ARD: Vogelwilder Christmas “Tatort” with Udo Lindenberg

Created: 12/21/2021, 11:36 PM

From: Katja Kraft

In the almost deserted Hotel Atlantic, where Lindenberg lives, the team shot during the pandemic.

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The "crime scene" on Boxing Day will be a celebration for Udo Lindenberg fans: The panic rocker and several Udo doubles confuse Commissioner Charlotte Lindholm (Maria Furtwängler).

A conversation with director Detlev Buck about this somewhat different crime thriller.

They wanted to do it before in the mid-1990s. Udo Lindenberg and Detlev Buck. Singer and director. Both united in their love for the north and blessed with casual indifference. So Udo says to Detlev: “Let's do something together.” But Buck himself doesn't really know what he wants to do next. So they don't do anything together - and everyone does their own thing.

30 years later, the cool (green) socks still don't give a damn what the others say, but now they finally do something together. And what one. The "Tatort: ​​Everything comes back", plus the one that will be shown on Boxing Day at 8:15 pm on ARD. The German holy television cow on the Lord's birthday. Does Buck actually know what he's got into? Loud laughter on the other side of the line. An interview by phone, as is so often the case these days. The director, known for films such as “Männerpension” or, most recently, “Confessions of the impostor Felix Krull”, calmly accepts the challenge of the Sunday thriller, as he seems to take everything calmly. “This will not be a normal Charlotte Lindholm film. As a viewer, you should be open to something away from the classic crime thriller scheme.If you're not open, you shouldn't look. "

Charlotte Lindholm shows her vulnerable side in "Tatort: ​​Everything comes back"

After all, that was the broadcaster's wish: to bring out Lindholm's vulnerability.

"This is a woman over 50 who says: I know there is still a passion in me - but which I could never live in everyday life under the observation of mother and son." And that's why Buck and screenwriter Uli Brée send the commissioner (Maria Furtwängler) on a journey.

To the Hotel Atlantic Hamburg.

Exactly, the Atlantic.

In which Udo Lindenberg lives.

In reality and in the film.

It was a real pleasure for Buck and Brée to play with the cult figure Lindenberg.

“He did what only a few do.

Like Otto.

A myth, or better: to become a constant that calms people down in this fast-paced world. ”Ultimately, like the“ crime scene ”every Sunday.

One of the last shows on linear TV that is still debated and sometimes passionately argued.

Buck thinks it's wonderful.

Should they get excited about his first film in the series?

It's a good outlet if you've been crouching on top of each other for Christmas for three days.

Strong team: (from left) "Tatort" leading actress Maria Furtwängler, star guest Udo Lindenberg, director Detlev Buck and Jens Harzer, who begins a liaison with Charlotte Lindholm in the film.

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“'Tatort' is a ritual. That always happens at a certain time on a certain channel. I like it when people get together like that. And don't just watch one by one. ”Then Buck turns his voice into an annoying pitch and imitates one of the many“ binge watchers ”who watch series on Netflix and Co. like a marathon. “I watched it through until four o'clock in the morning - but I can't tell you what happened to Grandma in the last episode,” Buck mimics today's series-watchers and then laughs his pleasantly loud laugh again. "Like addicts who always need new material."

So "crime scene".

In the Atlantic.

Shot during lockdown.

The house on the Alster is almost deserted.

“That was kind of funny.

You slumber through the corridors and now and then you meet Udo, ”says the director.

And falls back into imitation.

This time in Lindenberg's voice: “Come on by,” he would have whispered to him during their brief encounters.

“Then you walk past him, talk about God and the world and then slumber down the long, empty corridors to your room, looking at the Alster.

And thinks: That's really weird now. "

Quirky brothel boss: Detlev Buck also took on a role in “Tatort” himself - in extravagant outfits.

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As weird as the film.

Several Lindenberg doppelgangers scurry through the hotel in it - and confuse Lindholm, who is accused of being involved in a murder and who is investigating on his own to prove her innocence.

The star of the film is next to Udo - as the drummer of the "Tatort" theme tune in the series from the beginning - the hotel.

Buck succeeds in making the atmosphere that prevails in historic buildings like the Atlantic tangible.

“In the hotel you are gone, you can reinvent yourself - even if only for one night.

I love hotel bars, what happens there is by chance because it is not an enclosed space.

You can observe and experience fantastic things, ”he enthuses.

The "Tatort: ​​Everything comes back" is a mix of mystery, thriller and love drama

And then the proximity to the train station and the Kiez, as a contrast to the dressed up Atlantic.

Buck designed the Reeperbahn and a brothel in the surrounding area as a colorful lollipop world.

He himself plays a weird brothel operator.

And thus ensures humor in this mix of mystery, thriller, love drama.

“I agree with Hitchcock: 'You need comedy to deal with the brutal.'” And: Music.

Udo delivers them himself.

So this unconventional "crime scene", which some - Christmas peace or not - will demonize, becomes a gift for everyone who loves the panic rocker.

And Hamburg.

And Nordic casualness.

With a touch of quirkiness.

And a shot of eggnog.

Oh, you happy one.