Fürstenfeldbrucker has been the main actor at Aktenzeichen XY for 27 years - he has never been in front of the camera

Stefan Cohrs regularly puts the Fürstenfeldbruck district on television.

He is a motif finder for the ZDF show "Aktenzeichen XY unsolved".

He finds many filming locations practically on the doorstep.

• It may have already been noticed by

  eager

  XY

  viewers:

  Fürstenfeldbruck

  is often the

  film set

  for the

  ZDF broadcast

  .

• Behind it is Fürstenfeldbrucker

  Stefan Cohrs

  : He has been a

  leading actor

  of

  file number XY

  for 27 years

  .

• He

  gets

  inspiration

  for

  new locations

  in his homeland.

Fürstenfeldbruck

- I know the house.

I only drove through this street yesterday.

I just did some shopping in this shop.

from the district should regularly think about this when

the

broadcast

once a month on a Wednesday evening on

.

There is a reason

why the TV

prefer

for their

cases

: The motif seeker and prop supplier from the production company Securitel lives in the middle of Bruck.

"Aktenzeichen XY unsolved" on ZDF: Fürstenfeldbruckers on the hunt for criminals for 27 years - as a motif seeker

Stefan Cohrs

(57) never appears in front of the camera, but has

a

the

which was first broadcast in 1967, for

.

Even with Eduard Zimmermann, the inventor of the television search who died in 2009, Stefan Cohrs still worked in the early days of his career as a

.

The

trained mechanical engineer had come into the TV industry

as a 30-year-old

at the time

.

Fürstenfeldbruck often filming location for the ZDF series “Aktenzeichen XY” - thanks to Stefan Cohrs

Born in Olching, he had applied

for an advertised locksmith job

at the now defunct

.

That was Cohr's

to the

.

As a

, he created the stepping stone to becoming a production designer.

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In Fürstenfeldbruck has been shot many times - here is a scene from 2018.

© Weber

The 57-year-old has just finished

several days

in

.

Because Cohrs lives with his family in the heart of Amperstadt, the trip to work only took a few minutes in this case.

But that was not the decisive moment why he chose

an

for the

of a young Japanese man living in Germany

.

He already knew the place from a long time ago private visit to a friend who lived there.

When he was studying the

, he found

between the

.

Shooting in Fürstenfeldbruck: Similarities between the real crime scene and the recreated location

That's how it works most of the time.

For his

Cohrs is

by his

, comparing

with

.

“When I go or drive somewhere privately, I make a note of the motif and then call it up when I search for a backdrop.” It can be years in between.

"But I have an extremely good memory."

Fürstenfeldbruck: Stefan Cohrs is inspired by his homeland when looking for a motif

If apartment or business owners agree, the

usually

.

A

created

- as recently in a

at

.

In addition to the Geiselbullach fire brigade and local police, hearses and lots of fake blood caused a sensation there.

File number XY: Filming locations are used for one to two days

The

a

, for which

are produced, is extremely complex and rather boring for onlookers because of the many breaks between the camera positions.

It only got more

other day when the

shooting

for the

the Japanese was also in

.

Passers-by had

suspected that public

prohibited

in the

which was

to the

, and

notified

the

.

The right officials left with a smile when they were presented with the completely legal facts, including the filming permit, by the TV colleagues who had been tried and tested.

Searching for motifs for file number XY requires a certain instinct

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Stefan Cohrs is a motif seeker.

© Loder

Anyway Cohrs required for

a certain

.

"The relatives of the victims are very sensitive to how their environment is presented".

The fact that he and the

shoot so often in the Bruck district is due to the "great

" from the

.

Above all by the city administration in Fürstenfeldbruck, where "when you call, simply quickly and unbureaucratically" no parking zones are set up ".

"Aktenzeichen XY unsolved": The time of the criminal case plays an important role in the shooting

As the production designer is local, the

also come

from a

.

Props from ballpoint pens to wall paintings are then stacked in it.

Because

Cohrs is

also responsible for the

that are as similar to a crime scene as possible

.

Most of them are stored in the

in

.

The

often plays

a

.

If it was several years or even decades ago and

such as classic cars or records are needed, the production designer can

fall back

on his extensive

contacts.

for procurement before the first shot is taken.

"My most unforgettable shoot was the portrayal of the Berlin tunnel robbery."

Fürstenfeldbrucker relies on an extensive network for work at ZDF

And one

has at Cohrs

: As around the snow in the dead of winter three years ago

a

was scantily clad football fans played in the freezing extras in a murder case that took place during the World Cup summer fairy tale of 2006.

The secret of Stefan Cohr's search for scenery: "Creativity and an eye for detail."

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(By Peter Loder)