2023-10-11 13:01:31
These weeks, the first on Wednesday evenings is proving how excellent public television can be. Bjarne Mädel plays the crime hero Sörensen and also directed the film.
Hamburg.
With “Tatortreiniger” and other cult series, Bjarne Mädel has played her way into the hearts of millions of television viewers. With “Sörensen is afraid” he switched to directing for the first time and delivered an outstanding television film with himself in the lead role. Das Erste is showing its debut again this Wednesday (8:15 p.m.), a repeat from 2021. Next Wednesday evening, a new film adaptation of a Sven Stricker crime novel will be broadcast for the first time: “Sörensen Catches Fire”.
Chief Detective Sörensen, who is fleeing to the countryside because of an anxiety disorder about murder and manslaughter, has been accompanying Mädel for several years. Stricker basically wrote the material into Mädel’s mouth as a radio play in 2014 and turned it into a book a year later.
The Berlin girl by choice was relieved and proud after his debut, as he told the German Press Agency in Hamburg at the time. Proud because the film turned out exactly as he had previously imagined it. “I had the film in my stomach. I knew it was supposed to be very dark overall. It was more the mood that the film was supposed to create that I had in my stomach. And I’m incredibly proud that I can say that now : Yes, we were able to implement exactly what I wanted.” Relieved because the financial pressure and the responsibility as a director were also quite frightening.
In “Sörensen is afraid” the targeted escape to the countryside does little for the inspector. Barely having arrived in the dreariness of Katenbüll in North Frisia with its rather grumpy residents, Mayor Hinrichs is murdered. The investigation reveals terrible abysses and gruesome entanglements behind the small town idyll. Both the permanently drunk, former spa director Frieder Marek (Matthias Brandt) and the large butcher shop boss Jens Schäffler (Peter Kurth) are involved.
It wasn’t just girls’ fans who enthusiastically received the Hamburg native’s directorial debut. The dry humor, the laconic sayings, the verbal duels in which every word is right: it’s all there in “Sörensen is afraid”. But the crime thriller is also seasoned with a good pinch of seriousness. He takes a conscious and multifaceted look at anxiety disorders and also deals with machinations that are hostile to children. What Mädel herself likes about the film is that it begins with lightness and humor. “And at some point the cruelty of this place, the dark history, takes over and pushes out the comedy and, in Sörensen’s case, also the fear.” (dpa)
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