Crime Dinner Entertainment

What Crime Dinner Entertainment does

Crime Dinner Entertainment GmbH, operating as Das Original KRIMIDINNER®, is a German live entertainment company founded in 2002 and headquartered in Essen. The company produces and stages interactive murder mystery dinner theater experiences inspired by the 1960s Edgar Wallace crime era, pairing scripted role-play performances with a four-course candlelit dinner. Shows are staged at 200+ partner venues across Germany — including castles, hotels, and manor houses — under a rotating library of 10+ original show scripts collectively branded as the Ashtonburry Chronicles. Revenue is generated primarily through direct-to-consumer ticket sales via the company's website (krimidinner.de), priced per guest and inclusive of the meal. Supplementary revenue streams include corporate events, private exclusive bookings, gift vouchers, and an English-language show ("The Funeral Party") targeting international visitors. The core customer base consists of individual consumers, groups, and couples seeking leisure entertainment, with a secondary corporate segment purchasing team-building and private event experiences.

Name

Crime Dinner Entertainment

Legal name

Das Original KRIMIDINNER®

Website

https://krimidinner-entertainment.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Crime Dinner Entertainment, founded in 2002 in Essen, Germany, produces live interactive murder mystery dinner theater at 200+ venues across Germany. It sells 4-course themed dining tickets direct-to-consumers and corporate clients via its KRIMIDINNER® brand.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Live Theatrical Dinner Entertainment

NAICS

Theater Companies and Dinner Theaters (711110), Theater Companies and Dinner Theaters (71111)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810), Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Supper Clubs & Dinner-Theater Restaurants (THAFACAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Classical & Contemporary Theatre (Plays/Drama) (MPAGABAH)

Keywords

• Murder mystery dinner
• Interactive dinner theater
• Live entertainment events
• Themed dining experiences
• Corporate team events

Headquarters

HQ city

Essen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Crime Dinner Ticket Sales: Revenue generated from selling tickets to live crime dinner theatrical experiences featuring multi-course dining and interactive murder mystery entertainment in 1960s Edgar Wallace style.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Crime Dinner Entertainment produces and stages 4-course murder mystery dinner theater performances at 200+ venues across Germany. The flagship "Ashtonburry Chronicles" narrative connects 10+ episodes into a continuing storyline, played by professional actors alongside paying guests who eat dinner as the mystery unfolds. Separate bespoke offerings exist for corporate clients (Firmenshows) and private events (Privatshows / Exklusivshow), plus an English-language show ("The Funeral Party") for international audiences.

Product overview

Crime Dinner Entertainment (KRIMIDINNER) operates as a unified murder mystery dinner theater platform offering live interactive detective experiences set in the 1960s crime era. The core product is the KRIMIDINNER show featuring the Ashtonburry-Chronik (Ashtonburry Chronicles), a collection of interconnected murder mystery episodes including titles such as Sherlock Holmes und der Fluch der Ashtonburrys, Die Nacht des Schreckens, Ein Leichenschmaus, Hochzeit in Schwarz, Spuk von Darkwood Castle, and Der Teufel der Rennbahn. Each show combines professional actors, a 4-course candlelit dinner, and audience participation. The company operates across 200+ venue locations (Tatorte) throughout Germany, ranging from castles and manor houses to hotels. Additional offerings include corporate shows (Firmenshows), private exclusive shows (Privatshows), English-language performances (The Funeral Party), and gift vouchers. The platform functions as a ticketing and booking service for themed dinner entertainment events.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• KRIMIDINNER — The Ashtonburry Chronicles A 4-course murder mystery dinner theater experience where paying guests dine while professional actors perform a scripted mystery story. The flagship offering, billed as "Das Original KRIMIDINNER®," runs a serialized storyline (the Ashtonburry Chronicles) across 10+ episodes at 200+ venues across Germany, designed for individual consumers and small groups attending scheduled public performances.
• Firmenshows (Corporate Shows) A dedicated B2B product line that delivers the murder mystery dinner theater experience as a corporate event for businesses, suitable for team-building, employee events, and client entertainment. Booked as a bespoke service for companies and organizations.
• Privatshows / Exklusivshow (Private Shows) An exclusive private variant of the murder mystery dinner experience, bookable for private groups and special occasions. Designed as a customizable, private performance of the KRIMIDINNER format for birthdays, celebrations, and other private events.
• The Funeral Party (English-language show) An English-language murder mystery dinner show, part of the Ashtonburry Chronicles series, aimed at international audiences and non-German-speaking guests in Germany.
• Gutscheine (Gift Vouchers) Prepaid gift vouchers that can be redeemed against KRIMIDINNER dinner theater experiences, sold as a standalone product for gifting occasions.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Pirate's Dinner Adventure: Established themed dinner theater with permanent venue producing scripted shows combined with multi-course dining. Comparable in delivering theatrical entertainment as a paid dining experience at scale, though operates a single-venue rather than distributed model.
• Medieval Times: Established global dinner theater chain featuring themed live shows combined with multi-course meals. While the theme (medieval jousting) differs from murder mystery, the integrated theater-plus-dining business model and target market of family/corporate groups is highly comparable.

Emerging players

• Punchdrunk: UK-based immersive theater company behind 'Sleep No More'. While not a dinner theater, the immersive participatory performance model and ability to command premium experiential pricing provides a comparable adjacent benchmark for the high-end immersive dining-entertainment category.

Direct peers

• Tony n' Tina's Wedding: Long-running interactive dinner theater show where guests attend a staged wedding while dining. Highly comparable immersive theatrical dinner format, audience participation model, and multi-year run-length operating philosophy.
• The Murder Mystery Company: US-based provider of interactive murder mystery dinner shows for corporate events, private parties, and public venues. Operates a franchise/multi-city model comparable to Krimidinner's 200+ venue network, serving overlapping B2B and consumer segments.
• World of Dinner: Direct German competitor operating similar themed dinner theater experiences. The company is even cross-promoted on the Krimidinner website footer, confirming close category adjacency and shared customer base in the German dinner entertainment market.
• Krimi & Dinner: German provider of murder mystery dinner events offering comparable interactive theatrical dining experiences. Targets the same consumer and corporate segments in Germany with similar format combining actors, mystery, and multi-course meals.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/Das.original.Krimidinner

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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