A good two years after the fall of the Wall, Germany was finally united. So also in crime scene-Kosmos, the Federal Republic’s mirror of the soul. In January 1992, Chief Detective Bruno Ehrlicher, based in Dresden, started his work, and only then was the new country complete. After melancholics (Commissioner Haferkamp), system-busters (Commissioner Schimanski), early champions for diversity (Commissioner Buchmüller), the first East German investigator, embodied by the East German icon Peter Sodann. A grumpy, yet somehow warm-hearted character at the same time. So: A prime cast for the transitional period of the early 1990s, when the audience didn’t yet know where the unified country would develop. Then it wasn’t easy to calculate, and he played with this aura: “The Wessi talks more than he knows. The Ossi doesn’t say everything he knows.”
On the death of “Tatort” inspector Peter Sodann: More honest than most – media
