Overview

• Das Erste aired the Magdeburg episode Sie sind unter uns on September 21, centered on a 17-year-old who carries out a school attack and broadcasts it via a wearable camera.
• The narrative foregrounds online manipulation and adolescent vulnerability, presenting the events with restrained staging and emphasis on sound and quiet detail.
• Critics praised performances, notably Mikke Rasch as the teen and Claudia Michelsen as Kommissarin Doreen Brasch, alongside the careful, non-sensational tone.
• Several outlets questioned police-procedure plausibility and debated the ethics of dramatizing a school shooting, including concerns about depicting multiple sclerosis as a narrative driver.
• Production notes highlighted filming in a real school building and credited writer Jan Braren and director Esther Bialas for the episode’s deliberately unsensational approach.