The off-screen voice doesn't want to match the pictures.

We see up close how a middle-aged man is brutally beaten up at night by a younger man.

Again and again the perpetrator kicks in on the person lying on the floor, watched by a neighbor at the window.

Meanwhile, screaming in pain, a young woman moves through her room and gives birth to a child.

A second young man throws a cell phone into the Weser.

The next morning the police found a body at the port.

It's that of the bat.

Michael Hanfeld

responsible editor for features online and "media".

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    In all of this we hear the voice of a young woman who philosophizes about life and death, murder and manslaughter and apparently also about herself: A murder is "so powerful", she says, intervenes in so many lives, "Man, woman, Children, friends, from the victim, from the perpetrator ”.

    One hope everything turns out for the better, but too often it turns “into the shit, far too often.

    But if you have recognized the point where it went wrong, life, then you also know why.

    If you are honest, really honest, then you just want to be in the right place at the right time.

    Fuck.

    And that's me, and that's today. "

    Says Liv Moormann (Jasna Fritzi Bauer) and makes her way to the homicide department. Mads Andersen (Dar Salim) is just about to jump there. His train is about to go back home, to Copenhagen, he just wants to get rid of a few donuts quickly. Instead, Commissioner Harmsen sent him to investigate the death. At the place where the corpse was found, colleague Moormann turns up - uninvited. In the meantime, BKA investigator Linda Selb (Luise Wolfram) has long been professionally equipped for the crime scene work and is not at a loss for any comment from the I-would-like-as-Clint-Eastwood-Blades department. Linda Selb would like a little more “brain” from the perpetrators, a challenge, a serial killer, a “duel at eye level”. But, she already knows, nothing will come of it, because:"Death is a left-handed backup wanker."

    So that's what it looks like, and that's how it sounds, when in German television thriller, when in “Tatort” on ARD, when a new team is introduced by Radio Bremen. During the investigation, Moormann, Selb (who we already know from the previous five "Tatort" episodes from Bremen) and Andersen hinted at stories from their lives. Liv, Linda and Mads, of course, have dark secrets. They don't harmonize at all - Moormann is a pain in the ass, Andersen apparently confident until he drops, Selb boldly bold and then suddenly compassionate - but by the end of the first episode they are supposed to be a great team.

    But it's not just the characters, the life stories and behaviors that are ascribed to them, that are full of clichés. The construction of the case - it is about a family tragedy in a socially precarious milieu - is. Not to mention the deliberately meaningful sentences that the screenwriter Christian Jeltsch, a veteran with decades of crime and crime scene experience, gives the younger protagonists in particular. Our personal highlight says Leonie Wesselow in the role of the friend of the, as we were soon told, murdered dealer when she found out about his death: “Life starts shit and shit ends - and in between it pretends to be cake . "

    “Courageous”, “different” and “truthful”, those were the adjectives “that should shape the concept for the new Bremen 'Tatort'”, says the author Jeltsch. We would say: the goal was achieved in zero out of three points. No matter how hard the director Barbara Kulcsar tries to “tell the story close to the characters”, “portray them credibly and empathically”. She only succeeds in a few scenes, and then only because the cast is right: In this case, it is mainly André Szymanski in the role of the failed, alcohol-addicted professional footballer Rudi Stiehler (who is beaten up at the beginning), Johanna Polley as Stiehler's daughter Jessica (who gives birth to a child) and Gustav Schmidt as his son Marco.

    But above everything, in the voice over, lies the voice of Jasna Fritzi Bauer alias Liv Moormann, whispering Gaga lyrics and asking: “People, if they commit crimes, are they themselves?

    And if that's the real thing, where else is it in your life?

    When you go on the subway, go shopping, make love? ”“ In which moments ”, she wants to know,“ is life a facade, and in which moments is it real? ”At this point we only say: there is no real one Crime in the wrong one.

    The “crime scene” is a long, calm river and sometimes a pond.

    Already clear that Mads Andersen is missing one train after the other to Copenhagen.

    If only he had got one.

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    scene of the crime: Newborn

    runs on Whit Monday at 8.15 p.m. in the first.