The second most beautiful character in this crime scene from Ludwigshafen is the doctor Hanno Roters, actually a supporting role. Roters issued the death certificate for an old man in a nursing home, but he regained consciousness in the crematorium fire, but then there was nothing more to be done. It turns out that the non-dead man had previously been injected with insulin with murderous intent, but the doctor still takes all the blame; His wife has just eloped with the boss, which is why, luckily in misfortune, he would have gotten his job, but there’s nothing more that can be done about that either. Fascinatingly, the doctor is disheveled and jovial and so innocently half-cheerful that Inspector Stern falls in love with the clumsy man on the spot. And at the latest with this slightly cocky turn, which shows Roters’ cuddly little tummy, you think in disbelief: wait a minute, that’s really a crime scene from Ludwigshafen, where there is almost never a surprise swimming down the river?
Those who live long have plenty of time to make enemies, says Dr. Odenthal and knows what she is talking about
Director Tom Lass, who, for example, follows the series, filmed it Print staged or together with Pola Beck the wonderfully unromantic romance in Love. now actually invented a very moral story here (Stefan Dähnert book). At first, Lena Odenthal (Ulrike Folkerts) and Johanna Stern (Lisa Bitter) believe the insulin case to be criminal machinations by the management of the home. But then “Lena’s aunt” appears – giving this episode its name, Frau Doctor Odenthal, very small, resolute, upright, a feared public prosecutor a. D. and meaningfully places the reference that a very old person also had a lot of time to make enemies. This is about revenge, end of discussion. And the woman knows what she’s talking about.
Of course she is the most beautiful character. Niki Odenthal, a dignified, inscrutable and very hard-drinking woman, to whom the great actress Ursula Werner gives something of the mother courage of the rule of law, something almost Helene Weigel-like. Maternal, but anything but cuddly, Niki doesn’t think it’s good that her niece is still in Ludwigshafen, she senses more ambition with Johanna Stern. It’s really the very first time that Lena Odenthal feels a bit sorry.
The freshness of this crime scene anyway it’s really surprising. And who knows, maybe there is still something to be done, if not with Doctor Roters’ patients, then at least with the Sunday thriller in Ludwigshafen. With some fire
The first, Sunday, 8:15 p.m.
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