
"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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Air Date: 1989-11-14
1897 - 1907: Ludwig Grandauer is a policeman in a village somewhere between Munich and Bad Tölz. A murder occurs afte...
Air Date: 1989-11-15
May 1909: Karl Grandauer's bicycle is stolen. Afraid of his father's punishment, Karl keeps quiet about the theft. Bu...
Air Date: 1989-11-16
The Grandauer family is worried about the health of mother Agnes. While their daughter Luise takes over the housework...
Air Date: 1989-11-17
1914: The Munich police department moves into the long-awaited new building in the Löwengrube, while at home Luise Gr...
Air Date: 1989-11-18
December 1918: Germany has lost the First World War, food is running short, and the Spanish flu keeps killing large n...
Air Date: 1989-11-19
October 1920: A dead woman is found at the side of a small road, with a sign labelling her a traitor to her fatherlan...
Air Date: 1990-01-01
1923: Karl Grandauer and Traudl Soleder want to get married. But inflation makes the wedding dress and the suit for t...
Air Date: 1990-01-02
November 9, 1923: The Soleders are moving out of their expensive apartment into police seargent Karl Grandauer's new ...
Air Date: 1990-01-03
October 22, 1929: Kurt Soleder is working as a presenter at the Munich radio station, when one of his musicians is co...
Air Date: 1990-01-04
Autumn 1931: A young man distributing the communist newspaper Die Rote Fahne is beaten up and deadly injured by two v...
Air Date: 1990-01-05
January 30, 1933: Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. Chief inspector G...
Air Date: 1990-01-06
March 1933: Two policemen come to the Kreitmeiers’ bakery with a search warrant for the room of their journeyman, con...
Air Date: 1990-01-07
March 21, 1933: An elderly Jewish man has killed himself by opening the gas-tap in his apartment, apparently in despa...