“Tatort” from Münster: Why Thiel and Boerne are so successful – STAR

D as WDR “Tatort” team Thiel and Boerne – Axel Prahl and Jan Josef Liefers – hardly seems to stop. The episode “Murder is the best medicine” from Sunday evening through even broke the 13-million-viewer mark. Why is the Witzel Crime of Münster so successful

Seven possible reasons:

THE WORLD CUP IN THE DETECTIVE NOVELS
I heard that some people who watch only football on TV, when World Cup. Something like this is also the “crime scene”. Obviously there is in Germany a few million, which the ARD Sunday crime is largely the same. The average attendance of “Tatort” -Erstausstrahlungen is about nine million. Only twice a year, when the Munster thriller comes, Sunday evening is the “crime scene” evening for another three to four million. An event.

LOVE TO PROVINCE
Contrary to some perceptions by the media is the Federal Republic not only from Berlin and Co. The majority of people live not in cities, but in medium and small cities. As currently the SC Paderborn, the surprising Bundesliga leaders of the province, is admired, as well as the successful Crime of the peaceful cycling and university town of Münster is admired – as a genre picture German-being. He probably represents the country more than the typical socio-critical “crime scene” from Munich, Cologne, Berlin or Frankfurt am Main.

SCHMUNZELKRIMI
The ” Tatort “expert François Werner (” crime scene-fundus.de “) said:” The Münster can do what they want – the diehard fans now have a very different expectation to Facebook it goes during the broadcast almost exclusively to the quality of Proverbs. and jokes, everything else seems to have become unimportant. ” Some say it is just nice to be able to laugh again heartily. “The Minster” Tatort “obviously creates a great relief, a balance with the public -. Between the bad news and issues of our time”

PRAHL AND Liefers
Even if the scripts may not always be optimal – the two main characters of the Minster “crime scene”, Axel Prahl and Jan Josef Liefers, are just good actors. Or perhaps better formulated: You are in the last twelve years (since October 2002, 26 cases were aired) with their roles merged. This can of course also be annoying for them and lead to an actors reflex, namely to throw and something new to try to make different.

SOCIAL MIRROR IMAGE
The somewhat unconventional and alternative acts Thiel and the upper middle class, conservative Boerne – the Ermittlerduo from Münster can be read as a reflection of German types. SPD and CDU? The two popular political party camp as movie characters? Anyway, arrange the two somehow work and despite Asympathie together (much like the grand coalition in the federal government?). As a walking cliché also enriches still Thiel’s father Herbert (Claus Dieter Clausnitzer) the Crime:. An Alt-68s, taxi drivers and Kiffer

WOMEN
In the “crime scene” often lack large, complex female roles. In Münster “crime scene” there are three interesting female characters: Friederike Kempter as an assistant Nadezhda Krusenstern, the voice power Mechthild Grossmann as smoking prosecutor Wilhelmine Klemm, who seems to suffer somehow under her state-supporting job, makes him but, as well as the diminutive Christine Urspruch as a medical examiner Silke Haller, called “Alberich”, the wacker strikes against her jaded boss Boerne.

RECOGNITION
The feuilleton can still grumble as about the Mystery of Westphalia – many TV viewers feel obviously picked up from the ancient German films. (“Spiegel Online” about railed against the case on Sunday: “If you like jokes in doctors coat, look better a few episodes’ Scrubs on”). But it is probably why millions of Germans, just not to consume highly acclaimed television goods from the United States, but productions from home with brand recognition.