2023-11-12 12:28:27
Like football, carnival is not a question of life and death. He is much more serious. The people of Cologne know that. The people of Cottbus, on the other hand, not so many people know that, but they know that too. There is carnival in Cottbus.
For decades. With a parade, with motif floats, costumes, elf council. And with coterie. Klüngel (vulgo: corruption, cheating, nepotism) belongs to carnival, to carnival, to carnival, to Fasnet, to every variety of seasonal cheer and madness, like the fir tree at Christmas. Okay, now the comparison was wrong. But without cliques, carnival wouldn’t be a carnival, whether in Cottbus or Cologne.
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In this respect, “Cottbus Headless”, the new case for the wonderfully gender-fluid Commissioner Vincent Ross from the German-Polish “Polizeiruf” commissionerate, is set in the foolish Lower Lusatia, but could just as easily be set in Freiburg or in Mainz or Koblenz. Nobody along the Rhine should be sure that the same thing that happened to Jurek Bukol in Cottbus won’t happen to him in his Jecke and Möhne club.
The classic Sunday evening crime film written by Axel Hildebrand and Mike Bäuml and directed by Christoph Schnee remains an ethnographic contribution about the special conditions of foolishness in the supposed Brandenburg diaspora.
Back to Jurek Bukol. He’s dead. There are quite a few people in Cottbus who might not think it’s funny, but it’s okay. Jurek was a troublemaker, a boss, a backstabber.
Detective Inspector Alexandra Luschke (Gisa Flake, center) rehearses for her appearance at the Cottbus carnival parade
Source: rbb/Volker Roloff
He lies burned in the workshop where he, the brilliant motif car builder, was assembling the moving cartoon trailer for the upcoming parade. All ashes now.
The fact that the medical officer wrote “heart attack” in the report about a corpse with a wound on the back of the head elicits such a smug smile from Inspector Ross (André Kaczmarczyk) that it alone makes all the previous and subsequent mummery worthwhile. Here, something should be pushed under the Lusatian crumb before it starts to smell noticeable.
What’s happening now could go a long way as a teaching tool for aspiring whodunit writers. A station drama. At every station – family, administration, club – of Ross’s parade through the community, in which everyone seems to know everyone, everyone seems to have gone to school with everyone else and could really use every joke at least one suspect is involved.
A wonderful loser
The chairman of the Eleven Council, who has achieved a considerable accumulation of office in the city, the son whom the dead man did not take seriously despite a seemingly considerable career (he brewed the first carnival beer in Cottbus), the daughter who wants to go to Canada, far away from Jurek and Cottbus, the ex-wife who is suddenly back, the police chief, who is the most wonderful of all would-be losers simply because he is played by Andreas Doehler, who is not only wonderfully hoarse, but also wonderful in other ways.
He really gets on Ross’ nerves because he “constantly goes out of communication”. People in Lusatia are amazed at such metropolitan sentences. But communication is important for Ross, who stalks and staggers through the Cottbus carnival pool full of sharks and old corpses, as he has always done in his cases before: relaxed, gentle, in high shoes, this time wearing what he claims is an aubergine-colored faux leather coat , an Italian made it.
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Vincent Ross parades through the Cottbus police headquarters like a Brazilian samba combo would in a Cottbus carnival parade – dazzling, strange and somehow admired by everyone. A human catcher. A whole new type of detective that you’ll want to build a reserve for the longer you watch him demonstrate how different investigations and leading a team are. Not from the spirit of neurosis and confrontation. But from empathy and curiosity.
Which brings us to what is, so to speak, the underbelly of the story, which is not at all funny. “Cottbus kopflos” is a team building event. After Ross quickly lost his first investigative partner Adam Raczek (Lukas Gregorowicz), the new triumvirate of the German-Polish commissariat from Świecko found themselves in the fool’s session in Cottbus the municipality of Slubice.
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The gently electrifying Vincent Ross forms Karl Rogov (Frank Leo Schröder), the grumpy old inspector with strange food preferences that no one trusts, and Alexandra Luschke (Gisa Flake), who works alongside Ross in Cottbus and has a preference for silvery things Dance costumes and sweaters whose colors clash with those of Ross’s outfit, a team like Urs Fischer at FC Union in its best days.
Not expensive, but strong in character. If slightly more intense scripts are now drawn up as opponents, there is hope for the three cross-border investigators of the Champions League of Sunday evening crime teams.
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