Thursday in the first is reserved for German foreigners. Jurgen Tarrach is on the road there as Portuguese lawyer Eduardo Silva, Pasquale Aleardi as Breton Commissar Dupin, and more recently Désirée Nosbusch as police psychologist Cathrin Blake solves cases in Ireland. So there are more and more German actors working on tourist impressions murder cases.
Now, however, the farewell of a veteran of this very own public television genre of foreign crime was announced: As the production company Ufa announced, the Donna Leon thrillers are to be set. They are among the most heavily populated films of the Thursday productions. It is about the investigations of the Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti.
In the first four cases of the series, which started in 2000, the investigator was still embodied by Joachim Król; From 2003 Uwe Kockisch took over the role. On the 25th of December the last episode will be shown with him, her name is "Stille Wasser". It will then have been the 22nd case of Kockisch as Brunetti and the 26th Donna-Leon thriller in the ARD in total.
In a statement released on the Ufa, 75-year-old Kockisch explained: "My first encounter with Venice, shortly before shooting began in 2002, was a mixture of amazement and rejection, for lack of understanding: What is it? A city in the water, very old, crooked, morbid, gnawed by the ravages of time, and yet she stands there and shows her wealth from centuries past today - and she lives - that was the beginning and then, with the help of the role of Guido Brunetti, getting to know and respect, respect and affection. "
Kockisch concludes his departure from the role with the words: "Nowhere else you can experience transience as directly as in Venice - and that is very liberating - Ciao Commissario! See you again!"
