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The Weimar “Tatort” heralds the new year with a bang: Lessing is shot. Here you can find out what this means for the future of the “crime scene” and why the commissioner might continue to investigate after your death.
Those who wanted to, knew two weeks before the Weimar New Year’s “Tatort” air date that Christian Ulmen’s movie character Lessing would not see the end of “The Fine Spirit.” For everyone else, though, the popular investigator’s death should have come as a huge surprise, especially since there was little evidence of it in the first half of the film. With or without prior knowledge: The explosion of the “Tatort” in the new year is deafening after this New Years Eve without firecrackers and raises some interesting questions.
Contrary to all expectations, he is not Lessing’s killer: security businessman Geist (Ronald Zehrfeld).
(Photo: MDR / MadeFor / Steffen Junghans)
Let’s start with the facts: after eleven episodes Inspector Lessing is over, he is shot while chasing a fugitive in the Weimar cave. But that’s far from the end of the Weimar “crime scene,” and even to the investigative duo and film couple Ulmen and Tschirner, after seven years together, the late Lessing appears to his wife as a ghost: a trick. , which the MDR is obviously thinking about intensely.
Ghost investigators as a quota guarantee?
“The death of our Commissioner Lessing and the continuation of his ghost figure were a creative suggestion from Christian Ulmen,” reveals the station’s press office: “We were happy to include him because we see an exciting development in him.” However, if it comes down to it, it depends largely on how the audience receives “The Fine Spirit”: “We will wait for the effect of the film and then decide how we will develop the format further. If you believe in the newspaper “Bild”, at the beginning of January there will be a meeting, in which those responsible want to decide on the future of the strange series. Lupo’s actor, Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey, told the newspaper that the general momentum has already been defined, but that the audience itself will likely tip the balance.
After the controversy over the direction of recent years and the rise in allegations that the crime series “faded away,” waiting is definitely the right decision in this special case: when Lessing shows up as a ghost investigator next to Dorn, part of the “crime scene” audience screams almost guaranteed: the only question is how big it will be.
For once, Corona plays in the hands of the decision makers: because there were delays in filming due to the pandemic, there will be no broadcast space for a Thuringian case next year anyway. Weimar’s next “Tatort” won’t be on screens until 2022 anyway, long enough for the MDR to decide on a future with or without elms.
