TV crime thriller
“The Public Prosecutor”: Rainer Hunold gets out
Rainer Hunold as senior public prosecutor Bernd Reuther in the series “The Public Prosecutor” on the Rhine in front of Biebrich Castle. photo
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For almost 20 years, Rainer Hunold has been the title character in the Friday crime thriller “The Public Prosecutor”. Now he’s stopping. The actor wants to work exclusively as a sculptor in the future.
“Believability and authenticity were always important criteria for the characters I played,” said Hunold in an interview for the second on the occasion of the new series season from mid-February. “In view of my age, I have therefore decided to retire the Wiesbaden public prosecutor Bernd Reuther, whom I played in over 120 episodes.”
The 74-year-old emphasized: “I want to prevent the age limit for lawyers, which is inevitable in “real life”, and which I have long since exceeded in my private life, from damaging the credibility of the character I love at some point. I look back gratefully on a successful one that has lasted for decades Collaboration with ZDF and the production company Odeon Fiction and I’m looking forward to the next phase of my life, which I will dedicate exclusively to sculpture, my second great passion.”
The series “The Prosecutor” is set in Wiesbaden and originally began on ZDF in 2005 as a television film, which was later expanded into a series on Friday evenings. Hunold has been there as the main protagonist and title character since the first case. “We are already in discussions about the further development of the broadcast slot,” explained the ZDF spokesman.
The 19th season of “The Public Prosecutor” starts on February 16th at 8:15 p.m. In addition to Hunold in the role of senior public prosecutor Bernd Reuther, Anika Baumann can be seen as Chief Inspector Julia Schröder and Jannik Mioducki as Chief Inspector Alexander Witte.