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Actor Hunold as public prosecutor Bernd Reuther: age limit for lawyers in “real life” has been exceeded
Photo: Andrea Enderlein / ZDF
Actor Rainer Hunold is leaving the ZDF crime series “The Prosecutor”. A spokesman for the station said this at the request of the German Press Agency in Berlin. »Rainer Hunold approached us with the wish to film the final episodes as “Prosecutor” in 2024. ZDF would like to thank him for the trusting, successful collaboration and is pleased that he will be available for another season in 2024. The series regularly reaches between five and a half and six million viewers on Friday evenings.
"Credibility and authenticity were always important criteria for the characters I played," said Hunold in an interview for ZDF on the occasion of the new series season from mid-February. "In view of my age, I have therefore decided to retire the Wiesbaden public prosecutor Bernd Reuther, whom I played in over 120 episodes."
The 74-year-old emphasized: "I want to prevent the inevitable age limit for lawyers in 'real life', which I have long since exceeded in my private life, from damaging the credibility of the character I love at some point." He looks back gratefully on working with him ZDF and the production company Odeon Fiction and am looking forward “to the next phase of my life, which I will dedicate exclusively to sculpture, my second great passion.”
The series “The Prosecutor” is set in Wiesbaden and originally began on ZDF in 2005 as a television film, which was later expanded into a series on Friday evenings. Hunold has been there as the main protagonist and title character since the first case. “We are already in discussions about the further development of the broadcast slot,” explained the ZDF spokesman.
The 19th season of “The Prosecutor” starts on February 16th at 8:15 p.m. In addition to Hunold in the role of senior public prosecutor Bernd Reuther, Anika Baumann can be seen as Chief Inspector Julia Schröder and Jannik Mioducki as Chief Inspector Alexander Witte.
Feb/dpa