Current discussions on teaching German alongside the core subjects at university show the necessity to consider both institutional requirements and the students' individual goals when establishing teaching objectives. Existing text books, however, suffer from an overly tight structure that doesn’t allow the instructor to use additional material in order to focus on the specific needs of the students in a suitable way. Flexible concepts are needed which serve as a framework and which can be realized with texts and tasks focusing on what is required by a specific learning context. This paper presents such an approach, using the German feature film Tatort. Besides ideas for working with the audiovisual material we will present opportunities that come along with the various texts and discussions in media and social networks arising around the film as well as ways for combining these aspects with developing language skills for the academic context.