You don’t want another defenestration to put the audience in a headlock of pity, you don’t want to sigh at the screen after a good hour. But This time it’s different
(WDR editorial team: Götz Bolten). That’s not just the title of the new Cologne episode, but also the truth about the defenestration. Nobody here jumps to their death as unnecessarily as they did last week in Halle
Police call Teacher “Jesus” Krein, because certain information and helpful words simply didn’t make it into the script.
This comes from Wolfgang S Tauch in Cologne, a veteran of the series, who, with his 13th case, made it into the top 15, among which there is exactly one woman, Dorothee Schön (11th place, 17 scripts).
The crime scene starts a bit like Vienna a few weeks ago: birthday, dancing, tumbling, and Ballauf (Klaus J. Behrendt), the old borderliner who is called “stray” by his colleagues because of his unsuccessful love life – is Ballauf in
love. With Nicola Koch (Jenny Schily), who works for a city magazine-like print product with the somewhat laborious title Cologne Alive works that is deficient and often features the pop singer and youth welfare supporter Mariella Rosanelli (Leslie Malton). Inspector Schenk (Dietmar Bär) has to make disparaging comments about pop music, because anyone who is self-respecting in German high culture must constantly be ashamed of the most popular local pop music.
Nicola has been in trouble with Rosanelli for a long time, but that only comes out later. Both share a secret. The violent death of Peer Schwarz triggers the journey into the past. Single and unemployed, the former journalist financed his attractive apartment through blackmail. For example, through compromising material from Rosanelli’s past that threatens to damage her image as a benefactor of youth welfare.
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Like Ballauf’s love, Nicola Koch, the pop singer was a supervisor at a choir camp 25 years earlier, where the charismatic and “manipulative” (Rosanelli) choir director Philipp Pohl abused those under his protection. The two supervisors helped cover up the crime that completely derailed Sandra Jürgens (Brigitte Zeh).
Pop singer and youth welfare supporter: Mariella Rosanelli (Leslie Malton) © WDR/Bavaria Fiction GmbH/Martin Valentin Menke
This time it’s different reconstructs the old story through parallel interviews with those involved at the time (montage: Kai Minierski). Tension first arises in the private environment of the amorous inspector. Because Ballauf finds out that the car sharing car with which Peer Schwarz was killed was rented by Nicola at the time of the crime. Ballauf doesn’t do this officially, but with the support of long-time friend Lydia Rosenberg (Juliane Köhler).
Which is always the case when the police officer involved investigates on his own account. On the one hand, there are people in the police in real life who don’t just do what the service tells them to do, but on the other hand, the ARD Sunday evening crime drama almost never manages to portray the ambivalence of private investigation as well as this one British series Criminal Record on Apple TV+ recently achieved. Right at the beginning, the protagonist, police officer June Lenker, checks license plates of cars parked in front of her annoying, paranoid mother’s house, which will later cause problems for the investigator during an internal investigation. It’s that easy to tell a plausible story, increase the complexity of the character and heighten the tension.
In This time it’s different Ballauf’s solo number is at least motivated by love. That’s what he chose crime scene come up with a striking device – in scenes between the inspector and the journalist you can also hear thoughts that he has in particular. A good way to express doubts and hear what is not being said. But if the love between the two is so great and the conversation is so good, then in the end the question remains as to why Nicola cannot confide in her new friend and investigator before she falls to her death.
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The circumstances of this case are then a concern for the long finale. It is important to convict Rosanelli: as the woman behind the wheel of the car that knocked over Peer Schwarz, and as the woman who pushed the drunk Nicola Koch over the balcony railing in a mix of arguments and worries. Larissa Krüger (Katja Hutko), one of the abused young women whom Rosanelli helped with her project, is also in the raffle for the second act.
However, the character is designed too superficially for Larissa’s psychological stress and her dependence on Rosanelli, which is intended to be expressed here – similar to Nicola Koch’s silence towards Ballauf. Routine rules, also at the level of direction (Torsten C. Fischer): The characters have functions for the story that they can’t get out of – no one really gets close to you.
In the case of the main actors, this is also due to the game – Klaus J. Behrendt and Dietmar Schenk have likeable faces that convey the familiarity that the Cologne natives have crime scene lives. The portrayal of pain, shock, loss in Behrendt’s case or Schenk’s concern for his colleague is not particularly differentiated or stubborn.
After all: Assistant Jütte (Roland Riebeling) respectfully wears her hair black in this episode.
Three “crime scene” sentences for real life:
An awareness with which you should go into salary negotiations: “Men always say that.”
A graffito that decorates every living room: “I want this to stop.”
A sentence that turns colleagues into friends: “I almost fell asleep again.”
You don’t want another defenestration to put the audience in a headlock of pity, you don’t want to sigh at the screen after a good hour. But This time it’s different
(WDR editorial team: Götz Bolten). That’s not just the title of the new Cologne episode, but also the truth about the defenestration. Nobody here jumps to their death as unnecessarily as they did last week in Halle
Police call Teacher “Jesus” Krein, because certain information and helpful words simply didn’t make it into the script.
This comes from Wolfgang S Tauch in Cologne, a veteran of the series, who, with his 13th case, made it into the top 15, among which there is exactly one woman, Dorothee Schön (11th place, 17 scripts).