Edgar Wallace is alive and well in .... Hamburg

You surely will not know it, but still, as we write the year 2024 AD, Edgar Wallace Krimis are produced in Hamburg. 

Hamburg is the German city most famously linked to the Edgar Wallace movies as the production company Rialto Film had its offices there. Furthermore, the Hanseatic and Saxon heritage make Hamburg the ideal (and cheap) stand-in for London, thus making it the de facto Edgar Wallace Krimi location.

In 2003 the IMPERIAL theatre on the St. Pauli Reeperbahn opened as a "Krimi-Theater", specialising in the works of Edgar Wallace and Agatha Christie. With 300 seats, this is reasonably sized and the productions have a high value. It is kept clearly in the "Miss Marple" and "Edgar Wallace Movies" tradition, even in the advertising. 

The plays always run for one season with around 100 shows

So far these productions of Edgar Wallace Krimis have been made:

„Das indische Tuch“ (2004), „Der Rächer“ (2004), „Der Hexer“ (2005), „Der Unheimliche“ (2006), „Der grüne Bogenschütze“ (2007), „ Der schwarze Abt“ (2008), „Der Engel des Schreckens“ (2009), „Die seltsame Gräfin“ (2010), „Der unheimliche Mönch (2011), „Die toten Augen von London“ (2013), „Der Zinker“ (2015),  „Der Frosch mit der Maske“ (2018), „Die Tür mit den 7 Schlössern“ (2020), "Die Blaue Hand" (2023).

"Die Seltsame Gräfin" was published as 2CD audioplay also in 2014.