TV
“File number XY” soon switches back to Vienna and Zurich
For over 20 years, the search program “File number XY … unresolved” has only been produced by German television. Now there should be switching abroad again. But first only as a special.
For the first time in more than 20 years, the cult broadcast “File number XY … unresolved” again reports from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The senders involved ZDF, ORF and SRF have decided two Eurovision editions of “Aktenichen XY”. In the period 2025/2026, they should run live on Wednesday evening and present cases from all three countries.
Live circuits to Vienna and Zurich were an integral part of Germany’s most successful search program for decades. In Switzerland, Konrad Toenz (1939-2015) reported, Peter Nidetzky (1940-2024) in Austria. But at the beginning of the nineties, ORF and SRF got out. Criminal cases from abroad were only discussed occasionally.
The program, invented by Eduard Zimmermann (1929-2009), relies on the help of the audience in the search for suspects and reaches a large audience with prompted cases. Rudi Cerne has been running through the show since 2002. More than 600 “file number XY” consequences have been broadcast since 1967
dpa
Source: Stern
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