Whether in television, newspapers or radio broadcastings, court trials are omnipresent in our own media culture today; it would appear in the past, that judicial negotiations did not lack any media interest either, as Daniel Siemens posits in his study “Metropole und Verbrechen”. Siemens’ book is based upon a comparative examination of the court trial press coverage in Chicago, Paris, and Berlin during the interwar period. He contents that court trials held a central position in the public sphere due to media coverage of the trials guaranteeing the circulation of the judicial decision making processes, thus allowing both the judicial system of the state and wider society to connect. The enhancement of the social significance of court reportage served to make it a source for social orientation, helping to remedy the lack of confidence and security in the interwar period and also establishing a "local moral order".