“Borowski and the Revenant”
How do you know Greta Exner’s face?
Cordelia Wegen takes on the role of Greta Exner.
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In the latest “Tatort: Borowski and the Revenant,” one character in particular stands out: Greta Exner is played by Cordeliawege.
In the end everything is as we suspected from the beginning and of course had already seen it: Greta Exner killed her notoriously cheating husband and was able to do so by the inspector Klaus Borowski is caught using a trick. Kiel’s latest “Tatort: Borowski and the Revenant” also relies heavily on the convincing portrayal of a successful entrepreneur who, at the same time, lives the life of a disappointed and frustrated wife in her private life. When she finds out that her husband is already plotting murder against her, she gets ahead of him…
Greta Exner is played by the experienced actress Cordeliawege (47), who – despite many TV roles in recent years – is unfortunately not yet known to everyone. This is mainly because the focus of her career was and is primarily on acting – and not necessarily in front of the camera. Wegen was born in Halle an der Saale in 1976 and learned her craft from scratch at the University of Music and Theater in Leipzig. She received her first solo prize in 1997 as part of a student performance. This was followed by numerous engagements at renowned theaters such as the Volksbühne Berlin, the Schauspielhaus Hamburg, the Schauspiel Leipzig, the Deutsches Theater Berlin and the Berliner Ensemble.
Cordelia Wegen: “A strange psychogram”
The mother of four is also married to the well-known theater director Sebastian Hartmann (55), who has also staged at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Parallel to her outstanding theater career,wege has also appeared in numerous TV series and crime series. Her CV includes roles in “A Case for Two”, “Notruf Hafenkante”, “Polizeiruf 110”, “Kommissarin Heller” and “Dark”, among others.
Wegen has even been seen in the “Tatort” cosmos once: in 2005, however, he played a rather smaller role in the Lena Odenthal “Tatort: Last Doubts” alongside Ulrike Folkerts (62). Now, fortunately, she took on the central character of the current Borowski case. Incidentally, she wasn’t really able to grasp her role as Greta Exner until the end, as she revealed in the interview: “At first I thought that Greta was ‘smart’, that she played with the people she met and that she usually had the situation under control Control.”
However, the longer she had to do with her, the more difficult her character became to read and recognize: “What is ‘pure’ – honest, serious, true – meant and what is ‘made?'” She is sure to answer this Questions came closer, but she couldn’t claim to completely understand this character: “That may sound absurd because I played her, but that’s how it is.” A rather strange psychogram emerged for her during filming.
But it is precisely this ambivalence, this depth and this uncertainty that gives Cordelia Wegen’s game an incredible presence and a remarkable realism that elevates the good crime novel to a significantly higher level. We can only hope that Cordelia Wegen will continue to be offered and accepted major roles in major German TV or cinema productions in the future. The German acting landscape would definitely benefit from more Cordelia Wegen. Wegen will soon be seen at least once in the “Nord bei Nordwest” spin-off “Nord bei Nordost: Westend”, which was announced to be broadcast in 2024.