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“That is the longing: to live in the swell / and have no home in the time,” recites Inspector Lessing, as soon as the opening credits of the New Year's “Tatort” are over, Rilke's poem “Motto”.
He dances down a flight of stairs.
A book in hand.
We are in Weimar.
Lessing could always do that.
The criminal investigator played by Christian Ulmen is guaranteed to remember any quote.
He has fulfilled the educational mandate of the German quality television flagship all by himself since he was sent on a murder hunt through the classic city with Kira Dorn (Nora Tschirner) by the script duo Murmel Clausen and Andreas Pflüger.
At the latest when you look at “The Fine Spirit”, Lessing's eleventh investigation, a second time (which you should definitely do), you notice that he is not quoting Rilke by chance.
Superficially and up to about half of it is about strange deaths and parrots.
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Then everything changes.
Weimar - started as a counterpart to the Münster-based Ulkduo - turns into seriousness and finally revolves around saying goodbye, about not having a home.
And about that with which Rilke's “motto” continues: the “wishes: quiet dialogues / daily hours with eternity”.
Lessing is dead, one can reveal that because everyone in the wake of a tabloid has betrayed it.
It is said that he remains with us as a spirit.
Will lead quiet dialogues from eternity.
Why not?
We have had a commissioner who spoke to his tumor.
As long as Lessing continues to work on our education, it should be fine with us.
But it doesn't have to be Rilke quotes anymore.