“Tatort” from Hamburg: The sad departure of Franziska Weisz

“Tatort” from Hamburg
Death lurks in a dark side alley: Franziska Weisz’s moving departure

Never has an inspector left the “crime scene” in a more moving way: for minutes the camera watched Inspector Julia Grosz, played by Franziska Weisz. A first emotional highlight in the new television year.

For a brief moment, as a viewer, you could still have hope that everything would be okay. That there is a happy ending, a happy exit for the people Franziska Weisz played Police Chief Inspector Julia Grosz from the “crime scene”. Because we already knew that she was leaving the crime series. But how?

“Of course I’ll come,” purred the one who was no longer just secretly lusting after her Thorsten Falke (Wotan Wilke Möhring). And he, too, as became clear in this final episode, feels more than just collegial affection for his partner, who has been cold for a long time.

Franziska Weisz in her last “crime scene”

Your plans to leave the Hanseatic city and… BKA to move to Wiesbaden – she spontaneously threw it over the top. A phone call makes it possible. “Hamburch” will be on her side for a long time, she beams after Falke’s call – and pronounces the city’s name like a local.

Having become very cocky in anticipation of her colleague rushing up, she leaves the “Silbersack”, this famous bar not far from the Reeperbahn, where she had just been singing. In the throes of love, she steps out into the rain of Hamburg, which has finally, lately, become her city too.

But then she hears from the dark Back alley The sounds of a fight around the corner. She’s in love, but she’s still a police officer, so she intervenes. A mistake: The man she has just saved, who should actually be indebted to her, pulls out a knife and stabs her.

Thorsten Falke is late

What follows are two and a half of the most moving minutes this crime series has ever had: initially all you can hear is the sound of the pelting rain surrounding the dying woman. The camera focuses on the face and shows the astonishment of Julia Groszwho has just dreamed of a happy union with her colleague and cannot believe that she is bleeding to death in a dark side street.

Then, when it’s almost over, the music starts. “I don’t believe in an interventionist God”, this is how Nick Cave’s “Into My Arms” begins, which accompanies her last breaths. “But I know darling that you do / But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him / Not to intervene when it came to you.”

Thorsten Falke could no longer ask this god to spare his beloved. He won’t arrive on time. When he finally arrives at the “silver sack” it’s over. The saving cavalry – this time it comes too late.