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Warning from my colleague: Meret Becker from Berlin's »Tatort« ambushed Luise Wolfram in the toilet
Photo: Janis Mazuch / Radio Bremen
What idiot was Dar Salim chatting into this production?
»Borgen«, »Die Brücke«, »Game of Thrones« - the Danish actor has been at the forefront of the worldwide triumph of the art form series over the past ten years, and now he's here in Germany's deepest television wasteland.
Salim is supposed to be the "crime scene" commissioner in Bremen.
Everything goes wrong with the preparations for the first shoot;
soon there is speculation about whether someone on the team is sabotaging the work.
Salim has good reasons for this: Isn't the prequel of "Game of Thrones" being planned?
Has Salim signed prematurely with the public service company Kamelle and thus lost his job at the mega spin-off?
Is he now trying to bring down the "crime scene" so that he can still jump on the serial hit?
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I have to ask her father first: Jasna Fritzi Bauer as a new investigator
Photo: Daniel Milz / Radio Bremen
German television province versus international high-end series - that is one of the many comical confrontations of the web satire "How to Tatort", which is now available in the ARD media library.
Since the beginning of November, Salim has been filming the first real ninety-minute film with colleagues Jasna Fritzi Bauer and Luise Wolfram as the new "Tatort" team;
the six ten-minute episodes of this mockumantery were created beforehand.
As a warm-up exercise for the big "crime scene" renovation.
The (relatively) young and (relatively) female team of investigators from Bremen should show how (relatively) hip you can be at ARD.
Until last year, Sabine Postel (39 episodes) and Oliver Mommsen (35 episodes) were investigating in Bremen.
The preliminary party for newcomers on the Internet is part of a campaign to demonstrate a willingness to innovate and irony in an institution, where this is all too often lost on the way through the hierarchies.
How do you sell the classic TV online?
People now like to say "online first" on ARD and call their media library a great streaming platform.
The production company Bildundtonfabrik was brought on board for the web-only project “How to Tatort”, which has great symbolic power against this backdrop. It worked with Jan Böhmermann for “Neo Magazin Royale” (meanwhile overturned) and with Netflix for the comedy "How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)" (third season in planning).
So how do you sell a classic television online?
With a lot of celebrities and little respect.
In the course of the six episodes, older colleagues from other districts keep dropping in to have themselves dismantled by the “How to Tatort” creators (director: Pia Hellenthal, head author: Sebastian Colley).
Meret Becker from Berlin's »Tatort« puts one of the new colleagues in the toilet with a crazy look and warns of a conspiracy that was instigated on ARD around the crime classic - that's why she'll get out.
Anna Schudt from Dortmund's »Tatort« boastfully unpacks her real International Emmy during a visit to the production office - which of course she didn't get for her work at »Tatort« - and plagues her colleagues from Münster: »At the» Tatort «we are all one large family.
Except for the idiots in Munster.
14.5 million viewers!
And what for?
A bad story and a few tired gags. "
The institutionalized meanness of the ARD
In general, the heather gray same-sex duos of the crime series come off badly in “How to Tatort”: The gentlemen in Munich or in Cologne?
Obviously they want to prevent their lucrative age positions from being stolen from them with all their might.
The "crime scene" as a conspiracy of old white men.
But how does Luise Wolfram say, who was already seen as a supporting character in the old “Tatort” in Bremen when the life-threatening situation came to a head: “I haven't been Olli Mommsen's cheeky sidekick for years and then give up."
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Who just chatted him in the "crime scene"?
Dar Salim when they first met their colleagues
Photo: Daniel Milz / Radio Bremen
Only Ulrich Tukur, who plays the BKA investigator Murot, gets off well from the “crime scene” oldies.
When the three newcomers from Bremen get caught up in a plot during the warm-up in which roles and reality get mixed up, Salim cheers: “Pretty meta - is definitely new.” Colleague Wolfram instructs: “No, 2015, Ulrich Tukur,› Who am I? ‹« She is alluding to the »crime scene«, in which Tukur and his Murot mix up the levels of reality.
At the same time as »How to Tatort« was launched on the web this weekend, there is another episode in which Tukur takes his inspector apart with »Monsieur Murot's Holidays«: based on Jacques Tati's classic film »Monsieur Hulot's Holidays« Episode meets Murot with a doppelganger, whose identity he adopts while he is a guest at his own funeral.
A nice brainfuck (read our quick check on Sunday).
"How to Tatort" is now such a brainfuck.
But in contrast to Murot, it's not about those involved that they deconstruct their figures, on the contrary: they have to construct them in the first place.
And the audience is right in the middle of this fictionalized real process.
The subversive aspect of this comedy is that Wolfram, Bauer and Salim team up despite all the friction, while the ole public crime celebrities want to screw up their entry.
The consequence for the newcomers in view of so much institutionalized wickedness can only be: Down with the "Tatort" establishment!
"How to Tatort",
ARD-Mediathek /
"Tatort: Monsieur Murot's Holidays",
Sunday, 8:15 pm, Das Erste
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