Favorite thing: Lisa Bitter and her Le Creuset pot – Munich

Lisa Bitter was an exchange student in France, and she must have learned a lot there, vocabulary, grammar and such. But when she thinks about her time in France today, she remembers pots. “My host family had red Le Creuset pots,” she says. “I associate these pots with classic French cuisine.” And with a nice, warm feeling for France and her experiences as a teenager abroad. Today, Bitter himself has a Le Creuset pot. This is her “all pride”.

Lisa Bitter, 38, lives in Munich and often works in Ludwigshafen. There she plays the crime scene inspector Johanna Stern, who joined in 2014 as a case analyst and in 2018, after leaving Mario Kopper (Andreas Hoppe), became an investigator. Stern, a head person, works with Lena Odenthal (Ulrike Folkerts), a gut person. Sometimes there is friction. Incidentally, Folkerts has been involved since 1989. Lisa Bitter was five at the time. The next Ludwigshafen crime scene, it is called “Lena’s aunt”, runs on Sunday, January 22 at 8:15 p.m. on ARD.

Bitter’s dream: the bright red Le Creuset pot.

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Bitter grew up in Franconia, and “taken from home” was her mother’s enthusiasm for the theater – and her passion for cooking. First to Leipzig, where she studied acting. Then to Stuttgart, where she had her first engagement at the Staatstheater. “There I got a fat fee – by my standards – I’m off straight away…”, she pauses on the phone, “and bought a Le Creuset saucepan.” It probably cost about 200 euros. “I’ve fulfilled a dream with it,” says Bitter. She still has that pot today. Because such a Le Creuset pot, she says, will last forever.

Bitter bought it at the department store. Today there are entire shops for Le Creuset goods, she says, and the brand is “at the forefront”. But back then, in the 2000s, a Le Creuset saucepan was an insider tip. “It meant a lot to me, I thought I was among professionals,” she says, laughing.

The pot is red, just like the pots were with her host family. Bitter doesn’t just cook French dishes in it, but everything from tomato sauce to “whole stews”. Her favorite stew is venison ragout. You have the pot constantly in use, says Bitter. He only had a break at Christmas. He was too small for the Christmas dish. “I had a roaster for that,” she says. “By Le Creuset.”

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