Serial killer "crime scene": Dexter in Dresden

They sit at the kitchen table and drink coffee in a bathrobe, they sit on the couch and watch TV in Puschen. With great attention to detail, someone in a deserted house somewhere in the Saxon Nowhere has put together still life of middle-class happiness. The figures are corpses arranged by a serial killer with a sense for the decorative. Before he put them together in small groups of topics, he blew them out. Looks homely, but muffles a bit.

That's what the two women investigators say when they storm the morgue at night with a special squad. The investigators, that is after some conversions in Dresden "crime scene" now: Karin Gorniak (Karin Hanczewski), which still has to cope with the departure of her colleague and friend Hennie Sieland, as well as the new High Commissioner Leonie Winkler (Cornelia Gröschel), which has difficulties to fill the big footsteps of her predecessor.

Right at the first meeting everything goes awry: Gorniak gets a knife from the masked serial killer 15 inches deep into the belly, Winkler looks petrified. Not a good basis to go hunting for the escaped culprit again a few months later - especially as the still traumatized Gorniak is confronted once again.

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The serial killer overpowers the commissioner and begins to let her get sucked out so he can set her up in one of his petty bourgeois ensembles. He says, "Do you know when one really sees a human, his true face? Just before he dies, I have not seen yours yet." Then the camera shows how Gorniak's blood drips into a canister and the killer is happy: "Now I see her slowly."

What does the neighbor so when he raves in the basement

We can retell that at this point without having to raise a spoiler alert. Because the emotional focus of this tangible horror thriller is not on the hunt for the perpetrator, but in the relationship of this to the ailing commissioner. Exactly in the middle of the plot, we learn that the perpetrator is a well-to-do citizen who pursues his murderous pastime in the basement of his own home. What the neighbor just does when he raves in the hobby cellar.

The script was written by Erol Yesilkaya, who varies artfully in his television crime novels. The Frankfurt "Tatort" he once laid out as a variation of "Se7en", the Berlin as a tribute to "Taxi Driver". Recently ran a "crime scene" of him, in which he quoted elements from "The Silence of the Lambs" against the backdrop of the Wagner Festival. After Hannibal in Bayreuth now Dexter in Dresden.

All "crime scene" teams at a glance

Mountain and Tobler in the Black Forest

Eva Löbau as Franziska Tobler and Hans-Jochen Wagner as Friedemann Berg do not need dialog fanfares or exotic role biographies. They use what this weather-intensive crime thriller Black Forest gives. A homeland thriller in which everything is produced locally: fruit, schnapps, death. With the last, exceptional consequences, the area in Germany's most extreme southwest also showed an extreme willingness to take risks and showed one case each from the perspective of a schizophrenic and a sex offender.

Tschiller in Hamburg

The "crime scene" power dreams have not been fulfilled. The dedicated to extra conditions mega-star Til Schweiger brought the thriller series no mega-odds as Commissioner Tschiller. Not even by Panzerfaust and Helene Fischer use. After the blockbuster attempts failed on the audience front, the sixth Tschiller episode is being written: The "Haudrauf" is said to be drawn as a broken figure in it. Broadcast not before 2020.

Dorn and Lessing in Weimar

Is that still a thriller? Nora Tschirner as commissar Dorn and Christian Ulmen as colleague Lessing let the usual "Tatort" -deliector punching go with vain elegance into the void - and that just in the sphere of influence of the MDR, where it used to be difficult with humor and subversion. After the initially sluggish programming as an event "crime scene", Dorn and Lessing now investigate twice a year. Soon it will be negotiated how it goes on with the TV area. We hope for a long future.

Borowski in Kiel

The world converter: As Klaus Borowski Axel Milberg is best when he descends in parallel cosms of psychopaths - perhaps because Borowski himself is built close to madness. Since 2003, until 2009, was meaningfully under the observation of a police psychologist. But the women come and go in the Borowski "crime scene". After Maren Eggert and Sibel Kekilli, the highly-traded Turkish-born actress Almila Bagriacik ("4 blocks") has now taken on the role of the female sidekick.

Sieland, Gorniak and Schnabel in Dresden

Funny it started, a draw went on, it should be serious. Alwara Höfels, Karin Hanczewski and Martin Brambach had to struggle in the first episodes with the half-baked concept of the MDR. Höfels meanwhile pulled the consequences and said goodbye to the Dresden crime scene. Her part will soon be taken over by Cornelia Göschel.

Hawk in northern Germany

Forever Punk: Wotan Wilke Möhring as Commissar Falke listens to punk and contributes to sleeping as if to find a threadbare Ramones shirt. First he was traveling in Hamburg, then he had to leave the city to Til Schweiger and moved to the north German countryside, now he may investigate again in Hamburg. In the role of co-investigator Franziska Weisz acts as Julia Grosz. Two episodes a year.

Murot in Hesse

Do not be afraid of the pianist! Whether on the piano or on a machine gun - Ulrich Tukur as Commissioner Murot is almost always a sensation. Almost always: The number with the jugglers in the circus episode "Dizziness" from 2013 was really bad, but the Tarantino-meets-Truffaut episode "Born in pain" 2014 was an absolute masterpiece of the series. It is a pleasant change to watch Ulrich - Oops, now I come - Tukur as LKA - man Felix Murot singing, dancing and making music through the action. Or just sometimes with the rapid-fire weapon ensures order. Great thriller cinema. Run whenever Tukur fancy a "crime scene" shoot.

Lannert and Bootz in Stuttgart

The wounded: Richy Müller as Thorsten Lannert and Felix Klare as Sebastian Bootz are great guys. One with a tragic undercover investigator past, the other an honored failed husband. Since 2008, they are in use, in the beginning, the cases was still flushed routine routinely. But the most recent Stuttgart episodes treat at the highest aesthetic level excitement topics such as Stuttgart 21 and unprocessed RAF history. A formidable film noir was the thriller that was told completely from the perspective of a liar. Big thriller movie theater!

Faber, Bönisch, Dalay and Kossik in Dortmund

The sick: Jörg Hartmann swallows plenty of pills and breaks toilets as Peter Faber. Anna Schudt as a colleague Martina Bönisch rises more to frustration reduction as a pleasure with callboys and vacuum cleaner representatives to bed. Aylin Tezel as Nora Dalay and Stefan Konarske as Daniel Kossik have already sweated together on patrol and in bed together - but would never use the L-word. Two episodes a year. One of the few TV areas with stringent character development. The elite of the German TV crime. Stefan Konarske has dropped out and was replaced by Rick Okon ("The Boat").

Boerne and Thiel in Münster

The Prof and the Proll: Since 2002, Jan Josef Liefers as a forensic physician Karl-Friedrich Boerne and Axel Prahl as Frank Thiel determine between bis dynasties, potato kings and asparagus emperors. The one snob and closely associated with the Münster dignitaries, the other St. Pauli fan and outsider. A combination with the grotesque humor smuggled into the "crime scene" in the beginning, but exhausted in recent years in gag cannonades. Two cases a year, regularly flanked by new quota records.

Brix and Janneke in Frankfurt

How are they on it? As balanced as Paul Brix (Wolfram Koch, l.) And Anna Janneke (Margarita Broich, r.) Is no one else in TV crime Germany to work. Good mood as a unique selling point, an interesting twist. Instead of rubbing the concentrated attention for each case. Brix was once in the habit, Janneke has previously worked as a psychologist: A good addition to descend into the hard, sick and yet often cheerfully twisted cases of the Hessian "crime scene". Here is a lot of experimentation, never forget the haunted house horror, which caused fierce debates inside the ARD. Two episodes a year.

Ruby and Karow in Berlin

He a pig, she a slut: In contrast to the former sunny capital city cops Ritter and Stark "crime scene" successor Mark Waschke as Robert Karow and Meret Becker as Nina Rubin drawn with extremely black line. While Karow in the first episode has crooked business with the drug mafia, Rubin enjoys SM games in the backyards of Kreuzberg hipster bars. In addition to stark character drawings, the radically modernized Berlin "Tatort" is above all a harmonious metropolis impression. Two episodes a year.

Stellbrink in Saarbrücken

The undecided: Since 2013 Devid Striesow as Jens Stellbrink and Elisabeth Brück as Lisa Marx determine in Saarbrücken. He is a stinking emotional man, she a rabid analysis machine. One likes it in Saarbrücken in terms of character drawing just like a bit plain. The potential of the great actor Striesow was never even exhausted. Departure in January 2019.

Voss and Ringelhahn in Franconia

The strangers: Felix Voss is a lost and locked northern light with a penchant for techno-excesses. Paula Ringelhahn made her way out of the East at wall time because she believed in freedom and democracy. Now the two commissioners, who do not match at all, find themselves in an area where they also seem out of place. An attractive basic situation. Once a year, Fabian Hinrichs and Dagmar Manzel appear as unequal pair in the hinterland of Lower, Middle and Upper Franconia occur. Hinrichs had previously caused in a BR episode as an investigator squaw Gisbert for furore and amorous audience.

Eisner and Fellner in Vienna

The double espresso: Since 1999 Harald Krassnitzer determined as Major Moritz Eisner grumpy, practical, good. He has since poured into the 5000 mugs of mocha and other strong caffeinated drinks. Since 2011 he has been supported by Adele Neuhauser as Bibi Fellner, a (mostly) dry alcoholic with a penchant for the demimonde at the Prater. Vienna, dark and cold, like a stale black man. In 2014 there was the Grimme Prize.

Ballauf and Schenk in Cologne

The couple: Klaus J. Behrendt as Max Ballauf and Dietmar Bär as Freddy Schenk stood for a long time for the good old sociokrimi - not an issue that was not determined by the two warm-hearted and wegerklärt. Schenk has a wife at home who has never been seen. But let's be honest: what can be said against his great love Ballauf? Since 1997, three to four cases a year. After Assistant Franziska was brutally murdered from the TV area at the beginning of 2014, the people of Cologne are more gloomy and unforgiving. Is the two "crime scene" -Oldies actually quite good.

Lürsen and Stedefreund in Bremen

The eternal Spontis: Sabine Postel as Inga Lürsen and Oliver Mommsen as Nils Stedefreund deliver a nice interplay. If the youngster does it too much, she puts on her stern face, if the boss has too much fun, he makes the grumbler. Schnöddrig solve the two politically charged cases in this way. Left, humorous, sometimes a little too loud. She has been there since 1997, he since 2001. Two to three cases a year, often strong B-movies. For 2019 the farewell is announced.

Lindholm in Hannover and surroundings

The woman of today: Since 2002, Maria Furtwängler has been performing in the role of Charlotte Lindholm in Lower Saxony and in recent years has become the epitome of the modern female investigator. WG-experienced, highly pregnant during explosive investigations, later brought her child and career together well. Lindholm is personified self-optimization, conservative at heart but open to experimentation. In short: the Ursula von der Leyen of the "crime scene". Two to three episodes a year, now only one. Not always great, never boring.

Batic and Leitmayr in Munich

The eternal bachelors: For more than a quarter of a century, the two are already in action - and still good for a scandal: Recently Commissioner Ivo Batic (l. Miroslav), and colleague Franz Leitmayr (Udo Wachtveitl) made with an explicit thriller about the Munich porn business for riot among the spectators. Whether swinger clubs or polyamory: Curiously, the Bavarian boys graying in honor continue to descend into the more difficult erogenous zones of German society.

Flückiger in Lucerne

The Leisetreter: After Stefan Gubser as Reto Flückiger had already determined several times as a guest with colleague Klara Blum in Konstanz, he got in 2011 his own area in Lucerne. Bring a soft note into the hysterical "crime scene". In the disastrous first episode, Sofia Milos assisted him as Abby Lanning, then Delia Mayer took on the female sidekick role as Liz Ritschard. She plays the first open lesbian investigator in the "crime scene" alliance. The two were never the crowd favorites, 2019 is the last episode. Then it should continue with the Swiss "crime scene" in Zurich.

Odenthal in Ludwigshafen

The experimental machine: Here were the most beautiful amorous escapades and the boldest stories - including a trip into space. Ulrike Folkerts as Lena Odenthal is in use since 1989, Andreas Hoppe as Mario Kopper joined in 1996. But left the "crime scene" 2017 again. At the moment, the SWR is doing all sorts of experiments with the TV area, but the two improv episodes fell far short of expectations. Nevertheless, please continue experimenting!

As in the US series with Michael C. Hall, we get to know the serial killer from the near-perspective, the switch from the breathless thrill of the killer hunt to the sarcastic offender cop-tête-à-tête. Directed by Alex Eslam, who began his career with the short film "Infernal Nuns", a homage to the 1970s nuns soft porn revenge horror such as "Me, the Nun and the Pigs".

After the Sexploitation now so the Saxploitation: Eslam's Saxon B-Movie "crime scene" about a killer who bleeds his victims, comes after an interim artistic bleeding of the MDR "crime scene": Head-author Ralf Husmann and co-starring actress Alwara Höfels had left the TV area in the fight.

Efficient serial killer thriller craft

The Dresden "crime scene" should now be hard instead of funny, and this demand is met with the episode "The Nest" also. Yesilkaya and Eslam play sovereign the genre-related shock scenes: A young woman is hunted by the faceless killer at first by a canteen kitchen, the investigator is informed by him in a polite tone about the manner of her dying. Efficient serial killer thriller craft.

But in order to really be able to counteract, the psychological subtext and the aesthetic cross references are not played hard enough. The corpse world, so lovingly staged at the beginning, which nevertheless has something to do with the inner constitution of the offender, remains a decorative gimmick. And the merging of the old and the new Commissioner is more asserted than experienced.

Perhaps it is due to the difficult production situation of the Dresden "crime scene", where there is a constant coming and going, dying and rising again. Nonetheless: We basically follow the path to the dark side of Dresden.

Rating: 7 out of 10

"Tatort: ​​Das Nest", Sunday, 8.15 pm, ARD