Crime series
HR ends “Tatort” with Broich and Koch
Wolfram Koch and Margarita Broich filming in Kassel (archive photo). photo
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After 19 episodes, the current Frankfurt “Tatort” team will end in 2024. The Hessischer Rundfunk also wants to carry out investigations on the Main in the future. Details will be announced soon.
The filming of the last Frankfurt “crime scene” with the investigative team Janneke and Brix – Margarita Broich and Wolfram Koch – are completed. After almost ten years and 19 cases, Broich (63) and Koch (61) say goodbye to Frankfurt and the audience together, as the ARD broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) announced. The final episode should be seen in the second half of 2024.
Who follows the Frankfurt “crime scene” will be decided at the beginning of 2024, explained the HR. It is certain that investigations will continue in the Main metropolis and the surrounding area.
“We would like to thank Margarita Broich and Wolfram Koch for a wonderful time together, in which they shaped Frankfurt’s ‘Tatort’. Filming with them always felt like family had come together,” explained film producer Jörg Himstedt.
Her last case, entitled “It’s so green when Frankfurt’s mountains are blooming,” is about Tristan Grünfels (Matthias Brandt), a psychologist and victim support worker for the Frankfurt police who keeps having misfires and talking to himself. One morning as he sets off for his practice, he kills a security officer.
Due to a misunderstanding, Grünfels, of all people, becomes the victim counselor for the relatives – and accompanies Janneke and Brix in the murder investigation. The “Tatort” episode is expected to be broadcast in the second half of 2024. It is a production by Hessischer Rundfunk on behalf of ARD Degeto.
Other projects and family are waiting
“Wolfram and I had known each other from the theater for many years, and filming with him at Frankfurt’s ‘Tatort’ was pure pleasure,” explained Broich. Now it’s time to say goodbye to Frankfurt, “because we want to set off again, other projects, more theater and for me also more photography and a little more time for the grandchildren,” said the actress.
Koch added that a “very nice, year-long journey” was coming to an end, during which the courageous editorial team repeatedly pushed through very unusual film projects. “Now we’re off to new journeys – I’m looking forward to it!”