Siska is a German television series created by Herbert Reinecker

Herbert Reinecker

Herbert Reinecker was a very prolific German novelist, dramatist and screenwriter.Born in Hagen, Westphalia, Reinecker began to write short stories already as a high school student. In 1936 he moved to Berlin, where he became editor-in-chief of a youth magazine, Jungvolk...

 and Helmut Ringelmann

Helmut Ringelmann

Helmut Ringelmann was a German film and television producer.Ringelmann was born in Munich, he produced a number of television series including the long running Der Kommissar from 1968 to 1974. He is best remembered as the Producer of the Derrick TV series.Ringelmann died in his house in Grünwald...

 and broadcast since October 30, 1998 on the network ZDF

ZDF

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television broadcaster based in Mainz . It is run as an independent non-profit institution, which was founded by the German federal states . The ZDF is financed by television licence fees called GEZ and advertising revenues...

. In France, the series was broadcast on France 3

France 3

France 3 is the second largest French public television channel and part of the France Télévisions group, which also includes France 2, France 4, France 5, and France Ô....

 and rebroadcast on 13th Street

13th Street

13th Street Universal is a television channel specialising in action and suspense shows and movies. It is owned by NBCUniversal and was launched in France on November 13, 1997 and in Germany on May 1, 1998...

. It is a police drama and follows the adventures of Peter Siska and later Victor Siska.

Anyway it wasn't the best surname for a policeman because in some languages word "Siska" has extremely close meaning to "Boob" or "Tit". So you'll never see this series on, for example, russian television. Croatian Radiotelevision

Croatian Radiotelevision

Croatian Radiotelevision is a Croatian public broadcasting company. It operates several radio and television channels, over a domestic transmitter network as well as satellite...

 has however shown the series, despite 'Siska' having the same meaning in the Croatian language

Croatian language

Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...

Cast

• Peter Kremer
  Peter Kremer
  Peter Kremer is a German theatre and television actor.-External links:*...
  
  : Police Officer Peter Siska (Episodes 1-56, 1998–2004)
• Matthias Freihof
  Matthias Freihof
  -Filmography:* 1986: Käthe Kollwitz* 1989: Coming Out* 1991: Mokka für den Tiger* 1992: Hamburger Gift* 1993: Der Mann im schwarzen Mantel* 1994: Die Männer vom K3* 1996: Liane* 1996: Todesspiel* 1997: Inseln unterm Wind* 1998 – 2003: Siska...
  
  : Police Officer Lorenz Wiegand (Episodes 1-50, 1998–2003)
• Robinson Reichel
  Robinson Reichel
  -Selected filmography:* Derrick - Season 10, Episode 06: "Tödliches Rendezvous" -External links:*...
  
  : Police Officer Felix Bender (Episodes 51-56, 2003)
• Tobias Nath
  Tobias Nath
  Tobias Nath is a German television actor.-External links:*...
  
  : Polce Officer Gerhard Lessmann (Episodes 57-77, 2005–2007)
• Wolfgang Maria Bauer
  Wolfgang Maria Bauer
  Wolfgang Maria Bauer is a German television actor.-Selected filmography:* Irren ist männlich * Die Musterknaben * 666–Traue keinem, mit dem du schläfst...
  
  : Police Officer Viktor Siska (since 2004)
• Werner Schnitzer
  Werner Schnitzer
  Werner Schnitzer is a German television actor.-Selected filmography:* Derrick - Season 2, Episode 10: "Kamillas junger Freund" * Derrick - Season 7, Episode 11: "Pricker" -External links:*...
  
  : Police Officer Jacob Hahne (since 1998)
• Dirk Plönissen: Police Officer Robert Dahlberg (since 2007)

External links

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