

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.
Cast
Jörg Hube
Ludwig Grandauer / Karl Grandauer

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

Thomas Darchinger
Maxi Grandauer
Georg Einerdinger
Hausmeister
Seasons
1897-1933: Imperial period, World War I, hyperinflation, Golden 20s

E1Charivari
Nov 14, 1989
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 things. Suspicion falls on a peddler, Grandauer finds the real culprit years later.

E2Chasms
Nov 15, 1989
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 raise the necessary capital for a new bike: Nude photos of a girl from the neighborhood.

E3Gentleman Driver
Nov 16, 1989
The Grandauer family is worried about the health of mother Agnes. While their daughter Luise takes over the housework for her mother, Ludwig Grandauer has to visit the family of a murder suspect.

E4Changing of the Guard
Nov 17, 1989
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 friend Biwi. Now, of all times, the First World War breaks out.

E5Coming Home
Nov 18, 1989
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 Grandauer comes back to Munich, he finds his family's old apartment inhabited by strangers

E6Conclusions
Nov 19, 1989
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 Grandauer comes across Traudl Soleder again

E7Wedding Eve
Jan 1, 1990
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 childhood friend Willy offers his help.

E8Movements
Jan 2, 1990
November 9, 1923: The Soleders are moving out of their expensive apartment into police seargent Karl Grandauer's new official residence, but streets are blocked due to the ongoing Beer Hall Putsch, that started the night before, and Karl is prevented from leaving the police headquarters for some time.

E9Bedroom Stories
Jan 3, 1990
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 sickness; minutes later the man is dead. Police finds out that he died from cyanide poisoning after eating some of the marzipan potatoes he got from the girl with whom he had spent the night.

E10Vigilante Police
Jan 4, 1990
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 caught him while breaking a shop-window to steal a radio, and that they only used violence when the alleged burglar put up a fight while being arrested.

E11Clean-up
Jan 5, 1990
January 30, 1933: Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. Chief inspector Grüner is leaving to spend a few weeks in a health resort, and replaced for the time by inspector Walter Deinlein, who fears to have irritated district attorney Adolf Grandauer by uttering a condescending comment about the new cabinet. Kurt and Sara Soleder come to visit Adelgunde on her name day, while Sara is heavily pregnant. Adolf Grandauer offers his sister Luise to convey substantial orders for the Nazi party to her husband's bakery, but advises them to get rid of their journeyman Toni, a leftist who has been caught up in street fights with the SA.

E12Will of the People
Jan 6, 1990
March 1933: Two policemen come to the Kreitmeiers’ bakery with a search warrant for the room of their journeyman, confiscating brass knuckles and some communist propaganda posters. Inspector Karl Grandauer is called to a gravel pit, where a dead boy with a bullet in his head has been found. Later, a mute swill dealer is arrested while carrying the gun the deadly shot was fired from. Mr. Hampel, Grandauer's former subordinate, who has just been transferred to the political police, gets a written confession out of the man, who previously claimed to have found the weapon on the ground. Eventually, one of the deceased boy's comrades from the Hitler Youth comes forward, admitting that he had taken his father's old army pistol to practice shooting in the gravel pit, where he accidentally killed his friend, leaving the gun behind.

E13First Day of Spring
Jan 7, 1990
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 agitation in Germany; the Grandauers take care of his surviving dog. While many people are listening to President Hindenburg's and Chancellor Hitler’s speeches broadcast from the Day of Potsdam, Sara Soleder gives birth to a daughter. Baker Max Kreithmeier’s journeyman Toni, a staunch leftist, is imprisoned in the new established Dachau concentration camp.
1934-1948: NAZI Germany, World War II, post war, US occupation, foundation of Federal Republic of Germany

E1Episode 1
Jan 1, 1991

E2Episode 2
Jan 2, 1991

E3Episode 3
Jan 3, 1991

E4Episode 4
Jan 4, 1991

E5Episode 5
Jan 5, 1991

E6Episode 6
Jan 6, 1991

E7Episode 7
Jan 7, 1991

E8Episode 8
Jan 8, 1991

E9Episode 9
Jan 9, 1991

E10Episode 10
Jan 10, 1991

E11Episode 11
Jan 11, 1991

E12Episode 12
Jan 12, 1991

E13Episode 13
Jan 13, 1991
1950-1954: Germany's booming 50s, economic miracle

E1Episode 1
Jan 1, 1992

E2Episode 2
Jan 2, 1992

E3Episode 3
Oct 1, 1992

E4Episode 4
Nov 1, 1992

E5Episode 5
Nov 2, 1992

E6Episode 6
Nov 3, 1992
Storyline
"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.
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