Dortmund crime scene: a little less private, please!

I love the Ruhr area. I think Jörg Hartmann is a great actor. And I am firmly convinced that Dortmund has earned a crime scene. Actually good reasons to love the Dortmund crime scene. But in the fourth episode with the title "Forever Yours", I've now clearly noticed what bothers me: It is negotiated too much private - and only in between determined. Of course, this horizontal storytelling, that is the further development of the stories surrounding the investigators next to the current case, is part of the concept. But ARD crime scene coordinator Gebhard Henke is not quite sure whether this series concept works as desired, because "the distance between the episodes is too large and the audience could lose the thread".

Despite private worries, she has not lost her investigative instinct: Martina Bönisch (Anna Schudt).

After getting to know the investigators slower and faster in the first three episodes, this time we are worried about all four commissioners. Nora Dalay (Aylin Tezel) and Daniel Kossik (Stefan Konarske) have been having a fuss about second (remember, the bed scene at the beginning of the first episode), which is no longer as informal as a casual affair, and finally in the current episode is at a crossroads. Meanwhile, her colleague Martina Bönisch (Anna Schudt) also has to take care of her worries: the last time she "separated" from her callboy, she is now catching up to this amorous adventure - quite abruptly in a place she does not like at all fits.

Central to this is the story of the chief investigator of the group: Chief Inspector Peter Faber (Jörg Hartmann) gets in person of the suspect visit from his past. At the end of the last episode, everything pointed to the fact that his wife and daughter did not die in a car accident, but were murdered. Does the old acquaintance have anything to do with the murder of his family? And what role does he play in the current murder case in which the team goes in search of a serial killer, after a girl's body has been found in the forest and more girls have disappeared?

Between the exciting case around the serial killer and the search for the missing girl turns the private carousel of the investigators. There are a lot of things happening with four commissioners. And in between, Faber gets his infamous attacks of aggression.

Editor Insa Winter likes the crime scene from Kiel best. Borowski keeps himself largely private and investigates simply.

My conclusion to the Dortmund crime scene after episode four: Of course it is good and important to get to know the private side of the commissars. That really makes the characters really round. But if private life takes over the rudder and distracts too much from the cases that could easily carry a consequence, you have to stick to it - and want to stick to it. Otherwise you lose the connection to the plot, which will continue to spin in a few months. The Dortmund crime scene is therefore something for repeat offenders.

"Tatort: ​​Forever yours," Sunday, 2 February 2014, 20:15, ARD

By the way, our readers like the crime scene from Münster the best. In second and third place by far the colleagues from Berlin and Kiel. Who is the dearest crime scene commissar? Vote!

Wolfgang Back Interview for Scene World Magazine (German version) (May 2024).