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Alessija Lause impresses as the new commissioner Ira Klasnic in Dortmund's “Tatort: Cash”.
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Tough lady with her own agenda: Commissioner Ira Klasnic is the new one in the Dortmund “Tatort” team.
Actress Alessija Lause explains what makes the investigator tick in an interview with our newspaper.
This much is clear: Ira Klasnic will not make things easy for her Dortmund colleagues.
The chief inspector from the undercover investigations department caused unrest on the ARD “Tatort: Cash” on February 18, 2024 and aggressively pursued her own agenda.
A role that is completely to the taste of actress Alessija Lause.
She loves non-conformist, ambivalent characters.
Your appearance in the brilliant crime thriller (see review below) – much more than just a guest appearance.
“Alessija Lause and her character Ira Klasnic now also belong to the family of the 'Tatort' Dortmund,” confirms WDR editor Frank Tönsmann when asked.
A woman with secrets
“Cash” was the farewell episode of the eternally hapless inspector Jan Pawlak and the debut of a lady that one can be curious about.
“Because there are a few secrets that will only gradually be revealed,” Lause reveals in an interview with our newspaper.
“I like it when you don't immediately know where you stand with someone.
When the character can change in many directions.”
Socialized Bavarian, raised cosmopolitan
This is how the actress, who was born in Bad Aibling and grew up in Neufinsing near Erding, chooses her roles.
She is socialized in Bavarian terms, but is still a hybrid.
The father is East Westphalian, the mother is Croatian – “and I have always been drawn out into the world”.
The 43-year-old looks back on a wild CV.
In Croatia, after graduating from high school, she worked as an assistant director, ended up at the dance theater in Pula, toured with a Japanese Butoh company and was a member of the Argentine Aireal theater troupe “De la Guarda”.
“Language was of secondary importance at the beginning of my career.
I found it much more exciting to explore what we can express with the body,” says Lause.
Up close and personal with Tarantino
With her love for martial arts - Capoeira and Taekwondo - and her talent for artistry, she had the perfect qualifications as a stuntwoman in her early 20s.
Until 2013, she doubled for stars like Diane Kruger and Cate Blanchett, throwing herself out of burning houses or into deep water by car.
So much action, so many experiences - Quentin Tarantino's cinematic adventure “Inglourious Basterds”, in which she was part of the stunt team, is just one of them.
“But at some point I had to make a decision,” says Alessija Lause.
“It was all a lot of fun, but the more I did physically, the less I played.” At some point the question arose: What does my heart beat for?
“Since then, I have only added stunts when the role required it.”
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Anything but stereotypes
But even without breakneck missions, Alessija Lause has a strong physical presence.
Tight shoulders, a determined walk, wild blonde curls, clear blue eyes and a strikingly cut face.
She is often cast as the untamed.
In Magdeburg's “Polizeiruf 110: Ten Roses” in 2019, she played a transsexual flower dealer with a mixture of anger, desperation and hunger for life.
Netflix brought the Berliner by choice for the award-winning series “Kleo”, and in the Warner TV series “Boom Boom Bruno” (available on Sky) she keeps Ben Becker on his toes.
Anything but stereotypes.
And so Ira Klasnic will not only surprise her Dortmund colleagues Faber (Jörg Hartmann) and Herzog (Stefanie Reinsperger) more often.
“Over time, the audience will understand this character better,” promises Alessija Lause, who was able to help develop her role.
Will she bring more action to the “crime scene” in the future?
“I really hope so!” she laughs.
“The team knows about my possibilities and my affinity.
It would be a lot of fun for me to live out some of that in 'Tatort'.”