Charlotte Lindholm back in Hanover
End for the “Tatort” team in Göttingen
“Crime Scene: Ghost Tour” will be shown on February 11th (from left): director Christine Hartmann, Maria Furtwängler (Charlotte Lindholm), cameraman Peter Nix and Florence Kasumba (Anaïs Schmitz).
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Innovations at “Tatort”: “Charlotte Lindholm is once again setting off for new shores.” This means the end for their current team.
A lot is happening with the ARD crime series “Tatort”. As the NDR has now announced, Commissioner Charlotte Lindholm, who is played by Maria Furtwängler (57), is returning to the LKA in Hanover after six missions outside the country. Lindholm, who has been investigating the “crime scene” since 2002, had previously been transferred to Göttingen for punishment. Her first case ran from there in 2019.
Her return to Hanover now means that she says goodbye to her colleagues in the university city, especially her co-investigator Anaïs Schmitz (Florence Kasumba, 47), the broadcaster continues.
Lindholm investigated with the Göttingen team for the last time in February
The last case with Charlotte Lindholm and the Göttingen team will be “Crime Scene: Ghost Ride”. The first will show him on February 11th. According to NDR, a case with the working title “Crime Scene: The Coldest Machine” has also just been filmed. In it, Anaïs Schmitz investigates on a one-off basis together with Federal Police Commissioner Thorsten Falke, played by Wotan Wilke Möhring (56). According to the broadcaster, the crime thriller will be shown on Erste and the ARD media library the year after next.
“Saying goodbye to Göttingen is not easy”
Actress Maria Furtwängler says according to the announcement about the change for her character: “Charlotte Lindholm is once again setting off for new shores and remains a restless investigator who doesn’t stay in one place for long.” Saying goodbye to Göttingen wasn’t easy, Furtwängler continued, “Working with Florence Kasumba and the team meant a lot to me. So now I’m going solo again – I’m excited to see what Charlotte Lindholm will experience on her journey.”
Florence Kasumba said her role as Anaïs Schmitz was “an interesting challenge” for her “and I really liked developing and playing the character.” She is looking forward to telling a new criminal story about the “crime scene” with Wotan Wilke Möhring as inspector and Anaïs Schmitz as co-investigator. The actress added: “Now I’m looking forward to new, exciting projects and would like to thank the Göttingen team for their time at ‘Tatort’ over the last few years.”
Meanwhile, Charlotte Lindholm’s return to Hanover does not come as a surprise: When she was transferred to Göttingen as a punishment after her unsuccessful assignment in “The Holdt Case” (2017), “the time limit was taken into account,” according to the broadcaster. Your time there will end with a grand finale. Christian Granderath, NDR Fiction boss, is also quoted as saying: “The headstrong inspector remains true to her role – teamwork is still not her thing. Her cases at the LKA in Hanover will take her back to all of Lower Saxony in the future.”
Changes also in Frankfurt
There are also changes elsewhere in the ARD crime series. It has also just been announced: The Hessian “crime scene” investigative team Anna Janneke and Paul Brix from Frankfurt will have their last mission next year. As the responsible Hessischer Rundfunk announced on Tuesday, it will end after 19 cases. Filming for the last outing of the two actors Wolfram Koch (61) and Margarita Broich (63) has just been completed.
As was also announced, investigations continue to be carried out in Frankfurt am Main and the surrounding area as part of the “Tatort” series, but a new team has not yet been determined.