Posztmigráns európai identitás a képernyőn? Esettanulmány a maghrebi–francia és a török–német detektívekről
Screening Postmigrant European Identities? A Study of Maghrebi French and Turkish German Detectives

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines the representation of ethnic minority lead investigators in the television crime series, Tatort (2008-2012 season), Cherif (2013-2019), Last Panthers (2015), and Dogs of Berlin (2018). In particular, it questions how detectives pertaining to the Maghrebi minority in France and the Turkish minority in Germany interact with expectations of the crime genre as well as challenge monocultural ideals of European national identities. It could be objected that none of these series depict a female detective, but even so, they reflect the male focus on European ethnic minority television detectives and the marginalization of ethnic minority women in crime television series. The first section outlines three typologies in the characterization of ethnic minority detectives as well as their relation to other minority detectives in German and French crime fiction. The second section interrogates representational patterns shared by the four detectives. Finally, the third section assesses the selected television series’ potential to present postmigrant society founded on and influenced by former and ongoing migration movements.

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