Crime thriller with Wotan Wilke Möhring
“The role has been told”: Franziska Weisz surprisingly stops at “Tatort”.
Franziska Weisz and Wotan Wilke Möhring on the sidelines of filming for a new “crime scene”
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She has been investigating alongside Wotan Wilke Möhring since 2016, and next year it will be over: actor Franziska Weisz is surprisingly leaving “Tatort”. The station is keeping a low profile about the reasons.
The broadcaster did not provide any specific information about the reasons for Weisz’s departure. NDR’s fiction boss, Christian Granderath, simply remarked that Weisz had given her character “a very distinctive character.” He thanked him for the 13 cases in seven years: The role had undergone an “exciting development” but had now been told. However, Granderath would be happy if Franziska Weisz and NDR worked on further joint projects in the future.
In the long run, Wotan Wilke Möhring is obviously not supposed to investigate alone. “NDR will reveal who Thorsten Falke will be at his side in upcoming ‘crime scenes’ at a later date,” the broadcaster announced.
“Crime scene”
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With Franziska Weisz, Möhring is already losing the second “Tatort” colleague since he started working in 2013. Weisz took over the role of Commissioner Julia Grosz in 2016 after Petra Schmidt-Schaller left. She played investigator Katharina Lorenz in the first six episodes. Wotan Wilke Möhring is deployed as federal police officer Thorsten Falke in various cities in northern Germany. His first case was entitled “Fire Devil”. 18 episodes have been broadcast so far, most recently the episode “Hidden” in April 2023.