Creating and Destroying Prejudices. Romanian Characters in German Television Thrillers Beginning with the Millennium

Abstract

The study includes over 30 German TV thrillers and series aired during a 20-year period, with the plots located in different regions, in which Romanians play parts of different degrees of importance for the story. The main interest is to identify whether or to which extent the different roles are tributary to stereotypes about Romanians and to what extent the characters might contribute to creating a perception of Romanians in the German society, respectively to changing the existent one.

Keywords

• eastern europe
• romanians
• german crime series
• imagology
• sterotyping
• migration
• discrimination
• crime scene