“Tatort” repeat today from Frankfurt: Janneke and Brix hunt “The Monster of Kassel”

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“Tatort” repeat from Frankfurt
Brutal murder and psycho duel: Janneke and Brix hunt “The Monster of Kassel”

Constanze Lauritzen (Christina Große, left), Anna Janneke (Margarita Broich, center) and Paul Brix (Wolfram Koch) find the victim’s tongue.

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Julia Maurer

The Frankfurt commissioners are supposed to convict a murderer in Kassel who hacked up his victim and hid the body parts throughout the city. The culprit is found quickly, but Janneke has to hunt him down in an exciting psychological duel.

  • 4 out of 5 points
  • A thriller with provincial jokes that becomes an exciting psychological thriller

What’s the matter?

Maarten Jansen (Barry Atsma) is in Kassel a star. The successful talk show host has many – especially female – fans. Privately, the smart moderator is married to Kirsten Rohde-Jansen (Stephanie Eidt). She brought two sons into the marriage: Luke and Max. After a party, the younger of the two, Luke, disappeared without a trace. It soon becomes clear: the 17-year-old was murdered. Frankfurt investigators Anna Janneke (Margarita Broich) and Paul Brix (Wolfram Koch) find the young man’s limbs tied up in black plastic bags at a construction site. More body parts turn up in Kassel. So Janneke and Brix drive to the northern Hessian city, because it is clear early on: Maarten Jansen is responsible for the death of his stepson. The question now is how and why did Luke Rohde have to die?

Why is the case “The Monster of Kassel” worthwhile?

Inspector Anna Janneke (Margarita Broich) interrogates Maarten Jansen (Barry Atsma)

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The film is extremely tailored to lead actor Barry Atsma and his role as TV star Maarten Jansen. How he casts a spell over the audience while at the same time lying to his family and manipulating the inspectors. The only one who has grown for him is Anna Janneke. She doesn’t allow herself to be dazzled by his celebrity, but treats him as an equal during the interrogation. The psychological duel between the two in the interrogation room is definitely one of the film’s strengths.

What bothers?

Especially at the beginning the plot jumps back and forth a lot: Both between Frankfurt and Kassel as well as the status of the investigations. This is sometimes confusing and it takes a while to put everything in the correct chronological order. The ending and the motive for the murder then seem pretty far-fetched.

The commissioners?

Neither of them are very enthusiastic about the fact that Janneke and Brix are to investigate in Kassel. Above all, Brix makes fun of the supposed small town. However, that changes when he meets the LKA employee Constanze Lauritzen (Christina Große). Brix is ​​immediately fascinated by the inspector, who is helping her colleagues in Frankfurt to solve the case. One of Janneke’s greatest strengths in this “crime scene” is her psychological training, thanks to which she allows the perpetrator to fall into a trap.


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Since 2015, Janneke and Brix have been investigating as a team in Frankfurt’s “crime scene”. The repetition of this case is well worth seeing.

The “Tatort: ​​Das Monster von Kassel” was first broadcast on May 12, 2019. ARD repeats the case on Friday, August 18, 2023 at 10:20 p.m.

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