The series focuses on Leonie “Leo” Roth, a media lawyer who has her own law firm in Berlin. Through her work for various important clients, she has gained national renown. Their task is to represent them in public in the best possible way and to influence public opinion in their favour. In order to protect the privacy of its clients and defend them against public criticism, it sometimes resorts to illegal means. [2] The main character Leo Roth is based on Christian Schertz, who has an appearance as Leo Roth`s fellow lawyer. Katarina Witt, Inka Bause and Günther Jauch appear as real people represented by Schertz. The music, which Leo`s father hears in a flashback repeated on a jazz record (“Federal Feed” from “Uncarved Block Orchestra”), comes from trumpeter Till Brönner, who was also represented by Schertz. [4] The name “Leo Roth” has been interpreted as an allusion to television mediator Rosa Roth. [5] The tabloid Der Tag refers to the newspaper Bild,[6] The location of the publishing house was the Atrium Tower on Potsdamer Platz. The activist group “Institute for Rosy Times” in the episode Cannibals has been compared to the Center for Political Beauty group. [7] Episode #wannlandetlisa, in which a woman posts a tweet before her flight home from her vacation in Africa (“I hope I don`t get AIDS now”) and is at the center of a shitstorm after landing, refers to the case of American Justine Sacco, who posted a similar tweet in 2013 (“Going to Africa.
I hope I don`t get AIDS. Joke. I`m white! »). [8] In addition to Lavinia Wilson, the top cast also includes Maryam Zaree, Niels Bormann, Aaron Altaras, Michaela Kaspar, Stefan Kurt, Annika Kuhl, Rainer Sellien, Sebastian Hülk, Sophie Rois and Jacob Matschenz (and many others). Filming is expected to last until March 18, 2021. “We are very pleased that with Legal Affairs (AT) 2021 we can make a socially current contribution to the offensive of the ARD series. In the series, we discover how explosive information or the most intimate secrets on the internet start forest fires and how media is used in manipulative ways. Making it the subject of a great fiction series was important to us. Due to the great series of American lawyers such as “Suits”, “The Good Wife”, “Boston Legal” or “Scandal”, it is high time that a corresponding series is also produced in Germany.
Legal Affairs (AT) tells the story of exciting legal work using the example of a media lawyer. In these cases, socially relevant topics such as Internet hate, human rights violations and fake news are addressed. “High speed, quick cuts, flashlights and always new cases – boredom doesn`t show up in this series. […] The common thread that lead authors Lena Kammermeier and Felice Götze interpret is extremely resilient. Legal Affairs is a German television series. The first and so far only season was released on 17 December 2021 in ARD Mediathek and broadcast from 19 December 2021 on Das Erste. In May 2022, it was announced that the second season would no longer be produced. [1] “Legal Affairs” (AT) deals with the greatest social upheaval of our time: digitalisation and the resulting public sphere in our private lives. Faced with the threat to the private sphere, we are addressing a subject that must occupy us all. Because when it comes to privacy, it is not only the right of the individual that is at stake, but our rule of law as such is under scrutiny.
Therefore, with our main character Leo Roth, a media lawyer is now at the center of a series for the very first time. Editor of Degeto (Christoph Pellander and Claudia Luzius) and rbb (Martina Zöllner and Kerstin Freels) “Legal Affairs” (AT) is a UFA Fiction production commissioned by ARD Degeto and rbb for ARD. Benjamin Benedict is the producer, Kristina Henning is the executive producer, Karoline Griebner is the producer. It is directed by Randa Chahoud (“Deutschland `89”) and Stefan Bühling (“Im Abgrund”), with Julian Hohndorf and Jan Prahl behind the camera. The main authors of the writers` hall are Lena Kammermeier and Felice Götze. The editors are Christoph Pellander and Claudia Luzius (ARD Degeto) and Martina Zöllner and Kerstin Freels (rbb). Legal Affairs (AT) is funded by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg. “With this series, German television has finally arrived in 2021 […] Lavinia Wilson leads the magnificent ensemble of actors, while her legal team Maryam Zaree, Niels Bormann, Aaron Altaras and Michaela Caspar shine. “Thanks to the strategy of telling a case closed by episode and, in addition, an ongoing plot around Leo Roth`s involvement in a suicide, not a second passes in the ARD series in which something does not happen.
” Legal Affairs” is told extremely quickly, addresses important topics and offers multidimensional figures. All this makes the eight episodes so interesting to see. Each episode deals with a stand-alone legal matter. In addition, however, there is also an ongoing story that runs through the entire first season and thus gives the series a horizontal narrative thread. “Even experienced chewing gum chewers like Mimi struggle to draw a story of far below-average plausibility over eight times 45 minutes. So there must be a lot of meaningless side stories in there; But we know it from the crime scene. Leo Roth is Germany`s most successful media lawyer. With her Berlin law firm, she moves as confidently on the political scene as she does in the glamorous world of the rich and famous. For Leo Roth, his job is about one thing: winning every deal.
Its goal is to protect the privacy of its prominent and non-eminent clients while shaping public opinion. He wants to prevent fake news and media witch hunts and protect people from the murder of the media personality through fake news reports, shitstorms and avalanches on Twitter. Over the course of the series, the lawyer finds himself entangled in a fatal thicket of political and private intrigues.
