After in the past few months in crime scene Identified ghosts and narrative levels were so over-ambitiously intertwined that after ten minutes you had the feeling of urgently needing to rewind – finally something classic again. Inspector Herzog (Stefanie Reinsperger) says inspector’s sentences (“I’ll take a look in the bathroom”). Inspector Faber (Jörg Hartmann) says: “I’ve got a huge bang.” This self-characterization was correct in his early days, but he has long since come to himself. Not even the former full freak Faber is still eccentric in the crime scene from Dortmund, he now lets people get close to him. Director Ayşe Polat even allowed him to have an affair this time.
The trail leads into the pick-up scene, in which men want to tick as many ticks as possible
After all, the episode with the contemporary title “Masks” is about closeness. Faber still has to get used to closeness, and closeness meant nothing to the murder victim in this story. The man – a police officer – was evidently a riot who was only interested in the number of lovers, so the trail leads into the pick-up scene, where men thrive who want to check their sex life as much as possible. In a ripper seminar, the head smack roars full of pants: “The lion eats when he’s hungry. I’m a man.” Because: “We all want to fuck, right?” And you can only endure that if you consider the exaggeration to be part of the dramaturgy.
The piece is told in a conventional way, accordingly comprehensible, but also has lengths in between. And the great Faber? Beware of too much Tegtmeier in the second taste: The eccentric, now arrived, is written a little too deliberately as the “Lecker Pils” -Ruhrpottoriginal by the author duo Arnd Mayer and Claudia Matschulla. “Everything on the good pants”, “hands off my goulash”, “other mothers also have beautiful daughters”. It’s human, and sometimes it’s too human. Whereby the farewell greeting “Hold it up!” goes well with the main topic, of course.
No, the world is not all right on Sunday evening either. But at least in Dortmund.
The first, Sunday, 8.15 p.m.