Drama as Transnational Expansion: Exports and Local Specifics.- 7. Contents and Forms of German TV Drama: Aesthetic and Narrative Styles and Criticisms.- 8. Quality TV and Its Production Cultures: Negotiations on Writing and Producing.- 9. To Be Continued: Conclusion and Outlook.