The Peppercorns
Die Pfefferkörner is a German television series produced by Der Kinderkanal. The peppercorns are five friends from Hamburg: Jana Holstein Coutre, Natasha "Tascha" Jaonzäns, Philip "Fiete" Overbeck, Cem Gülec and Vivien "Vivi" Overbeck, Fiete's eight year old sister. After school, the young detectives meet at a high level of a spice warehouse of the company Overbeck & Associates, which belongs to Fiete and Vivi's parents in the first part, but is later given to Fiete and Vivi to look after. Here, in the historic warehouse district, the five friends have their headquarters. With smarts, combined delivery and support of the Internet, they find their cases here. The detectives convict polluters, animal dealers and drug smugglers. They also help each other with personal problems they encounter. Cem has lost his parents in a car accident and sometimes feels sad and lonely. Jana lives with her divorcee mother, a lawyer who is rarely at home. Natasha comes from Latvia. Her parents initially have very strict ...
Details
- First aired
- 27 Dec 1999
- Seasons
- 22
- Episodes
- 283
- TMDB 6.9
- Last aired
- 18 Apr 2026
- Genres
Action & Adventure Kids Family Crime
- Status
- Returning Series
- Network
- NDR Fernsehen
- Episode runtime
- 30 min
- Countries
DE
- Original language
- de
- Original title
- Die Pfefferkörner
- Creators
- Cast
Julian Paethas Fiete Overbeck Aglaja Brixas Vivi Overbeck İhsan Ayas Cem Gülec Anna-Elena Herzogas Jana Holstein-Coutré Martha Friesas Jessica Amsinck Merle de Villiersas Ceyda Cengiz Jaden Bojsenas Niklas Klinger Sina Michelas Pinja Friese Ava Sophie Richteras Jale Dschami Carlotta Cornehlas Johanna Overbeck (geb. Gentbrink) - Writers
Jörg Reiter Anja Jabs Katharina Mestre Andrea Katzenberger Katja Kittendorf Catharina Junk Sonja Sairally Silja Clemens Angela Gerrits Franca Düwel Franziska Pfeiffer Sonja Gagel Andreas Dirr Astrid Ströher Conny Hiller Julia Thürnagel Oliver Keune Barbara Miersch Anke Gebert
