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Daniel Sträßer doesn’t just want to be a “crime scene” commissioner
Actor Daniel Sträßer filming the SR crime scene “Jackpot”. photo
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The “Tatort” is still one of the most popular crime series on German television. The Saarbrücken “crime scene” commissioner does not like the fact that the actors of the commissioners are often permanently connected to the role.
He succeeds very well in his attempt to always have a great variety in the roles he takes on: “The industry now also knows that a Daniel Sträßer player can be cast in many different ways.”
With other colleagues, on the other hand, he experiences that they are already very much identified with the crime genre or the “Tatort Format”, said the Berliner. “That doesn’t actually happen with us,” he said. Perhaps this is also related to the fact that the SR “crime scene” is an extraordinary one and has found its own language.
The linear narrative, based on a special relationship between the two inspectors and a shared childhood trauma, is continued in the fifth case. According to Sträßer, the “very complex but also very intimate friendship”, which in the last case began to crumble a little, will continue to develop: At first it will “divide even more, only to then perhaps be reunited in some way”.
The main inspectors Esther Baumann (Brigitte Urhausen) and Pia Heinrich (Ines Marie Westernströer) are also part of the SR “crime scene” team. The “Jackpot” case (director: Christian Theede, book: Hendrik Hölzemann) is scheduled to be broadcast in early 2024.