“Tatort”: Heike Makatsch, the most enigmatic commissioner

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Et was like lightning, says the inspector, like realisation. She saw it in his eyes. Violence, cunning, fear, even panic. Ellen Berlinger knows her eyes, hers can be huge. And with lightning too. As Ellen Berlinger, Heike Makatsch is the incarnate principle of intuition.

She always knows something without knowing anything. And then she follows this knowledge. You have to imagine their investigative work as walking through a dark labyrinth with a strobe light in hand. Your superiors, fixated on facts, thank God, are confused.

That made us crazy too. Because there was a character who was out of tune with himself and the format and what you might call his story potential. Out of balance, on the verge of being unfinished.

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Actually, Ellen Berlinger was only intended for one case anyway. It’s called an event thriller. Those responsible for Sunday evening crime thrillers liked that for a while for some festival and some celebrity. Planted Nora Tschirner and Christian Ulmen in Weimar. Peter Kurth and Peter Schneider to Halle. Heike Makatsch found work as Ellen Berlinger in Freiburg.

Incidence. No longer. Then – this is the almost logical consequence of the event thriller – more of it, but at the same time another “crime scene” police station opened in the Black Forest with Eva Löbau and Hans-Jochen Wagner (and actually – as an event idea – Harald Schmidt as the head of the department , but jumped off before it really got going).

Makatsch went to Mainz. As unbalanced as Ellen Berlinger’s career has been so immature was the character of this commissioner, whose terrible parka and the terrible rest of her clothes are her armor like only the mad commissioner Faber in Dortmund.

ARD/SWR TATORT: IN HIS EYE, TV film Germany 2022, on Sunday (06/26/22) at 8:15 p.m. in the ERSTEN.  Martin Rascher (Sebastian Blomberg) has returned early from a training course to investigate her suspicion of murder with Ellen Berlinger (Heike Makatsch).  © SWR/Daniel Dornhöfer, free of charge - use according to the terms and conditions in close contextual, editorial context with the mentioned SWR program when named

ARD/SWR TATORT: IN HIS EYE, TV film Germany 2022, on Sunday (06/26/22) at 8:15 p.m. in the ERSTEN. Martin Rascher (Sebastian Blomberg) is prematurely from a training course returned to investigate her suspicion of murder with Ellen Berlinger (Heike Makatsch). © SWR/Daniel Dornhöfer, free of charge – use according to the terms and conditions in close editorial context with the mentioned SWR program when mentioning “Image: SWR/Daniel Dornhöfer” (S2+). SWR Press/Image Communication, Baden-Baden, Tel: 07221/929-22202, [email protected]

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They developed it properly on WDR. He got a consistent story, a psychological report, a guide, so to speak, as the basis for everything. The fact that the first Dortmund cases were all written by Jürgen Weber did not damage the plausibility of the story about the traumatized riot commissioner.

If at the end of the “Tatort” season, which we actually deserved, we could wish for something, then Thomas Kirchner would write just as many cases for Heike Makatsch, better for her acting physiognomy, as he did for Christian Redl in the legendary “Spreewald crime novel” (which also started as an event crime novel). That would be more than a dozen. And Makatsch would be a Sunday night crime legend.

Kirchner mirrored the principle of intuition, the stroboscopic nature of Ellen Berlinger in a narrative structure. Now that sounds intentional, but it isn’t. Ellen Berlinger and Thomas Kirchner are ideal partners. Just as Berlinger investigates, so Kirchner writes screenplays. Regardless of chronology, stories full of flashes and flashbacks. Mythical stories, thrillers where the real, the human and the magical intersect.

Pretty intoxicating game of deception

In contrast to the Spreewald in Mainz, myth and magic are not so far off. Kirchner can do without. “In his eyes” is the name of his first Makatsch “crime scene”. He does not cross legends, but life dreams, clichés and prejudices with various subplots.

If you were to tell everything linearly one after the other, it would probably result in a rather fussy eve case. By interlacing, by allowing the different time levels to interlock, which not only comment on each other, but not only continue, a rather addictive game of deception results, which successfully keeps you from thinking too much about the fundamental psychological flat-chestedness of the characters.

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The man in whose eyes Ellen Berlinger saw cunning, violence and fear is called Hannes. He’s in his thirties and has a pretty defined body. He was in for fraud. Now he is sitting in the villa of a factory owner’s widow.

Her name is Bibiana “Bibi” Dubinski. That’s her name, better said. Because she’s dead. Died under strange circumstances from insulin shock. Hannes was her playmate, her gigolo, that’s what people still like to say when older women love younger men.

Your Major Domus. That’s what Charlotte calls this seedy pretty boy. Charlotte is, was Bibi’s best friend. She introduced Hannes to Bibi. Hannes, Ellen Berlinger saw that, Ellen Berlinger knows that before she can prove anything, is the murderer. She just has to do what Kirchner does with his script, piece the story together like a jigsaw puzzle in retrospect.

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In the end, of course, a completely different picture emerges than Ellen Berlinger has in mind. With him she constantly runs into resistance, she is good at it, needs her colleague Rascher as a mediator, translator, arbitrator. He is – also because Sebastian Blomberg plays him – a stroke of luck for Mainz and Makatsch.

On average, Thomas Kirchner wrote one “Spreewald thriller” a year. We don’t need more Ellen Berlingers either. But we would like to have that.

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